He was born in 1948. After classical studies in Amsterdam where he was a student of Henk van Bergen at the Concertgebouw, John Sernee began his career with the practice of trombone.
Facing the important offer of this six-month period of music on the Members' Compositions Forum (nearly fifty proposed works!) for our Permanent Composition Contest , the jury deliberate with some difficulties, for finally conclude with...three awards !
- The first award unanimously goes to Yves Rinaldi , for his work: "Il lui disait" (He said to her).
Here is what Jean-Pierre Nouvel says, as a member of the Jury:
By jlf,
Tuesday 16 January 2007 at 00:13 ::Listen !
Listen to MusHar radio up there, right corner, and click on Symph_BB_(Scherzo): That's the Scherzo of the new Symphonietta Alex wrote for his baby, the little King Arthur.
You'd like to listen to the whole piece? .../...
By jlf,
Friday 3 November 2006 at 23:13 ::Listen !
He gave me an appointment in his church at 7:30 a.m., rather early (he is an early bird !)
He had a look to the score, said "that's a toccata" while I'was preparing my gear (DAT and microphone).
Then I start recording and we climb together to his organ, upstairs (that's why you hear some noise at the beginning).
And he plays for me, for me alone !
And finally, what did I do after this early concert? Guess it ! or read more …/…
By jlf,
Monday 30 October 2006 at 20:27 ::musical blabla
This orchestral fantasy project (downloaded 200 times, up to now, in spite of
its size, 18.6Mb. You can get it here!) brought me quite a lot of feedbacks already.
I notably notice they reproach me for its exuberance. Roughly, this would go off in every direction... Why not? Is'nt it a fantasy?
Some people are up to say it would make a good film score for a French comedy movie...What do they take me for ?
Fortunely, others peoples (or the same) say that this music is a Great Composition, definitely original, vivid, well done, which should interest musicians, amateur or professional chamber orchestra.
Humm... Not a symphonic orchestra? Well, so, it has to be better placed… Now there, that's better for my ego. ) .../...
By jlf,
Thursday 24 August 2006 at 23:32 ::Listen !
Vaguely based on the story of the eponym novel by Umberto Eco, (under the Italian title Il nome della rosa), this orchestral work is composed as a Symphonic fantasy. You can get it here.
As the plot unfolds, the score develops along several musical themes, from the beginning of the story - two monks (maybe Don Quijote and Sancho Pança? they look so ! ) riding on to a mysterious abbey where they usually have terrific adventures, fighting against the forces of evil; to the end: both monks riding away from the fuming ruins of the monastery. .../...
Is it necessary to write about Zidane to get some more visitors on our web sites? Too bad, forget Zidane and its phoney excuses, forget our July 14th brass band if you are in France, and let's speak about the two new winners of our permanent composing contest and their songs, Foxdrop by Cyrus and Miles was in the box (a music box, of course!) by SolCarlus.
The question was: Who is the very best? In both cases they composed jazz pieces, not classical music, but in very different style. This might have driven this special decision of our jury keeping both titles.
Alex said: (sorry, Alex, for my bad translation in English (. . .)
Here is our new guest composer, the new winner of our permanent composing contest. His name Jean-Armand Moroni. And his piece is called "Des Profondeurs" (in Latin "De Profundis"). That's not really cheerful, but that's a great piece of orchestral music, very impressive and beautiful.
See below, just the beginning:
By jlf,
Monday 27 February 2006 at 23:22 ::Listen !
We are happy to welcome Arnaud Roy and his friend Pascal Arnold, our new guest composers in the Salon de musique. They are THE winners of our permanent composing contest, for the next 3 months.
The piece's called "comptine jazz". You can listen to it on our MusHar radio, up there, or download it here.
By jlf,
Sunday 8 January 2006 at 20:36 ::what's up?
For 6 month, Alex has been sending us his pieces of music, all more and more interesting. Did you listen to his works, specially the allegro ( 1st movement) of a piece for small orchestra? A wonder of finesse in the writing, of invention in the orchestration, a piece of music which I use to listen to every evening without flagging, always finding there some new and very special thing, a proof of its richness, isn't it.
By jlf,
Sunday 23 October 2005 at 21:41 ::musical blabla
Do you think that music is not merely goods for sale as well, but also a life value which is elevating listening or composing people? Do you think music is to be shared, and not to make some clever manager rich?
By jlf,
Saturday 22 October 2005 at 16:46 ::Listen !
New orchestration of an old poeme symphonique. Listen to our MusHar radio, uphere. Members of the Salon de musique are now able to download this new piece here
By jlf,
Monday 5 September 2005 at 18:35 ::musical blabla
Let me describe as mystic this brilliant piece of concert music. It's an evocation of Padre Pio's life for soprani, organ and orchestra, lasting 9 mn. Here is what Jean-Pierre says about his work:
By jlf,
Monday 5 September 2005 at 02:29 ::Listen !
Members can download two excerpts and the entire work in our salon de musique, downloading area. Visitors (not-yet-members) can listen to excerpts of this piece on MusHar Radio (click on icon, on top of this blog).
2007 Fall Music composing contest : John Sernee and Vincent Bourgin are awarded
Some people are up to say it would make a good film score for a French comedy movie...What do they take me for ?
Well, so, it has to be better placed… Now there, that's better for my ego. 
) .../...
) riding on to a mysterious abbey where they usually have terrific adventures, fighting against the forces of evil; to the end: both monks riding away from the fuming ruins of the monastery. .../...
Here is our new guest composer, the new winner of our permanent composing contest. His name Jean-Armand Moroni. And his piece is called "Des Profondeurs" (in Latin "De Profundis"). That's not really cheerful, but that's a great piece of orchestral music, very impressive and beautiful.
See below, just the beginning:
