Clément Dufour was born in 1987 in Versailles close to Paris. He was still very young when he was given his first flute and soon developed a real passion for the instrument.
From 1995 until 2003 he studied the flute at the Regional Music Academy of Rueil-Malmaison, the city where his family lives, in the class of Pascale Feuvrier and Philippe Pierlot and was awarded a Prize of Excellence.
Clément entered the National Music and Dance Academy of Lyon (CNSMD) in Sept 2003 in the class of Philippe Bernold and Emmanuelle Reville where he got first price in June 2007. He also took part in a summersemester class conducted by Benoît Fromanger in the “Hanns Eisler” Hochschule in Berlin.
Clement has won numerous competitions : in 2001 the 1st Prize of the European Music Competition in Picardy; in 2002 1st Prizes of the Bellan competition , of the National Competition for Young Flutists and of the UFAM competition. In April 2004 he won second Prize at the second «Internationaler Rotary Musikförderpreis» in Nüremberg (Germany) and in October, of the same year was a finalist in the third European Young Concert Artist in Paris. In April 2005 he was awarded second Prize at the third International Flute Competition, Cracow – 2005.
In october 2005 in Paris, he won the 1st Grand Prize of the 7th International Jean-Pierre Rampal flute competition, the world's foremost flute contest. Youngest contestant among four finalists, Clement stood out in the concerto for flute and orchestra in D major by Mozart and in the concerto for flute and orchestra by Andre Jolivet.
He plays in many countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordania, Japan, England, USA, ...) for different festivals or events with artists such as Isabelle Perrin, Laetitia Bougnol, Florence Boissolle, Philippe Bernold, Shigenori Kudo, Marc Coppey, Antoine Pierlot, Tristan Pfaff, Anneleen Leenaerts, Emmanuel Ceysson, Nemanja Radulovic, the Modigliani quartet, the Psophos quartet, the Atelier Ostinato orchestra, the Bernard Thomas Orchestra …
Clement was nominated « révélation classique » by Adami for year 2006 and was 2007 "Declic Program" laureate of Cultures France.
He is actively supported by the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.