Claude Lenners (born 1956) is a Luxembourgish composer of mainly chamber and vocal works. In 1999, he founded Pyramide, an association for electronic music. Since 2004, he has headed its successor, Institut de recherche musicale.

Biography

Born on 11 May 1956 in

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, Lenners specialized in computer science before deciding to return to music when he was 23. He studied music and musicology with

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at the Luxembourg Conservatory and with

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in Strasbourg."Claude Lenners"
''The Living Composers Project''. Retrieved 31 December 2010. He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego,

Asko Ensemble Asko or ASKO may refer to: * Asko (name), a male given name common in Finland and Estonia * Askø, a Danish island * Asko Cylinda or Asko Appliances AB, a Swedish company producing household appliances * AskoSchönberg, a Dutch chamber orchestra ...

, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and

Ensemble Intercontemporain The Ensemble intercontemporain (EIC) is a French music ensemble, based in Paris, that is dedicated to contemporary music. Pierre Boulez founded the EIC in 1976 for this purpose, the first permanent organization of its type in the world. Organi ...

. His compositions have also been played by the

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra ( lb, Lëtzebuerger philharmoneschen Orchester, french: Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg), abbreviated to OPL, is a symphony orchestra based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The orchestra formerly perfor ...

and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloists who have performed his works include violinist

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, percussionist Guy Frisch, saxophonists Pierre-Stéphane Meugé and Olivier Sliepen, pianists Oscar Pizzo and Béatrice Rauchs and flautist Manuel Zurria.

Awards

*Scholarship to study composition at the

Villa Medici The Villa Medici () is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, ...

in Rome (1989–91) *First Prize, Henri Dutilleux Composers Competition (1991) *First International Irino Prize for Chamber Music (Tokyo, 1993) *Lions Prize (Luxembourg section, 1997)

Selected works

*Der Turm (2011) *In a Wilderness of Mirrors (2007) *Odyssey Reloaded (2007) *HoMo XeRoX (2006) *Wild Card for Orchestra and Embedded Violin (2005) *Dream Museum (1998) *Night Mail (1998) *Buch der Unruhe (1997) *Quaderno Romano (1996) *Klanglied (1995) *Tête à tête (1993) *Durch kühle Nacht (1989) *Songs between Starlight and Earth-Night (1987) *Pentagramma (1985) *Brush and Trunks (1985) *Les insectes (1984) *Quatuor à cordes sériel (1982) *Sonata facile (1982) *Trio (1981)

Discography

*"Beyond", Apollo pour violon solo – Pan pour flûte solo – Alba pour piano solo – Tête-à-Tête pour violon et flûte – Codex Latinus pour flûte et piano – 3rd dream pour violon et piano – Half-Moon/Fragments trio pour violon, flûte et piano. Irvine Arditti (violon). Ensemble Alter Ego (Manuel Zurria, flute – Oscar Pizzo, piano). CD Stradivarius STRAD33613"Claude Lenners: Born in 1956"
, ''Contemporary Music''. Retrieved 31 December 2010.

References

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