Colette Mourey

Colette Mourey is a guitarist, professor of music, researcher in musicology, French composer and writer born in 1954.

Born in 1954 in Kenitra (Morocco), Colette Mourey studied musicology at the Sorbonne under the direction of Edith Weber and passed the aggregation. First a classical guitarist, student of the Uruguayan guitarist Oscar Caceres, she is also a pianist.

As a writer, she writes musicological, philosophical and literary works.

As a teacher, she teaches the writing, aesthetics and didactics of music at the University of Franche-Comté and at the Higher School of Teaching and Education. She is also committed to the association Passeurs d'Art for the creation of free children's orchestras.

For her musicological research, she started work on the atonal music of her teacher Julien Falk, to develop a new musical system called "hypertonality". It is based on spiral scales (in amplitudes greater than the octave), radically transforming the techniques of atonal counterpoint. This allows the reintroduction of "natural sounding" in a contemporary language, which helps to bring contemporary music to the "general public". She is the author of numerous books on musicology and education.

As a composer, she is now elaborating film and broadcasting music (“Fuentes” (guitar film music), “Sad o’clock soul dance” (bass clarinet and harpsichord film music) …). She has won several First International Prizes (“Music and Earth”, 2012), and three Grand Prizes, from the IBLA Foundation, 2012, 2013 and 2014.