Thierry Lancino (France - 1954)

"The determination to lead his own freedom has driven Thierry Lancino to reveal himself as a multifaceted composer of imaginative experiments and invention. This freedom and this independence of tone are the main characteristics of his work ."

Thierry Lancino’s lyrical, colorful and bold musical writing lends itself particularly well to the human voice, which features prominently in many of his compositions. He has been awarded the prestigious commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress (2007) for which he writes a Requiem for a world premiere with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir at Salle Pleyel, in Paris (January 2010). French writer Pascal Quignard (Goncourt Prize 2002) wrote for it an original text and tells us:“The extraordinary idea that dominates this Requiem and makes it stand out so profoundly from the others, consists precisely in letting side by side – without making a choice – desire for annihilation and desire of eternity”.

In recent years, Lancino has focused on large orchestral writing which includes his Violin Concerto (2005) for the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra with violinist, Isabelle Faust and The Death of Virgil an orchestral suite with three singers (Orchestre National de France, 2000), both works having had their premiere in Paris. Equally at home in chamber music, ONXA (2005) a hauntingly beautiful work for mezzo soprano and strings will be given its U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in summer 2008 with mezzo Monica Groop and his Cinq Caprices for violin and piano will be heard in New York at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in October 2008 with Arnaud Sussmann, violin and Alan Feinberg, piano. His upcoming projects along with the Requiem include a choral work for the Jeune Choeur de Paris, music director Laurence Equilbey, programmed for a premiere at the Opera Comique in Paris, 2009.

Thierry Lancino was appointed Pensionnaire of the Académie de France à Rome (1988-90) at the Villa Médicis (formerly the historical Prix de Rome) which honors composers for their entire body of literature. During that time he wrote his often performed music theater work The Ship of Fools. Before living in Rome and at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, Lancino was on the artistic staff at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) for seven years which included research and teaching and resulted in commissions (for the Institute’s 10th anniversary) and recordings.

Amongst numerous commissions and performances from ensembles worldwide, Thierry Lancino has been given awards from the European Union of Radios (UER), the Foundation Beaumarchais, Prix Medicis hors les murs, Prix des Jeunes Compositeurs Européens, Prix Sacem as well as multi year residencies in the universities of Colgate, Stanford and San Diego and at the Abbaye de La Prée. He can be heard on recordings by Wergo, Ades/MFA, Triton, K167. After completing university, Lancino studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. He presently resides in New York City.

"Lancino’s dual personality, classical and experimental, makes him accessible, although he leaves no room for concession, nor academic formulas. Discreet, curious and showing a singular culture, he is immersed in musical art away from dominant trends. ."

Quotes above from Sabine Ejdelman (Le Courrier Français).

Official site: www.lancino.org Concerto For Violin and Orchestra THIERRY LANCINO Duration : 35 mn Commission : Musique Nouvelle en Liberté & Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Composition Dates : 2004-2005 MAIN WORKS Premiere Date : November 3 2005 Performers for the Premiere : I. Faust (vl) A. Tamayo (dir) Orch. Phil. du Luxembourg (chronological order) Location of the Premiere : Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

Publisher : Sacem – Opl – unpublished ∅

Duration : 12 mn Commission : Pour que l’Esprit Vive Composition Dates : 2005 Who is the third ? Premiere Date : May 7th 2005 For a cappella choir Performers for the Premiere : Sylvie Sullé (mezzo), D. de Williencourt (vcl) Location of the Premiere : 12th Rencontres Musicales de La Prée, France Duration : 8 mn Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Commission : Chœur Accentus – Jeune Chœur de Paris Text : T. S. Eliot (excerpts from "Waste Land" ) Composition Dates : 2008 Trois Préludes Premiere Date : mars 2009 pour piano seul Performers for the Premiere : Jeune Chœur de Paris – Laurence Equilbey, conductor Location of the Premiere : Opéra Comique, Paris Duration : 15 mn Commission : Frank Braley Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Composition Dates : 2004 Premiere Date : 25 juillet 2004 Requiem Performers for the Premiere : Frank Braley For four Soloists, Choir and Orchestra Location of the Premiere : Piano Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished Duration : 80 mn ∅ Commission : Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Radio France, Ministère de la Culture (France) L'Esprit et l'Eau Text : Roman Liturgy, Pascal Quignard (Original Text) for baritone and String Quartet, Text by Paul Claudel Composition Dates : 2006-2008 Premiere Date : January 8th 2010 Duration : 27 mn Performers for the Premiere : Radio France Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra Commission : Ministère de la Culture for the Stanislas String Quartet Heidi Grant-Murphy (Soprano), Nora Gubisch (Mezzo), Composition Dates : 1999 and 2004 Stuart Skelton (Tenor), Nicolas Courjal (Bass) Premiere Date : may 1999 and January 2005 Eliahu Inbal, conductor Performers for the Premiere : François Le Roux (baritone) and Stanislas String Quartet Location of the Premiere : Salle Pleyel, Paris Location of the Premiere : Poirel Hall, Nancy, France Publisher : Radio France – unpublished ∅ Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅

