I was born in Béziers where I spent my entire life both professionally and privately. I am married, father of 2 children and grandfather.
From an early age, I became passionate about music and singing, coming from a long family of musicians.
A violinist by training, I graduated from the National Conservatory of region and the University of Letters inToulouse.
As an associate professor of music, I taught in college and high school as well as at the Conservatoire d'Agglomération Béziers-Méditerranée. As a choir and orchestra teacher, I devoted a large part of my time to training.
I conducted the Lyre Biterroise from 1985 to 1992 and then Les Petits Chanteurs de La Trinité for 25 years. This last function led me to give concerts in France and in fifteen countries around the world in prestigious places such as the Manuel de Falla Auditorium in Granada, St Patrick's Cathedral in New York, the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris and Cologne Cathedral. I have collaborated with personalities from the artistic world such as Roger Calmel, Vladimir Cosma, Michaël Lonsdale, Thierry Escaich, Yvan Rebroff and Raphaël.
After having been for eleven years President of the French Federation of Little Singers, a Church movement that brings together several thousand young people grouped in children's choirs, throughout France, I was elected in 2017 international president of the Pueri Cantores, a movement bringing together more than thousand choirs (about forty-thousand choristers), present in more than thirty countries, on four continents. This function leads me to travel a lot to visit the federations of the world and give them advice. I also coordinate the organization of congresses bringing together many children's choirs.
In 2021, I created the InBaeterra Chamber Choir composed mainly of former Little Singers of the Trinity.
In 2022, I am a visiting professor at the Guilhem de Gellone Graduate Centre in Montpellier, with a course on JS Bach, servant of sacred music.
Now retired from teaching, I continue to pass on my passion for music and choral singing.
Jean Henric