Orchestral works


Fabula
instrumentation: 3[2pic].2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn / 4.3.2+btbn.1 / timp, 3perc, / hp / str
year: 2020-21
duration: 18 min 30 sec.
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission:
Manca Festival-CIRM-CNCM, Nice, France
première: november 2021, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, dir. Marko Letonja, Manca Festival, NIce, France
media: live recording w/score

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Stage works


UND
chamber opera
based on the play by Howard Barker. Libretto by Daniel D’Adamo and Julie Delille

instrumentation: 1 singer (soprano), ensemble (fl, cl, sx, vln, cello, db, perc (1), pno and electronics
year: 2022-23
duration: 1 h 15 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ministry of Culture, France
première:
march 2023, Ensemble TM+, dir. Laurent Cuniot, Massy Opera house, France
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La Haine de la Musique
monodrama
based on the essai by Pascal Quignard. Libretto by Daniel D’Adamo
instrumentation:
1 actor, ensemble (fl, cl, hr, tp, hp, perc (1), pno, vln, cello, db and electronics
year:
2013-14
duration:
1 h 10 min
publisher:
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commission:
Ministry of Culture, France
première:
october 2014, Ensemble TM+, dir. Laurent Cuniot, Festival Musica, Strasbourg, France
media:
teaser
part III – live recording

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Kamchatka
chamber opera for young audiences
Libretto by Marcelo Figueras, based in his novel Kamchatka. Spanish & French versions
instrumentation: S, T, B, clarinet (+ b-cl), cello, percussion (1) and piano
year: 2016
duration: 1 h 15 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission:
Ministry of Culture, France
première: december 2016, Ensemble Almaviva, CETC-Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
media: teaser
scene nr.7 – live recording

Large ensemble (7 + players)


Frontières – Alliages
for 16 musiciens 1.1.1.1 / 1.1.1.0 / 2perc / hp.pf / str(1.1.1.1.1)
year: 2006
duration: 18 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Fondation Boucourechliev and Radio France
première: november 2008, Ensemble XXI, Dominique Dournaud cond., Festival Présences – Radio France
media: live recording


Tout lieu habité
for 19 musiciens 1.1.1.1sx.1 / 1.1.1.1 / 2perc / hp / guit / pno / str(1.1.1.1.1)
year: 2012
duration: 14 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ensemble Contrechamp, Geneva
première: february 2013, Ensemble Contrechamp, Clement Power cond., Radio Suisse-Romande, Studio Ernest Ansermet, Geneva, Switzerland
media: live recording


de Nuits
for wind ensemble 2ob, 3cl (Bb), b-cl, 2fg, 4hr & tb
year: 2010
duration: 10 min
publisher: contact the composer


Landness
for spatialized ensemble 1.1.0.0 / 1.1.0.0 / perc(1) / pf / str(1.1.1.0)
year: 2007
duration: 22 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Ministry of Culture, France
première: april 2007, Ensemble Sillages, Georges-Élie Octors cond., Le Quartz, Brest, France


Abschluß
for piano and ensemble (fl,cl,b-cl / tp,tbn / vln,vla,cello,d-b)
year: 2001
duration: 12 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Lyon
première: 2001, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Daniel Kawka cond., Why-Not Festival, Dijon Auditorium, France


d’Ombra II
for ensemble 1.1.2.1 / 1.1.1.0 / perc(1) / pf / str(2.1.1.1)
year: 1997
duration: 14 min
publisher: Billaudot Ed.
commission: Ministry of Culture, France
première: 1997, Grame, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain. Daniel Kawka cond.


