Stéphane de Gérando
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Stéphane de GérandoStéphane de Gérando (L'Hay-les-Roses
, France
, June 23, 1965), is a French
composer
, conductor
, multimedia artist
, researcher
.
’s student in Composition, Michel Philippot
’s in Writing and Analysis, Gérard Grisey
’s in Orchestration, Tristan Murail
’s in Musical Computer Science, Guy Rebel’s in Electro-acoustic.
Later, he was allowed to enter the C.N.S.M.D.P. Composition 3rd Cycle in 1994, where he worked in Master Classes – with Pierre Boulez
, Karlheinz Stockhausen
, Franco Donatoni
, Emmanuel Nunes
, Henri Dutilleux
– and got the Darmstadt’s Contemporary Music Festival International Prize (1994), the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Drama’s Ancient and Actual Student Association (1991), the Music Editors Composers Authors Society (S.A.C.E.M.) Academic Prize (1995), and was laureate of the Sasakawa Foundation in 1993 and 1994.
Judged able to lead Research in 2005 (L’œuvre musicale contemporaine en question – Contemporary Musical Work in questions), Doctor in « Esthétique, Science et Technologie des Arts » (Arts’ Esthetic, Science and Technology) of the Paris VIII University (1996), he was instructed too in the E.H.E.S.S. (Social Science High School), associated to the I.R.C.A.M. (Musical Acoustic and Coordination Research Institute) and the C.N.R.S. (Scientific Research National Center). He got the D.E.A. (Acoustic Studies Prize) of Music and Musicology, and was selected in order to follow the long way of the Musical Computer Science (1991/1992).
He’s created many orchestral partitions (3icar icarPublishing), especially for Radio France
, Puisqu’il en est ainsi (symphonic orchestra and 8- tracks magnetic tape), En toi, avec lui et en lui (4 orchestral groups placed around the public). His last works are "Pièces pour cordes" (for the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra), "Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir" (for 2E2M, created in the Pompidou Center), "Du sens au sens" (for Flute, created by P.Y. Artaud at Darmstatdt Contemporary Music Festival) and "Intumescence" (for Radio-France, in coproduction with the GRM for the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra and 2- tracks Numeric band – creation and record the February 20th, 1997 at the Radio House, Paris, broadcasting the March 8th, 1997 on France-Musique).
L'Haÿ-les-Roses
L'Haÿ-les-Roses is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. L'Haÿ-les-Roses is a sous-préfecture of the Val-de-Marne département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses....
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, June 23, 1965), is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, multimedia artist
Multimedia artist
Multimedia artists are contemporary artists who use a wide range of media to communicate their art. Multimedia art includes, by definition, more than one medium, therefore multimedia artists use visual art in combination with sound art, moving images and other media...
, researcher
Researcher
A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...
.
Biography
Stéphane de Gérando succeeded to enter first the C.N.S.M.D.P. (Paris Superior National Conservatory of Music and Dance), got the First Prize of Composition of the C.N.S.M.D.P. in 1991. He was especially Alain BancquartAlain Bancquart
Alain Bancquart is a French composer. He had his musical formation at the "Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris" with Darius Milhaud. He was a violist with the Orchestre National de France until 1973...
’s student in Composition, Michel Philippot
Michel Philippot
Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.-Life:...
’s in Writing and Analysis, Gérard Grisey
Gérard Grisey
Gérard Grisey was a French composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Gérard Grisey was born in Belfort, France on 17 June 1946. He studied at the Trossingen Conservatory in Germany from 1963 to 1965 before entering the Conservatoire de Paris...
’s in Orchestration, Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
’s in Musical Computer Science, Guy Rebel’s in Electro-acoustic.
Later, he was allowed to enter the C.N.S.M.D.P. Composition 3rd Cycle in 1994, where he worked in Master Classes – with Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
, Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
, Emmanuel Nunes
Emmanuel Nunes
-Biography:Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University . He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , and in 1964 moved to Paris...
, Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
– and got the Darmstadt’s Contemporary Music Festival International Prize (1994), the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Drama’s Ancient and Actual Student Association (1991), the Music Editors Composers Authors Society (S.A.C.E.M.) Academic Prize (1995), and was laureate of the Sasakawa Foundation in 1993 and 1994.
Judged able to lead Research in 2005 (L’œuvre musicale contemporaine en question – Contemporary Musical Work in questions), Doctor in « Esthétique, Science et Technologie des Arts » (Arts’ Esthetic, Science and Technology) of the Paris VIII University (1996), he was instructed too in the E.H.E.S.S. (Social Science High School), associated to the I.R.C.A.M. (Musical Acoustic and Coordination Research Institute) and the C.N.R.S. (Scientific Research National Center). He got the D.E.A. (Acoustic Studies Prize) of Music and Musicology, and was selected in order to follow the long way of the Musical Computer Science (1991/1992).
