Gilles Obermayer is a French percussionist and composer born in Tunis in 1959. He started his career as a musician and composer in the late seventies in France. From 1981-2000 Mr. Obermayer lived in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Danmark) where he served on the faculty of the Norwegian National College of Dance in Oslo (1982-1985) and the Swedish National College of Dance (1995-1997) and the Ballet Akademien (1990-2000) in Stockholm.