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

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

Vocal

Seuils for soprano, orchestra and electronics Correspondances for soprano, alto, baritone, chamber ensemble and electronics Sextine Cyclus for soprano and chamber orchestra Ligne de fuite for solo voice ; words by Double Jeu for soprano and two ensembles ; text by Ezra PoundSonnets sur un poème de Louise Labé for countertenor and orchestra Trois Chansons Populaires for voice and orchestra Trois mélodies pour voix et piano

Choral

Instances for chorus and orchestra Offertoire for male chorus and orchestra Non-lieu for four groups of female chorus and ensemble Mobiles for chorus and orchestra ; words by Guy LelongChants for six men's voices, with percussion, harp, and piano Comptines for children's chorus, harp, piano, and percussion

Operas

Gesualdo Charlotte Salomon Le Soulier de satin Melancholie des Widerstands / Mélancolie de la résistance, Filmische Oper –