Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Dusapin (29th May, 1955), is a French composer born in Nancy. He studied fine art and science, art and aesthetics at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the suggestion of Franco Donatoni he began attending the seminars of Iannis Xenakis in the mid 1970s.

Prizes & Awards

1981-1983 He was a scholarship holder at the Villa Medici in Rome.
1993-1994 He was composer-in-residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon.
1979 - Hervé Dugardin Prize (SACEM)
1993 - Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
1993 - Prix du Syndicat de la Critique (Critics' Circle Award)
1994 - SACEM Prize for Symphonic Music
1995 - French Ministry of Culture awarded him the Grand Prix National de Musique
1998 - Victoire de la Musique in 1998 for a CD recorded by the Orchestre National de Lyon, and 'Composer of the Year' in 2002.
His works include:

Ici for flute (1986)
Apex, (solo no 3 for orchestra) 1995
Roméo & Juliette (opera 1985-1988)
Medeamaterial (opera 1990)
To be sung (chamber opera 1992-1993)
Etudes for piano (1998-99)
A Quia for piano and orchestre (2002)
Perelà, homme de fumée (2003)
Faustus, the Last Night (opera 2006)

lo by Maurice Duruflé