The work of the young American composer Sivan Eldar, trained at UC Berkeley and IRCAM, is increasingly part of the best European seasons, where its sensitive and poetic aesthetic encounters the tastes of a large and varied public.

At the crossroads of Eastern and Western musical traditions as well as ancient and contemporary repertoires, the unique work of Benjamin Attahir opens up fascinating perspectives that are recognised and appreciated during the biggest musical seasons.

It is natural that Philippe Manoury, the author of a body of exceptional lyrics, allows his dramatic writing to also guide the composition of this concerto.

Le Temps, mode d’emploi is a large musical fresco about different expression modes of time...

This is a meditative work that I composed in 1995 and then rewrote in 2017, while still keeping the spirit and, as much as possible, my style for that period!

The piece was composed in 2015 at the Saari Residence, maintained by the Kone Foundation in Finland, where I was invited to undertake a project in composition. The score was commissioned by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia and its conductor Ville Matvejeff in honour of the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius.

The idea for this fifth quartet arose after a trip to Perm, in Russia. Whilst there I met the cellist Alexei Zhilin, a member of the David Oistrakh Quartet, and he suggested I write a piece for his group. The project was able to come about through the generosity of the Festival des Forêts, who commissioned me.

Composed in 1990, the Trois études après Kandinsky were inspired by an early reflection on abstraction as a form of expression of oneself and one’s feelings.

"Psalterium" in Latin means both the psalter, or psalms collection, and is the name of a musical instrument, in French, the Psalterion, whose bow version can be considered as a distant ancestor of the cello. 

The idea for this fifth quartet arose after a trip to Perm, in Russia. Whilst there I met the cellist Alexei Zhilin, a member of the David Oistrakh Quartet, and he suggested I write a piece for his group. The project was able to come about through the generosity of the Festival des Forêts, who commissioned me.