Bruno Mantovani

Bruno Mantovani
Period: 2004-2005
Profession: Composer Born on October 8, 1974, Bruno Mantovani studied at the CNSM in Paris between 1993 and 2000, where he won 5 first prizes, and at Ircam, as part of the computer music course, in 1998. He went on to work with prestigious soloists (Barbara Hendricks, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Michel Dalberto), conductors (Pierre Boulez, Emmanuel Krivine, Péter Eötvös, Manfred Schreier, Jonathan Nott, Alexander Briger, Laurent Cuniot), ensembles (TM , Alternance, Ensemble InterContemporain) and orchestras (Paris, Bamberg, Sarrebrücken, Toulouse, Lucerne). His works, published by Editions Lemoine, have met with international success (Germany, USA, Scandinavia, Japan…), some of them winning prizes in international competitions (Stuttgart in 1999, Amsterdam in 2001, Unesco’s Rostrum of Composers the same year). Bruno Mantovani also received the Sacem’s Hervé Dugardin prize in 2000, and several awards for the monographic discs devoted to him on the Aeon – Harmonia Mundi label (two “coups de coeur” from the Académie Charles Cros, 5 diapasons, 4 stars from Le Monde de la Musique…). He was in residence at the “Herrenhaus Edenkoben” (Germany) between August and December 1999 at the invitation of Péter Eötvös, at the 2001 edition of the Octobre en Normandie festival, in Bologna as part of the AFAA’s “Villa Médicis hors les murs” program in 2002, and at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Médicis) in 2004-2005.