Biography :
Lucie Kayas is a professor of musical culture at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris (CNSMDP). Doctor in musicology, specialist in 20th century French music, she has worked on Roussel, Jolivet, Poulenc and Messiaen. At Fayard, she published a biography of André Jolivet (2005) as well as the French translation of the biography of Messiaen by Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone (2008). His catalog raisonné of the work of André Jolivet was published in 2021 (French Society of Musicology).
In charge of the class of Métiers de la culture musicale at the Paris Conservatory, she is also interested in questions of mediation both from a theoretical and practical point of view. For the Philharmonie de Paris, she designed an Opus concert devoted to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and this year produced a series of concert presentations with the Ensemble Orchestre d’Epinal in the Vosges. She is currently preparing a book of interviews with the saxophonist Claude Delangle (Éditions du Conservatoire).