François Paris is a French

France

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 composer and professor born in 1961 in Valenciennes

Valenciennes

Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded...

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He is known for being part of the young generation of composers using microtonal music

Microtonal music

Microtonal music is music using microtones—intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone. Microtonal music can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave.-Terminology:...

 in the continuation of the spirit of the pioneers of this music.

Life

He studied in the conservatoire of Versailles

Versailles

Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...

 then in the conservatoire of Paris with Ivo Malec

Ivo Malec

Ivo Malec is a Croatian composer and music educator. One of the earliest Yugoslav composers to obtain high international regard, his works have been performed by symphony orchestras throughout Europe and North America. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and the Conservatoire de Paris,...

, Betsy Jolas (analyse) and Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey was a French composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Gérard Grisey was born in Belfort, France on 17 June 1946. He studied at the Trossingen Conservatory in Germany from 1963 to 1965 before entering the Conservatoire de Paris...

(composition and orchestration). Meanwhile he studied orchestral direction. François Paris has received the award of the Concours International de Composition de Besançon. In 1993 he was selected and commanded a work by Ircam.
His music is frequently broadcast in France and internationally. He received many commands from diverse institutions ( Ircam, Itinéraire, Radio-France, Nuova Arca, «La filature» de Mulhouse, State commands, etc.).

Compositional Techniques

François uses different forms of equal temperament in his music. Where 12 tone equal temperament is based on semitones ascending by root 2, Paris uses other root values, such as 1.2, 1.6 and 2.4, in order to stretch and shrink the temperament of the composition.

Vocal music

• Les Champs de l'ombre blanche, 1991
• Les Confessions silencieuses, 1995–1996
• Murs, pour quatre voix et orchestre de chambre

Concerto music

• L'Empreinte du cygne, double concerto pour violoncelle, piano et orchestre 1997-1998

Chamber music

• Douze préludes pour quatre pianos imaginaires 1995
• L'octobre seul, pour quintette 1991
• La vague en son écrin, trio de flûtes à bec 1994
• Oxymore, solo pour deux percussionnistes 1994
• Tic-tac parc, musica per il parco Val Grande 1997

Soloist music

• Lecture d'une vague, «Prélude des Champs de l'ombre blanche»,1992
• Roque, pour violoncelle 1990
• Sombra, pour violon 1999