Thierry Blondeau

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Thierry Blondeau (* 1961 in Vincennes near Paris) is a French composer.

Life

Blondeau studied music and literature at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin . From 2000 to 2002 he was a composer in residence in Annecy (French Alps), where he was head of the studio for electroacoustics and the Festival Concerts d'Hiver et d'aujourd'hui . In 2004 Blondeau founded the composer group "Biotop (e)" with Jean-Luc Hervé and Oliver Schneller. From 2002 to 2008 he taught at the University of Strasbourg (Marc Bloch University (Strasbourg II)). Thierry Blondeau lives as a freelance composer in Strasbourg.

Works

Blondeau's music can be seen as an audible construction of acoustic, spatial and instrumental conditions. The awareness of a living sound leads him to integrate the space of the performance as an extended body of the instrument into the composition as far as possible. This preoccupation led him to conceptualize, besides the concert pieces, sound actions in relation to a place, a room or a situation. Since 2000 he has been writing pedagogical instrumental pieces with electroacoustics for all ages in collaboration with various music schools, with the aim of making contemporary music accessible to beginners.

His work is published by Éditions Jobert, Paris, and Dahlmann, Strasbourg.

Scholarships and Awards

  • 1990 scholarship from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs.
  • 1994 to 1996 scholarship holder of the Villa Medici in Rome.
  • 1998 laureate of the French Foreign Ministry for a stay in Basel.
  • 1998 to 2000 composer in residence in Brest.
  • 2000 scholarship from Akademie Schloss Solitude
  • 2000 to 2002 composer in residence in Annecy (French Alps), director of the studio for electroacoustics and the festival «Concerts d'Hiver et d'aujourd'hui».
  • 2002 to 2003 scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Berlin.
  • 2005 scholarship at Künstlerhof Schreyahn in Lower Saxony

Works (selection)

  • 1992 Ups and Downs, for 5 instruments
  • 1993 Zigzag, for 14 instruments and electronics
  • 1999 Pêle-Mêle, for 10 instruments and electronics
  • 2002 Étude au Doppler, for 2 instruments and 2 loudspeakers
  • 2005 Lieu, for 10 instruments
  • 2006 Appel, Écho, Envol, for 3 choirs, 4 solo flutes and orchestra
  • 2011 string quartet n ° 1
personal data
SURNAME Blondeau, Thierry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vincennes