Antoine Hervé
Antoine Hervé (born January 20, 1959 in Paris ) is a French composer and pianist .
Live and act
Hervé studied piano with Pierre Sancan , orchestration with Marius Constant and composition with Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , Henri Challan , Jean-Claude Reynaud and Claude Ballif at the Conservatoire of Paris . He was a laureate of the national Concours de La Défense . For Radio France he founded the Bob 13 orchestra (recordings live in Paris , Tutti ). From 1987 to 1989 he was musical director of the Orchester National de Jazz . On worldwide tours with the orchestra, he has given more than one hundred and forty concerts, including with Gil Evans and Quincy Jones . With the orchestra he recorded the CDs ONJ 87 and African Dream . In 1990 he founded the Ensemble Hexameron , which was dedicated to promoting contemporary forms of musical improvisation , and the Antoine Hervé Quintet , with which he accompanied the Bulgarian-Turkish singer Yildiz Ibrahimova (album Paris-Zagreb ).
Hervé played a. a. with Dee Dee Bridgewater , Chet Baker , Randy Brecker , Cab Calloway , Louis Sclavis , Martial Solal , Michel Portal , Carla Bley , Didier Lockwood and Daniel Humair .
In addition to musicals , film scores and music for dance shows, he composed, among other things, a trumpet concerto, a string quartet and a piece for percussion and orchestra in the 1990s. In 1997 he founded the Stockhausen-Hervé-Quintet with Markus Stockhausen .
He is the founder of his own jazz label Philo .
In 1985 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt .
Works
- Tutti , ballet
- Soundtrack for the film A world without pity (Un monde sans pitié) by Éric Rochant
- Mr. Astaire , musical
- L'Opéra des Pékins
- A Chacun Son Serpent
- Sonata d'Automne
- Mes Bien Chers Frères
- Tribute to Miles Davis , Trumpet Concerto
- La Maison Brûlée , string quartet
- Transit for percussion and orchestra, 1994
- Transactions
- Mozart, La Nuit , Musical, 1997
- Les Caprices De Morgane , Musical, 1997
- Macadam-Macadam , Hip-Hop Ballet, 2000/01
- A Chacun Son Serpent , Musical, 2000/01
- Absolute dream
Discographic notes
- Antoine Hervé Bop 13 (with Christian Martinez, François Chassagnite , Denis Leloup , Michel Godard , Bobby Rangell , Jean-Pierre Solves, Éric Barret , Marc Ducret , Andy Emler , Michel Benita , André Ceccarelli , François Verly, Michel Alibo , Robert Thomas Jr . ; 1986)
- ONJ 87 , 1987
- African Dream , 1987
- Paris-Zagreb , 1990
- Hexameron , 1990 with u. a. Vinko Globokar , Louis Sclavis, György Kurtág , Andy Emler, Yves Robert
- Invention Is You , 1997
- Summertime , 2001
- Mozart, La Nuit , 2002
- Inside , (solo) 2003
- Road Movie , 2006, with Markus Stockhausen, Michel Portal, Stéphane Guillaume , Daniel Ciampolini, François Moutin, Ari Hoenig , Arnaud Frank
- Complétement Stones 2014, with François Moutin, Philippe Pipon Garcia
Web links
- http://antoineherve.com/
- Antoine Hervé at Discogs (English)
- Works by and about Antoine Hervé in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hervé, Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |