The Cristal begins to have a past, Michel Deneuve directs all his energy to giving it a future.

This future, like any instrument's, depends on having a repertoire written for it.

Today, interest in the Cristal continues to grow, as much on the part of audiences, who are never indifferent to its magic, as on the part of musicians who can judge the instrument's true performance by listering to it and participating in Cristal concerts.

Michel Deneuve has dedicated himself to the Cristal since 1975.

He has studied and refined a playing technic which opens other horizons to this young instrument (it took more than 100 years for the piano to become popular). He has applied the study methods for piano and violin to the Cristal : scales, arpeggios, sustained tones, staccatos, vibratos etc.

He works at making the instrument known, he has also considerably enriched and diversified the repertoire.

He continualy pushes the instrument's possibilities further, seeking to demonstrate the many fecets of the Cristal.

Multiplying experiences and encounters on is concert trips, he likes to play with musicians from other countries and with different styles. He shares his music whith musicians and their instruments, from all tendencies, all nationalities.

In France, he's worked for several years, with the HOPE Ensemble in Limoges where are finds more and more Baschet percussions instruments and Cristal.

As a means to demonstrate his electric interests, Michel Deneuve founded ISUA Ensemble. He has also appeared in concert with such artists as bass-baritone José Van Dam, violist Jean Baptiste Brunier, cellists Dominique de Willancourt and Marc Drobinsky, as well the pianists Pascal Amoyel and Alain Kremski. He has appeared in concert under the direction of conductors such as Constantin Simonovitch, Christophe Escher and Françoise Legrand.

Several composers have writing works for Michel Deneuve and the Cristal : Jean Christophe Adam Walrand, Dominique Dupraz, Paul Hertel, Alain Labarsouque, Marcel Landowsky, Françoise Legrand, Vincent Dionne, Ignacio Yepes.

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