Martin Matalon

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Martin Matalon (born October 17, 1958 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentinian composer who worked in France .

Life

Matalon studied composition at the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He received the Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, the Holtkamp AGO Award from the American Guild of Organists in 1988, and several other awards. In the summer months of 1987 and 1988 he took courses from Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez at the Center Acanthes in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon . He then continued his studies with Tristan Murail with the help of a Fulbright scholarship . In 1989 he founded the New York-based Ensemble Music Mobile, which is dedicated to contemporary music and was its director until 1996.

After he had left the United States because of the conservatism in music there , a long-term collaboration with IRCAM began in 1993 on the occasion of an exhibition about Jorge Luis Borges at the Center Pompidou , for which he created the installation La rosa profunda . This institute then commissioned him to write a new film music for the restored version of Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis . For this work he was awarded a prize by the city of Barcelona in 2001. This was followed by film scores for three surrealist films by Luis Buñuel : An Andalusian Dog (1927), The Golden Age (1931) and Las Hurdes - Land Without Bread (1932).

In 2005 Matalon received the New York Guggenheim Foundation Prize and the French Académie des Beaux-Arts Prize . In 2007 he was awarded the "Grand Prix des Lycéens".

From 2003 to 2004 Matalon was “Compositeur en résidence” at the Arsenal Metz and from 2005 to 2010 in the electronic studios of La Muse en Circuit. From 2004 to 2008 he was visiting professor at McGill University in Montreal. Since October 2010 he has been teaching composition at the Conservatoire régional d'Aubervilliers-La Courneuve.

He received composition commissions a. a. from the Orchester de Paris , the Orchester National de France , the Ensemble intercontemporain , the Ensemble MusikFabrik and Les Percussions de Strasbourg .

His compositions include numerous chamber music works with and without electronic instruments. In 1997 he began composing his trames, a series of works between concert and chamber music. Another series of works entitled Traces is dedicated to solo instruments with electronics.

Matalon wrote several works for musical theater. For the composition and production of his first chamber opera, Le miracle secret, based on the story of the same name by Jorge-Luis Borges, he received the “Opéra Autrement” award of the Center Acanthes in 1989. His second opera, L'ombre de Venceslao , with a libretto by Jorge Lavelli based on Copi , premiered on October 12, 2016 at the Opéra de Rennes.

Works

The following list is based on the information on the composer's website (as of November 2017).

Operas

Musical theater

  • La Rosa…, "spectaclel musical" about seven poems by Jorge Luis Borges (2011)
  • Les Morts qui touchent, "théâtre sonique" on a text by Alexandre Koutchevsy (2013)

Musical stories

  • La légende de M. Chance, story by Yannick Jaulin (2006)
  • Tulles et les ombres for saxophone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola and violoncello (2007)
  • Har, le Tailleur de Pierre for three percussionists and electronics (2008)
  • Trois pommes d'or for seven instrumentalists and electronics (2013)

Film music

  • Metropolis for sixteen instrumentalists and electronics for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1995)
  • Las siete vidas de un gato for eight musicians and electronics for the film An Andalusian Dog by Luis Buñuel (1996)
  • Le scorpion for six percussion, piano and electronics for the film The Golden Age by Luis Buñuel (2002)
  • Traces II (La cabra) for viola solo and real-time electronics for the film Las Hurdes - Land without bread by Luis Buñuel (2005)
  • Metropolis, new version (2011)
  • Foxtrot Délirium for the film The Oyster Princess by Ernst Lubitsch (2015)

Radio plays

  • Nocturnes, radio opera for three instrumental soloists, real-time electronics and three comedians (2006)

Ballets

  • Rugged lines for nine instruments and electronics (1997)

Installations

  • La rosa profunda, musical course based on texts by Jorge Luis Borges (1992)
  • Le Tunnel sous l'Atlantique (1995)

Music and circus

  • Caravanserail for thirteen instruments and circus people (2017)

