Grantees 2008
April 6, 2008

GRAME / Centre National de Création Musicale de Lyon, France
Project: American tours in May and October, 2009, including a series of concerts and masterclasses at US universities with the French composers Philippe Manoury, Gérard Grisey, Sébastien Béranger and the violinist Christophe Desjardin.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, San Francisco, CA, USA
Project: In 2008 a concert of French music (including composers François Paris and Philippe Hurel) and a first trip to France in November 2009 for a residency with the American composer Ed Campion. In addition, concerts at the CIRM in Nice and at the MANCA festival (including commission to the French composer Philippe Leroux).

Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Paris, France.
Project: October 2008 exchange between professors and students from Columbia University in New York and the Institut Fur Neue Musik in Berlin

Eight Blackbirds Performing Arts, Evantson, IL, USA
Project: Commission to the French composer Bruno Mantovani and an American presentation during the 2010 - 2011 season

International Festival of Contemporary Performance at the Mannes College, New York, NY, USA
Project: Concerts and residency of French composer Georges Aperghis in June 2008.

Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Project: October - November 2008, a program on French contemporary bassoon music with a residency for Pascal Gallois (works by French composers including Philippe Hersant, Philippe Schoeller and Pierre Boulez).

Ojai Music Festival, Ojai, CA, USA
Project: June 2008 program featuring composers François Narboni, Philippe Manoury and Edgar Varèse.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
Project: September 2008 to February 2009 production of a French music festival with works by contemporary composers including Yann Maresz, Thierry Escaich, Pierre Boulez, Bruno Mantovani, Thierry Lancino and Philippe Hersant.

University Of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Project: October 2008 organisation of an ambitious festival dedicated to Olivier Messiaen in celebration of his100 birthday, including concerts and an academic conference with guest of honor French conductor and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Project: Commission to French composer Marc-André Dalbavie and world premiere in New York in December 2008.

Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Project: February 2009 presentation of the work ''Les Espaces Acoustiques'' by French composer Gérard Grisey.

Les Siècles orchestra, Nanterre, France
Project: October 2008 and July 2009, residency of American musician Carl Craig for the creation of the ''Versus'' project.

Argento Ensemble, New York, NY, USA
Project: December 2008, commemorative concert and conference dedicated to Olivier Messiaen with works of the French composer Alain Gaussin, Tristan Murail, and Gérard Grisey.

Electronic Music Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Project: November 2008, celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Groupe de Recherche Musicale / GRM and “musique concrete”. Concerts and conferences with the French composers Marc Battier, Daniel Teruggi and François Bayle.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, USA
Project: May 2009, two concerts at Lincoln Center by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by its new music director Susanna Malkki.

Monmouth Civic Chorus, Red Bank, NJ, USA
Project : May 2009 American premiere of the work ''Sphaera'' by the French composer Guillaume Connesson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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