Eric Craviatto
French composer, guitarist and trombonist, Eric Craviatto was born in Paris the 6th of June 1963, to an Austro-Italian family of musicians and painters.
     He grew up in Marseilles close to his Viennese grandmother who listened constantly to Beethoven's symphonies. From an early age he studied music and, at around ten years old, composed his first pieces on the family piano. His grandfather, Jean Tognetti, set designer at the Opera-house in Marseilles, introduced him to the scene and art of classical music, whilst he learnt jazz with his percussionist brother.
     Following physics and electronic studies, he created and directed between 1987 and 1995 a business producing high fidelity acoustic speakers, and meanwhile, pursued both studies in composition with Ivan Jullien at the School of Music in Marseilles, and a live performance career as guitarist and trombonist with various jazz, rock and experimental music groups.
     In 1996 he married and moved to Avignon, deciding to devote himself entirely to
creating music.
     Today, his repertoire consists of compositions specialy written for theater, cinema, television and contemporary dance, arrangements for classical guitar and various orchestras , and personals pieces for guitar and piano solos, vocalists, string trio, saxophone quartet, string and wind orchestras to which he occasionally integrates electronics to attain further sound matter. Now, his music begin to be played out of France, and in 2008, his saxophone quartet, Thelyphron’s adventures, has been published by Tierolff in Nederlands. As an intuitive composer, he has been compared to Heitor Villa-Lobos for artistic independence and acute sense of development. Trying to define his creative direction, Eric likes this quotation of Federico Fellini : « It is quite probable, that had cinema not existed, I would have much liked to be the director of a great circus, because the circus is exactly the mix of technique, precision and improvisation. At the same time that the show, prepared and rehearsed, is performed, we really risk something, that is to say, at the same time we live.  »