Andre Bernold was born on March 1 1958 in Colmar, France. He was considered a very bright student from a young age. He later became a student at the very prestigious "Ecole Normal Superieur" in Paris. His brother later joined him in Paris, as a flute student
at the Paris Conservatory. Phillipe Bernold went on to be a well known flutist, preforming the world over, and earning the Jean Pierre Rampal award. At the ENS Andre met his future wife Andrea Tarnowski. After attending the ENS, Andre stayed in a Paris with Andrea a exchange student from Amherst (and later Yale). While in Paris Andre was good friends with great Philosopher Gilles Deluze and playwrite Samuel Beckett. He later wrote a book on his friendship with Beckett (L'amite de Beckett, 1993, Hermann) and with Deluze (Deluze Epars, 2004, Hermann) Andre moved to the United States for a while, teaching at Bennington College and Dartmouth College where Andrea is still teaching. He left in 1999 and returned to France in Lyon where he now works for the CNED. His only son was born in 1993.