A profile in the newspaper Le Temps, 15.7.2004

Pierre Cormon spends twelve weeks a year learning to play the oud in Cairo

By Elisabeth Chardon

Le Temps, 15 July 2004

In his Geneva flat, Pierre Cormon is surrounded by unusual musical instruments. He introduces them all: the Anatolian saz, the Ottoman tanbur and bamboo flutes, the hackbrett from the Alps, the kanoun, the instrument par excellence of learned Arab music… and above all the oud. Pierre Cormon owns six examples of this instrument, which luthiers give a perfect roundness. “There are three key moments (…)

 

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Pierre Cormon coThis journalist with “Entreprise romande” took his first lessons in Sana’a, when he was an ICRC delegate. Long self-taught, he is now developing his talents at the world’s leading oud school.nsacre… LT 15.7.2004