Éric Tanguy

Born in 1968, Éric Tanguy now leads an international career as a composer. He studied composition with Horatiu Radulescu from 1985 to 1988, then with Ivo Malec and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), where he was awarded first prize for
composition in 1991 and completed his postgraduate studies in 1992. In 1988 he received the Darmstadt Stipendienpreis, and in 1989 the Villa Medici extramural Prize. In 1991 he was awarded a bursary by the Haut Conseil Culturel Franco-Allemand, and in 1992 he received the Villa Medici Award (successor of the famous and much coveted Prix de Rome) and the Darmstadt Kranischtein Musikpreis. In 1993-1994 he was resident at the French Academy in Rome.

On his return to France, Eric Tanguy was appointed composer in residence in Champagne-Ardennes (1995), then in Lille (1996) at the invitation of the Conseil Général du Nord.
From 2001 to 2003, he was composer in residence with the Orchestre de Bretagne. In July 1995 he was Henri Dutilleux’s special guest at the Tanglewood Music Center (United States). In November of the same year, he received the André Caplet Prize from the Institut de France, and in 1997 the Hervé Dugardin Prize from the SACEM (Performing Rights Society).
Punctuated by important commissions and heard at major concert halls and festivals, Eric Tanguy’s catalogue comprises seventy works (solos, chamber compositions, concertos, vocal and symphonic pieces) which have been taken into the repertoires of some of the greatest musicians : conductors ((Semyon Bychkov, Paul Daniel, Theodor Guschlbauer, Louis Langrée, Jesús López Cobos, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Yutaka Sado and Stefan Sanderling) ; soloists (Piotr Anderszewski, Nicholas Angelich, Franck Braley, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Henri Demarquette, Anne Gastinel, Ivry Gitlis, François-Frédéric Guy, François Leleux, Vahan Mardirossian, Emmanuel Pahud and Mstislav Rostropovitch, and such actors as Michel Blanc) ; ensembles (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Köln Quatuor Arditti, Quatuor Rosamonde, Quatuor Ysaÿe, Tokyo Sinfonietta) ; and orchestras (Boston Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, l’Orchestre national de France, l’Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France, l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, l’Orchestre national de Montpellier, l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, l’Orchestre du Staatstheater de Mayence, l’English Northern Philharmonia).

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