The Team

Founder of Music Remembrance Radio, Amaury du Closel, who died on October 7, 2024, studied composition with Max Deutsch, conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Mons with Alexandre Myrat, and attended masterclasses in Vienna with Karl Oesterreicher and Sir Charles Mackerras.

Conductor, composer, writer, he was the musical director of the opera company Opéra Nomade since 2000 and of Forum Voix Etouffées since 2004. In 2005 he published The Stifled Voices of the Third Reich by Actes Sud, Best Essay Prize from the Syndicat de la critique musicale. It is for this memorial work that he was honored by the Goldenes Ehrenzeichen of the Federal Republic of Austria in 2005, and by the Verdienstkreuz am Bande of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2021.

Current artistic director of this project and web designer, Thomas Tacquet is firstly pianist and choirmaster and holds masters in accompaniment and vocal coaching (CNSMD of Paris), degrees in piano, accompaniment (CNSMD of Paris), musicology and philosophy (Paris IV-Sorbonne University) as well as DEM (« first prizes ») in choir direction, harpsichord and musical training (CRR of Paris). For several years, he has been working intensively as a vocal coach for various French opera houses (Montpellier, Rouen, Reims, Lille, Massy, ​​Théâtre des Champs Elysées for the 2023-2024 season) and for numerous specialist instrumental and vocal French ensembles (Les Métaboles, Le Concert de la Loge, ERDA – Accentus, La Tempête, Le Concert Spirituel, Zene, Le Palais Royal, etc.), alongside his work as artistic director for the Forum Voix Etouffées, Opéra Junior and les Amis de la Musique en Vendômois, as organist at the Protestant church of Batignolles (Paris) and as a musicologist.