Voices
for ensemble 1.1.2.1 / 1.1.1.0 / perc(1) / pf / str(2.1.1.1)
year: 1996
duration: 17 min
publisher: Billaudot Ed.
première: 1996, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montréal – Forum 96, Lorraine Vaillancourt cond., Canada

Voice and 1 or more instruments - without electronics


First leaves
five pieces for soprano and double bass, excerpts of The metamorphosis of plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in German, English and French
year: 2021
duration: 13 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ensemble AtMusica-Tours
première: 2021, Mathilde Barthelemy and Charlotte Testu, Dunois Theater, Paris, France
media: I – des Kelches – live recording w/score
II – der Pflanzen – live recording w/score
III – La reproduction – live recording w/score
IV – Flowering – live recording w/score
V – First leaveslive recording w/score
IV – Floweringvideo

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The singing wells of the Boorana
for soprano and bass-clarinet (also Bb clarinet), texts by Daniel D’Adamo
I – Never a drought like this
II – Old Boorana man
III – The singing well
year: 2024
duration: 10 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Ensemble Accroche Note
première: 2025, Françoise Kubler & Armand Angster


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Two English Poems by Borges
for soprano, flute, clarinet (Bb), violin, cello and piano, on Two English Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, 1934
year: 2012
duration: 14 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Ministry of Culture, France, with the support of the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges-María Kodama
première: 2013, Ensemble Accroche Note, Françoise Kubler soprano, Reims Opera house, France
media: I – first part – live recording
II – second part – live recording


Tango de tangos
pour soprano and amplified chamber ensemble (sop, cl, tp, pno, accordeon or bandoneón, elec guit and db), texts by Daniel D’Adamo
year: 2015
duration: 10 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Festival Musica – Strasbourg
première: 2015, Ensemble Accroche Note, Festival Musica, Strasbourg, France

Voice and 1 or more instruments - with electronics


Traum-Entelechiae – (The lips cycle #4)
for mezzo-soprano, alto-flute, viola, harp and electronics, texts by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, La Monadologie, 1714, excerpts
year: 2016
duration: 12 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ministry of Culture, France
première: Actem, Why Note Festival, Dijon, France
media: CD recording


Fall – Love letters fragments – (The lips cycle #5)
for mezzo soprano, harp and electronics, on extracts of correspondence between Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West
year: 2017
duration: 12 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: GRM, France.
première: Festival Multiphonies, Studio 104, Radio France
media: video
CD recording
video interview

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Keep your Furies – (The lips cycle #2)
for mezzo-soprano, alto-flute and electronics, text by Daniel D’Adamo
year: 2012
duration: 10 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: GMEM-CNCM
première: Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, France
media: CD recording

Voice and electronics


Lips, your lips – (The lips cycle #1)
for mezzo-soprano and electronics, text by Daniel D’Adamo
year: 2010
duration: 10 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Césaré-CNCM
première: 2010, Isabel Soccoja, Reims Opera House, France
media: CD recording

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Chamber music with electronics (without vocals)


Stone garden
for flute, harp and electronics
year: 2021
duration: 12 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Les Connivences Sonores, with the support of Diaphonique (UK).
première: 2022, Elodie Raibaud and Odile Renault, World Harp Congres, Cardiff, Wales.
media: studio recording

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The Lehmann discontinuity
for string quartet and electronics
year: 2020
duration: 20 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ircam and Tana String Quartet
première: 2020, Manifeste Festival – Ircam, Paris, France
media: live recording

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A Faraday cage
for marimba and electronics
year: 2016
duration: 12 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Art Zoyd-CTCM and Césare-CNCM
première: 2016, Laurent Mariusse, Manifeste Festival – Ircam, Paris, France
media: video

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Air lié – (The lips cycle #3)
for flute and electronics
year: 2013
duration: 12 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Atelier Musical de Touraine and Césare-CNCM
première: 2013, Nicolas Vallette, AtMusica, Tours, France
media: CD recording


Plier – Déplier
for string quartet and electronics
year: 2012
duration: 1h
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Grame-CNCM and Césare-CNCM
première: 2012, Béla string quartet, Biennale Musique en Scène, Lyon, France
media: CD recording


d’Ombra II
for bass clarinet and live electronics
year: 1997
duration: 16 min
publisher: Billaudot ed.
première: 1997, Pierre Dutrieu – Ensemble Court Circuit, Ircam, Paris, France
media: CD recording

Solo works without electronics


Ombres portées
for solo double bass
year: 2017
duration: 13 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Radio France for Alla Breve.
première: 2017, Florentin Ginot, Présences Festival, Radio France, Paris, France
media: interview on the cycle
radio broadcast piece#1
radio broadcast piece#2
radio broadcast piece#3
radio broadcast piece#4
radio broadcast piece#5


