Guillaume Connesson

Guillaume Connesson has emerged among the more promising voices of younger era of People from france composers. He offers won several awards for his compositions, like the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Award in 1999. His design has been referred to as extremely specific in its generally available language, having ideas of Ravel, Messiaen, Stravinsky, among others. Among his many successful functions are Supernova for orchestra and Techno-Parade for flute, clarinet and piano. Connesson was created in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt in 1970. He had taken piano lessons in his youngsters and became quite achieved on the device early on. Afterwards he enrolled on the CNR (Conservatoire Country wide de Région) in Boulogne-Billancourt, where he examined piano and choral music. More complex study came on the CNSM (Conservatoire nationwide supérieur de musique) in Paris, where he examined structure and orchestration. Among his most significant teachers have already been composer Marcel Landowski, conductor/pedagogue Dominique Rouits and composer/conductor Alain Louvier. Among Connesson’s first successes was his orchestral function Fêtes du solstice, premiered on the Théâtre des Champs-Elyséha sido in 1992. He continuing to draw interest for the compositions that implemented, like the orchestral piece Night-Club, created in 1996. By this time around he was getting many amazing commissions, which he fulfilled with his normal facility and extremely individual creativity. His 1997 orchestral piece Supernova, created on the commission in the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra, which premiered the task, gained the Cardin Award from the Institute of France in 1998. Following compositions also quickly obtained attention. Included in this are his choral function Liturgies from the Tone (2000) and Evening Moments (2001), for orchestra. Among his initial recordings continues to be the 2005 BMG discharge entitled Techno-Parade, which included the titled are well as various other instrumental parts, including Disco-Toccata (1994) and Jurassic Trip (1998). While Connesson provides achieved achievement in his indigenous France, he continues to be making significant headway abroad, aswell: his 2005 orchestral function Une Lueur dans l’age sombre (A Glimmer in age Darkness) was commissioned from the Royal Scottish Country wide Orchestra and premiered by that ensemble in Sept 2005, under conductor Stéphane Denève, the work’s dedicatee. It had been provided its Canadian premiere in November 2005 from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, also under Denève’s path. Connesson has offered as teacher of orchestration in the CNR, Aubervilliers, France.