Stéphane de Gérando

Stéphane de Gérando (L'Hay-les-Roses, France, June 23, 1965), is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, researcher.

Musical studies, international awards

Stéphane de Gérando was the top selected candidate for a composition curriculum at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP). He won the top prize for composition at the Paris Conservatory in 1993. He studied composition under Alain Bancquart, writing and analysis under Michel Philippot, orchestration under Gérard Grisey, musical computing under Tristan Murail, and electroacoustics under Guy Reibel and Laurent Cuniot. In 1994, Stéphane de Gérando was the top selected candidate for a Composition PhD at the CNSMDP where he took master classes with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Henri Dutilleux. He won the International Award at the Contemporary Music Festival of Darmstadt (1994), « Prix de l’Association des Anciens Elèves et Elèves des Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique et d’Art Dramatique de Paris » (1991), the « Prix Académique de la SACEM » (1995), and was the laureate of the « Fondation Sasakawa » in 1993 and 1994.

Stéphane de Gérando was trained as an orchestra director at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris by Claude Pichereau. He is also musical director of icarEnsemble and has recently recorded with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France.

Music

Stéphane de Gérando wrote several works for orchestras performed at Radio-France in Paris such as Puisqu’il en est ainsi for symphony orchestra and an 8 track magnetic tape, En toi, avec lui et en lui for four orchestra groups scattered around the public, Intumescence, commissioned by Radio-France and performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France coproduced by the INA-GRM. His latest works are Ce que tout cadavre devrait savoir ordered by the 2E2M ensemble and performed at the Pompidou Center in Paris, Du sens au sens for flute, performed by P. Y. Artaud at the Contemporary Music Festival of Darmstadt, Katanga, for fifteen brass instruments and two percussions commissioned by Radio-France, 6ex1pen7sion4 commissioned by the French state, for ensemble and real time electronics performed in Paris by the 2E2M ensemble, L’opéra de glace commissioned by the French state, work for choir of teenagers, video and computer.

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