biography

Birth: December 5th 1943, in Paris

Death: expected on a 27th of January
— guess why — Place and year so far unknown.

In between, Mr. Monsaingeon will have devoted himself to music, playing the violin, writing books, and making films.

Among these films his profiles of legendary performers, such as Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, David Oïstrakh, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Murray Perahia, Deszö Ranki, Zoltan Kocsis, Viktoria Postnikova, Julia Varady, Nadia Boulanger, the Alban Berg Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter, Grigori Sokolov, Guennadi Roshdestvensky, Valeriy Sokolov, David Fray, Piotr Anderszewski, Marie-Claire Alain, Aleksey Shadrine, and more recently The Arod Quartet and Klaus Mäkelä have gained worldwide acclaim.

LATEST UPDATES - NEWS

Klaus Mäkelä, Towards the flame
French title: Vers la flamme
An Idéale Audience Group production in coproduction with ARTE France and AVROTROS
53' Date: 2023

- Download long biography as pdf -