Melos-Ethos

07. 11. 2024 – 14. 11. 2024

Philippe Hurel

French composer. He studied musicology at the Université de Toulouse from 1974 – 1979 and composition with Betsy Jolas and Ivo Malec at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1980 – 1983. He also had private studies in musical computer science with Tristan Murail in Paris in 1983. His honors include the Pensionnaire à la Villa Médicis à Rome (1986 – 1988), the Förderpreis der Siemens-Stiftung in Munich (1995), the Prix des Compositeurs, and the Prix de la Meilleure Création de l'Année from SACEM (2002, 2003). Hurel worked as a music researcher at IRCAM in 1985 – 1986 and 1988– 1989. With Pierre André Valade he founded the new music ensemble Court-circuit in 1990 and has since served as its artistic director. He taught composition at IRCAM from 1997 – 2001. He also served as composer-in-residence to both the Arsenal de Metz and the Philharmonie de Lorraine from 2000 – 2002. Since 2013 he teaches composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon.

www.philippe-hurel.fr

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