Giner Bruno

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Bruno Giner

Born in Perpignan in 1960, Bruno Giner began his musical studies in Toulouse, then in his hometown and in Barcelona. In the 1980s and 1990s, he regularly attended Pierre Boulez’s classes at the Collège de France and studied composition with Ivo Malec, Luis de Pablo, and Brian Ferneyhough. Since then, his works have been programmed at various French and international festivals and performed by numerous contemporary music ensembles (Aleph, Sic, Intercontemporain, L’instant donné, Nomos, Motus, Arditti Quartet, Klangheimlich, Frullato, Xasax, Ars Nova Nürnberg, Ixtla, Slowind, Sixtrum, Hope, K/D/M, etc.) as well as by soloists such as Jean Geoffroy, Frédéric Stochl, Serge Bertocchi, Christophe Roy, Marianne Muller, Caroline Sageman, Philippe Cornus, Anthony Millet, Fabrice Ferez, Pierre Hamon, Florentino Calvo, etc.

His catalog includes pieces for soloists, numerous chamber music scores, vocal and orchestral music, as well as several works intended for learning (piano, clarinet, recorder, guitar, string quartet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, oboe, horn, trumpet, voice, etc.).

In 1998, Bruno Giner received the Hervé Dugardin Prize awarded by SACEM, as well as the Paul-Louis Weiller Prize awarded in 2014 by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France for his entire body of work.

His music most often reveals as carnal, sometimes virtuosic character, an energy channeled through the formalization of rigorous writing that does not prevent a more empirical approach to morphology and sound material. His most recent works include Éclats de peaux for three percussionists (commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain), Pan Métamorphosis for orchestra (commissioned by Les Concerts de poche), Sol y Tierra for cello, Battle 150 for ten instruments, and Taïko Dream for large percussion ensemble (commissioned by the Laval metropolitan area). Quatre façons de décrire le rock for plectrum orchestra and Folies d’Espagne 315-30 for 2 mandolins, mandola and guitar (commissioned by Les Pincées musicales), and Brax for horn quartet (CNSMD graduation work).

Alongside his compositional activities, Bruno Giner has regularly contributed to various music journals, encyclopedias, and record labels (The New Grove, La Lettre du Musicien, Les cahiers du CIREM, Musica falsa, Motus, etc.). He has also written several books that reflect some of his musicological interests: four monographs on Erik Satie, Kurt Weill, Edgard Varèse, and Alban Berg; Opus féminin and Entartete Musik published by Bleu Nuit, Le crin et le fusain – Pablo Casals et Balbino Giner García, une rencontre d’exil (Istesso Tempo), Musiques dans les camps nazis and Treize histoires « secrètes » de la musique (Delatour).

For further information, visit the official website of the Bruno Giner.