Cinq Caprices La Mort de Virgile for violin and piano suite lyrique pour 4 chanteurs et orchestre

Duration : 13 mn Duration : 45 mn Commission : Radio France Commission : Radio France / Orchestre National de France Composition Dates : 1997-2000 Composition Dates : 1997-2000 Premiere Date : Octobre 1999 Premiere Date : Decembre 2000 Performers for the Premiere : Renaud Capuçon (vl), Frank Braley (piano) Performers for the Premiere : Orchestre National de France (G. Schwartz, cond.) Location of the Premiere : Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie), New York M. de Monti (Virgile), I. Soccoja (Véra), R. Wörle (Léo), S. Sullé (Jane) Location of the Premiere : Olivier Messiaen Hall, Paris Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Eschig, Paris © Publisher : Radio France – unpublished ∅ Vanishing Point for Clarinet and 2 percussions Journal d'Esquisses for piano Duration : 24 mn Commission : Ensemble Intercontemporain Duration : 45 mn Composition Dates : 2001-2002 Commission : Pour Que l’Esprit Vive Premiere Date : April 2002 Composition Dates : 1995-1996 Performers for the Premiere : Alain Damiens, clarinet – V. Bauer percussions (EIC) Premiere Date : may 1996 (excerpts) Location of the Premiere : Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande salle, Paris Performers for the Premiere : E. Ferrand N’Kaoua Location of the Premiere : 3 èmes Rencontres Musicales de La Prée, France Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Salve Regina For voice and church bell (1998) Sonate For Solo Cello Duration : 25 mn Commission : Les Amis de la Prée for the 900th anniversary of St Bernard Duration : 9 mn Composition Dates : 1998 Commission : Habitat Groupe 36 Premiere Date : may 1998 Composition Dates : 1995 Performers for the Premiere : Reina Boelens (mezzo), Mathieu Schmitt (mise en espace) Premiere Date : October 1995 Location of the Premiere : 5 th Rencontres Musicales de La Prée, France Performers for the Premiere : Dominique de Williencourt Location of the Premiere : Abbaye de La Prée, France Publisher : L’Atelier- unpublished ∅ Publisher : Durand-Amphion © Ode For Choir, brass and timpani, Text by Paul Claudel Les Saveurs du Monde For Tape Duration : 15 mn Commission : Ensemble Oratorio Duration : 90 mn Composition Dates : 1997 Commission : Espace d’Art Contemporain de Rurart Premiere Date : may 1997 Composition Dates : 1995 Performers for the Premiere : Chœurs Oratorio, A. Maillard (dir) Premiere Date : 30 septembre 1995 Location of the Premiere : Châteauroux, France Performers for the Premiere Electronics – Incidental Music Location of the Premiere : Espace d’Art Contemporain de Rurart Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Publisher : unpublished ∅ Prélude et Mort de Virgile La Nef des Fous for Baritone and Orchestra For Speaker, 2 Singers and Small Ensemble

