Arnaud Merlin Explained

Arnaud Merlin
Birth Place:Tours, France
Nationality:French
Alma Mater:Conservatoire de Paris, Paris-Sorbonne University
Occupation:Music journalist, radio producer, jazz critic

Arnaud Merlin (born 1963) is a French jazz critic, music journalist and radio producer who has worked mainly for France Musique in recent years.

Career

Arnaud Merlin studied music at the Paris-Sorbonne University and Conservatoire de Paris, where he was awarded the History of Music and Aesthetics Prizes. He works as a music journalist since 1985, mainly for magazines like Jazz Hot, Jazzman and Le Monde de la musique.[1]

From 1992 to 2004, he was member of the Académie Charles-Cros and Académie du Jazz, editorial secretary of Cité Musiques (the newspaper of Cité de la Musique), . Since 1996 he started to produce music programmes on jazz and contemporary music for France Musique and Radio France. In 2002 he was a juror at the for the Concours de piano jazz Martial Solal.[2] He was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Anglo-French Fund for Contemporary Music “Diaphonique”[3] and the Commission Jazz & Blues.[4] In 2012, he was awarded the Irmaward in the Jazz category of the .[5] Merlin is also the director of and Orchestre National de Jazz and president of the Centre régional du Jazz in Burgundy.

With Franck Bergerot, he co-authored a two-volume miniseries about jazz music entitled French: L’épopée du jazz|italic=yes (lit. “The Epic of Jazz”), which are two heavily illustrated pocket books published in the collectionDécouvertes Gallimard”, in 1991. The second volume French: L’épopée du jazz 2/ Au-delà du bop|italic=yes has been translated into English, Italian, Russian and Korean.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arnaud Merlin . . francemusique.fr . 2018-02-19 . fr.
  2. Web site: Concours de piano-jazz Martial Solal : 3ème CONCOURS DE PIANO JAZZ MARTIAL SOLAL 2002 . . civp.com . 2018-02-19 . fr.
  3. Web site: Artistic Committee . . diaphonique.org . 2018-02-19.
  4. Web site: L'Académie Charles Cros . . charlescros.org . 2018-02-19 . fr.
  5. Web site: La Caution, Arnaud Merlin et Bintou Simporé lauréats des Irmawards 2012 . . 2012-02-07 . irma.asso.fr . 2018-02-19 . fr.