Biography

Born in Marseille

Marseille

Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...

 in 1968, Régis Campo is one of France’s best-known young composers. His music possesses a distinct rhythmic energy and vitality, is highly melodic, and possesses a certain humour that found in the work of French composers such as Janequin, Rameau, Couperin

Couperin

The Couperin family were a musical dynasty of professional composers and performers. They were the most prolific family in French musical history, active during the Baroque era...

, Satie or Ravel.

After studying counterpoint and composition with, notably, Georges Bœuf at the Conservatoire in his native town, and studying philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the University of Aix-en-Provence, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with 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...

, where he was awarded a First Prize in Composition in 1995. While in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 he met independently with composers such as Edison Denisov

Edison Denisov

Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...

 and Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

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In 1996, he received the Dutch prize from the Fondation Gaudeamus for his work entitled Commedia. In the same year, his quintet

Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

 for the brass ensemble Exsultate Jubilate won him three prizes at the Henri Dutilleux competition. In 1999, Sacem

Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique

Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...

  awarded him the Hervé Dugardin Prize and the Académie des Beaux-Arts

Académie des beaux-arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:* Académie de peinture et de sculpture...

 (Institut de France) awarded him the Pierre Cardin Prize.

Between 1999 and 2001, Régis Campo was a resident at the Académie de France in Rome

Rome

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 (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...

). Lumen for orchestra was performed by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano

__FORCETOC__Kent George Nagano is an American conductor and opera administrator. He is currently the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera.-Biography:...

 in September 2001 in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. In April 2003 they also commissioned his first symphony

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

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In November 2003, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

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, the singer Dame Felicity Lott

Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM is an English soprano.-Education:From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She is an alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, obtaining a BA in French and...

 performed Happy Birthday for soprano and orchestra with the Ensemble orchestral de Paris directed by John Nelson

John Nelson (conductor)

John Wilton Nelson is an American conductor. Nelson studied at Wheaton College, and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Morel ....

. In 2005 Sacem awarded him the Sacem Prize for young composers and the Institut de France

Institut de France

The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...

 presented him with the Georges Bizet Prize. In the same year, at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn

Bonn

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, the Ysaÿe quartet performed his first string quartet Les Heures maléfiques.

His latest recording, Pop-art (on the Aeon label), has received a Coup de cœur – Charles Cros and won the Professors’ prize for the Grand Prix Lycéen for composers for 2006. His second symphony Moz’art was performed in September 2005 by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris conducted by John Nelson during the 2005-2006 season at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Lumen II for orchestra was performed at the end of September 2006 by the new chamber orchestra Pelléas under the direction of Benjamin Levy

Benjamin Levy

Benjamin Bennett Levy was a Private in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War...

 at the Besançon festival.

Campo is currently working on a cycle of melodies composed for Felicity Lott and the Musiciens du Louvre conducted by Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. His mother is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology...

; he is also working on the orchestration of Erik Satie

Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...

’s Sports et divertissements for the Montréal Symphony Orchestra

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:...

 conducted by Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano

__FORCETOC__Kent George Nagano is an American conductor and opera administrator. He is currently the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera.-Biography:...

. The film director Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Grandrieux

Philippe Jesus Grandrieux is a French film director born in 1954.- Biography :He studied movies at the INSAS in Brussels and started his career as a moviemaker by shooting fictional films and documentaries. Grandrieux then worked as an experimental filmmaker in Belgium where he exhibited his...

(Sombre, La Vie Nouvelle) has recently entrusted him with the task of creating the music for his next feature-length film Un Lac.

Catalogue

His catalogue – comprising over a hundred works – covers various instrumental and vocal formations:

• Commedia (1995) for 19 musicians;
• the Concerto de chambre for 7 musicians (1996);
• the Concerto pour violon (1997 - revised in 2001);
• the Livre de Sonates (1997-1999) for organ;
• the Concerto pour piano et orchestre (1998-1999);
• Nova (1999) for 12 mixed voices, large mixed choir and ensemble;
• the Livre de Fantaisies for cello (1999);
• Faërie (2000-2001) for orchestra;
• Happy Bird (2001) concerto for flute, 2 horns, percussion and string orchestra;
• Lumen (2001) for orchestra;
• Premier Livre (2000-2002) for piano;
• Pop-art (2002);
• Symphonie N°1 (2002-2003) for orchestra;
• Ouverture en forme d’étoiles (2004) for orchestra;
• Quatuor à cordes N°1 "Les Heures maléfiques"(2005);
• Symphonie N°2 "Moz’art" (2005) for orchestra;
• Quatuor à cordes N°2 (2006).

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