Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
Machart Renaud
MUSIC CRITIC / RADIO PRODUCER
France
Biography
Born in 1962, Renaud Machart is a music critic, radio producer, and producer of French music. A former singer, he has also been the artistic director for a contemporary music ensemble (Musique oblique) and various festivals (Festival estival in Paris, 1989-1992; the “Paris-New York” series in New York, 1998-1999). He has written books about Francis Poulenc (Cicero, 1993; Seuil, 1995), John Adams (Actes sud, 2004) and Leonard Bernstein (Actes sud, 2007), as well as translated and presented the Journal parisien de Ned Rorem (Editions du Rocher, 2003).
A journalist on the culture beat for Le Monde since 1994 and a producer for the radio station France Music since 1987, in 1992 he founded “Ina, memoire vive,” a record collection of radio archives, which he directed until 2009.
