MARCHAND, Chrystel

Chrystel Marchand is a French composer and music educator.
Dr. Marchand studied at the international high school of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and in 1976, during her schooling, composed a musical comedy based on Aristophanes' The Birds. In music, she was a student at the Versailles Conservatory and studied chamber music and piano with Désiré N'Kaoua. At the same time, she studied musical analysis and composition with Nadia Boulanger, a pedagogue to whom she paid tribute in 1980 with a piano sonata, in memoriam Nadia Boulanger. Between 1979 and 1987, Chrystel Marchand was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, in classes of harmony, fugue and counterpoint, composition, orchestration and analysis. Later, she undertook university studies which led to a DEA in educational sciences in 2002, then a doctorate in musicology in 2007.
As a composer, Chrystel Marchand is "sensitive to listening to poets, which is highlighted by the quality of the texts chosen in her vocal music." Other instrumental formations are also favored by her, such as the string quartet or the wind orchestra, for which she composed in 1987 Ombre et lumière, in homage to Raoul Dufy and the city of Le Havre.
She is a professor of musical culture and then director of the Conservatory of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and in this context composes several educational works.