We are excited to work with Finalist Pierre on his piece Bransle. We asked Pierre to tell us a little more about himself and his composing.
“After receiving a general music education in the conservatory, I decided to pursue a career focusing on classical composition. One of Nadia Boulanger’s last student, Dr. David Conte, happen to be a teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and introduced me to the music of Maurice Ravel, Debussy, Chabrier … and I realized that they all wrote dances. Being very deeply attached to my roots in French Massif Central, Italy, Martinique and Ireland, I decided to write my own dances, in homage to the past, and the culture of these regions. As a result of this, I recently finished my Dance Suite (six European dances), while honoring three commissions due in early 2025, orchestrating for the cinema, as well as teaching. As I am writing the libretto, a secret dream would be to write a full scale ballet based on a modernized ancient myth … .”
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