DALBAVIE Marc-André (1961)

A French composer born in 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Marc-André Dalbavie studied in Marius Constant’s class at the Paris Conservatory (1980-86), in the research department of Ircam, and with Pierre Boulez for conducting (1987-88). After a residency at the Villa Medici (1995-96), he taught orchestration at the Paris Conservatory. From 1982 Marc-André Dalbavie was interested in the potential of spectral music, and in particular in the superpositioning of flux and process, which he called ‘process polyphony’ (Diadèmes, 1986). In 1997 he collaborated with the writer Guy Lelong on Non-lieu. Marc-André Dalbavie has had many residencies with French and foreign orchestras (Cleveland, Minneapolis), writing works in situ (Mobiles, 2001) and re-exploiting the symphonic formation (Color, 2002; La source d’un regard, 2007), in this way undertaking work on the orchestra and on tone-colour.