Marc-André Dalbavie
Marc-André Dalbavie is a French composer. He had his first music lessons at age 6. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied composition with Marius Constant and orchestration with Pierre Boulez. In 1985 he joined the research department of IRCAM where he studied digital synthesis, computer assisted composition and spectral analysis. In the early 1990s he moved to Berlin. Currently he lives in the town of St. Cyprien and teaches orchestration at the Conservatoire de Paris.
In 1994 he was awarded the Rome Prize. The same year he was one of three composers who won the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize. In 1998, the Cleveland Orchestra appointed him the composer-in-residence for two years. In 2004, he was made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2018 he was awarded the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise L. Stoeger Prize.
Selected works
Orchestral
Les miroirs transparents- Concertino The Dream of the Unified Space, concerto for orchestra Concertate il suono Color Ciaccona Palimpseste Rocks under the Water Sinfonietta Variations orchestrales La source d'un regard
- ''Melodia''
Concertante
Diadèmes for viola solo, instrumental ensemble and electronic ensemble- Violin Concerto Antiphonie, double concerto for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra La marche des transitoires for oboe and ensemble
- Piano Concerto
- Flute Concerto
- Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra Fantaisies for cello and ensemble
- Oboe Concerto
- Cello Concerto Vivaldi Fantasie for violin and orchestra or ensemble
Chamber
Les paradis mécaniques for piccolo, flute, two clarinets, two trumpets, horn, two trombones, tuba and piano Élégie for flute solo Petit interlude for tuba or bass saxhorn solo Petit interlude for viola and piano In Advance of the Broken Time for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano Tactus for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quintet and piano Palimpseste, sextet for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano Axiom, quartet for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and piano- Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano Chant Récitation Danse for six percussionists
- Piano Trio Interlude for solo cello
- Piano Quartet
- String Quartet Nocturne for flute and piano