Karim Haddad
Composer of contemporary music

Born on January 22, 1962 in Dar-el Mraisseh, Beirut, Lebanon

Lebanon

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Education

He achieved his first musical studies at the National Conservatory of Beirut. He received B.A. of Philosophy and literature at the American University of Beirut.
He left his war torn country in 1982 to settle in Paris (France).

In 1985 he received B.A. degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University.
He then joined the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...

. He mastered the essentials:
Harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, analysis and composition with Edith Lejet (Harmony, Fugue), Bernard de Crepy (Counterpoint), Paul Mefano (Orchestration), Jacques Casterede and Alain Louvier (Analysis), and Alain Bancquart (Composition) where he obtained Six awards and the "Diplome Superieur" in Composition.

Contemporary Music Composer

Between 1992 and 1994 he participates in the Ferienkurse fur Musik of Darmstadt where he worked with Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

, and obtained the Stipendien Prize 94 in composition.

In 1995, he followed the computer music courses at the IRCAM

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

 and became a member of the IRCAM Forum where he contributed in 1999, by writing the Om2Csound library for controlling synthesis through OpenMusic

OpenMusic

OpenMusic is an object-oriented visual programming environment for musical composition based on Common Lisp.It may also be used as an all-purpose visual interface to Lisp programming.-History:...

 environment. He then wrote OpenMusic's reference and tutorial.

In 1996, he composed Ce qui dort dans lombre sacrée pour contrebasse for Radio France

Radio France

Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...

 Presence festival.

First Opera

Recently 2005 he wrote the First act for the opera Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence
Libretto : Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...

First performance: September 2005, Berlin Staatsoper, Berlin, 2005

Present

He is still working at IRCAM as a technical advisor for Ircam Forum and continues to compose contemporary classical Music.

External links

• http://karimhaddad.org