Graines-S
for solo clarinet (Bb)
year: 2009
duration: 3 min 30 sec
publisher: contact the composer


Suonare
for solo violin
year: 2008
duration: 10 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: AtMusica – Tours
première: april 2008, Byron Wallis, AtMusica, Tours, France


Carmen
for solo cello
year: 2007
duration: 4 min
publisher: contact the composer
première: march 2007, Alexis Descharmes, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France


Interior
for solo guitar
year: 2005
duration: 8 min
publisher: contact the composer
première: september 2005, Stefano Cardi, Asian Museum, Singapour


Carta Segreta
for solo piano
year: 2005
duration: 8 min
publisher:contact the composer
commission:
Château de Grignan, Conseil Général de la Drôme
première: april 2000, Pascale Berthelot, Château de Grignan, France

Chamber music (7- players) without electronics


… zik
for flute, saxophone and piano
year: 2019
duration: 6 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
première: 2019, Ensemble L’Imaginaire, Strasbourg, France


Sur vestiges
for string quintet (with 2 cellos)
year: 2018
duration: 30 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Bouffes du Nord Theater with the support of ProQuartet
première: Bela string quartet and Noémie Boutin, La Belle Saison-Bouffes du Nord Theater, Paris, France
media: CD-deezer
CD-spotify
CD-youtube
teaser


Furia porteña
for accordion and 2 percussions
year: 2015
duration: 7 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Festival de Chaillol and K/D/M trio
première: 2015, K/D/M, CETC-Colon Opera House, Buenos Aires, Argentina


Sur son visage
for chambre ensemble  (fl, cl, perc(1), pno, vln, vla and cello)
year: 2014
duration: 13 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Het Spectra Ensemble
première:
march 2014, Het Spectra, Filip Rathé cond., Maasmechelen, Belgium


Quatuor à cordes Nr. 2 / String quartet Nr.2
for string quartet
year: 2013
duration: 10 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Radio France
première: Tana string quartet 2013, Le 104, Paris.
media: live recording
public presentation of the piece


Découper, petite passacaille
for string quartet
year: 2012
duration: 6 min
publisher: contact the composer
première: Quatuor Bela, Studio La Buissonne.
media: CD recording


Les filles aux yeux bandés
for fl, cl, perc, pno, vln, vla and cello
year: 2011
duration: 5 min 30
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Het Spectra Ensemble with the support of the city of Ghent, Maeterlinck100′ celebration, Belgium
première:
Het Spectra Ensemble, Filip Rathé cond., Fondation Carlos Amberes, Madrid, Spain


Cerclé
for clarinet and spatialized chambre ensemble (cl solo, fl, ob, hp, perc(1), pno, vln, vla and cello)
year: 2009
duration: 30 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: L’Instant Donné
première: 2009, L’Instant Donné, Mathieu Steffanus, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France


Pholia
for 2 euphoniums or 2 saxhorns
year: 2007
duration: 8 min 30
publisher: Billaudot ed.
commission: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon
première: 2007, CNSM de Lyon, France.
media: CD recording


Breath
for bass clarinet and cello
year: 2005
duration: 10 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
première: L’Instant Donné, Paris, France
media:


Lames
for chamber ensemble (fl, cl, pno, vln (2), vla and cello).
year: 2004
duration: 16 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Ministry of Culture
première: 2004, Court-Circuit Ensemble, Pierre-André Valade cond, Traiettorie Festival, Parma, Italy
media: live recording


Cœli et terræ
for bass saxophone and double bass
year: 2000
duration: 12 min
publisher: Editions Billaudot
première: 2004, Vincent David and Didier Meu, Court-Circuit Ensemble, Radio France
media: CD recording
video


For P, For A, For Z
three pieces for solo piano (can be performed separately)
year: 1999, 2001, 2004
duration: 5 min, 5 min & 5 min
publisher: For P Billaudot ed., For A & For Z contact the composer
commission: For A, CNSMD, Lyon, France
première:
For P june 1999, Villa Médicis – Musica XXI Festival, Pascale Berthelot, Rome, Italy


Die runde Zahl
for 6 percussion players (essentially vibraphones and marimbas)
year: 1999
duration: 12 min
publisher: Editions Billaudot
commission: Ministry of Culture
première: 1999, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Villa Medici, Festival Musica XXI, Rome, Italy
media: CD recording


Goodbye Universe \ X
for Bb clarinet and Eb clarinet
year: 1994
duration: 5 min
publisher: Editions Billaudot
première: 1994, Philippe Lavergne and Jérôme Voisin, CNSMD, Lyon, France.
media: studio recording

Choral music


Dream of bells
for children’s choir
year: 2008
duration: 6 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Radio France for the Maîtrise of the French Radio, dir. Toni Ramon
première: 2008, Festival Présences, Toulouse Opera House, France


Anima Urbana (Paris)
for mixed choir – 32 voices.
year: 2005
duration: 13 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Why Note festival
création: 2005, Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain cond., Auditorium, Dijon, France

Music for historical instruments


Nuits-Cassation
for wind instruments of the XVIIIth century (2 ob, 2 cl, 2 basset-hr, 2 bn, 4 natural-hr and db).
year: 2010
duration: 27 min
publisher:
commission: Ensemble Philidor with the support of Mécenat Musical Société Générale
première: 2010, Ensemble Philidor, François Bazola cond., Fondation Royaumont – Voix nouvelles, France


Madrigali
Cycle of 8 pieces for 3 voices and baroque instruments (2 mezzo, 1 tenor, baroque flute, triple harp, and 2 viole da gamba)
year: 2007
duration: 27 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Poïesis Ensemble, with the support of Sacem
première: 2007, Poïesis Ensemble, Eduardo Lopes cond., Journées de Contrechamps, Genève, Switzerland

Il Cane –  primo madrigale
2 mezzi, ten, bar fl, triple hp, alto and bass vla da gamba
text Edoardo Sanguineti, L’ultima passeggiata, n°6, 1982

Così – ricercare
bar fl and mezzo
text Pier-Paolo Pasolini, Poesia in forma di rosa, 1964

Canzona
mezzo and triple hp
text Giuseppe Ungaretti, Poesie disperse, Poesia, 1916

… su nero – secondo madrigale
2 mezzi and ten
text Edoardo Sanguineti, Alfabeto Apocalittico, 1984

Eco, lunare – terzo madrigale
mezzo and bass vla da gamba
text Giuseppe Ungaretti, Sogni e Accordi, Eco, 1927

Circoli – ciaccona
triple hp

Fine – quarto madrigale
mezzo, ten, bar fl and triple hp
text Giuseppe Ungaretti, Una colomba, Fine, 1925

… o sbagliato tutto – recitativo
2 mezzi, ten, triple hp alto and bass vla da gamba
Pier-Paolo Pasolini, Poesia in forma di rosa, 1964

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I – Il Cane – primo madrigale
II – Così – ricercare
III – Canzona
IV – … su nero – secondo madrigale
V – Eco, lunare – terzo madrigale
VI – Circoli – ciaccona
VII – Fine – quarto madrigale
VIII – … o sbagliato tutto – recitativo

Electroacoustic music


Galiléo
year: 2010
duration: 25 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Césaré and L’Atheneum, Dijon
première: 2010, Elektricity Festival – Césaré-CNCM, Reims

Educational pieces


… à Reims
for 4 spatialized solo trumpets and 4 trumpet ensembles
year: 2010
duration: 7 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Reims Music Conservatory
première: 2010, Reims Cathedral
media: tv-teaser


Marelle
for six spatialized flutes ensembles and electronics
year: 2015
duration: 11 min
publisher: Le Chant du Monde – Wise Music Classical
commission: Montreuil Music Conservatory
première: 2015, Montreuil, Emmanuelle Ophèle and Nicolas Vallette cond., Musiques Inouïes Festival


Issu Stellaire
for 2 spatialized choirs, 2 solo voices (sop or mezzo and bar) and ensemble (fl,ob,cl(Bb) / hr,tp,tbn / vl,vla,cello,db)
year: 2000
duration: 8 min
publisher: contact the composer
commission: Conseil Régional région Rhône Alpes
première: april 2000, Rencontres vocales, Eduardo Lopes cond., Lton, France