Solo instruments with or without electronics

  • Dos formas del tiempo for piano (2000)
  • Traces I for solo cello and real-time electronics (“dispositif électronique en temps réel”, 2004)
  • Traces II for viola solo and real-time electronics (2005)
  • Short Stories for Vibraphone (2005)
  • Traces III for horn and electronics (2006)
  • Traces IV for marimba and electronics (2006)
  • Traces V for clarinet and electronics (2006)
  • Traces VI for flute and electronics (2006)
  • Traces VII for soprano and real-time electronics (2008)
  • Traces VIII for violin and electronic recording ("dispositif électronique en temps différé", 2012)
  • Traces IX for violoncello and electronic recording (2014)
  • Traces X for accordion and electronic recording (2014)
  • Traces XI for trombone and electronic recording (2015)
  • Traces XII for harp and electronic recording (2017)

Chamber and ensemble music with electronics

  • Monedas de hierro for ten musicians and electronics (1993)
  • Rugged lines memos for nine instruments and electronics (1999)
  • La Makina for two pianos, two percussion and electronics (2007)
  • Tunneling for flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, percussion, cello, double bass and electronics (2009)
  • KDM Fragments for accordion, two percussion and electronic recording (2011)
  • De polvo y piedra for flute, clarinet, horn, two trumpets, trombone, two percussion, accordion, piano, violin, two cellos, double bass and electronics (2013)
  • La Carta (2) for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, accordion, percussion and electronics (2015)

Chamber and ensemble music (acoustic)

  • La cifra for flute, violoncello, piano and percussion (1994)
  • Formas de arena for flute, harp and viola (2001)
  • Prelude and blue, Trio for saxophone, percussion and double bass (2005)
  • Loop & épilogue for piano, accordion and violoncello (2014)
  • Spirals, loops, lines for fifteen instruments (2014)
  • Metal sobre Metal, Trio for two trumpets and horn (2015)

Music for cello ensemble

  • ... del matiz al color ... for eight violoncellos (1999)
  • Lineas de agua for eight cellos (2003)

Music for drum ensemble

  • Caramba (les) for six percussion works (2001)
  • ... del color a la materia ... for piano, six percussion and electronics (2011)

Music for brass ensemble

  • ... de tiempo y de metal ... for twelve brass instruments (2010)

Music for vocal ensemble

  • Tabula es for choir (2004)
  • Formas in powder for five female voices, percussion and real-time electronics (2012)
  • Dos Lineas for five female voices, percussion and electronic recording (2013)

Concert ensemble music

  • Trame I for oboe and five instrumentalists (1997)
  • Trame II for harpsichord and six instrumentalists (1999)
  • Trame IV for piano and eleven instrumentalists (2001)
  • Trame Ia for soprano saxophone and five instrumentalists (2001)
  • Trame VI for viola and chamber orchestra (2004)
  • Trame VII for horn and ensemble (2005)
  • Trame VIII for marimba solo and flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, piano, violin, viola and double bass (2008)
  • Trame X for accordion and flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, two percussion, violin and double bass (2009)
  • Trame XI for double bass solo and flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and viola (2011)

Orchestral works

  • Otras ficciones for wind instruments, percussion, two pianos, two harps and double basses (2001)
  • El torito catalan (2002)
  • Lignes de fuite (2007)
  • Preludio Serenata y Epílogo (2010)

Orchestra with solo instruments

  • Trame III, Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (2000)
  • Trame V, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (2003)
  • Trame IX, concerto for oboe and orchestra (2008)
  • Trame IX, Concerto for oboe and orchestra, version for chamber orchestra (2010)
  • K / D / M Concerto, triple concerto for two percussion, accordion and orchestra (2010)
  • Trame XII, Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra (2011)
  • Trame XIII, Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Martin Matalon. Biography (French) at IRCAM , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Sylviane Falcinelli: Biography (French) on billaudot.com, accessed on November 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Martin Matalon. Biography on the website of the Berliner Festspiele , accessed on November 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Catalog. List of works (French) on the composer's website, accessed on November 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Matalon, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires