Rate My Professor Jean Besingrand

In the Arts and Culture domain, Besingrand has built a distinguished teaching career as an Adjunct Instructor at Baruch College, CUNY, teaching Music in Civilization (MSC 1003) since Spring 2016 and Principles of Music (MSC 1005) in Summer 2020, and at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he instructs Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (MUSC 1300) and Music History and Score Analysis III: Twentieth-Century to the Present (MUSC 3243). Previously, he lectured at Université Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne on piano accompaniment and Frank Zappa, and served as a certified music teacher at French secondary schools, leading orchestras, choirs, and courses in music history, advanced analysis, and harmony. His compositional achievements include major awards such as the ISB David Walter Composition Competition Grand Prize (2024), first prize absolute at the International Composition Competition Città di Udine (2023), Agorart Ensemble Call for Scores winner (2022 and 2021), Voix Nouvelles Royaumont laureate (2021), second prize at New Music Generation (2020), Robert Starer Composition Award (2016), and first prize at the Festival Musica/SaxOpen saxophone quartet competition (2015). Besingrand's music has been performed by ensembles including Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, JACK Quartet, Molinari Quartet, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and Mivos Quartet at festivals like Festival Musica (France), Shanghai New Music Week (China), and Barcelona Modern Festival (Spain). His scores are published by Artchipel and Babelscores, contributing significantly to the contemporary music field.