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Kahn, Frédéric (b. 1966, Dijon). French composer of mostly chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout Europe and in the Americas and Asia; he is also active as a violinist.
Mr. Kahn studied violin at the Conservatoire National de Région de Dijon, attended a class with GRM (Yann Geslin, Philippe Mion and Jean Schwarz) in 1989 and then studied electroacoustic composition with Denis Dufour at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon from 1989-93. He also studied with Bernard Fort at the École Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne from 1993-95 and analysis with Robert Pascal, composition with Gilbert Amy and ethnomusicology with Jean-Louis Florenz at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon from 1994-96.
In addition, he has attended seminars with Philippe Manoury, Tristan Murail, Kaija Saariaho, and Salvatore Sciarrino at IRCAM (1993, 1999), with Georges Aperghis, Pascal Dusapin and Nguyen-Thien Dao at the Centre Acanthes (1994) and with Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa and Johannes Schöllhorn at Royaumont (1999). He attended the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 2000-01, where he studied with Ivan Fedele, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Philippe Hurel, Philippe Manoury, Tristan Murail, Marco Stroppa, and Alejandro Viñao.
He has composed regularly at the studios of GMVL since 1996 and at his own studio, ACT'SONS, since 1998. Many leading ensembles, including Accroche-Note, Ensemble Décadanse, Ensemble Ictus, Kaida, Passerelles, and Les Temps Modernes have performed his works, which have been featured at leading festivals throughout France, as well as in Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Mexico, Ukraine, and the USA.
He taught at the Université de Bourgogne from 1996-2000 and at the Université de Lyon in 2002-03.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: f.kahn@free.fr
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Antigone (incidental music, play by Sophocles), 4 celli, 1994
ORCHESTRAL: Le chant de la ténèbre, 2 celli, double bass, 2 percussion, symphonic band, tape, 2000
CHAMBER MUSIC: Mi-teinte, harp, guitar, harpsichord, 1991; Euridyce délivrée, flute, 1992; La lune peignait ses cheveux avec un démêloir d'ébène, guitar, 1993; Poème triptyque, string quartet, 1993; Praxis, flute, cello, piano, 1993; Fragments d'images modèles et stimuli, trombone, guitar, violin, accordion, tape, 1994; Les lumières du regard, bass clarinet, 1994; Flagrants désirs, 2 violins, 1995; Du plus loin de l'oubli, string quartet, 1996; Cent phrases pour éventails, viola, 1997; Le jardin des délices, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, piano, 1997; Igitur, flute, 1998; Le miroir des limbes, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), trombone, piano, 1998; Emphase-Pathos, trumpet, trombone, 1999; Cinq miniatures, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1999; Altercation, violin, cello, 2001; Pendant la matière ou l'espace furieux, tuba, live electronics, 2001; Altercation contre ailleurs, flute, clarinet, piano, 2002; dust memories, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, 2002; Erh-Ya, contrabass flute, 2003; L'appel des jeux, flute, organ, 2003
VOCAL: Au-delà d'un regard moiré (text by Annette Messager), soprano, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), cello, 1994; Solitudes (text by Luís de Góngora), lyric soprano, female speaker, flute, viola, 1996; Meilleurs voeux (melodrama, texts by Cécile Bart, Christian Besson), alto, clarinet, 2 percussion, 1999; Le mariage de Jaufre et de Brunessen (text from an anonymous 13th-century Occitan song), soprano, organ, 1999; Le cantique de la lumière (text by Walfrido d'Arcano), soprano, clarinet, piano, 2002
PIANO: L'ombre d'une main tendue, 1999
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Ainsi j'ai entendu, ainsi je raconte (text by Aloysius Bertrand), tape, 1991; Impression sans titre, tape, 1991; Feldspaths, tape, 1991; Double réfraction, tape, 1991; Landschaft, tape, 1992; Copie non conforme, tape, 1993; Partis pris autres, tape, 1993; Radiumstrahl aus ektachrome, tape, 1993; Ondine, tape, 1993; Faux mouvement, tape, 1994; Si vous prêtez l'oreille, même les pierres parleront, tape, 1995; Tous azimuts, tape, 1995; Ainsi s'acheva le rêve, ainsi je raconte (text by Aloysius Bertrand), tape, 1996; Le rêve à la licorne, tape, 1997; Les fleurs, ces bouquets d'agonies, tape, 1998; Massacre à Oradour, tape, 1998; Fantasmagories (text by Dino Campana), tape, 1999; Figuration-Abstraction, tape, 1999; Bref éloge du coup de tonnerre et du bruit d'ailes, tape, 1999; La Porte de l'an 2000, tape, 1999; Excentrique mécanique, tape, 2000; L'animal du temps, tape, 2000; Suite pour glotte (text by Jean-Pierre Bobillot), tape, 2000; Le vent comme nos respirs est source de vie, tape, 2001; Scivias, tape, 2001; Au-delà des mots, tape, 2001; Ekhô (text by Marc Jaffeux), tape, 2001; Le vide est partout et toujours porteur de toutes les naissances (text by Michel Cassé), tape, 2002; ...de la matière première des saisons, tape, 2002; Sterblich (Mortel[le] ou le purgatoire des sens), tape, 2003; Module permère (text by Marc Jaffeux), tape, 2003; Fragments d'un bel été (text by Alain Pouillet), tape, 2003
(Last updated on September 28, 2004)
