Jean Michel DAMASE
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Jean-Michel Damase was born in Bordeaux in 1928 into a musical family: his mother, the famous harpist Micheline Kahn created works of Faure, Ravel and Caplet. Precociously gifted, Jean-Michel Damase was only nine when Colette wrote to him three little poems he set to music. Under the personal direction of Alfred Cortot, he continued his musical studies and obtained from the age of fifteen, the first Prize in Piano unanimously at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris. Four years later, the first prize in composition of C. N. S. M. it is awarded, then the Prix de Rome. He was then nineteen years old! Meanwhile his career as pianist says he is a soloist of the Concerts Colonne, the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, the Radio Symphony Orchestra. After appearing in numerous international tours and won the Grand Prix du Disque for the first complete recording of the Nocturnes and Barcarolles Faure, Jean-Michel Damase gradually abandoned his career as a pianist to look far into the composition. His works of chamber music are played by the most prestigious French and foreign performers, Lily Laskine Barbizet Pierre, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Nicanor Zabaleta,. Sonata in concert for flute, cello and piano, and the Sonata for flute and harp, in particular, are performed and recorded worldwide. Jean-Michel Damase itself is frequently invited to perform his own works and to give masterclasses at festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan. In his catalog, there are also lyrical, Dove by Jean Anouilh, created the Festival of Bordeaux, revived at the Opera-Comique in Paris, Madame de. Louise de Vilmorin, created at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo as well as ballets, The eater of diamonds, for Roland Petit, Trap light, commissioned for the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. The critic Pierre-Petit said Jean-Michel Damase, in 1990, he was one of the great composers of ballets of our time. Another famous critic, Bernard Gavoty alias Clarendon, wrote in Le Figaro in the creation of Madame de. "Whether it is exquisite, an art that pretends to be simple, it is refreshing to taste a fine pen, an ingenious harmony, modulation troubling, a smart melisma. ". For all of his work, Jean-Michel Damase was awarded the Grand Prix Musical of the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) and the Grand Prize of the City of Paris. Google machine translation: Jean Michel DAMASE's original bio |
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| Jean Michel DAMASE Publisher : Robert Martin Genre : Chamber Music Group : Ensemble of various instruments |
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| Jean Michel DAMASE Publisher : Robert Martin Genre : Instrumental music Group : Trumpet Style & options : Trumpet and piano |
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