Pascal Gallois

Pascal Gallois (born 1959) is a French bassoonist, conductor and music teacher, specialising in contemporary classical music.

Life Born in Linselles near Lille, Gallois studied with Maurice Allard at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Since 1981, he has been a member of the ensemble intercontemporain, soloist, alongside Pierre Boulez. He brings to the ensemble contemporary works for bassoon, both original and French premieres, as In Freundschaft by Karlheinz Stockhausen (recorded in 1984), and Sequenza XII by Luciano Berio, in 1995. As a conductor, he has conducted, among other things, of the .

The development of the contemporary bassoon repertoire is one of his concerns. Composers such as György Kurtag, Olga Neuwirth, Philippe Fénelon, Brice Pauset, Toshio Hosokawa and Mark Andre write pieces for him which he creates and records. (book with CD, Bärenreiter-Verlag)