Dominique Probst

Dominique Probst (center)

Dominique Probst (born 1954) is a French composer.[1]

The son of a noted playwright, Gisèle Casadesus, and an actor and director with the Comédie-Française, Lucien Probst, Dominique Probst won the First Prize for Percussion with the National Music Conservatory, Paris, in 1978. He has also been the timpanist of the Colonne Orchestra since 1973.[2]

In addition to performing as an instrumentalist and being a composer Probst gives instruction in percussion, chamber music, and musical education in various Parisian conservatories.

Foremost among his compositions is his opera Maximilian Kolbe, to a libretto by Eugène Ionesco, about the Polish priest who gave his life to save a fellow inmate in Auschwitz. The opera was first performed in Rimini, Italy in 1988.

References

  1. ↑ "Dominique Probst". IMDb.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Dominique PROBST". Casadesus.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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