Duration : 25 mn Duration : 70 mn Commission : Radio France / Orchestre National de France Commission : Festival MUSICA (Strasbourg) Composition Dates : 1997-2001 Composition Dates : 1989-1991/92 et 1996 Premiere Date : 1996 (Prélude) – 2000 (Lyric Suite) Premiere Date : september 1996 Performers for the Premiere : Orch. Nat. de France (G. Schwartz, dir), M. de Monti (voix) Performers for the Premiere : E. Houzelot (speaker), F. Kubler (sopr.), Location of the Premiere : Hall Olivier Messiaen, Paris P. Sauzy (baritone) et l’Ensemble Accroche Note Location of the Premiere : Festival MUSICA, Strasbourg Publisher : Universal-Durand (Prélude) / Radio France - unpublished (suite lyrique) © Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Stretto For Solo Violin Hors Champ For String Trio, chorégraphy by Jacky Taffanel Duration : 6 mn Commission : Maryvonne Le Dizès Duration : 75 mn Composition Dates : 1990-1991 Commission : Compagnie Taffanel – Dance Compagny Premiere Date : 1991 Composition Dates : 1992-1993 Performers for the Premiere : Maryvonne Le Dizès Premiere Date : 1993 Location of the Premiere : Musée d’Art Moderne (ARC), Paris Performers for the Premiere : Trio à cordes de Paris, ballets Taffanel Location of the Premiere : Opéra de Montpellier / Kunst Academie, Berlin Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Publisher : L’Atelier - unpublished ∅

L'Amour par Terre Quintette de Cuivre pour Baritone and Piano, Text by Paul Verlaine For Brass Quintet Duration : 7 mn Duration : 18 mn Commission : Bibliothèque National de France Commission : Etat Français for the Modern Brass Quintet (Eic / Ensemble Moderne) Composition Dates : December 2000 Composition Dates : 1991-1992 – revised 1993 Premiere Date : January 2001 Premiere Date : 1992 Performers for the Premiere : François Le Roux (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) Performers for the Premiere : Modern Brass Quintet Location of the Premiere : La Très Grande Bibliothèque, Paris Location of the Premiere : Trinity College, Dublin Publisher : Fayard, Paris ∅ Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion ©

Der Abstieg Limbes for orchestra Symphonies for Wind Instruments and Live Electronics

Duration : 13 mn Duration : 16 mn Commission : Orchestre National de France Commission : Ensemble Itinéraire/Villa Médicis Composition Dates : 1995-1996 Composition Dates : 1989-1990 Premiere Date : February 1996 Premiere Date : 1990 Performers for the Premiere : Orchestre National de France, Paul Daniel (cond.) Performers for the Premiere : Ensemble Itinéraire, Denis Cohen (cond.) Location of the Premiere : Festival Présence, Grande Auditorium de Radio France Location of the Premiere : Centre Pompidou (Paris) / Palais Farnèse (Rome) Publisher : Universal Publishing, Durand-Amphion © Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Das Narrenschiff (2nd book) Prélude de l’accordeur pour baritone and Small Ensemble for piano Duration : 17 mn Commission : Festival MUSICA, Strasbourg Duration : 8 mn Composition Dates : 1991 Commission : Jean Louis Nouvel Premiere Date : 1992 Composition Dates : 1997 Performers for the Premiere : P. Sauzy (baryton), Ensemble Accroche Note Premiere Date : 1997 Location of the Premiere : Festival MUSICA, Strasbourg Performers for the Premiere : Eric Ferrand N’Kaoua Location of the Premiere : La Prée, France Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅

Hors Champ For String Trio, chorégraphy by Jacky Taffanel Trois études for piano Duration : 75 mn Commission : Compagnie Taffanel – Dance Compagny Duration : 12 mn Composition Dates : 1992-1993 Commission Premiere Date : 1993 Composition Dates : 1996-1997 Performers for the Premiere : Trio à cordes de Paris, ballets Taffanel Premiere Date : May 1997 Location of the Premiere : Opéra de Montpellier / Kunst Academie, Berlin Performers for the Premiere : Eric Ferrand N’Kaoua Location of the Premiere : 4 th Rencontres Musicales de La Prée, France Publisher : L’Atelier - unpublished ∅ Publisher : L’Atelier – unpublished ∅ Quintette de Cuivre For Brass Quintet Prisme For Organ Duration : 18 mn Commission : Etat Français for the Modern Brass Quintet (Eic / Ensemble Moderne) Duration : 15 mn Composition Dates : 1991-1992 – revised 1993 Commission : Association Internationale Notre-Dame-la-Grande de Poitiers Premiere Date : 1992 Composition Dates : 1996 Performers for the Premiere : Modern Brass Quintet Premiere Date : September 1996 Location of the Premiere : Trinity College, Dublin Performers for the Premiere : Dominique Ferran Location of the Premiere : Orgues de Notre-Dame-la-Grande (Poitiers, France) Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © st Divertimento Das Narrenschiff (1 book) For Orchestra For Female Voice and Small Ensemble

