Philippe HUREL
Born in 1955
Biography
Philippe Hurel was born in 1955 in Domfront, and studied musicology at the University of Toulouse before entering the Paris Conservatory. He then took part in musical research at Ircam in 1985-86 and again in 1988-89. From 1986 to 1988 he was a resident at the Villa Médicis, home of the Académie de France in Rome. In 1995 he was awarded the Siemens Foundation Prize in Munich for his work Six Miniatures en Trompe-l'oeil. He taught the music and computers course at Ircam from 1997 to 2001 and was then invited as composer-in-residence in 2001 and 2002, at the Arsenal in Metz with the Philharmonie de Lorraine. Since 1991 Philippe Hurel has been artistic director of the Ensemble Court-Circuit, conducted by Pierre-André Valade. He received the SACEM Composers' Prize in 2002 as well as their prize for best new work in 2003 for Aura. He has been an associate professor at McGill University (Montreal) since 2004. His works have been performed by numerous ensembles and orchestras conducted by such eminent figures as Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Robertson, Jonathan Nott, Reinbert de Leeuw, Bernard Kontarsky, Stefan Asbury, Kent Nagano, Peter Eötvös, Markus Stenz, Ed Spanjaard... and, of course, Pierre-André Valade with whom he works regularly.
Guest of the first Duophonies, original festival with contemporary composers and artists from various sound world.
Loops and Tributes is a piece which combine contemporary music and jazz improvisations (percussions).
Performances at La Maroquinerie (Paris), January 23th 2006 and at Théatre de La Criée (Marseille), February 5th 2006.
HORS-JEU work for percussion and electronic have been created by Daniel Ciampolini at the Festivel Agora of Ircam, on 10th June 2006.
Solo works
D'un trait - Trentemps (qui passe) (2007)
for cello
HORS-JEU (2005-06)
for percussion and electronic
Loops I (1999)
for flute
Loops II (2001)
for vibraphone
Loops IV (2005)
for marimba
Loops V (2005)
for carillon
Chamber music
A batons rompus (2008)
for saxophone and percussions
Ecart en temps (2001)
for 6 percussions
Interstices (2009)
for piano and 3 percussions
L'Ame en fête (2009)
for 2 violins
Localized corrosion (2009)
for saxophone, electric guitar, percussions and piano
Loops III (2003)
for 2 flutes
Recueil (2009)
for viola and percussions
Ritornello - In memoriam Luciano Berio (2003)
for flute and piano
Step (2007)
for flute, clarinet in A or bass clarinet, percussions and piano (with melodica)
Stretta (2009)
for 2 trombones and organ
Tombeau - In memoriam Gérard Grisey (1999)
for percussion and piano
Ensemble music
Aura (2006)
for piano and ensemble
Etudes mécaniques (3) (2003/04)
for ensemble
Figures libres (2001)
for 8 instruments
Phasis (2007-08)
for saxophone (tenor or soprano) and ensemble
Quatre Variations (2000)
for percussion and ensemble
Vocal and choral music
Non-dit (2005)
for chorus
Cantus - Hommage à Georges Perec (2006)
for soprano and ensemble
Works for orchestra
Aura (2001/02)
for piano and orchestra
Flash-Back (1998)
for orchestra
Phonus (2003-04)
or La voix du Faune for flute and orchestra
Tour à tour (2008)
for orchestra
Discography
Flash-Back
...à mesure - Flash-Back - Tombeau - Pour Luigi
Ensemble Court-Circuit
P.-A. Valade
Orchestre de Paris
B. Kontarsky
J. Geoffroy
J.-M. Cottet
1 CD aeon AECD 0105
Six miniatures en trompe l'oeil - Opcit -
Pour l'image - Leçon de choses
Ensemble Intercontemporain
A. Damiens
E. Spanjaard
1 CD ACCORD 465 310-2
Loops
Ritornello in memoriam Luciano Berio - Loops II for vibraphone - Loops III for 2 flutes - Tombeau in memoriam Gérard Grisey - Loops I for flute
1 CD NOCTURNE/HL PROD S214
Bibliography
Texts by Philippe Hurel
Le Compositeur et l'institution
Dossier Musique contemporaine cherche public !
Rédaction ANFIAC, in Découpe n° 6/7, janvier 1989
Le Droit à l'héritage
in l'Intemporel n° 2, avril-juin 1992
Durées/rythmes : fusion et perception différenciée dans l'écriture instrumentale
in Rapport annuel de l'Ircam, 1986
Etre compositeur aujourd'hui
in Ecouter, voir
propos recueillis par Viviane Niaux, avril 1994
Modèles et composition
in Annuaire 1986/87, villa Médicis (Rome)
Edition Carte segrete, Rome, 1987
Le phénomène sonore, un modèle pour la composition
in Le Timbre, métaphore pour la composition
Collectif, Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Ircam/Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1991
Bibliography
Other texts
Carla, acquisition et induction sur le matériau compositionnel
Francis Courtot
Thèse de doctorat en informatique, université de Rennes I, janvier 1992
Concert monographique Philippe Hurel
Guy Lelong
in Le Magazine (Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou) n° 79, janvier 1994
Entre le décomposé et l'incomposable
Francis Courtot
in Les Cahiers de l'Ircam
Recherche et musique n° 3, 2e trimestre 1993
Formulation et formalisation des contraintes en informatique musicale
Xavier Hautbois
in mémoire de DEA, Ecole normale supérieure, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
CIDRM/CNRS, Ircam-Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1991
Jeune musique française
Martin Kaltenecker
in Le Magazine (Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou) n° 49, janvier 1989
Jeune musique française (en suédois)
Anders Jallen
in Nutida musih, Stockholm, février 1994
Le Néoclacissisme est-il justifiable ?
Jean Vermeil
Entretien avec Philippe Hurel, Pierre-André Valade et Jacques Bonnaure
in Répertoire des disques compacts n°64, décembre 1993
Nouveaux créateurs, regards d'écoles
dir. Richard Edwards
Atlante, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1993
Nouvelles inductions musicales
Guy Lelong
in Art Press n°145, mars 1990
in La Revue musicale, numéro spécial L'Itinéraire, 421-422-423-424
Philippe Hurel
Danielle Cohen-Lévinas
in Le Magazine (Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou) n°66, novembre 1991
Philippe Hurel
Les Cahiers de l'Ircam
collection "Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui"
Editions Ircam-Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, 1994
Les 4 variations de Philippe Hurel
Analyse de l'hétérogène
Richard Perrin
L'Harmattan, 2004