Biographies

A French composer and clarinetist born December 24, 1959 in Chalon-sur-Saône.

Dominique Clément studied the clarinet, analysis, harmony and early counterpoint​, yet considers himself self-taught as a composer.

With the pianists Sylvie Drouin and Françoise Matringe, the soprano Monica Jordan and the cellist Christophe Roy, he founded in 1983 the ensemble Aleph, within which he plays solo works and chamber music of the twentieth century.

A German and Jordanian composer born December 14, 1972 in Zarka (Jordany).

A Russian composer born June 9, 1976 in Moscow (Russia).

A flautist by training, Dmitri Kourliandski studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Leonid Bobylev and won notably the Gaudeamus Prize in 2003.

In 2005 he founded the first Russian periodical devoted to contemporary music, Tribuna Sovremennoi Muzyki, becoming its editor-in-chief (2005-2009). Artistic director of the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky City, he is also assistant music and artistic director for the Stanislavsky Theatre and organises masterclasses and lectures in Russia and Europe.

An Austrian composer and conductor from Switzerland born December 6, 1954 in Schaffhausen.

A pianist by training, Beat Furrer studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Before being appointed composition teacher at the University of Music and the Dramatic Arts in Graz,he founded, in 1985, the ensemble Klangforum Wien, and was its artistic director until 1992. Resolutely turned towards contemporary music, this ensemble has premiered more than 500 works by composers from all over the world.

A French composer born November 29, 1932 in Lourdes who died July 19, 1998.

A pianist by training, Antoine Tisné studied composition with Jean Rivier and Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatory. Winning a Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1962, resident at the Casa de Velázquez (1965), he won the Composers’ Prize of the Sacem in 1988. In parallel with his activity as a composer, he has taught composition and orchestration at the Paris-Sorbonne University and has had a long administrative career, first as principal inspector for music at the Ministry of Culture from 1967 to 1992, then as inspector for the municipal conservatories in Paris.

A French composer born July 26, 1922 in Paris.

Born into an artistic and musical environment, Patrice Sciortino entered the Schola Cantorum in 1963, where he studied the piano and harmony and counterpoint. At first organist and music teacher, he subsequently composed to commissions from radio, television, the cinema and the stage. After a course at the GRM in 1967 he studied primitive and exotic music. The initiator of a course for the analysis of contemporary works at the European Conservatory, he became director of the Conservatory of the XIIIth arrondissement of Paris (1979-1992), before being appointed teacher of composition at the Schola Cantorum (1997).

A French composer born February 28, 1967 in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Jean-Baptiste Favory studied composition with Jean-Claude Risset, Julio Estrada, Gérard Pape and Michel Zbar. He has a diploma in electroacoustics from the Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt (1996) and in composition from the Ateliers Upic (1999). He has been since 2007 a member of the ensemble CLSI (Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image) conducted by Paul Méfano. He has composed numerous pieces of musique concrète, most available on CD, as well as music for audiovisual media and the theatre (À la porte, 2007).