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Joël-François Durand was born in Orléans, France on 17 September, 1954. He studied mathematics, music education and piano in Paris, then composition with Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (1981-84). Betwen 1979 and 1984 he attended masterclasses by György Ligeti, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono. In 1982 he was awarded a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange). That same year he received a Darmstadt Institute Scholarship for his String Trio, and in 1983 his piano piece ...d'asiles déchirés... was awarded a prize at the Third International K.H. Stockhausen Composition Competition in Brescia (Italy). He left Europe in 1984 to pursue a Ph.D. in Composition (awarded in 1988) at the University of New York, Stony Brook (USA), where he studied composition with Bülent Arel and electronic music with Daria Semegen. Durand was awarded scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation (1984) and from the French Ministry of Culture (1985). He received the "Kranichsteiner Musikpreis" from the Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse in 1990.
Durand has been teaching at the School of Music, University of Washington in Seattle, since 1991, where he is Professor of Composition. He has been Associate Director of the School of Music since 2002. Durand was awarded the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professorship in 2003.
As a guest composer and lecturer, Durand has contributed to the "Centre de la Voix" in Royaumont, France where he was co-director of the composition course in September 1993, the "Civica Scuola di Musica" in Milan, Italy (1995), the Royal Academy for Music in London, UK (1997), the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (1984, 1990, 1992, 1994), the "VIII. Internationaler Meisterkurs für Komposition des Brandenburgischen Colloquiums für Neue Musik", Rheinsberg (1998), and Washington State University,
Pullman, WA (2004), among others. In the Fall 1994 he was Visiting Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of California at San Diego. Durand is also Director of the Contemporary Group at the School of Music, University of Washington.
Durand's music has been commissioned and performed by many leading soloists, ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe, the US, Brazil, Japan and South Korea, including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Contrechamps, Arditti Quartet, ASKO, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Köln, Recherche, musikFabrik, New York Philomusica, Counter)Induction, EarPlay, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.
He has also published an extensive analysis of Jean Barraqué's Piano Sonata (Entretemps, 1987), and an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger ("Voix Nouvelles 92", Royaumont).
A book on his music, Joël-François Durand In the Mirror Land, edited by Jonathan W. Bernard, was released in autumn 2005 by the University of Washington Press, in collaboration with Perspectives of New Music.
Durand is listed in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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"La terre et le
feu uses microtones subtly yet tellingly, adding an extended melodic
element to the material in addition to the customary coloristic
effect. There is a kind of complexicist surface glitter and activity
to the music but there seems not to be strict adherence to any
particular school of composition, and the over-riding impression is
of linear textures, ingenious counterpoint and - if one dare say it
in this context - lyrical melodicism. The organ work has a great deal
of Messiaen about it, alternating huge volcanic outbursts with
extended chant-like recitatives in single lines or few canonically
related parts. The orchestral work, full of slowly evolving textures
like emerging structures in cooling magma; here musical structures
seem subsumed in organic flow, though an external structure imposed
by the composer is present, and the progression toward the final
glowing peroration seems as inevitable as it is dramatically
satisfying."
Records International,
October 2004
Seattle composer
Joël-François Durand's recent CD, La terre et le feu
(Mode) has two fine orchestral pieces: the title track, with its wan,
astringent oboe/string textures, and the blazing Athanor, whose
sweeping strings and bell-like brass crossbreed Brahms and
Birtwistle. I really like the disc, but it's telling that these two
tough and challenging compositions were recorded by the London
Sinfonietta and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Chris DeLaurenti,
thestranger.com online review, March 2005
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La Terre et le
Feu, pour hautbois et
ensemble
Les Raisons des Forces
Mouvantes, pour orgue
La Mesure des Choses
III.
La Mesure de la Terre et
du Feu, pour hautbois et
alto
Athanor, pour orchestre
BBC Symphony
Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Pierre-André Valade
Gareth Hulse, hautbois, Paul Silverthorne, alto
Hans-Ola Ericsson, orgue
CD disponible chez abeillemusique.com (sorti septembre 2004 chez Mode Records)
Concerto pour piano et orchestre
Trio à cordes
Die innere
Grenze, pour sextuor
à cordes
Stefan Litwin
(piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bradley Lubman
Trio de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain
Sextuor Schoenberg
Naive Montaigne Mo 782093 (sortie automne 1998)
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So er
(1985) 20
instruments (2.1.2.2-2.1.1.1-perc(2)-2vln.2altos.1.1); 11 min.
Commande de l'European Community Youth Orchestra (London)
Création de la 1ère version: European Community Youth
Orchestra, Lutz Köhler, Asolo et Verona, Italie, en 1985. La
version finale fut réalisée pour la Biennale de Venise
en 1985 où la création en fut donnée par
l'Ensemble ASKO dirigé par Denis Cohen
Dédiée à la mémoire de Claude
Vivier
Lichtung
(1987)10
instruments (1.1.1.0-1.0.0.0-perc(1)-pno-1.1.1.1); 13 min.
Commande de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris)
Création: Ensemble Intercontemporain, Lothar Zagrosek,
Théatre du Rond Point, Paris, 1987
Dédiée à Francis Bayer
Editeur : DURAND Editions Musicales, 1993, Paris (D.& F. 14620)
L'exil du feu
(1989-91)16 instruments et dispositif électronique; 22
min.
Commande de l'IRCAM (Paris)
Création: Ensemble Itinéraire, Mark Foster, Paris, mai
1991
Editeur: DURAND Editions Musicales, 1991, Paris (D.& F.
14527)
B.F., Ein
Mittelpunkt (1992) 8 instruments: fl.cl.perc(1).hpe.pno.vln.alto.cb.; 3
min.
Ecrit pour le Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam)
Création: Nieuw Ensemble, Ed Spanjaard à De IJsbreker,
Amsterdam, 1993
Dédié à Brian Ferneyhough pour son 50th
anniversaire
Editeur: DURAND Editions Musicales, 1992, Paris (D.& F. 14474)
Concerto pour piano et orchestre (1993) piano solo, orchestre
(2.2.2.2-2.2.2.1-3perc-tmpi-cel-harp-10.8.6.4.2); 21 min.
Commande de Radio-France
Création: Stefan Litwin, piano, et l'Orchestre Philarmonique
de Radio France, Festival Présences, Maison de Radio France,
Paris, 1994
Dédiée à Stefan Litwin
Editeur: DURAND Editions Musicales, 1993, Paris (D.& F. 14628)
