Brice PAUSET
Born in 1965
Biography
Composer Brice Pauset was born in Besançon in 1965, and started his musical education by learning the piano, violin and harpsichord before turning to composition. In 1994 he was awarded a grant by the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation and became a student at Ircam from 1994 to 1996. He studied with Michel Philippot, Gérard Grisey and Alain Bancquart in Paris, and since then has pursued a dual career as a composer and performer of his own works as well as playing the early repertoire on the harpsichord and pianoforte and, occasionally, the modern piano.
In France, Brice Pauset regularly works with Ircam, the Festival d'Automne in Paris and the Accroche-Note ensemble, the Ars Musica festival in Belgium, Klangforum-Wien in Austria, and, in Germany, the SWR (Baden-Baden) and WDR (Köln) radios, the Musik-Biennale Berlin and the Recherche ensemble in Freiburg im Breisgau. On occasion his works call for musicians unexpected in the realm of contemporary music, such as his Vanités which was first sung by countertenor Gérard Lesne with Il Seminario Musicale at Royaumont, Kontra-Sonate based on Schubert's Sonata op. 42 (D 845), which Andreas Staier performed in June 2001 in Hagen and Paris, and Schlag-Kantilene based on Beethoven's violin concerto, with David Grimal and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France, conducted by Peter Eötvös (2010). He also, among many other ensemble or chamber works, completed a six-symphonies cycle (2001 to 2009). Arditti String Quartet, together with WDR Choir and Orchestra, under Matthias Pintscher's baton, premiered Das Dornröschen (2012) in Köln Philharmony (Germany).
Since 2010, he teaches composition at Musikhochschule Freiburg-im-Breisgau and runs the New Music Dpt of this very institution. Since 2012, he is appointed as Chief Executive of the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva.
Solo works
Canons (3) (1989)
for piano
Canons (5) (2002)
for piano
Canons (7) (2010)
for piano
Canons (9) (2010)
for piano
Chaconnes (2) (1991)
for viola
De Prolatione (1996)
for 1 percussionist
Entrée (2007)
for harpsichord
Etude (2011)
for piano
Eurydice (1998)
for flute
Kontrapartita (2008)
for violin
Kontra-sonate (2000)
Prologue et épilogue à la sonate en La mineur Op.42 (D.845) de F. Schubert (programme composé)
for pianoforte
La Nef des fous (1991)
for violin
Perspectivae Sintagma I (Canons) (1997)
for piano and computer
Pièces (6) (2005)
for organ
Préludes (6) (1999)
for harpsichord
Rasch (2006)
for cello
Sarabande (2007)
for harpsichord
Theorie der Tränen: Salz (2011)
for horn
Wiegenlieder (2007)
for accordion
Chamber music
Adagio dialettico (2000)
for saxophone, percussion and piano
In nomine broken consort book (2003)
for 8 instruments
Les Voix humaines (2006)
for clarinet, string trio and piano
Ljusare (1992)
for violin and piano
Pluvia (1989)
for violin, cello and piano
Quatuor à cordes I (Mèden agen) (1993)
for 2 violins, viola and cello
Quatuor à cordes II (1996)
for 2 violins, viola and cello
Quatuor à cordes III (...écrit-récit) (2002)
for 2 violins, viola and cello
Theorie der Tränen : Gesang (2007)
for horn and piano
Theorie der Tränen : Schlamm (2008)
for bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Ensemble music
Canons (4) - Les Saisons (1992)
for solo violin and string ensemble
Canons (8) (1998)
for oboe d'amore and ensemble
Concerto I - Birwa (2002)
for harpsichord and ensemble
Concerto II - Exils (2005)
for percussions and 2 ensembles
Harpe de Mélodie (2008)
for percussions (2) and ensemble
Kinderszenen mit Robert Schumann (2003)
for ensemble
Konzertkammer (2010)
for ensemble
Purcell - Verschiebungen (2007)
for violin and ensemble
Schwarzmärkte (2012)
for ensemble
Theorie der Tränen : Atem (2009)
for ensemble
Variations Op.27 de Webern (1999)
arrangement for piano and ensemble
Vier Variationen (2007)
for ensemble
Vita Nova (sérénades) (2006)
for violin and ensemble
Vocal or choral music
A (1999)
for actors, 2 solo voices, 4 chorus, 2 ensembles and computer
Autopsie de la foi (2012)
for actor and ensemble
Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (2005)
for actors, dancers, chorus and orchestra
De Aeternitate (1998)
for soprano
De Felicitate (1997)
for soprano
Demosthenes on the seashore (2004)
for mixed chorus
Deux Corps (Galathée à l'usine) (2005)
for 8 voices and 2 ensembles
Dornröschen II (2012)
for string quartet, chorus and orchestra
Eleusis (an Hölderlin) (1997)
for soprano, clarinet and piano
Furcht und zittern (2009)
for voices and ensemble
Gesangbuch (2003)
for soprano and piano
Gesangbuch II (2011)
for alto, viola and piano
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1995)
for counter tenor, 3 instruments and computeur
Les Exercices du silence (2008)
for soprano, piano and electronics
M (1996)
for 2 sopranos, contralto and 2 ensembles
L'Opéra de la lune (2012)
for soli, chorus and orchestra
Perspectivæ Sintagma II (2001)
for piano, contralto, counter tenor, 2 ensembles and computer
Portrait (2007)
for 4 male voices and string quartet
Sainte (2007)
for voice and piano
Theorie der Tränen : Louise (2009)
for soprano and ensemble
Zwei Studien über Dornröschen (2008)
for double chorus
Vanités (2002)
for conter tenor, soprano, 2 violins, viola, cello, doublebass, 3 or 5 harpsichords and theorbe
Works for orchestra
Cadences pour le Concerto pour violon et orchestre Op.61 de Beethoven (2010)
Canons (6) - Musurgia combinatoria (2001)
for orchestra
Kontra-konzert (2011)
for pianoforte, orchestra and 3 percussionists
Maos Frosch (2011)
for orchestra
Sepulcrum (1994)
for cymbalum and orchestra
Symphonie I - Les outrances nécessaires (2001)
for chamber orchestra and piano
Symphonie II - La liseuse (2003)
for voice orchestra
Symphonie III - Anima mundi (2004)
for orchestra
Symphonie IV - Der Geograph (2006)
for piano and orchestra
Symphonie V - Die Tänzerin (2008)
for large orchestra
Symphonie VI - Erstarrte Schatten (2009)
for large orchestra, 6 solo voices and live electronics
Schlag-Kantilene (2010)
for violin and orchestra
Discography
Passions
Un orgue baroque pour la création
Orgue Jean de Joyeuse (Auch, France)
Jean-Christophe Revel (organ)
Inclus : Six Pièces pour orgue (extract)
1 CD aeon AECD 0420
Préludes
Huit Canons - Six Préludes - Ljusare - Variations Op.27 de Webern - In Nomine Broken Consort Book
Ensemble Recherche
1 CD aeon AECD 0207
Sonate - Kontra-Sonate
Brice Pauset : Kontra-Sonate, 1er mouvement - Franz Schubert : Sonata en La mineur Op.42 (D.845) - Brice Pauset : Kontra-Sonate, 2ème mouvement
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
1 CD aeon AECD 0421
Bibliography
Nouveaux créateurs, regards d'écoles
Edwards Richard
Atlante, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1993