Solista Internacional de percusión Europa

2009 Jean geofroy es profesor especialista invitado de la Cátedra de Percusión CSMA del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón.

First Prize in percussion at the Paris Conservatory in 1985, Jean Geoffroy learned how, in the world of percussion, to invent a personal path which has brought him to play many different pieces. 

Solo timpanist with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris from 1985 to 2000, soloist with the contemporary music ensemble Court-Circuit, advisor for composition students at IRCAM.  Many composers have written percussion pieces for him, including: I. Malec, J.L Campana, F. Durieux, E. Tanguy, P. Leroux, L. Naon, F. Paris, D. Tosi, P. Hurel, B. Giner, B. Mantovani, B. Dubedout, M. Reverdy, S. Giraud, Y. Taïra , T. de Mey, P. Jodlowski, Xu Yi  …  

He is a regular guest soloist at the most prestigious European festivals: “ Présences”, Radio France (Paris, France), PAS (London, UK), Darmstradt (Germany), “Aujourd’hui Musique” (Perpignan, France), PAS Seville (Seville, Spain), “38 Rugissants” (Grenoble, France), “Fenice” (Venice, Italy), Zagreb Biennial (Zagreb, Croatia), “Musiques” (Marseille, France) …. and has given recitals in all major European and international cities : Europe : Barcelona, Lausanne, Berlin, Rouen, Clermont-Ferrand, Bourges, Paris, Metz, Geneva, Lyon, Perpignan, Stockholm, Venice, Bordeaux, Hannover, Seville, Leiden (with Keiko Abe), Toulouse, Tours, Orleans, Grenoble, London, Cologne, Amsterdam (concert tour with Keiko Abe) …

– South America : Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Mexico City (Mexico), Bogota (Colombia) …

– USA : University of Colorado at Boulder, Oberlin, Akron, Nashville, Dallas, Cincinatti, Miami, Tampa, New York, Youngstown, Penn State University  Pennsylvania, Orlando…

– Asia : Japan (Tokyo Guedy, Toho Gakuen School, Kunitatchi University, Sensoku Gakuen, Percussion Gallery Tokyo, Kawazaki University, Hamamatsu), Korea (Seoul, Daegu, Pusan), China (Beijing, Shanghai) …

Prize winner of the Menuhin Foundatoin «Présence de la Musique». He is always ready to perform new pieces or to present the repertory/repertoire which he knows so well. Jean Geoffroy has participated as a soloist in more than 20 recordings including “Attacca” P. Leroux solo, “Per-Tre/Contours” B. Giner, “Je est un autre” J.L Campana , “Noctal” J.L Campana, “E. Tanguy solo”, “Bach Cello suites” (2CD), “Marim’Bach”, on which he plays “Chaconne” in D minor (among others) a work he transcribed and published with H. Lemoine Editions and « Bach sonatas » in 2008.

Author of «La classe de percussion, un carrefour», published by the Cité de la Musique, in which he provides teaching methods for music. A passionate teacher, author of several educative books and methods, director of the Lemoine Editions’ percussion collection, he taught at the Paris Conservatoire Natoinal Supérieur as Teaching Assistant from 1993 to 1998. 

He is currently Professor at the Conversatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon and at the Conservatoire supérieur in Geneva.