Karim Haddad ( ar, كريم حداد) (born January 22, 1962 in Dar-el Mraisseh,

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) is a Lebanese composer.

Education

He achieved his first musical studies at the National Conservatory of Beirut. He received B.A. of Philosophy and literature at the American University of Beirut. He left his war torn country in 1982 to settle in Paris (France). In 1985 he received B.A. degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University. He then joined the

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. He mastered the essentials: Harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, analysis and composition with Edith Lejet (Harmony, Fugue), Bernard de Crepy (Counterpoint), Paul Mefano (Orchestration), Jacques Casterede and Alain Louvier (Analysis),

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and Emmanuel Nunes (Composition) where he obtained Six awards and the "Diplome Superieur" in Composition.

Contemporary Music Composer

From 1991 to 1992 he attended master classes in composition with

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and Klaus Huber. Between 1992 and 1994 he participates in the Ferienkurse fur Musik of Darmstadt where he worked with Brian Ferneyhough, and obtained the Stipendien Prize 94 in composition. In 1995, he followed the computer music courses at the

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and became a member of the IRCAM Forum where he contributed in 1999, by writing the Om2Csound library for controlling synthesis through

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environment. He then wrote OpenMusic's reference and tutorial. In 1996, he compose
Ce qui dort dans lombre sacrée pour contrebasse
for

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Presence festival.

First Opera

Recently 2005 he wrote the First act for the oper
Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence
Libretto :

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First performance: September 2005, Berlin Staatsoper, Berlin, 2005

Present

He is still working at IRCAM as a technical advisor for Ircam Forum and continues to compose contemporary classical Music.

References

External links

http://karimhaddad.org
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