Philippe HUREL
Born in 1955
Biography
Philippe Hurel, was born in 1955. French composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere. Philippe Hurel studied musicology at the Université de Toulouse from 1974-79 and composition with Betsy Jolas and Ivo Malec at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1980-83. He also had private studies in musical computer science with Tristan Murail in Paris in 1983. His honors include the Pensionnaire à la Villa Médicis à Rome (1986-88), the Förderpreis der Siemens-Stiftung in Munich 1995, for Six miniatures en trompe l'oeil, the Prix des Compositeurs from SACEM (2002), and the Prix de la Meilleure Création de l'Année from SACEM 2003, for Aura. Mr. Hurel is also active in other positions. He worked as a music researcher at IRCAM in 1985-86 and 1988-89. He taught composition at IRCAM from 1997-2001.
He also served as composer-in-residence to both the Arsenal de Metz and the Philharmonie de Lorraine from 2000-02. With Pierre André Valade he founded the new music ensemble Court-circuit in 1990 and has since served as its artistic director.
His music has been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles and by conductors such as by Pierre Boulez, David Robertson, Ludovic Morlot, Tito Ceccherini, Jonathan Nott, Esa Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, Pierre-André Valade, François Xavier Roth, Christian Eggen, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Reinbert de Leeuw, Bernard Kontarsky...
Among his concerts of the season 2011-12, Espèces d'espaces - theater musical piece based on the Georges Perec's book - will be premiered at the Biennale de Lyon (Théâtre de la Renaissance in Oullins) by Elise Chauvin (soprano), Jean Chaize, (actor), Ensemble 2e2M, La Muse en circuit (electronics), Alexis forestier (stage director) with Pierre Roullier conducting. Moreover, les Siècles, the flutist Marion Ralincourt and François Xavier Roth will perform Phonus at the theater of Nîmes and at the Cité de la musique in Paris in the frame of the cycle dedicated to Claude Debussy.
In the spring 2012 the new version for clarinet and ensemble of Phasis will be premiered at the Philadelphia museum of Art by Carol Macgonnell and Argento chamber ensemble of New york conducted by Michel Galante. Finally his music will be played numerous times by Pascal Contet, ensemble Nikel and Les Cris de Paris.
Philippe Hurel is actually composing the third part of the orchestral cycle Tour à Tour - commissioned by the Printemps des Arts for the Monaco Philharmonic Orchestra - which will be premiered in march 2012. After this piece he will compose an opera for the Capitole de Toulouse on a libretto written by the french writer Tanguy Viel. This opera will be premiered in Toulouse in april 2014.
His next pieces has been commissioned by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije.
Solo works
D'un trait - Trentemps (qui passe) (2007)
for cello
HORS-JEU (2005-06)
for percussion and electronics
Loops I (1999)
for flute
Loops II (2001)
for vibraphone
Loops IV (2005)
for marimba
Loops V (2005)
for carillon
Plein-Jeu (2010)
for accordion and electronics
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
Espèces d'espaces (2011)
for soprano, actor and ensemble
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
Praeludium (2010)
for orchestra
Tour à tour (2008)
for orchestra
Tour à tour III (2011)
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
Phonus
Phonus ou la voix du Faune - Figures libres -
Quatre variations
Benoît Fromanger (flute)
Oslo philharmonic Orchestra,
Christian Eggen (conductor)
Ensemble Court-Circuit, Pierre-André Valade (conductor)
Matthew Ward (percussion)
Argento Chamber Ensemble, Michel Galante (conductor)
1 CD SOUPIR EDITIONS PL S217
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
Jean-Marie Cottet (piano)
Jean Geoffroy (percussion)
Anne-Cécile Cuniot (flute)
Sophie Dardeau (flute)
Juliette Hurel (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