Bruno Rossignol
Born	1958 Nanterre, France
Education	École Normale de Musique de Paris Sorbonne
Occupations	Composer Pianist Choral director Music educator
Awards	Grand prix de Hauts-de-Seine (1996) Médaille de la Ville de Paris (1990)

Bruno Rossignol (born 1958 in Nanterre) is a French composer, choral conductor and conductor, pianist and music educator.

Biography

He studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris and the Sorbonne. He then directed choirs: first trainee conductor at the Paris Opera and at the choir of the Orchestre de Paris (by Jean Laforge and Arthur Oldham), he was then founding conductor of the Île-de-France Chamber Choir. (first prize of the International competitions of Malta in 1989 and Verona in 1993). With this ensemble, he received the Grand Prix des Hauts-de-Seine in 1996.^[1]

From 1985 to 1995, he was the choir conductor of the musical shows of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom he accompanied in London, Paris-La Défense (1990), Berlin, Budapest, Seville, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel.^[2]

He was director of the Conservatories of Jouy-en-Josas from 1989 to 1992, Suresnes from 1992 to 1997, Orsay from 1997 to 2000, Bourges from 2000 to 2005 and Hector Berlioz in Paris 10th from 2005 to 2010.^[1] He conducted the adult choir of the Paul Dukas conservatory in Paris 12th from 2006 to 2010.^[3]

In 2011, he was appointed director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD) de la Dordogne and artistic director of the Dordogne instrumental ensemble. (E.I.D.)^[4] with which he performs mainly in the regions Aquitaine.^[5] At the same time he creates the Dordogne choir^[2] which becomes the Paratge choir in 2016. He joined Paris that same year to take over the direction of the Jean-Philippe Rameau conservatory (6th arrondissement of Paris).^[6]

Works

Bruno Rossignol composes choral works such as Ave verum, Exurgens autem Maria and Salve Regina pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc. He mainly writes a large number of instrumental pieces (Le Roi des grenouilles, Les Nouvelles Histoires Naturelles and Curieuses rencontres) through which he expresses his vocation as a teacher.^[1]

Cantata :

• L'escalier (2007), choir with four mixed voices.

Concertos:

• Concerto pour harpe, premiered in 2008 by Sabine Chefson
• Concerto pour violon, premiered in 2000 by Annie Jodry.^[7]

Mélodies:

• Les nouvelles histoires naturelles^[8] for soprano, baritone and piano, on texts by Jules Renard.

Chamber music:

• Aria (1995), violin and piano
• Au père lapin (1997), trumpet and piano
• Ballade irlandaise (1988), flute and piano
• Carillon (2008), horn and piano
• Danse des sylphes (1988), flute and piano
• Danse du paon, horn and piano
• Défilé (2012), trombone and piano
• Divertissement (1995), three flutes
• Élégie (1984), oboe and piano
• Interlude maya, viola and guitar
• Jazz notes violon 2 with Alexandre Tenaud, (1992), violin and piano
• Jean-Paul's march (2000), horn and piano
• La jument grise, percussion and piano
• La meunière a neuf écus (2014), violin and piano.^[9]
• Le sentier des sources, Celtic harp
• Le songe d'Hector (2007), oboe and piano
• Le violon en herbe (1995), violin and piano
• Loup yétu (2012), violin and piano^[10]
• Manège, saxophone and piano
• Novelettes (2000): Au clair de la terre, Mélodie irlandaise and Promenade romantique, three pieces for cello and piano
• Ode rose (2008), clarinet and piano
• Orphée et Calupan (2010), pieces with four hands and six hands
• Pavane en deux tons (1984), horn and piano
• Rag (2008), oboe and piano
• Ravel blues (1988), violin and piano
• Rhapsodie-jeu (1994), saxophone and piano
• Saudade (2002), violin and piano
• Suite (1996), flute, clarinet and piano
• Trois bagatelles (2005), obie, cello and piano
• Trois pièces (2006), percussions
• Trois toiles pour rêver, three clarinets

Music for choir:

• Ave verum (2005)
• Dona nobis pacem (2015)
• Exsurgens autem Maria^[11] (premiered in May 2014 as part of the 900th anniversary celebrations of the Pontigny Abbey)
• De la mer... (1994), female four-voice choir
• Demain (1999)
• L’A.B.C. d’un chœur (1997)
• La mer est entrée dans les prés (2016)
• Louange (1994), female four-voice choir
• Que tu es belle ! (1994), female four-voice choir
• Risotto musicale - Trois registres parlando (2004)
• Salve Regina - pour un tombeau de Francis Poulenc (1998)
• Stabat Mater (1999)

Music for soloist:

• Cilaos (2000), harp
• Curieuses rencontres (1985): Le petit garçon qui marchait sur la lune, Au clair de la terre, La planète où dansent les fourmis bleues, L'astéroïde B 612 et Les étoiles, five pieces for piano
• En Bretagne (1996), piano
• In memoriam J.M.R. (2004), saxophone
• Le roi des grenouilles (1993), five piano pieces, based on Grimm's fairy tale
• Mouvements perpétuels (2013), piano
• Paysages en coin (2004), piano
• Philémon (2012), horn
• Quel cirque (1991), piano
• Reflet orange et reflet bleu, Celtic harp
• Soirées sous la lune (2008), guitar
• Valse chagrine (1988), clarinet
• Valse tendre et aristocratique (2001), piano.

Opera:

• Madame Roland, created in Suresnes as part of the bicentenary events of the Revolution.^[1]

Oratorio:

• La fin dau monde,^[12] (premiered on 26 and 27 April 2013 respectively in Sarlat and Boulazac (Périgueux)^[13] écrit en Limousin dialect after a text by Jean-Yves Agard, docteur en sociologie, défenseur des langues régionales.^[14]

He has also transcribed for piano four hands great works from the repertoire:

• Pictures at an Exhibition by Moussorgski
• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Debussy
• Un bal, extract of the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz, editions Delatour.

Honours

As choral conductor he won:

• First prize of the Malta International Competition in 1989
• First prize of the International Verona Competition (Italy) in 1993.^[2]
• Award for the best conductor of the Verona Festival 1993
• Grand prix de Hauts-de-Seine in 1996.^[2]
• The Médaille de la Ville de Paris in 1990

References

External links

• Bruno ROSSIGNOL - La fin du monde - Oratorio en occitan limousin on YouTube