Duration : 18 mn Duration : 18 mn Commission : French Ministry of Culture Commission : Ensemble Accroche Note/Villa Médicis Composition Dates : 1996 Composition Dates : 1989-1990 Premiere Date : 1997 Premiere Date : 1990 Performers for the Premiere : Orchestre de Poitou-Charentes, Xavier Rist (cond.) Performers for the Premiere : Françoise Kubler, Ensemble Accroche Note Location of the Premiere : Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris Location of the Premiere : Villa Médicis, Grand Salon, Rome Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion, Paris ∅ Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion ©

Trio à Cordes Profondeurs de Champ for violin, viola and cello for Bass clarinet, orchestra and Recorded Sounds

Duration : 17 mn Duration : 17 mn Commission : Ensemble Intercontemporain Commission : Ensemble Asko (Amsterdam) – Etat Français Composition Dates : 1988-1989 Composition Dates : 1983-1984 Premiere Date : 1989 Premiere Date : September 1984 (version Amsterdam) – 1985 (version Paris) Performers for the Premiere : Trio à cordes de l’Eic (M. Le Dizès, J. Sulem, P. Strauss) Performers for the Premiere : H.Sparnaay (clar. basse), Ensemble Asko, A. Tamayo (dir) Location of the Premiere : Musée d’Art Moderne (ARC), Paris Location of the Premiere : Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam – Biennale de Venise Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion © Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion ©

Les Raboteurs Static Arches For String Trio, chorégraphy by Angelin Preljocaj Computer genarated

Duration : 7 mn Duration : 15 mn Commission : Musée d’Orsay Commission : Ccrma/Stanford University – Ministère des affaires étrangères Composition Dates : 1988 Composition Dates : 1980-1981 Premiere Date : 1989 Premiere Date : 1981 Performers for the Premiere : EIC String Trio (Le Dizès, Sulem, Strauss) Performers for the Premiere : J. Chowning (Samson Box) Location of the Premiere : Villa Médicis, Grand Salon, Rome Location of the Premiere : Stanford University ∅ Publisher : unpublished ∅

Aloni for Contralto, Children Choir, Ensemble and Live Electronics

Duration : 35 mn Commission : IRCAM/EIC Composition Dates : 1986-1987 Premiere Date : April 1987 Performers for the Premiere : C. Cairns (alto), Chanteurs de Paris, EIC, P. Eötvös (dir) Location of the Premiere : Ircam X ème anniversary - Espace de Projection (Ircam), Paris Publisher : Universal Publishing - Durand-Amphion ©

Paris THIERRY LANCINO Théâtre du Châtelet – Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Salle – EIC Cité de la Musique MAIN CONCERTS Théâtre des Champs Elysées Auditorium Olivier Messiaen - Orchestre National de France

EIC/IRCAM - Espace de projection (alphabetical order) Radio France - Orchestre National de France Centre Pompidou, grande salle, EcoVocE - UNESCO, grande salle Amsterdam Concerts de l'ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne IRCAM (Xème anniversaire), Espace de Projection, Centre Pompidou Gaudeamus Musikwek Festival, Stedelijk Museum Festival d'automne – Ensemble Intercontemporain De I Jsbreker - Holland Festival Centre Pompidou, grande salle, ICMC Espace de Projection, IRCAM Berlin Kunst Akademie Rome Den Haag & Eindhoven Villa Médicis – RomaEuropa - Palais Farnese Spazzio Musicale - Cagliari - Auditorium RAI III - Musica Verticale Stadsschouwburg & Koninklijk Conservatorium

Dublin Rouen, Le Havre Automne en Normandie, Orch. National de France – L. de Vinci, Le Volcan Ancient Houses of Ireland Festival Trinity College San Francisco CCRMA Concert series, Stanford University London South Bank, Queen Elizabeth Hall Salzburg Institute of Contemporary Arts - EMAS Concerts de musiques électroniques Los Angeles Monday Evening Concerts Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Malmö UER concert series Strasbourg Musica, Palais de Fêtes Metz L’Arsenal – ONJ, dir Emmanuel Krivine Tokyo Evening from World Music Days, ISCM, Vario Hall /Jilia Festival Montreal, Toronto Ensemble Intercontemporain (US tour) Varsovie L'automne de Varsovie New York Carnegie Hall - Weill Recital Hall . Capuçon/Braley Venise DIA Center for the Arts - Sounds French Festival Biennale, La Fenice / Lido – ICMC Lincoln Center – Chamber Music Society Vienne, Zurich Österreisches Ensemble für Neue Musik - Museum Moderne Kunst, ISCM

