- Joël-François Durand
Joël-François Durand (born
17 September ,1954 ) is a French composer resident in theUnited States .Biography
Born in
Orléans , Durand studiedmathematics , music education andpiano inParis , then composition withBrian Ferneyhough inFreiburg im Breisgau , Germany (1981-84). Between 1979 and 1984 he attended masterclasses byGyörgy Ligeti ,Luciano Berio andLuigi Nono . In 1982 he was awarded a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service ). That same year he received a Darmstadt Institute Scholarship for his String Trio, and in 1983 his piano piece "...d'asiles déchirés..." was awarded a prize at the Third International K.H. Stockhausen Composition Competition in Brescia, Italy. He left Europe in 1984 to pursue aPh.D. in Composition (awarded in 1988) at theStony Brook University (USA), where he studied composition withBülent Arel and electronic music withDaria Semegen .Durand was awarded scholarships from the
Fulbright Foundation (1984) and from the French Ministry of Culture (1985). He received the "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis" from the Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse in 1990. Since 1991 he has been Professor of Composition in the School of Music at theUniversity of Washington inSeattle .Works
* "String Trio" (1981)
* "Roman" (1982) for violin
* "...d'asiles déchirés..." (1983) for piano
* "So er" (1985) for 20 instruments
**Commission of the European Community Youth Orchestra (London)
* "Trois Mélodies" (1986) formezzo soprano and 5 instruments; 6 min.
* "Lichtung" (1987) for 10 instruments
**Commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris)
* "Die innere Grenze" (1988) for string sextet
**Commission of the French Ministry of Culture, Paris, for the "Sextuor Schoenberg"
* "L'exil du feu" (1991) for 16 instruments and electronics
**Commission of theIRCAM (Paris)
* "Un feu distinct" (1991) forflute ,clarinet , piano,violin andcello
**Commission of the Ensemble Contrechamps
* "La mesure des choses I. La mesure de l'air" (1992) for Bb clarinet
**Commission of the Festival "Musica," Strasbourg
* "B.F., ein Mittelpunkt" for 8 instruments
* "Piano concerto", 1993
**Commission ofRadio France
* "La mesure des choses II. La mesure de la mer" (1993) for piano
* "Le chemin" (1994) for piano
* "Un chant lointain" (1995) for electroniccarillon
* "Les raisons des forces mouvantes" (1996) for organ
* "Par le feu receuilli" (1997) for flute
* "Au-delà, Cinq Etudes pour Piccolo" (1997-98) for piccolo
* "Five Musical Tales" (1998) for orchestra
* "She or not" (1998) forbarytone
**Commission of the VIII. Internationaler Meisterkurs für Komposition des Brandenburgischen Colloquiums für Neue Musik, Rheinsberg (Germany)
* "La terre et le feu" (1999) foroboe and ensemble
* "La mesure des choses III. La mesure de la terre et du feu" (1999) for oboe and viola
* "Cinq Duos" (1999) for violin and viola
* "Athanor" (2000-2001) for orchestra
**Commission from Radio France, Paris
* "Tiodhlac" (2001) for Bb clarinet
* "In the mirror land" (2003) for flute and oboe; also versions for flute and Bb clarinet and for Bb clarinet and oboe
* "Ombre/Miroir" (2004) for flute and ensemble
**Commission from musikFabrik and the Kunststiftung NRW
* String Quartet (2005)
**Commission of the Beethovenfest 2005 for the Quatuor DiotimaHis music is published by
DURAND Editions Musicales , Paris, andEditions Musicales Européennes , ParisDiscography
"La terre et le feu" - "Les raisons des forces mouvantes" - "La mesure des choses III. La mesure de la terre et du feu" -"Athanor"BBC Symphony Orchestra - London Sinfonietta - Gareth Hulse (oboe) - Paul Silverthorne (viola) - Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ)Mode 139
Concerto for piano and orchestra - String Trio - "Die innere Grenze"Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Litwin (piano), Bradley Lubman (conductor) - Trio de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain - Sextuor SchoenbergNaive Montaigne Mo 782093
Bibliography
* Bernard, Jonathan (ed.). 2006. "Joël-François Durand in the Mirror Land". Seattle:
University of Washington Press , in association withPerspectives of New Music .External links
* [http://joelfdurand.com Durand Homepage]
* [http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000696/index.html Durand at the IRCAM Mediathèque]
* [http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/durand_joel Durand at the Classical Composers Database]
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