Jacques Mauger
Jacques Mauger was born in Normandy and studied the trombone
at the Regional Conservatoire in Rouen, and subsequently at the " Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
de Paris ". A prize-winner at international competitions at Markneukirchen in Germany, and at Toulon, he
started his professional career as first trombone with the Nice Philarmonic Orchestra, and then became
trombone soloist with the Paris Opera Orchestra.
Since 1990, he has concentrated on working as concert artist, and has often appeared as a soloist in France and abroad with ensembles varying from string, and symphony orchestras, to brass and concert bands. He has also made television appearances on ZDF in Germany,GLOBO in Brazil, RAI in Italy and MUZZIK in France, and has broadcast on RFI, France Inter, France Musique, France Info and the BBC, thus making himself known to a wide audience. Many international composers have composed original works or made special arrangements for him.
Jacques Mauger is still active as a teacher at the " Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris / CNR " where he was appointed in 1994, and also at the "Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma", Italy for 3 years, in June 2004 he won the audition for the trombone professor job at the "Conservatoire Supérieur de Neuchatel", Switzerland and the professur at the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen, Germany. He is also guest professor at the Senzoku Gaquen University of Tokyo, Japan.
He often gives masterclasses in numerous countries: France, the U.K, Japan, Korea,China, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, the United States, and South America. In 2007 his newly developed studies collection for trombone (in collaboration with Jean Michel Defaye) will be published by De Haske publications BV. (Courtois)