Oscar Strasnoy

Oscar Strasnoy at the Museum of Jurassic Technology , Los Angeles, California. Photo: Susanne Bürner, 2015

Oscar Strasnoy (born November 12, 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is a composer , conductor and pianist of Russian descent with Argentine and French citizenship.

life and career

Strasnoy studied piano and composition at the Conservatorio Nacional in Buenos Aires , at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Premier Prix in composition) and at the Frankfurt University of Music . His composition teachers included Gérard Grisey and Hans Zender .

From 1996 to 1998 he was Music Director of the Orchester du CROUS in Paris and was honored with the Orpheus Prize at the Spoleto Festival in Italy in 1999 for the Midea opera . After an invitation from Péter Eötvös as composer at the manor house Edenkoben in 2000, the premiere wedding preparations took place, later an exhibition followed at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart .

2003 was the world premiere of the play Opérette based on Witold Gombrowicz's play Operetta in the Grand Théâtre de Reims, for which Strasnoy received a prize. A year later three pieces were performed with the Neue Vocalsolisten, Ann Murray and the Nash Ensemble, and Paul Kildea. Further pieces were performed until 2009 and then the book Oscar Strasnoy: La stratification de la mémoire was published.

On March 7, 2010 the opera La Bal was premiered in the Hamburg State Opera under the direction of Simone Young based on a text by Irène Némirovsky .

In 2012 Strasnoy was presented by Radio France in collaboration with the Théâtre du Châtelet as a guest composer at the Festival Présences 2012 - with a retrospective in 14 concerts.

Works

Operas

1999: Midea , opera. Libretto: Irina Possamai. World premiere: Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto, October 2000. Other performances: Rome Opera, March 2001
2002: Opérette . Libretto: Witold Gombrowicz . Premiere: Grand Théâtre de Reims, January 2003. Other performances: Maison de la Musique de Nanterre, Opéra de Cergy, Théâtre Sylvia Monfort, Paris etc. (17 performances)
2003: history , operetta a cappella. Libretto: Galin Stoev and Oscar Strasnoy, based on Witold Gombrowicz . WP: Theaterhaus Stuttgart , March 2004. Other performances: Lille Opera, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Konzerthaus Berlin, Paris Théâtre du Châtelet, Warsaw Autumn Festival. Third production: State Opera Berlin
2005: Fabula , chamber opera. Libretto: Alejandro Tantanian. Premiere: Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, November 2005. Other performances: Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Basel Gare du Nord, Paris Théâtre du Châtelet.
2007: L'instant , children's opera. Libretto: Alejandro Tantanian. WP: Maison des Arts de Créteil
2008–2010: Le Bal , opera. Libretto: Matthew Jocelyn, based on Irène Némirovsky . World premiere: Hamburg State Opera, March 2010. Second production: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris (Jan. 2012). Third production: Prinzregententheater Munich (Nov. 2012).
2010: Un retour , chamber opera. Libretto: Alberto Manguel . World premiere: Festival d'Aix en Provence, July 2010. Other performances: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris (Jan. 2012)
2010: Cachafaz , chamber opera. Libretto: Copi . World premiere: Théâtre National de Quimper, Nov. 2010. Further performances: Paris Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Malakoff, Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Teatro San Martín Buenos Aires.
2011: Dido & Æneas , chamber opera. After: Henry Purcell . WP: Théâtre du Châtelet, January 2012
2012: Случай ( Falls ), opera based on Daniil Charms . World premiere: Opéra National de Bordeaux, Nov. 2012. Second production: Zurich Opera, May 2015.
2013: Requiem , opera in two acts. Libretto: Matthew Jocelyn, after Requiem for a now by William Faulkner . WP: Teatro Colón , Buenos Aires, June 10, 2014.
2015–2016: Comeback , chamber opera. Libretto: Christoph Hein , based on “Tilla” and “Jannings” by Christoph Hein. Premiere: Berlin State Opera , September 30, 2016.
2016–2017: Luther , opera in 8 scenes. Libretto: Christoph Hein . WP: Handel Hall, Halle, October 22, 2017.

