Alain Marion was a French flutist and music educator born December 25, 1938, in Marseille, France. Marion studied at the Conservatoire de Marseille under Joseph Rampal, winning first prize in flute at age 14, before furthering his studies under Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire. After winning first prize at the Concours de Genève in 1961, Marion became principal flutist of the ORTF Chamber Orchestra in 1964 and joined the Orchestre de Paris in 1967. He served as solo flutist with the Orchestre National de France from 1972 and joined Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain in 1977. His recorded repertoire includes compositions by François Devienne, Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, Jacques Ibert, and a 1993 album of works by Bohuslav Martinů. Marion directed summer courses at the Académie Internationale d'Été from 1986 and taught as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1977 until his death. He died in Seoul, South Korea, on August 16, 1998.
