Vincent Royer

Vincent Royer (born 22 January 1961) is a French violist and composer. He gives concerts worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. He gives master classes, is a member of various ensembles and teaches as professor for chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. Life Born in Strasbourg, Royer first studied piano with the concert pianist and Schumann interpreter Hélène Boschi. At the age of 13 he switched to the viola and received lessons from Claude Ducroqc. As a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture in Paris, he passed the State Music Teacher Examination in 1987 and received his degree in the main subject viola at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He obtained his diploma in 1989 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, also majoring in viola. He studied with Ulrich Koch in Freiburg, Rainer Moog in Cologne and Serge Collot in Paris. After his studies he founded together with the Brazilian pianist Paulo Álvares the group ALEA - an ensemble for collective musical composition and Improvisation. In 1991 he was awarded the ‘Prix Xenakis de Paris’ as part of the ‘Lucero Festivals’. In 1995 he received a scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture as Artist in Resid