“We have had great successes at the Conservatory,” enthused Sébastien Martin, President of the Grand Chalon.
Samuel Apoutou, a jazz piano student in the preparatory class for Higher Education at the Conservatoire du Grand Chalon, will fly to the United States in mid-August to join the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he was received in the competition. By dint of hard work, 7 to 8 hours a day playing the piano, Samuel Apoutou realizes the dream of benefiting from a 4-year training in this prestigious school bringing together approximately 3,800 students and more than 450 teachers and which has seen passing between its walls of very great musicians who came to train there.
Samuel Apoutou who started the piano around 6/7 years old first at the Union Musicale de St Marcel then at the Drigon Music School in Châtenoy-le-Royal, then joined, in 6th grade, the CHAM class (Class à Schedules Arranged Music) at Camille Chevalier College set up with the Conservatory of Grand Chalon. It was in the 5th grade that he invested himself intensively, explains the young prodigy who follows two courses, jazz and classical, and who has already made some contacts on the spot “to integrate well”; he will be staying in his first year on campus.
In order to congratulate the young man, Sébastien Martin, President of Grand Chalon and Emmanuelle Dupuit-Pinto, Vice-President in charge of culture and the development of Student Life, received him at the Hôtel d’Agglomeration on Thursday 14 april. After a very friendly exchange where he was asked, among other things, what he would do following the 4 years spent in Boston, Samuel Apoutou replied that he would like to come back to France, to Chalon-sur-Saône. […] then go on tour to give concerts but also pass on his passion for the piano by giving lessons. At the end of the interview, two presents were given to the talented musician who said he was very touched by this attention.
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