Marc-André Dalbavie Explained

Marc-André Dalbavie (born 10 February 1961 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French composer.[1] He had his first music lessons at age 6.[2] He attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied composition with Marius Constant and orchestration with Pierre Boulez.[1] 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 (a Daniel Lewis Fellow) 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

Concertante

Chamber

Vocal

Choral

Operas

Notes and References

  1. Anne Sédès, "Marc-André Dalbavie", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  2. http://www.billaudot.com/__english/compo_dalb.html Marc-André Dalbavie's biography
  3. https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/melancholie-des-widerstands.12157/ Infos at State Opera