Trained at the CRR of Lille in guitar, trombone, and dramatic arts, he passed the entrance exams to both the CNSMDP for trombone and the CNSAD in 2004. He chose theater and joined the Comédie-Française in 2007, where he became a full member in 2015. He has performed under the direction of renowned directors such as Éric Ruf, Catherine Hiegel, Alain Françon, Thomas Ostermeier, Stéphane Braunschweig, Julie Deliquet, Guy Cassiers, Lorraine de Sagazzan, Christophe Honoré, and many more… At the same time, he began directing in collaboration with Sébastien Pouderoux, with the musical production Les Serge (Gainsbourg point barre) in 2019, which was revived in 2022 and 2025, followed by Les Précieuses ridicules in 2022. He then directed Le Suicidé by Nicolaï Erdman in 2024-2025 at the Salle Richelieu. He has also recorded several audiobooks, radio plays, and frequently recites for various ensembles such as the Orchestre de Paris, the ONDIF, the Ensemble Des équilibres, the Trio Zadig, Karol Beffa… In film, he recently appeared in Petite Maman by Céline Sciamma, Guermantes by Christophe Honoré, The Count of Monte Cristo by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Pattelière, and De Gaulle by Antonin Baudry.

Amaury Viduvier won 1st Grand Prize at the Berlin International Music Competition, 2nd Prize at the Debussy Competition and ADAMI Classical Revelation 2015, and is an associate artist of the Singer Polignac Foundation with the Ensemble Ouranos.

Coming from a family of artists, Amaury Viduvier took his first steps as a clarinetist at the age of eight. Led by a clarinetist father, it was a revelation.
Things moved quickly for this brilliant young student. He won his first competition at the age of twelve, and others soon followed (Bellan, UFAM, etc.). This is how he received the first grand prize of the European Music Competition in Picardy in 2008.

After brilliant studies at the CRR in Paris in Franck Amet's class, where he obtained a first prize for advanced training, Amaury was admitted first named in 2010 to the CNSM in Paris in the class of Pascal Moragues and Jean-François Verdier. He was then 19 years old.

Successes continued for Amaury, who won the "Yamaha Young Foundation of Europe" competition in 2012. He was thus invited as a soloist to the Berlin Philharmonie, Choregies d'Orange, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Salle Cortot, CASS in London, and performed alongside renowned artists such as Antoine Tamestit, Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Alexandre Kantorow, etc. He is also a regular guest on France Musique programs.
In 2014, he won Second Prize at the International Debussy Competition in Paris. Chamber music plays an important role in his artistic life. Amaury is the founder of the Ouranos ensemble, with which he won First Prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, as well as First Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Competition. He has recorded several albums with this ensemble under the Nomad Music label.

In 2018, Amaury won First Grand Prize at the Berlin International Music Competition and was invited to perform in a recital at the Berlin Philharmonie. He is Principal Clarinet of the Orchestra of the Republican Guard and has been working as a videographer since 2020 for ready-to-wear brands and individuals in the music world.

Karol Beffa, born in 1973, had a general education along with music studies after having been a child actor between the ages of seven and 12, appearing in more than 15 films (in particular, he performed with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under the direction of Giorgio Strehler and portrayed the 8-year-old Mozart in a television film by Marcel Bluwal). Top of his class at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he read history (Bachelor's degree), English (Master's), philosophy (Master's at Cambridge University) and mathematics, graduating from ENSAE (Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance). Enrolling at the Paris Conservatoire in 1988, he obtained eight premiers prix (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, 20th-century music, orchestration, analysis, vocal accompaniment, piano improvisation). He taught at the Sorbonne (1998-2003) then at the Ecole Polytechnique (2003-08). In 2003, he earned his doctorate in musicology with a thesis on György Ligeti's Piano Etudes. Since 2004, he is a senior lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. For the 2012/2013 academic year, the Collège de France elected him to its annual Chair in Artistic Creation. He was the youngest holder of this chair. Pianist and improviser, Karol Beffa is a composer whose works have been performed all around the world by such well-known ensembles as Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra… In 2000, the Turin International Biennale of Young Artists (BIG Torino 2000) selected him to represent France, and in 2002, he was the youngest French composer programmed at the Présences festival. March 2006 witnessed the first performance of a piece by the Orchestra of Pau, conducted by Fayçal Karoui: this was the first time in France that a public subscription was launched to commission a musical composition. As composer-in-residence of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (2006-09), Karol Beffa wrote Paradis artificiels (2007), a Violin Concerto, premiered by Renaud Capuçon (2008), and a Piano Concerto, first performed by Boris Berezovsky (2009). In September 2008, his Paysages d’ombres for Flute, Viola and Harp was premiered at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, a joint commission by Marie-Pierre Langlamet and the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation. In April 2009, his String Quartet was given its first performance by the Capuçon Quartet in Madrid. He regularly performs as an improviser, accompanying silent films and readings of literary texts. In addition, Beffa has composed four incidental scores as well as the music for 30 films. He has conducted the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice. Beffa’s catalog includes over 120 works. He has published extensively on Ravel: in 2025, En avant la musique! Ravel (Equateurs), and previously, with Guillaume Métayer, the graphic novel Un imaginaire musical (Seuil/Delcourt, 2019) and the children's novel Le Mystérieux Boléro. Sol et Rémi avec Ravel (Seghers, 2022). Latest publication: Satie de A à Z (Flammarion, 2025). Karol Beffa is a fellow of the Institut de France in composition. He has won the Charles Oulmont Prize (2005), the Chartier Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (2008), the Victoires de la musique award in the “Best Composer” category (2013 and 2018), the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs award (2016) and the SACEM Composer Competition (2017).