Claire Renard

Claire Renard (born 1944) is a French composer and multimedia artist.

Biography

Claire Renard studied at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris 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).^[1][2]

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^[1]

Works

Renard composes electroacoustic works for music performances and sound installations. Her works have been installed and performed in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Finland and Greece. 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^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Claire Renard, Composer and sound artist". http://www.galerievieilledutemple.com/en/galery/artists//cv-claire-renard-esa-vesmanen.html. Retrieved 28 October 2010. 
2. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA387&dq=Claire+Renard+electroacoustic&hl=en&ei=irbcTOjFHoT78AbKpLjeCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Claire%20Renard%20electroacoustic&f=false. Retrieved 4 October 2010. 
3. ^ "Compositions". http://clairerenard-pimc.fr/pimc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=103. Retrieved 28 October 2010. 

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Name	Renard, Claire
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Short description	Composer
Date of birth	1944
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