Biography
Claude Maury is a Belgian horn player.
Born in 1956, Claude Maury studied music at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he obtained the highest distinctions in modern horn and chamber music.
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He then perfected with Francis Orval, Vandriessche André, Michel Garcin-Marrou and Hermann Baumann.
He entered the orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in 1974 and in 1976 became a member of the Orchestre de la Radio Télévision Belge.
In 1981 he won the competition for natural horn Gallay in Perpignan and, in 1984, won another international competition for natural horn in Bad Harzburg, Germany.
In 1985, he left the Orchestra of Radio Télévision Belge to devote himself almost exclusively to the practice of ancient horns.
A ce titre, il collabore d'une façon régulière avec quelques uns des meilleurs ensembles jouant sur instruments anciens, parmi lesquels La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt), l'Orchestre du 18ème Siècle (Frans Brüggen), l'Orchestre des Champs-Elysées (Philippe Herreweghe), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Anima Eterna (Jos Van Immerseel), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie) le Parlement de musique (Martin Gester) et Opera Fuoco (David Stern).
Occasionnellement, il joue aussi avec l'Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Concerto Köln, Tafelmusik (Jeanne Lamon) The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock), Bach Collegium Japan, etc.
He has recorded numerous CDs as a soloist or chamber musician, mostly on ancient instruments.
He is currently professor of natural horn at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.