Other works

1992: Incognito , piano. Premiere: Philharmonie Berlin, March 1995.
1995: Naipes , chamber music. Premiere: Paris 1995.
2000: Wedding preparations (with B and K), secular cantata ( CD Chant du Monde ). Secular cantata, after Franz Kafka . World premiere of the second version: Radio France, 2005
2004: Six Songs for the Unquiet Traveler , Liederkreis for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. Text: Alberto Manguel . WP: Wigmore Hall , October 2004
2004: Underground , October 2004. Film by Anthony Asquith , UK, 1928. World premiere: Musée du Louvre , October 2004
2005: Scherzo (Sum nº3), for orchestra. WP: Orchester Nat. d'Ile-de-France, Paris, 2006
2006: The End (Sum nº4), for orchestra. Premiere: Radio France, February 2007
2008: Quodlibet , song cycle. Texts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Jean-Jacques Schuhl . WP: Avignon, 2008
2008–2011: Incipit (Sum nº1), for orchestra. WP: Théâtre du Châtelet, January 2012
2008–2011: Y (Sum nº2), for orchestra. WP: Théâtre du Châtelet, January 2012
2010: Heine , Liederkreis for mezzo-soprano and / or tenor and piano on Heinrich Heine . WP: Arsenal de Metz, Nov. 2010.
2014: Müller , Liederkreis for tenor and piano on texts by Wilhelm Müller , Heiner Müller and Herta Müller . WP: International Hugo Wolf Academy, Stuttgart, 2015.
2016: Ghost Stories , string quartet. WP: Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 2016.
2016: Automaton , violin concerto. WP: Elbphilharmonie , Hamburg, April 2017.
2017: Kuleshov , piano concerto. WP: Québec, Canada, June 2017.
2017: Ittingen Concerto , for chamber orchestra. WP: Kartause Ittingen , Switzerland.
2017: June 4th , for solo violin and record. WP: Kartause Ittingen , Switzerland.
2017: Flashbacks , for 10 instruments. WP: Munich, aDevantgarde Festival, Munich. Ed. Billaudot
2018: d'Amore , concert for viola d'amore and ensemble. WP: Donaueschinger Musiktage .
2019: Trí Amhrán Ghaelacha (3 Irish songs) for tenor and piano.
2019: Chanzuns Popularas Rumanchas ( Rhaeto-Romanic folk songs ) for female voice and ensemble. WP: May 29, 2019 in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
2019: Romance (by Johannes Brahms ) op.118.5, arrangement for violin and orchestra. Premiere: April 25, 2019, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Isabelle Faust , NDR Elbphilharmonie-Orchester, Antonello Manacorda
2019: Wren and guests , for large orchestra, composition commissioned by the Musical Academy of the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim , WP: Mannheim July 1, 2019, Alexander Soddy

Discography

2020: Kuleshov , piano concerto. Alexandre Tharaud , Les Violons du Roy , Dir. Mathieu Lussier. CD Erato / Warner Classics.
2018: Luther , Oratorio. Staatskapelle Halle, Dir. Michael Wendeberg. CD Arthaus.
2018: Two Schubert Menuets (from Five Minuets with Six Trios ), No. 3 and No. 5, Isabelle Faust & Friends. CD Harmonia Mundi.
2017: Berceuse (from Five Little Pieces for Piano , Ed.Billaudot), Mara Dobresco, piano. CD Paraty 107 159.
2016: Hanokh , Erwan Keravec, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, and Vincent Bouchot, CD Vox.
2014: An Island Far , CD Le Chant du Monde, Ensemble 2e2m, dir. Pierre Roullier
2013: Orchestral Works , CD AEON, Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, Dima Slobodeniuk and Susanna Mälkki, conductors.
2013: History (fragment), CD of the Warsaw Autumn Festival. New vocal soloists Stuttgart.
2010: Un retour Livre-CD Actes-Sud, Ensemble Musicatreize, dir. Roland Hayrabedian
2007: Wedding preparations (with B and K) CD Le Chant du Monde , Ensemble 2e2m, dir. Pierre Roullier
2000: Two tangos ( Derrumbe and Mano Brava ) CD Bis records
1998: Bloc-notes de Midea (5) , CD Hochschule für Musik Köln / Conservatoire de Paris, dir. Peter Eötvös
1997: Two fragments from Midea , CD Journées de la composition, Conservatoire de Paris

Fonts

2017: Automaton - Jukebox 1. Monroe Books Berlin . ISBN 978-3-946950-01-1
2010: Un return . Actes Sud. ISBN 978-2-7427-9130-9
2009: La stratification de la mémoire (in French and English). À la ligne, Ensemble 2e2m . ISBN 978-2-913734-05-0

Honors

2019: Prize of the Konex Foundation Argentina .
2013: Prize “Francis et Mica Salabert” SACEM
2011: Prix Nouveau Talent Musique de la SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques)
2010: Grand Prix de la musique symphonique, SACEM
2007: Guggenheim grant
2003: George Enescu Prize (donated in 1912 by George Enescu )
1999: Orpheus Prize, Città di Spoleto , Italy

personal data
SURNAME	Strasnoy, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine-French composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires