Claude Lenners is a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 composer of mainly chamber and vocal works. In 1999, he founded Pyramide, an association for electronic music. Since 2004, he has headed its successor, Institut de recherche musicale.

Biography

Born on 11 May 1956 in Luxembourg City

Luxembourg (city)

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, Lenners first specialized in computer science before deciding to return to music when he was 23. He studied music and musicology with Alexander Mullenbach

Alexander Mullenbach

Alexander Mullenbach is a Luxembourg pianist, composer and conductor. Since 2002, he has been director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.-Career:...

 at the Luxembourg Conservatory

Conservatoire de Luxembourg

The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree issued in 1904...

 and with François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...

 in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego, Asko Ensemble

Asko Ensemble

Asko Ensemble is a Dutch chamber orchestra that specializes in contemporary classical music. Formed in 1965 and based in Amsterdam, the group performs traditional concerts along with film music programmes, dance and multimedia projects and modern opera....

, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and Ensemble Intercontemporain

Ensemble InterContemporain

The Ensemble InterContemporain is a French chamber orchestra, based in Paris at the Cité de la musique and IRCAM, which specialises in contemporary classical music....

. His compositions have also been played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra , abbreviated to OPL, is the national orchestra of Luxembourg, and is based in Luxembourg City. The orchestra formerly performed at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Conservatoire de Luxembourg...

 and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloists who have performed his works include violinist Irvine Arditti

Irvine Arditti

Irvine Arditti is a British violinist.-Life:He began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16 where he studied with Clarence Myerscough and Manoug Parikian. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master...

, percussionist Guy Frisch, saxophonists Pierre-Stéphane Meugé and Olivier Sliepen, pianists Oscar Pizzo and Béatrice Rauchs and flautist Manuel Zurria.

Awards

• Scholarship to study composition at the Villa Medici
  Villa Medici
  The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
  
  in Rome (1989-91)
• First Prize, Henri Dutilleux Composers Competition (1991)
• First International Irino Prize for Chamber Music (Tokyo, 1993)
• Lions Prize (Luxembourg section, 1997)

Selected works

• In a Wilderness of Mirrors (2007)
• Odyssey Reloaded (2007)
• HoMo XeRoX (2006)
• Wild Card for Orchestra and Embedded Violin (2005)
• Dream Museum (1998)
• Night Mail (1998)
• Buch der Unruhe (1997)
• Quaderno Romano (1996)
• Klanglied (1995)
• Tête à tête (1993)
• Durch kühle Nacht (1989)
• Songs between Starlight and Earth-Night (1987)
• Pentagramma (1985)
• Brush and Trunks (1985)
• Les insectes (1984)
• Quatuor à cordes sériel (1982)
• Sonata facile (1982)
• Trio (1981)

Discography

• "Beyond", Apollo pour violon solo - Pan pour flûte solo - Alba pour piano solo - Tête-à-Tête pour violon et flûte - Codex Latinus pour flûte et piano - 3rd dream pour violon et piano - Half-Moon/Fragments trio pour violon, flûte et piano. Irvine Arditti (violon). Ensemble Alter Ego (Manuel Zurria, flute - Oscar Pizzo, piano). CD Stradivarius STRAD33613