Lionel Bord
BASSOON
Lionel Bord began studying the bassoon at the CNR in Nantes before continuing his studies at the ENM in Gennevilliers and then at the Paris Conservatoire in Pascal Gallois’s class, where, in 1998, he was unanimously awarded a First Prize in bassoon, as well as a First Prize in chamber music. That same year, he won First Prize in the FNAPEC Chamber Music Competition for a wind quintet. In 1999, he was admitted to the Musikhochschule in Basel (Switzerland), where he continued his training with Sergio Azzolini.
After serving for three years as principal bassoonist with the Rouen Opera, he joined the Orchestre de Paris in 2003, where he currently holds the post of bassoonist and principal bassoonist.
A holder of the Certificate of Aptitude, Lionel Bord taught at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and then at the Conservatoire de Paris – CNSMDP until 2009.
Alongside his instrumental studies, Lionel Bord studied composition and orchestration with Allain Gaussin before being admitted, in 2001, to Emmanuel Nunes’s class at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM). He was awarded a Prize for Analysis in 2002 and a Prize for Composition by unanimous decision in 2006.
Lionel Bord has received commissions from numerous ensembles (the Habanera Quartet, Duo Maderas, TM+, the Ensemble intercontemporain, Utopik, the Axone Quartet) as well as from the Poitou-Charentes Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and Radio France. He has also collaborated with the Nomos Ensemble, the Smash Ensemble, the Multilatérale Ensemble, the Pau Pays de Béarn Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, and with conductors Guillaume Bourgogne, François-Xavier Roth, Arie Van Beek, Dominique My, Christoph Eschenbach and Alexandre Bloch.
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