Title: Je suis Orage Composer : Bastien David
Note of intent :
Je suis Orage is a concerto for three pianists and two percussionists playing on a single piano, accompanied by an ensemble of musicians. For this creation, three generations of winners of the Orléans International Piano Competition are brought together around the keyboard. Accepting the unacceptable and dying a slow death. The piece expresses the energy of a liberation, of breaking through the conflicts that inhabit us through awareness and the desire to live. Like the expression of a no that thunders in the depths of the soul and allows for something else. This storm to see the rain return, fertile. This score is the prelude to an evening that will take place in autumn 2026 at the Cité de la musique.
Biography :
Composer Bastien David was invited by the Bavarian Ministry of Science and Arts to be a resident artist at the Villa Concordia, and will be the resident artist of Ensemble 2E2M during the 2022-23 season. He was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2019/20. His music, published by Éditions Lemoine, is performed internationally by ensembles and orchestras such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Geneva Camerata Orchestra, the Orchester d’Auvergne, TM +, L’Instant Donné, 2E2M, KDM, La Main Harmonique, Court-circuit, Zafraan-ensemble, Xamp, Quatuor Selini, Quatuor Tchalik, Aleph, l’EOC, l’Acousmonium du GRM, as well as by soloists such as Fanny Ardant, Renaud Capuçon, Marie Ythier, Eric Maria Couturier and Maroussia Gentet.
He is the inventor of a new microtonal percussion instrument: the metallophone. He is supported by the Banque Populaire foundation and by the Académie des Beaux-Arts for this project. www.lesinsecticides.fr.
He studied composition under Bernard Cavanna and José Manuel Lopez at the Gennevilliers Conservatory, and then in the class of Gérard Pesson at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris.
