Biography
Ensemble Musique Vivante is a modern classical ensemble founded by Diego Masson, renowned conductor and multi-instrumentalist, and son of French surrealist artist André Masson.
After studying composition at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1950s, Diego Masson quickly gravitated towards the burgeoning new music movement, performing percussion with Pierre Boulez at the Domaine Musical concerts in the late 1950s before moving into conducting.
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Soon enough, Masson had formed Ensemble Musique Vivante, a group specializing in new music and the avant-garde and who, over a number of decades, have performed works for and by numerous leading modern composers including Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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