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WORKS FOR /
WITH PLUCKED INSTRUMENT(S)
(catalogue from August
1st, 2010)
FOR ORDERING A SCORE - PRICE
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M.671 : Sonata (2008) [10']
for guitar
12 (+2) pages
Several episodes linked together :
misterioso, presto (virtuoso), furioso and meditativo. First performance on May 1st, 2009 with
Olivia Steiner during the International Guitar Festival of Fribourg.
M.576 : Duo (1998) [13']
for alto flute and guitar
11 (+1) pages
In 3 movements. Elegiaco with subtle sonority, presto malinconico,
mirror-like scherzo, and estaticamente
lento, of great expressive purity.
M.654 :
Le Tombeau de Ravel (2006) [6']
for tenor saxophone, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, guitar and percussion
14 (+5) pages
M.654a : performing
material : 2 (+2) pages – 2 (+2) pages – 3
(+2) pages – 3 (+2) pages – 2 (+3) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpts
This work has been written for a project of the Compagnie
CH.AU, for which six composers have written one movement each, corresponding to
one of the parts of the Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel.
This piece inspires itself of the Menuet of the Tombeau de Couperin, and has principally an elegiac, tender
and nostalgic character. It has also been instrumented for a chamber orchestra.
In project :
Work
for Solo-voice and guitar
Work
for violin and guitar
Short
pieces for Children’s
All commissions welcome!
M.514 : Miroir du silence (Mirror of silence) (1995) [10']
for harp
5 (+2) pages
Work yet to be
first-performed (!! please
contact the composer for first performance)
Mysterious and meditating
work, almost oriental. At the middle of the score, return to the
starting-point by retrogradation.
M.569 :
Trio for flute, viola and harp (1997-9)
[11’]
10 (+1) pages
M.569a: flute and viola parts: 2x2 (+1) pages
score excerpt (pdf)
In a single movement, slow
and melancholic, written in a funeral way.
In preparation :
Concerto
for Harp (for Chantal Mathieu)
Work
for voice, flute, viola and harp after haiku texts
Duo for
two harps
M.629 : Double Concerto for pipa, violin and orchestra (2002-5) [21']
(2*-2*-2*-2* 2-0-0-0 2Perc.
Strings)
64 (+6) pages
Pipa and violin part : 40 (+4) pages
Performing material to be
asked from the composer.
To be first performed soon !
Work written for the famous pipa
(chinese lute) player Yang
Jing, and the violinist Boris Livschitz. In three movements :
the first one alternates mysterious and energetic passages, the second one is
meditative. The third, Eruptivo, contains an
important cadenza for the soloists.
All commissions welcome!