1. Bryce David Dessner was born on April 23,1976 and is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National.
39 Facts About Bryce Dessner
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Bryce Dessner is the founder of the MusicNOW Festival, co-founder of Copenhagen's HAVEN festival, and co-curator of the festival Sounds from a Safe Harbour.
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Bryce Dessner is a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records.
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In 2018, Bryce Dessner was named one of eight creative and artistic partners for the San Francisco Symphony as part of incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen's new leadership model for the orchestra in 2020.
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Bryce Dessner has a master's degree in music from Yale University.
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Bryce Dessner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his twin brother, Aaron Bryce Dessner.
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Bryce Dessner was raised as Jewish and has Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry.
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Bryce Dessner attended high school at Cincinnati Country Day School and graduated in 1994.
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Bryce Dessner's compositions draw on elements from baroque and folk music, late Romanticism, and modernism, as well as minimalism.
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Bryce Dessner composed the cello ensemble for Fondation Louis Vuitton and Gautier Capucon's Classe d'Excellence, which premiered in June 2019.
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In January 2012, Bryce Dessner signed to Chester Novello Publishing for his concert music.
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The first recordings of Bryce Dessner's compositions, performed by the Kronos Quartet, were released in 2013 by Anti-Records.
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May 19,2015, marked the release on Brassland of Music for Wood and Strings, an album-length work composed by Bryce Dessner and performed by So Percussion on a set of experimental musical instruments Bryce Dessner named "Chord Sticks" and built by Aron Sanchez from Buke and Gase.
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Bryce Dessner has written the score for the major Netflix film The Two Popes directed by Fernando Meirelles, recorded with London Contemporary Orchestra at London's Abbey Road Studios.
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In October 2015, Bryce Dessner was tapped along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, to compose the score for the Oscar Award-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu film The Revenant.
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Bryce and his brother Aaron Dessner co-composed the score for Transpecos, which won the Audience Award at the 2016 South by Southwest.
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In 2011, Bryce Dessner was commissioned by Kronos Quartet to compose a piece for the Barbican Centre's "Reverberations: The Influence of Steve Reich" festival in London.
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In 2012, Bryce Dessner wrote and dedicated Little Blue Something to the ensemble.
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In 2018 Bryce Dessner's extended collaboration with pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque formalized into Dream House Quartet with the addition of guitarist and composer David Chalmin of La Terre Invisible, realizing a unique arrangement of duo piano and electric guitar.
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Bryce Dessner has since composed several works for the Quartet, as has David Chalmin, with additional commissions written for the Quartet by Caroline Shaw, Timo Andres, Max Richter and many others.
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Bryce Dessner is a frequent collaborator with many of the most creative and renowned musicians working today, such as Philip Glass, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Glenn Kotche.
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Bryce Dessner served as the musical director for Matthew Ritchie's 'The Morning Line' installation, collaborating with Ritchie and a number of contemporary composers, including Lee Ranaldo and Evan Ziporyn.
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In 2011, Bryce Dessner collaborated with Ritchie again, composing a song entitled "To The Sea," which was used for Matthew Ritchie's performance art piece 'Monstrance.
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On Wednesday, January 25,2012, at Stanford University and Friday, January 27,2012, at Carnegie Hall, Bryce Dessner performed the world premiere of David Lang's new composition "death speaks" with Nico Muhly, Shara Worden, and Owen Pallett.
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Bryce Dessner is featured on the "death speaks" record, which he produced.
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Bryce Dessner collaborated with Richard Reed Parry of The Arcade Fire on Parry's album Music for Heart and Breath.
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In 2020, Bryce composed orchestrations for Taylor Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore, which was produced and co-written by his brother Aaron Dessner.
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Bryce Dessner is the founder and curator of the annual Cincinnati-based MusicNOW Festival.
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Bryce Dessner was tapped to curate 'Mountains and Waves,' a weekend celebration of his music at the Barbican in London, May 2015, with guests including Steve Reich, eighth blackbird, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, So Percussion, Caroline Shaw, and the Britten Sinfonia.
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In September 2015, Bryce Dessner curated a weekend of performances at the Cork Opera House, Ireland.
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Bryce Dessner is the co-founder and co-curator of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
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In March 2010, Bryce Dessner co-curated the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Tennessee.
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Bryce Dessner curated a brand new festival of music and art called Sounds from a Safe Harbour.
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Bryce Dessner is co-curator of HAVEN, Copenhagen's annual festival "for the senses, merging experiments in art, music, beer and food".
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Bryce Dessner has produced and orchestrated tracks on The National's two most albums, High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me.
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Bryce Dessner produced Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's album Death Speaks, Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus' album Barlande and Richard Reed Parry's album Music for Heart and Breath, which was released on classical label Deutsche Grammophon.
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Additionally, Bryce orchestrated tracks on Local Natives' Hummingbird and Sharon van Etten's Tramp, both of which were produced by his brother Aaron Dessner.
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Alongside Alec Hanley Bemis and Aaron Dessner, Bryce founded Brassland Records, a label that has released early albums from The National, Clogs, Doveman and Nico Muhly.
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Bryce Dessner is married to French singer Mina Tindle, who has provided vocals to several of The National's albums.