He’s created many orchestral partitions (3icar icarPublishing), especially for Radio France
Radio France
Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...
, Puisqu’il en est ainsi (symphonic orchestra and 8- tracks magnetic tape), En toi, avec lui et en lui (4 orchestral groups placed around the public). His last works are "Pièces pour cordes" (for the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra), "Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir" (for 2E2M, created in the Pompidou Center), "Du sens au sens" (for Flute, created by P.Y. Artaud at Darmstatdt Contemporary Music Festival) and "Intumescence" (for Radio-France, in coproduction with the GRM for the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra and 2- tracks Numeric band – creation and record the February 20th, 1997 at the Radio House, Paris, broadcasting the March 8th, 1997 on France-Musique).
Catalog of works
| Year | Title | Type of work | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Metathesis, for piano | solo | 12:00 |
| 1990 | Puisqu'il en est ainsi , for orchestra and tape | orchestra and electroacoustic | 30:15 |
| 1991 | Musique pour église, pécheur d'amour, le Christ et moi , sextet for flute in G, English horn, harp, vibraphone, sib clarinet, viola and imposed reverberation | 7 instruments | 12:00 |
| 1991 | Hommage à Bach , sib clarinet | solo | 00:59 |
| 1992 | En toi, avec lui et en lui , 52 soloists and chamber auditorium (four orchestra groups scattered around the public) | orchestra | 12:00 |
| 1993 | Virtualité et conscience du vide , for strings | 3 instruments | 15:00 |
| 1994 | Du sens au sens, for flute | solo | 17:00 |
| 1996 | Pièce pour cordes, for string orchestra | orchestra (strings) | 10:00 |
| 1996 | Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir, for soprano, narrator, flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, percussions and amplification system | 7 instruments | 15:00 |
| 1997 | Intumescence, for orchestra and tape | orchestra and electroacoustic | 15:00 |
| 1997 | Intumescence, for tape | electroacoustic | 07:00 |
| 1999 | Binaurale, for tape | electroacoustic | 10:00 |
| 2004 | Katanga, 15 brass instruments and two percussions | 18 instruments | 15:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, bass clarinet version | solo | 07:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 7 (rapid), percussion version | solo | 07:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, double bass version | 2 instruments | 14:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, trumpet version | 2 instruments | 12:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, percussion version | 2 instruments | 09:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, double bass, percussion version | 2 instruments | 09:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour , trumpet, percussion version | 2 instruments | 09:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, percussion version | 3 instruments | 15:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, trumpet double bass version | 3 instruments and | 15:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 7, 4, Piccolo, trumpet, keyboard (with computer) version | 3 instruments and electroacoustic | 12:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, bass clarinet, percussion, keyboard (with computer) version | 3 instruments and electroacoustic | 12:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, 4, piccolo, clarinets (sib and bass), keyboard (computer) version | 3 instruments and electroacoustic | 15:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, piccolo, trumpet, percussion (with computer) version | 3 instruments and electroacoustic | 12:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, clarinet, double bass, percussion version | 4 instruments | 15:00 |
| 2006 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, flute, trumpet, double bass, percussions, keyboard (real time electronic possible) | 5 instruments and electroacoustic | 18:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo version | solo | 07:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 1 (rapid), sib clarinet version | solo | 03:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 4 (rapid), bass clarinet version | solo | 05:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 7 (rapid), trumpet version | solo | 07:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, bass clarinet with real time electronics version | solo and electroacoustic | 07:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo with real time electronics version | solo and electroacoustic | 07:00 |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, keyboard (computer) version | 2 instruments and electroacoustic | 09:00 max. |
| 2007 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, trumpet, keyboard (computer) version | 2 instruments and electroacoustis | 09:00 max. |
| 2007 | CA, Creative Algorithm, real time | video | indéterminée |
| 2008 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, bass clarinet version | 2 instruments | 12:00 |
| 2008 | sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, bass real time electronic version | 2 instruments and electroacoustic | 15:00 |
| 2008 | Virtualité et conscience du vide, violon version | solo | 05:00 |
| 2008 | Virtualité et conscience du vide, version cello (rapid) | solo | 02:00 |
| 2008 | L'opéra de glace, chorus of teenagers, tape and video | chorus, electroacoustic, video | 02:00 |
| 2009 | Intumescence, | video | 08:00 |
| 2010 | Blue bird, (first version 2007) | video | 10:00 |
| 2010 | Binaurale – fragment 1 - space points, real time video (first version 2007) | video | 05:56 |
| 2010 | Binaurale – fragment 2 - round space (first version 2007), real time video | video | 06:15 |
| 2010... | The labyrinth of time, cycle multimedia | instruments, computers, video | A déterminer |