Thierry Lancino 1988 The whole body of his works is awarded with the Prix de Rome en 1988. This honour is

considered as the most prestigious one for a young creator and rewards the first part of POINTS OF REFERENCE AND AWARDS his career. He is the two year guest (“Pensionnaire”) of the Académie de France à Rome and benefits of a comfortable residency at the Villa Médicis in Rome. He takes advantage 1976 of this situation to produce new works and to organize concerts in Italy and in France. He Licence en Musicologie (Sciences Humaines) at the University of Poitiers (BA). collaborates notably with the RAI Orchestra and French orchestras and ensembles. His style matures and his aesthetics evolves considerably during this period of time. He takes 1979 an strong independence and starts to explore his own original voice. He dedicates Prix of composition at the "Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris" (Class himself, since, to instrumental and vocal music. of Pierre Schaeffer). 1990 1979-81 The premiere of his works Das Narrenschiff and Limbes, Palais Farnèse and Centre Award winner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a two year residency in the US Pompidou, are filmed and broadcast by national television TF1. (Colgate University and Stanford University). He collaborates with John Chowning at CCRMA on the fine tuning of frequency modulation applied to vocal tones and composes 1991 the award winning piece Static Arches. His String Trio is selected by the European Union of Radios (UER) in 1991 to represent France. The work is broadcast throughout Europe. 1981 Encounter with Pierre Boulez. He joins his team at IRCAM where he remains member of 1992 the staff until 1989. His Opera project, La Mort de Virgile, receives the support of the prestigious Fondation Beaumarchais (Sacd, Paris). 1982 Static Arches (CCRMA, Stanford, 1981) is a prizewinner of the « 9ème concours 1992-1996 international de Musique électronique de Bourges » in 1982. This award is followed by The cultural organisation « Que l’Esprit Vive » offers Thierry Lancino a four year long more than 50 concerts in major places of new music around the world. This first success position of composer in residence at the Abbaye de La Prée, France. He participates to crowns the quality of his research work and gains him an invitation from Pierre Boulez to the conception and organization of a new festival: « les Rencontres musicales de la join the staff of his Parisian Institute, IRCAM. Prée » and composes a number of vocal and orchestral works.

1983 1996 He is awarded the « Prix Médicis hors les murs » en 1983. He is a composer in residence Der Abstieg is chosen to represent France at the « 1996 International Rostrum of at UCSD (San Diego, USA) at the invitation of Roger Reynolds. Composers ». This honor gives the work the opportunity to be broadcast throughout Europe. The Orchestre National de France produces it a number of times as well as tours 1984 it. It is chosen by Emmanuel Krivine as a contemporary work reference and toured under Amphion, in Paris, becomes his first and exclusive publisher, until it becomes Durand, his baton by the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. then Universal Music Publishing. 1998 1985 Les Raboteurs is awarded the Prix Sacem 1998 au Festival International de Musique en Profondeurs de Champ is awarded the « Prix des Jeunes compositeurs Européens » in Cinéma of Besançon. 1985 at the Festival d’Automne de Paris and the Biennale de Venise. 2000 1987 Thierry Lancino is invited to present the suite lyrique of La Mort de Virgile in the Festival L’IRCAM, Institute of Music Research of the Centre Georges Pompidou, commissions a d’Orchestres organisé par Les Paris de la Musique. th new work from him to celebrate the 10 anniversairy of its inception. This creation, Aloni, brings to light the potential of the new real time Ircam 4X and has a great effect on the 2005 public. Critics celebrate: "this ambitious work creates a new musical dimension of space, The premiere of L’Esprit et l’Eau starts the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the timbre and artistic intensity”. The recording of the work, with Christin Cairns, the soloists death of Paul Claudel. of the EIC and Ircam technology, under the direction of Peter Eötvös, at Wergo’s, is the ème 12 volume of the collection "Computer Music Currents", state of the art of electronic Premiere of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra at the Châtelet, Paris. music. Numerous collaboration between the Eic and Thierry Lancino will follow this public success, such as : Profondeurs de Champs, les Raboteurs, Tronan, Stretto, Trio à cordes, 2007 Quintette de cuivres, Das Narrenschiff, Vanishing point. Koussevitzky Award/Commission for his Requiem.