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Born in 1959 in Libya, from a French father and an American mother, Louis Dunoyer de Ségonzac starts studying music at 5 at the Musikacademie in Vienna (Austria).

He folllows classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he wins a First Prize in Oboe and a First prize in Chamber Music. He studies Harmony with Alain Bernaud and Counterpoint with Bernard de Crépy.  He also takes Singing and Orchestra Direction classes on the side.

He starts his professional life as an orchestra musician (Concerts Colonne, Opéra Comique, Aspen Festival Orchestra, etc...) and creates some contemporary oboe pieces for the national radio station France Musique. He tours giving recitals of oboe-clavecin in baroque music with Olivier Baumont, but finally dedicates himself to writing musicals.

After having tried stage music with La Maison frontiere by Slawomir Mrozek (1979) then George Dandin by Molière (1980), he creates in 1981, with Maurice Jacquemont, the "Musicomediens" of which he is the Musical Driector until 1986.

In 1985, he starts the "Compagnie Fracasse" with Jean-Marie Lecoq.

he writes and directs the music for the following shows: Le roi cerf (1984), Le Capitaine Fracasse (1986), Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (1987), Christophe Colomb (1990), Les Empires de la lune (1993), Les Trois mousquetaires (1995), Quichotte et Sancho (1997), Le médaillon brisé (1998), La Belle et la bête (2000).

The show Christophe Colomb won the Piaf and the Moliere in 1991 as Best Musical.

Louis Dunoyer de Segonzac is the writer of the first volume of the collection Mes premières découvertes de la Musique (Gallimard), which is dedicated to  wind musical instruments and titled Tim et Tom (1994).

As a composer, Louis Dunoyer de Segonzac received the prize Maurice Yvain in 1991, given by the SACD during the MIDEM in Cannes.

In 1999, he received for his Cache-cache project, the SACD-Beaumarchais prize attributed within the composition competition organized by PRO LYRICA.

Source: SACD France. http://www.sacd.fr