Artist · Viola
Alain Celo
Biography
Alain CELO, viola
Born in 1960, Alain Celo eventually turns to music for good after completing his high-school diploma with a major in sciences, and winning a first prize at a national-level school competition in music.
He studies the viola at the music school of Boulogne-Billancourt (with Stephane Wiener and Marie-Thérèse Chailley) and then furthers his music education at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (with Tasso Adamopoulos). He is selected to join the National Orchestra of Metz in 1986 and has worked there since then. Beside the orchestral work he involves himself in chamber music, contemporary music (Ensemble Stravinsky from 2001 to 2017, with whom he had the opportunity to create several pieces of Dominique Lemaître), and also has an activity as a composer. He plays a viola made by Hiroshi Iizuka in 2008.