Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski was born in Paris. His maternal grandmother, Edith Wade, was a violinist. His mother, Mary Anne Minkowski née Wade, is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology. He began his musical career as a bassoonist for René Clemencic's Clemencic Consort and Philippe Pierlot's Ricercar Consort. Minkowski was awarded the Prize XVIIe in 1988 for his recordings of Lully-Molière : Les Comédies ballets par les Musiciens du Louvre, (Erato Records). ==References==