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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nJean-Michel Damase<\/strong>
Born in 1928 in Bordeaux into a musical family, his mother being the renown harpist and mu-
sician Micheline Kahn, Jean-Michel Damase showed precocious musical talent. His studies
began at an early age: when he was five he began to attend the Samuel-Rousseau courses in
piano and solf\u00e8ge. When he was twelve, he became a pupil of Cortot at the \u00c9cole Normale de
Musique de Paris, and in the next year he joined Armand Fert\u00e9\u2019s piano classes at the Paris
Conservatoire. In 1943, he was unanimously awarded the Premier Prix in piano at the Conser-
vatoire. Two years later he entered Busser’s composition classes and began to study harmony
and counterpoint with Dupr\u00e9. At nineteen, he won the first prize in composition with his Quin-
tet and his cantata \u201cEt la Belle se reveille\u201d (And Beauty Awakened) won him the Prix de
Rome. Damase’s youthful compositional maturity helped to foster a considerable technical
facility and he has produced a great deal of music in a style that is attractive and elegant, re-
maining close to the traditions of the Conservatoire. All his works show deep knowledge of the
possibilities of instruments, and his orchestration is rich, full and varied; evidenced most nota-
bly in the chamber and concertante works. He is also great lover of ballet and a close friend of
several leading choreographers. His first ballet score was \u201cLa Croqueuse de diamants\u201d (The
Diamond Cruncher) written for Roland Petit and first produced at the Marigny Theatre in Paris.
He was awarded the Grand Prix Musical de la SACD (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Auteurs et Compositeurs
Dramatiques) and the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris.
This recording proposes 4 concerti for the harp, the composer\u2019s favourite instrument, to which
he adds successively a flute, a viola and a bassoon. The Concerto for bassoon, harp and strings
is dedicated to Harp & Co-soloists Rachel Talitman and Luc Loubry, and was recorded here in
world premiere conducted by the composer himself.
Balade, Duo Concertant Flute and Harp, Concerto for Viola and Harp
\u00a9 Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BENOIT FROMANGER
Was born in Paris. Since April 2004 he is Professor at the Hans Eisler Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Berlin. He
studied the flute at the CNR in Versailles and at the CNSM in Paris with Roger Bourdin, Alain Marion and
Jean-Pierre Rampal. For ten years he was solo-flute player of the orchestre de l\u2019 Op\u00e9ra de Paris, later at the Radio Symphony orchestra of Bavaria ( conductor: Lorin Maazel). During his long career as orchestra musi-
cian and as solist he worked with prominent conductors such as L.Bernstein, B. Haitink, Z. Mehta, C.M. Giulini, D.Barenboim, P.Boulez, C.Davis, G.Nowak, G.Solti, C.Kleiber, R.Muti ,M.Jansons. He has also participated in various music festivals and played with world famous orchestras such as l\u2019Orchestre Philar-
monique de Radio-France, l\u2019Orchestre d\u2019Auvergne, l\u2019Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, les \u201cBaroques Solistes\u201d de Munich, l\u2019Orchestre de chambre de Munich, l\u2019Orchestre de Chambre d\u2019Europe, l\u2019Orchestre de
chambre de Prague, the American Chamber Orchestra, l\u2019Orchestre de la radio KBS de S\u00e9oul, la Capella
Andrea Barca etc\u2026 In his versatile performing career he played with prominent musicians such as Andras
Schiff, Jessye Norman, Carolyn Carlson, Patrick Dupond, Katia et Marielle Lab\u00e8que, Maxim Vengerov, Sting, Olivier Nivet, Misha Ma\u00efski, Claude Bolling, Juliette Hurel, Rachel Talitman ,Bud, Alessandro Bar-
rico, Viktoria Mullova, G\u00e9rard Depardieu etc\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BENOIT FROMANGER
N\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris, Benoit Fromanger est depuis avril 2004 professeur \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 (Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik)\u201cHans
Eisler\u201d de Berlin. Il \u00e9tudie la fl\u00fbte au CNR de Versailles et au CNSM de Paris avec d\u2019\u00e9minents professeurs
tels que Roger Bourdin, Alain Marion et Jean-Pierre Rampal.
Super soliste de l\u2019orchestre de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Paris pendant dix ann\u00e9es, puis de l\u2019orchestre symphonique de la
Radio Bavaroise (dir: Lorin Maazel). Son int\u00e9r\u00eat pour l\u2019orchestre et sa curiosit\u00e9 l\u2019on donc emmen\u00e9 en
Allemagne, lui permettant d\u2019enrichir ses connaissances musicales en c\u00f4toyant des chefs tels que
L.Bernstein, B. Haitink, Z. Mehta, C.M. Giulini, D.Barenboim, P.Boulez, C.Davis, G.Nowak, G.Solti, C.Kleiber, R.Muti ,M.Jansons\u2026et d\u2019\u00eatre invit\u00e9 par l\u2019Orchestre Philarmonique de Berlin ainsi que par l\u2019Or-
chestre du Festival de Bayreuth. Parall\u00e8lement, il poursuit une carri\u00e8re de soliste international,jouant le r\u00e9pertoire pour fl\u00fbte ainsi que des oeuvres dont il est le d\u00e9dicataire. Il se produit dans de nombreux festivals
et d\u2019importantes salles de concerts, accompagn\u00e9 par des orchestres tels que: l\u2019Orchestre Philarmonique de
Radio-France, l\u2019Orchestre d\u2019Auvergne, l\u2019Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, les \u201cBaroques Solistes\u201d de
Munich, l\u2019Orchestre de chambre de Munich, l\u2019Orchestre de Chambre d\u2019Europe, l\u2019Orchestre de chambre de
Prague, the American Chamber Orchestra, l\u2019Orchestre de la radio KBS de S\u00e9oul ,la Capella Andrea Barca
etc\u2026
B.F varie ses exp\u00e9riences en prenant place dans de nombreux spectacles,concerts et ensembles de musique de chambre en jouant avec: Andras Schiff, Jessye Norman,Carolyn Carlson, Patrick Dupond, Katia et Ma-
rielle Lab\u00e8que, Maxim Vengerov, Sting,Olivier Nivet, Misha Ma\u00efski,Claude Bolling, Juliette Hurel, Rachel Talitman,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Premiere Recording Pour interpr\u00e9ter ses oeuvres plus r\u00e9centes, mais non moins passionnantes, c’est \u00e0 Rachel Talitman que Damase a fait appel, lui confiant ainsi symboliquement la lourde succession de la grande Lily ! Ses partenaires – tous excellents – sont Luc Loubry au basson, benoit Fromanger \u00e0 la flute et Pierre-Henry Xuereb \u00e0 l’alto.Un […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-release","tag-concertos-for-harp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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