Laurent Lefrançois (born in 1974 in

Caen Caen (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Calvados (department), Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inha ...

) is a French

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

Life

Winner of the Claude Arrieu Prize of the

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in 2016 and public prize at the international competition for young composers in Boulogne in 2006 (with

Philippe Hersant Philippe Hersant (born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Selected works :: Hersant's works are largely published by Éditions Durand. ;Stage * ''Le Château des Carpathes (opera), Le Châtea ...

as president of the jury), Lefrançois graduated from the

École normale de musique de Paris The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The school was founded in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot and Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (English: no ...

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

and

musical composition Musical composition can refer to an Originality, original piece or work of music, either Human voice, vocal or Musical instrument, instrumental, the musical form, structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new pie ...

in Michel Merlet's class. He studied

harmony In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harm ...

and

counterpoint In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines (also called voices) that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term originates from the Latin ...

with Stéphane Delplace and composition with Guillaume Connesson. Lefrançois received commissions from the in 2004, from for the Alternance Ensemble, from in 2006, for the

Modigliani Quartet Modigliani Quartet is a French string quartet founded in Paris in 2003 by four close friends, following their studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. Founding violinist Philippe Bernhard left the group in 2016 and was replaced by Amaury Coeytaux. ...

and Lise Berthaud, from Alla breve'' at

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, from the

Festival de Radio France et Montpellier The Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, formerly the Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier, is a summer festival of opera and music held in Montpellier, France created in 1985. The music festival concentrates on classical music and jaz ...

in 2007, for the pianist Cyril Guillotin, from the in 2009, for Ria IdetaRia Ideta
on Yamaha and Paul Meyer, from the orchestra in 2014 under the baton of Frédéric Lodéon and from in 2016 for clarinetist Paul Meyer and the Rouen Orchestra.

Works

* ''Sextuor'', commission from

for the Festival Présences 2004 * ''Erinnerung'',

sextet A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members. The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six ...

for

string instrument In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some ...

s, commission from Proquartet * ''Padouk Phantasticus'' for strings, commission from the Festival international de musique de Salon-de-Provence, 2009.

Discography

''Balnéaire Chamber Music'', monography, label Evidence, 2014.

References

External links

Personal website

Œuvres de chambre de Laurent Lefrançois
(ResMusica)
Lefrançois
on

France Musique France Musique () is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France. It is devoted to the broadcasting of music, both live and recorded, with particular emphasis on classical music and jazz. History The channel was lau ...

Laurent Lefrançois - Padouk Phantasticus
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lefrancois, Laurent 1974 births Living people Musicians from Caen French classical composers French male classical composers French radio producers École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni 21st-century French musicians 21st-century French male musicians