Ivan Bellocq and the flute
Ivan Bellocq loves the flute, and to maintain an activity as a top level instrumentalist along with being a composer is important to him (concerts and recordings).
He plays in small ensembles, in classical programmes and to bring attention to contemporary music.
To this day, he has premiered about 30 pieces, and his repertory in the contemporary sector stretches from Jacques Casterede to Tristan Murail, Olivier Greif, Doina Rotaru, Jean-Louis Petit etc..
Student of Madeleine Chassang and Roger Bourdin (First Prize and Honour’s Prize at the Conservatoire National de Region de Versailles), he is in 1987 one of the 6 prize winners of the Culture Ministry / Fnapec National Competition (with the Ysaye, Ludwig and Simon string quartets, as well as the flutist Gilles de Talhouet), and after a series of second prizes, in 1989 he finally won the Berlin International Competition (chamber music) with his brother Eric.
He was advised by Michel Debost then encouraged by Yehudi Menuhim, who made him laureate of his Foundation in 1988. Demands for concerts, mainly in chamber music ensembles, started to grow in France and in Europe.
In more than 500 concerts, he played with a number of musicians including Martine Gagnepain (piano), Kiyoko Okada (soprano), Michel Michalakakos, Pierre-Henri Xuereb (alto), Anne Ricquebourg, Isabelle Daups (harp), Jean-Marc Zvellenreuther (guitar), the Schiffer brothers (string trio), Manuel Rocheman and Mico Nissim (jazz piano). He recorded several compact discs and has been a collection director for the Delatour publishing company since 2004. On his new recording, “Cosmogonies” (2006), he plays works by Maurice Ohana, Suzanne Giraud, Doina Rotaru, Allain Gaussin, Sophie Lacaze and Therese Brenet.
Ivan Bellocq taught flute and chamber music at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Region de Paris. He is as active in France than he is abroad.