Roger Boutry

Roger Jean Boutry (27 February 1932 – 7 September 2019) was a French composer and conductor. Biography Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Boutry was a pianist, conductor, arranger, and accomplished composer. Born to musician parents, native of Cambrai, his mother was a pianist and singer and father a solo trombone at the Orchestre National de France of which he was one of the founders with Ingelbrecht). While continuing his secondary studies at Lycée Chaptal, he was admitted in 1944 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he won several first prizes: solfege in 1944 (Lucette Descaves’s class), piano: 1st appointed in 1948 (Jean Doyen’s class), harmony in 1949 (Henri Challan’s class), chamber music in 1949 (P. Pasquien’s class), piano accompaniment in 1950 (Nadia Boulanger’s class), fugue and counterpoint in 1951 (Noël Gallon’s class), conducting: 1st appointed in 1953 (Louis Fourestier’s class), composition in 1954 (Tony Aubin’s class), Grand prix de Rome in 1954 and finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. On his return from the Villa Médicis, he did his military service first in Grenoble with the 6th Battalion of the Alpine Chasseurs and then du