PHILIPPE HUREL

French composer born in 1955.

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 at Villa Médicis (Roma, 1986-88), the Förderpreis der Siemens-Stiftung in Munich (1995, for Six miniatures en trompe l'œil), the Prix des Compositeurs from SACEM (2002), and the Prix de la Meilleure Création de l'Année from SACEM (2003, for Aura).  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 was also composer-in-residence both at 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 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the USA… His pieces has been conducted by Pierre Boulez, David Robertson, Jonathan Nott, Esa Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, Pierre-André Valade, François Xavier Roth, Christian Eggen, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Reinbert de Leeuw, Bernard Kontarsky…

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