Bruno Mantovani

The highly virtuoso yet unstable work Bug was given its first performance on 6 February 1999 during Mériel festival by its dedicatee Philippe Soured. It is a musical metaphor of the disarray caused by...

After Eclair de lune for three principal snare drums, three ensembles and electronics, and after my Concerto for two violas written for Tabea Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit, I felt compelled to compo...

The confinement period in France that began in March 2020, provided the chance to reflect on the directions that I hoped to pursue in the coming years, and to give myself several small writing challen...

METAL takes its title from the names of its two performers and dedicatees, Paul MEyer and Michel PorTAL. This brief divertissement for two clarinets is for the most part homorhythmic, so that contrapu...

Das jüngste Werk in diesem Programm, das für Sandro geschrieben wurde, heißt Rondes de printemps (!) und wurde im Mai 2020 unter der Sonne des Percheron in einer Welt geschrieben, die von einem heimtü...

The title of this piano work refers to an Ornette Coleman jazz standard, Blue connotation. At the time of composition, the famous saxophonist had already shaken off the shackles of the rigid chorus-ve...

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...

Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) takes as its starting point Gesualdo's S'io non miro non moro from Book 5 of the Madrigals. From this short piece for five voices I derived a harmonic tapestry of 130 chords...

By the greatest fluke, in 2007 the two principal European orchestral conducting competitions proposed that I write an original work, which would be a requirement for the candidates. Finding the coinci...

Since I began writing music, the idea of conflict is one of my primary preoccupations. It has fuelled both my fondness for the concerto genre, and for spatialization. Over the last several years, I ha...

With his new work Postludium, Bruno Mantovani proposes a prolongation to his opera Akhmatova. With its condensed musical language, and quick rippling gestures, it is not a question of a conclusion, bu...