Philippe Capdenat was born on 17 July 1934 and is a French composer and academic teacher.
12 Facts About Philippe Capdenat
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Philippe Capdenat has been a teacher at several French universities and conservatories.
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Philippe Capdenat served in the military in Algeria for two years.
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Philippe Capdenat was the leader of the Chorale Jericho and the chamber orchestra Orchestre de Chambre Philippe Capdenat.
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Philippe Capdenat composed on commissions from Radio France, the French Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre nationale de Lille and Bordeaux, and the Grand Theatre in Tours.
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Philippe Capdenat collaborated with ensembles including Ensemble Ars Nova, Domaine musical and Ensemble l'Itineraire, with conductors such as Serge Baudo, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Patrick Fournillier and with Pascal Verrot, and with soloists including Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Sylvio Gualda, Christian Ivaldi and Mady Mesple.
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In 1992, Philippe Capdenat was appointed professor of musical analysis and composition at the Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Danse in Montreuil.
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Philippe Capdenat then became president of the association for contemporary music Opus Open and continued in that post until 2010.
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In 2011, Philippe Capdenat's Variations received the first prize in the competition of the Orchestre national d'harmonie des jeunes, which inviting European composers to write a piece for performance.
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Philippe Capdenat expressed his goal as "music open to the acquisitions of contemporary language yet retaining the desire to be clear and lyrical and avoiding both demagogy and neo-romanticism".
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Philippe Capdenat composed music in genres from chamber music to opera, including aleatoric music, electroacoustics, repetitive music and serialism.
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Philippe Capdenat composed Croce e delizia for Mady Mesple, the opera Sebastien en martyr for the Tours Opera, his Requiem for the Festival d'art sacre at Dax, and Le condamne a mort and Une Carmen for the Opera Eclate.