His practice tends to renew the traditionally practiced genre, beyond the folkloric framework. He multiplies the collaborations while evolving in various musical genres: improvised music (Barre Philips, Alan Vitous, Serge Pesce, Fabrice Gaudé, Christian Sebille), world music (Carlo Rizzo, Keyvan Chemirani, Fouad Didi, Ádám Móser, Éleonore Weill, Sissy Zhou), song (Arthur H, Georges Moustaki, Sylvie Berger, Lore Puech, Borbala Orbán), new traditional music (Laurence Bourdin, Pierre-Laurent Bertolino, Baltazar Montanaro-Nagy, Estelle Amsellem, Jean Francois Vrod, Fabien Mornet, Kavkazz), chamber music (Quatuor Talich, OCTV), learned music (Brandeburgische Philharmonie Postdam). He also composes music for plays, films (documentaries, fictions), choreographies, and directs several multidisciplinary creations (music, dance, plastic arts, video...).
Born in Hyères in 1955. Miquèu Montanaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, with more than 40 albums to his credit. His main instrument is the galoubet tambourin (traditional Provencal instrument composed of a flute-tambourine duo).
