Tressos Gilles

(France)

Since 1990, Gilles TRESSOShas been teaching the saxophone in the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Poitiers. He teaches didactique in pedagogy in the department of Teacher Training, in CNSMD of PARIS. He is a coordinator and teacher in the Centre d’études supérieures musique et danse de Poitou-Charentes.
Belonging to the Habanera sax quartet, he was awarded many first international music chamber  prizes. With this ensemble, Gilles TRESSOS is widely heard in France and abroad and has recorded three albums for ALPHA production.
He created « Saxophone Evenement » in 2000 with which he organizes the summer Habanera Academy and it’s festival in Poitiers.
He has been consulted as a testing adviser for Selmer-Paris and helped devise the new baryton saxophone serie III.