Following studies in music, physics and art history, Gilles Cantagrel initially turned his career towards the media and communications, notably with the magazines Harmonie and Diapason. A program producer for France Musiques, he was called upon to manage the station’s programming from 1984 to 1987. Now artistic advisor to the Director of France Musiques, he also serves as vice-chairman of the European Broadcasting Union Music Commission. A concert presenter on television, producer of numerous radio shows in France and abroad, lecturer and host, he was involved in the creation of the Musicora classical music trade show in 1985. A teacher, he is a lecturing professor at the Sorbonne and is involved with the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and in various conservatories and universities in France and Quebec. Gilles Cantagrel has written in a wide array of publications: magazines, dictionaries and encyclopædias (Larousse de la musique, Encyclopædia Universalis, etc.) and has published many other works, among them La Discothèque idéale (1969) and the Guide de la mélodie et du lied (1994). First published in 1982, his Bach en son temps was re-released in a new revised and expanded edition in 1997. His major essay Le moulin et la rivière, air et variations sur J. S. Bach, released in 1998, received awards from the Académie Charles Cros and the Académie des beaux-arts and was followed by a visual retrospective of the times, life and works of Bach entitled Passion Bach, l’album d’une vie (2000).
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