Bruno Rossignol
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Bruno Rossignol (born 1958 in Nanterre) is a French composer, choral conductor and conductor, pianist and music educator.
Biography[edit]
He studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris and the Sorbonne. He then directed choirs: first trainee conductor at the Paris Opera and at the choir of the Orchestre de Paris (by Jean Laforge and Arthur Oldham), he was then founding conductor of the Île-de-France Chamber Choir. (first prize of the International competitions of Malta in 1989 and Verona in 1993). With this ensemble, he received the Grand Prix des Hauts-de-Seine in 1996.[1]
From 1985 to 1995, he was the choir conductor of the musical shows of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom he accompanied in London, Paris-La Défense (1990), Berlin, Budapest, Seville, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel.[2]
He was director of the Conservatories of Jouy-en-Josas from 1989 to 1992, Suresnes from 1992 to 1997, Orsay from 1997 to 2000, Bourges from 2000 to 2005 and Hector Berlioz in Paris 10th from 2005 to 2010.[1] He conducted the adult choir of the Paul Dukas conservatory in Paris 12th from 2006 to 2010.[3]
In 2011, he was appointed director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD) de la Dordogne and artistic director of the Dordogne instrumental ensemble. (E.I.D.)[4] with which he performs mainly in the regions Aquitaine.[5] At the same time he creates the Dordogne choir[2] which becomes the Paratge choir in 2016. He joined Paris that same year to take over the direction of the Jean-Philippe Rameau conservatory (6th arrondissement of Paris).[6]
Works[edit]
Bruno Rossignol composes choral works such as Ave verum, Exurgens autem Maria and Salve Regina pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc. He mainly writes a large number of instrumental pieces (Le Roi des grenouilles, Les Nouvelles Histoires Naturelles and Curieuses rencontres) through which he expresses his vocation as a teacher.[1]
Cantata :
- L'escalier (2007), choir with four mixed voices.
- Concerto pour harpe, premiered in 2008 by Sabine Chefson
- Concerto pour violon, premiered in 2000 by Annie Jodry.[7]
- Les nouvelles histoires naturelles[8] for soprano, baritone and piano, on texts by Jules Renard.
- Aria (1995), violin and piano
- Au père lapin (1997), trumpet and piano
- Ballade irlandaise (1988), flute and piano
- Carillon (2008), horn and piano
- Danse des sylphes (1988), flute and piano
- Danse du paon, horn and piano
- Défilé (2012), trombone and piano
- Divertissement (1995), three flutes
- Élégie (1984), oboe and piano
- Interlude maya, viola and guitar
- Jazz notes violon 2 with Alexandre Tenaud, (1992), violin and piano
- Jean-Paul's march (2000), horn and piano
- La jument grise, percussion and piano
- La meunière a neuf écus (2014), violin and piano.[9]
- Le sentier des sources, Celtic harp
- Le songe d'Hector (2007), oboe and piano
- Le violon en herbe (1995), violin and piano
- Loup yétu (2012), violin and piano[10]
- Manège, saxophone and piano
- Novelettes (2000): Au clair de la terre, Mélodie irlandaise and Promenade romantique, three pieces for cello and piano
- Ode rose (2008), clarinet and piano
- Orphée et Calupan (2010), pieces with four hands and six hands
- Pavane en deux tons (1984), horn and piano
- Rag (2008), oboe and piano
- Ravel blues (1988), violin and piano
- Rhapsodie-jeu (1994), saxophone and piano
- Saudade (2002), violin and piano
- Suite (1996), flute, clarinet and piano
- Trois bagatelles (2005), obie, cello and piano
- Trois pièces (2006), percussions
- Trois toiles pour rêver, three clarinets
Music for choir:
- Ave verum (2005)
- Dona nobis pacem (2015)
- Exsurgens autem Maria[11] (premiered in May 2014 as part of the 900th anniversary celebrations of the Pontigny Abbey)
- De la mer... (1994), female four-voice choir
- Demain (1999)
- L’A.B.C. d’un chœur (1997)
- La mer est entrée dans les prés (2016)
- Louange (1994), female four-voice choir
- Que tu es belle ! (1994), female four-voice choir
- Risotto musicale - Trois registres parlando (2004)
- Salve Regina - pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc (1998)
- Stabat Mater (1999)
- Cilaos (2000), harp
- Curieuses rencontres (1985): Le petit garçon qui marchait sur la lune, Au clair de la terre, La planète où dansent les fourmis bleues, L'astéroïde B 612 et Les étoiles, five pieces for piano
- En Bretagne (1996), piano
- In memoriam J.M.R. (2004), saxophone
- Le roi des grenouilles (1993), five piano pieces, based on Grimm's fairy tale
- Mouvements perpétuels (2013), piano
- Paysages en coin (2004), piano
- Philémon (2012), horn
- Quel cirque (1991), piano
- Reflet orange et reflet bleu, Celtic harp
- Soirées sous la lune (2008), guitar
- Valse chagrine (1988), clarinet
- Valse tendre et aristocratique (2001), piano.
- Madame Roland, created in Suresnes as part of the bicentenary events of the Revolution.[1]
- La fin dau monde,[12] (premiered on 26 and 27 April 2013 respectively in Sarlat and Boulazac (Périgueux)[13] écrit en Limousin dialect after a text by Jean-Yves Agard, docteur en sociologie, défenseur des langues régionales.[14]
He has also transcribed for piano four hands great works from the repertoire:
- Pictures at an Exhibition by Moussorgski
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Debussy
- Un bal, extract of the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz, editions Delatour.
Honours[edit]
As choral conductor he won:
- First prize of the Malta International Competition in 1989
- First prize of the International Verona Competition (Italy) in 1993.[2]
- Award for the best conductor of the Verona Festival 1993
- Grand prix de Hauts-de-Seine in 1996.[2]
- The Médaille de la Ville de Paris in 1990
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Rossignol". Éditions Alphonse Leduc. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ a b c d "Bruno Rossignol Biographie". Éditions Lemoine. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "REPERTOIRE under the direction of Bruno ROSSIGNOL". Choeur Paris 12. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "L'EID Présentation". EID 24. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Concert donné par l'Ensemble Instrumental de la Dordogne - Lanouaille". Dordogne libre. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Conservatoire Municipal Jean-Philippe Rameau - Directeur: Bruno Rossignol". equipement.paris. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "JODRY-WERNER Annie". Les Amis de la musique française. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Un joli moment de musique". Sud-Ouest. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ ""Bruno Rossignol"". Éditions Delatour. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Loup Yétu, pour violon et piano". L'éducation musicale. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Bruno ROSSIGNOL : Exsurgens autem Maria". L'éducation musicale. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Bruno ROSSIGNOL: La fin dau monde. Oratorio on a text by Jean-Yves Agard". L'éducation musicale. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ ""La fin dau monde" Oratorio Bruno ROSSIGNOL, 26 April Sarlat, 27 April Boulazac". Fédération des Enseignants de Langue et de Culture d'Oc. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
- ^ "Le concept de "territoire créatif" by Jean-Yves Agard". Dordogne Libre. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2017..
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