Born in 1960, Alain Celo eventually turns to music for good after completing his high-school diploma with a major in sciences, and winning a first prize at a national-level school competition in music (1978).

He studies the viola at the music school of Boulogne-Billancourt (with Stéphane Wiener and Marie-Thérèse Chailley) and then furthers his music education at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris with Tasso Adamopoulos.

He is selected to join the National Orchestra of Lorraine in 1986, and has worked there since then.

Settled in Metz, he enrolls at the music school where he attends harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration classes and received a golden medal in each of these matters.

He is part of François Narboni’s composition class and ends his studies with a first prize in the advanced class and the SACEM prize. Advises were also given to him by Claude Lefebvre, George Crumb and Martin Matalon.

Mainly inspired by the relationship between man and nature, his research aims at creating a homogeneous language with heterogeneous elements, thus offering some aesthetic similarities with Mahler’s work. He admits to being influenced by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, but also jazz and ethnic traditional music.

His works, including some thirty pieces for instruments and voices, were played at the contemporary music festival of Cergy-Pontoise, and at the organ festival in Moselle. Souffle d’Ebène, the Metz accordion quartet, Pyxis and the Stravinsky ensembles are among the ensembles that have interpreted his pieces up to this day.