Stéphane de Gérando


Stéphane de Gérando, is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher.

Biography

Musical studies, international awards

Gérando was the top selected candidate for a composition curriculum at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He won the top prize for composition at the Paris Conservatory in 1993. He studied composition under Alain Bancquart, writing and analysis under Michel Philippot, orchestration under Gérard Grisey, musical computing under Tristan Murail, and electroacoustics under Guy Reibel and Laurent Cuniot.
In 1994, Stéphane de Gérando was the top selected candidate for a Composition PhD at the CNSMDP where he took master classes with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Henri Dutilleux. He won the International Award at the Contemporary Music Festival of Darmstadt, « Prix de l’Association des Anciens Elèves et Elèves des Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique et d’Art Dramatique de Paris », the « Prix Académique de la SACEM », and was the laureate of the « Fondation Sasakawa » in 1993 and 1994.
Gérando was trained as an orchestra director at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris by Claude Pichereau.
He is also musical director of icarEnsemble and has recently recorded with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France.

Music

Stéphane de Gérando wrote several works for orchestras performed at Radio-France in Paris such as Puisqu’il en est ainsi for symphony orchestra and an 8 track magnetic tape, En toi, avec lui et en lui for four orchestra groups scattered around the public, Intumescence, commissioned by Radio-France and performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France coproduced by the INA-GRM. His latest works are Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir ordered by the 2E2M ensemble and performed at the Pompidou Center in Paris, Du sens au sens for flute, performed by Pierre-Yves Artaud at the Contemporary Music Festival of Darmstadt, Katanga, for fifteen brass instruments and two percussions commissioned by Radio-France, 6ex1pen7sion4 commissioned by the French state, for ensemble and real time electronics performed in Paris by the 2E2M ensemble, L’opéra de glace commissioned by the French state, work for choir of teenagers, video and computer.
Multimedia works, museum installations, monumental screenings
His multimedia works have been exposed in contemporary art museums with outdoor and indoor monumental screenings. Among others Le circle de la sphère, Timu, Binaurale, Blue bird, Intumescence and CA – Creative Algorithm, a real time interactive process of creation of sound and image, presented at the « Festival de l’Innovation et de la Création 2007.

Research

While composing, his curriculum as a researcher started in 1991-92 by selecting further studies of musical computing at the IRCAM ; this led him to be a consultant there. In 1993, following research on computerized sound models syntheses, Stéphane de Gérando defended his PhD thesis on 20th century
Music and Musicology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales associated with the E.N.S., the I.R.C.A.M. and the C.N.R.S., and subsequently obtained Doctorate in « Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts » from the Université Paris VIII in 1996.
The twenty some publications and the writing of a new thesis –Contemporary musical work in question – enabled him to obtain the habilitation to direct theses in 2005. His work treats historical, aesthetic, pedagogical and institutional aspects linked to the notion of creation and of contemporary musical works on the one hand, and of modern technology on the other. Latest publication: L’oeuvre musicale contemporaine à l’épreuve du concept.
Deanships, teachings, juries, research
Stéphane de Gérando was director of the École de Musique et de Danse de Vaucressson, Pedagogical Director of a higher education center which prepares future territorial government officials for the Diplôme d’Etat exam, President of the Institut International pour l’Innovation, la Création Artistique et la Recherche : IUT, CEFEDEM, CNSMDP. He also organized and participated in programs for returning students, preparing the Certificat d’Aptitude, and directed over forty theses. Since 2005, he has directed research internships with “grandes écoles” and French universities like Sciences Po, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunication, Paris IV Sorbonne, the Université Télécom Lille 1, the Institut Supérieur Européen de Gestion, the Université Toulouse le Mirail, and the Université de Reims. As a member of the state orders commission of the Ministère de la Culture in 2008, he was invited to be a member of the jury for the Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur de Musique, the Diplômes d’Etat, the CFNPT exams, and defenses of university theses. Stéphane de Gérando is also part of research laboratories such as LAPRIL and ARTES. He currently works with the computer and mathematics department of the Université de Strasbourg and participated in many international conferences on research.

Catalog of works

YearTitleType of workDuration
1989 Metathesis, for pianosolo12:00
1990Puisqu'il en est ainsi , for orchestra and tapeorchestra and electroacoustic30:15
1991Musique pour église, pécheur d'amour, le Christ et moi , sextet for flute in G, English horn, harp, vibraphone, sib clarinet, viola and imposed reverberation7 instruments12:00
1991Hommage à Bach , sib clarinetsolo00:59
1992En toi, avec lui et en lui , 52 soloists and chamber auditorium orchestra12:00
1993Virtualité et conscience du vide , for strings3 instruments15:00
1994Du sens au sens, for flutesolo17:00
1996Pièce pour cordes, for string orchestraorchestra 10:00
1996Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir, for soprano, narrator, flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, percussions and amplification system7 instruments15:00
1997Intumescence, for orchestra and tapeorchestra and electroacoustic15:00
1997Intumescence, for tapeelectroacoustic07:00
1999Binaurale, for tapeelectroacoustic10:00
2004Katanga, 15 brass instruments and two percussions18 instruments15:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, bass clarinet versionsolo07:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 7 , percussion versionsolo07:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, double bass version2 instruments14:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, trumpet version2 instruments12:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, percussion version2 instruments09:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, double bass, percussion version2 instruments09:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour , trumpet, percussion version2 instruments09:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, percussion version3 instruments15:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, trumpet double bass version3 instruments and15:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 7, 4, Piccolo, trumpet, keyboard version3 instruments and electroacoustic12:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, bass clarinet, percussion, keyboard version3 instruments and electroacoustic12:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, 4, piccolo, clarinets, keyboard version3 instruments and electroacoustic15:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragments 6, 1, 7, piccolo, trumpet, percussion version3 instruments and electroacoustic12:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, fl. piccolo, clarinet, double bass, percussion version4 instruments15:00
2006sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, flute, trumpet, double bass, percussions, keyboard 5 instruments and electroacoustic18:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo versionsolo07:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 1 , sib clarinet versionsolo03:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 4 , bass clarinet versionsolo05:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour - fragment 7 , trumpet versionsolo07:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, bass clarinet with real time electronics versionsolo and electroacoustic07:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo with real time electronics versionsolo and electroacoustic07:00
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, keyboard version2 instruments and electroacoustic09:00 max.
2007sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, trumpet, keyboard version2 instruments and electroacoustis09:00 max.
2007CA, Creative Algorithm, real timevideoindéterminée
2008sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, bass clarinet version2 instruments12:00
2008sixEXonePENsevenSIONfour, piccolo, bass real time electronic version2 instruments and electroacoustic15:00
2008Virtualité et conscience du vide, violon versionsolo05:00
2008Virtualité et conscience du vide, version cello solo02:00
2008L'opéra de glace, chorus of teenagers, tape and videochorus, electroacoustic, video02:00
2009Intumescence,video08:00
2010Blue bird, video10:00
2010Binaurale – fragment 1 - space points, real time video video05:56
2010Binaurale – fragment 2 - round space, real time videovideo06:15
2010...The labyrinth of time, cycle multimediainstruments, computers, videoA déterminer

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