Composers

An Italian composer born April 9, 1948 in Venice.

Claudio Ambrosini studied music history and early instruments at Venice University and trained in electronic music at the Venice Conservatory. Also in possession of a master’s degree in literature and foreign languages, he is passionately interested in the Venetian dialect, and for Venetian culture as a whole.

A British composer born July 15, 1934 in Lancashire (United Kingdom) who died April 18, 2022 in Mere (United Kingdom).

American composer born in 1969 in Boston (USA).

From a very young age Joshua Fineberg studied the violin then the guitar, piano, harpsichord and conducting. He subsequently entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore in the class of Morris Moshe Cotel, where he obtained First Prize in the Virginia Carty de Lillo Composition Competition. In Paris he studied with Tristan Murail and followed the composition and computer music course at Ircam. After returning to the USA he completed a doctorate in music composition in 1999 at Columbia University, New York.

French composer and researcher born in 1965 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses.

Stéphane de Gérando studied at the Paris Conservatory, notably in the classes of Alain Bancquart (composition), Michel Philippot (analysis), Gérard Grisey (orchestration), and in the electro-acoustic classes of Guy Reibel and Laurent Cuniot. He then completed his apprenticeship with the composition and computer music course of Ircam. In 1996, at the University of Paris VIII, he presented a doctoral thesis on æsthetics, sciences and technology of the arts entitled Contingence et déterminisme procédural appliqués à la synthèse sonore informatique et à l’écriture musicale. It marked his interest for the notion of coherence in the language of contemporary music.

French composer and radio producer born in 1974 in Caen.

Laurent Lefrançois studied the double bass and the electric bass before entering a piano class at the École Nationale de Musique in Lisieux. In parallel to studying musicology he followed the analysis class of Anthony Girard at the Rouen Conservatory. He then studied harmony and counterpoint with Stéphane Delplace as well as orchestration and composition with Guillaume Connesson. He gained a composition diploma in the class of Michel Merlet at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

A French composer born August 7, 1959.

A Canadian composer of Spanish origin born August 5, 1943 in Valencia (Spain) who died January 10, 2023 in Montréal (Canada).

A pianist by training, José Evangelista studied composition with Vicente Asencio at the Valencia Conservatory in Spain and thereafter with André Prévost at Montreal University and with Bruce Mather at McGill University (Canada).

A French composer born March 3, 1964 in Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche.

Jean-Marc Chouvel studied at Caen Conservatory, discovered contemporary music while listening to Pierre Boulez’ lectures at the Collège de France and completed his apprenticeship with Francisco Guerrero. He presented a doctoral thesis on the theory of form and its implications for contemporary music creation.He is also a computer and electronics engineer, the holder of a CAPES in physics and a DEA in the Sciences of matter and radiation (nuclear physics option). Passionately fond of art, he also obtained an aggregation in the visual arts.

A French composer born March 24, 1955 in Algiers who died February 13, 2023.

A French composer born May 14, 1959 in East Patchogue (United States).

Anthony Girard studied at the Paris Conservatory, notably with Serge Nigg and Claude Ballif. He won prizes for harmony, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration and composition (1980-1986), as well as a DEA in music history (1985) at the Sorbonne. He was then in residence at the Casa de Velázquez (1986-1988) and developed his style free of all restraints.