Biography

Claire Renard studied at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Toulouse

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, France

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 and graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris

Paris

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 in 1973. After completing her studies, she worked as a piano teacher and as a composer of classical and electroacoustic works for sound installations.

She has been composer-in-residence at the Theatre of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1994–1996), Ville d'Epinal (1998), the National Conservatory of Grenoble (1999), the Theatre Athénor/St. Nazaire (2000), Villa Italy Gamberaia (2001–2002), European meeting Objective1 = Art = Objective1 Austria (2001), Park and Grande Halle de la Villette, Grame/Centre National de Création Musicale/Lyon (2005) and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs Montalvo Art Center, California, USA (2006).

Honors and awards

• Villa Medicis Hors les Murs prize, 1990
• Beaumarchais Foundation Prize for audiovisual works, 1990
• Beaumarchais Foundation Prize for operatic works, 2002
• Fellowship from DICREAM, 2002

Works

Renard composes electroacoustic works for music performances and sound installations. Her works have been installed and performed in France

France

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, Switzerland

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, Belgium

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, Italy

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, Austria

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, Finland

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 and Greece

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. Selected works include:

• The Winds Of Time
• The folds of the sky
• I need
• Take me
• It never ceases to die of this said
• Summer Shorts
• A roar of his laughter
• Octave
• Air dance
• Valley closed
• Sand & Uncertainty