Bruno Rossignol


Bruno Rossignol is a French composer, choral conductor and conductor, pianist and music educator.

Biography

He studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris and the Sorbonne. He then directed choirs: first trainee conductor at the Paris Opera and at the choir of the Orchestre de Paris, he was then founding conductor of the Île-de-France Chamber Choir.. With this ensemble, he received the Grand Prix des Hauts-de-Seine in 1996.
From 1985 to 1995, he was the choir conductor of the musical shows of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom he accompanied in London, Paris-La Défense, Berlin, Budapest, Seville, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel.
He was director of the Conservatories of Jouy-en-Josas from 1989 to 1992, Suresnes from 1992 to 1997, Orsay from 1997 to 2000, Bourges from 2000 to 2005 and Hector Berlioz in Paris 10th from 2005 to 2010. He conducted the adult choir of the Paul Dukas conservatory in Paris 12th from 2006 to 2010.
In 2011, he was appointed director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de la Dordogne and artistic director of the Dordogne instrumental ensemble. with which he performs mainly in the regions Aquitaine. At the same time he creates the Dordogne choir which becomes the Paratge choir in 2016. He joined Paris that same year to take over the direction of the Jean-Philippe Rameau conservatory.

Works

Bruno Rossignol composes choral works such as Ave verum, Exurgens autem Maria and Salve Regina pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc. He mainly writes a large number of instrumental pieces through which he expresses his vocation as a teacher.
Cantata : L'escalier, choir with four mixed voices.
Concertos:Concerto pour harpe, premiered in 2008 by Sabine ChefsonConcerto pour violon, premiered in 2000 by Annie Jodry.
Mélodies: Les nouvelles histoires naturelles for soprano, baritone and piano, on texts by Jules Renard.

Chamber music:Aria, violin and pianoAu père lapin, trumpet and pianoBallade irlandaise, flute and pianoCarillon, horn and pianoDanse des sylphes, flute and pianoDanse du paon, horn and pianoDéfilé, trombone and pianoDivertissement, three flutesÉlégie, oboe and pianoInterlude maya, viola and guitarJazz notes violon 2 with Alexandre Tenaud,, violin and pianoJean-Paul's march, horn and pianoLa jument grise, percussion and pianoLa meunière a neuf écus, violin and piano.Le sentier des sources, Celtic harpLe songe d'Hector, oboe and pianoLe violon en herbe, violin and pianoLoup yétu, violin and pianoManège, saxophone and pianoNovelettes : Au clair de la terre, Mélodie irlandaise and Promenade romantique, three pieces for cello and pianoOde rose, clarinet and pianoOrphée et Calupan, pieces with four hands and six handsPavane en deux tons, horn and pianoRag, oboe and pianoRavel blues, violin and pianoRhapsodie-jeu, saxophone and pianoSaudade, violin and pianoSuite, flute, clarinet and pianoTrois bagatelles, obie, cello and pianoTrois pièces, percussionsTrois toiles pour rêver, three clarinets
Music for choir:Ave verum Dona nobis pacem Exsurgens autem Maria De la mer..., female four-voice choirDemain L’A.B.C. d’un chœur La mer est entrée dans les prés Louange, female four-voice choirQue tu es belle !, female four-voice choirRisotto musicale - Trois registres parlando Salve Regina - pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc Stabat Mater
Music for soloist:Cilaos, harpCurieuses rencontres : Le petit garçon qui marchait sur la lune, Au clair de la terre, La planète où dansent les fourmis bleues, L'astéroïde B 612 et Les étoiles, five pieces for pianoEn Bretagne, pianoIn memoriam J.M.R., saxophoneLe roi des grenouilles, five piano pieces, based on Grimm's fairy taleMouvements perpétuels, pianoPaysages en coin, pianoPhilémon, hornQuel cirque, pianoReflet orange et reflet bleu, Celtic harpSoirées sous la lune, guitarValse chagrine, clarinetValse tendre et aristocratique, piano.
Opera: Madame Roland, created in Suresnes as part of the bicentenary events of the Revolution.
Oratorio: La fin dau monde, écrit en Limousin dialect after a text by Jean-Yves Agard, docteur en sociologie, défenseur des langues régionales.
He has also transcribed for piano four hands great works from the repertoire:Pictures at an Exhibition by MoussorgskiPrélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by DebussyUn bal, extract of the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz, editions Delatour.

Honours

As a choral conductor, he won: