Jean-Michel Damase

Jean-Michel Damase (; 27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music.

Career Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying piano and solfège with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the age of five and composing by age nine. His first work (at the age of nine) was a setting of some poems by Colette, whom he had met at a Parisian salon. In the same year, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Et la belle se réveilla.

Selected compositions Orchestral Symphony (1952) Serenade for strings (1959) Trio for flute, viola and harp (1947) Colombe (1958, premiered 1961 Bordeaux, libretto Jean Anouilh with Maria Murano)