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Philippe Manoury, Composer Born in 1952, Philippe Manoury is regarded as one of the most important French composers and a researcher and forerunner in the field of live electronics. Despite an indepth training as a pianist and composer (he attended the École Normale de Musique in Paris and the Conservatoire de Paris and was taught, among others, by Max Deutsch, a student of Schoenberg's, by Gérard Condé, Michel Philippot, and Ivan Malec) he considers himself to be self-taught: “Composition must be born out of the innermost longing and does not need a baggage of prerequisites”. He began, accordingly, his first composing experiments on his own, in parallel with his first lessons in music, and at the age of 19 his music was already being performed at important festivals for new music. In 1974, the premiere of his piano piece Cryptophonos played by Claude Helffer brought the final breakthrough. He describes his personal encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and especially with his piece Mantra during this period, as seminal for his way of thinking about composition, which had started to rely increasingly on mathematical modelling and conceptual rigour. Following two years of teaching at Brazilian universities, this interest brought Philippe Manoury to the Paris Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). He worked here from 1981 together with the mathematician Miller Puckette on MAX, a programming language for interactive live electronics. Between 1987 and 1991, he composed a cycle consisting of four pieces based on his research and often in a close dialogue with Pierre Boulez, focusing on the real time interaction between acoustic instruments and computer-generated sounds: Jupiter, Pluton, La Partition du ciel et de l'enfer and Neptune. Philippe Manoury has worked in various teaching and artistic positions, including at Ensemble intercontemporain (from 1983 to 1987), Conservatoire de Lyon (from 1987 to 1997), Orchestre de Paris (from 1995 to 2001), Festival in Aix-en-Provence (from 1998 to 2000) as well as at the Scène nationale d’Orléans (from 2001 to 2003). After almost a decade as a professor of composition at the University of California in San Diego, he returned to his native France (Strasbourg) in 2013 where he teaches composition at the conservatoire. Philippe Manoury has received numerous awards for his work, among others from the City of Paris and SACEM. Most recently, he has been awarded the title 'composer of the year' at Victoires de la musique classique 2012. His opera K..., which was premiered in Paris in 2001, received the Grand Prix of the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (the French music critics award), as well as the composition award from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. www.karstenwitt.com Alongside large orchestral pieces such as the violin concerto Synapse (2009) and EchoDaimónon for piano, orchestra and electronics (2012), recent years have seen premieres of his string quartets (Stringendo and Tensio, both 2010, and Melencolia, 2013) and pieces for solo instruments and electronics (Partita I for viola, 2007 and Partita II for violin, 2012). These will be followed by further world premieres in the current season, during which Philippe Manoury has begun a two-year stint as composer in residence with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. A concerto grosso for ensemble and orchestra, IN SITU, was performed for the first time in Donaueschingen in October 2013 by Ensemble Modern and the SWR Symphony Orchestra under François-Xavier Roth. Zones de turbulences for two pianos and orchestra, which has been commissioned jointly by musica viva and Radio France, was successfully premiered in Munich in December 2013 by the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo and the BR Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Lubman, followed by a second performance in January 2014 at the Paris Festival Présences. In addition to this, Philippe Manoury will be the focus of the Witten Festival of Contemporary Chamber Music in May 2014, where two world premieres will be performed: The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne will perform Manoury’s Trauermärsche for chamber orchestra, and the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo will premiere a work for piano duo and live electronics with the SWR Experimentalstudio. Philippe Manoury’s works are published by Universal/Editions Durand. A collection of texts by and about the composer can be found on his website at www.philippemanoury.com. 2013/2014 Season www.karstenwitt.com