Emmanuel Nunes

Emmanuel Nunes (born with Lisbon in 1941) is a type-setter Portuguese, installed in France.

Nunes studies the harmony and the counterpoint with the Academy of music of Lisbon. From 1963 to 1965, it goes to Darmstadt to the courses of summer of Pierre Boulez and Henri Pousseur. In 1964, it is established with Paris. From 1965 to 1967, he attends the courses of Rheinische Musikschule of Cologne, studies at Henri Pousseur and of Karlheinz Stockhausen, follow courses of electronic music at Jaap Spek and of phonetics at Georg Heike. It also obtains in 1971 a first price of musical esthetics to the Conservatoire higher national of music of Paris in the class of Marcel Beaufils. Director of the seminars of composition to the Foundation Gulbenkian of Lisbon since 1981, it taught with the Université Harvard in Cambridge, with IRCAM, in Darmstadt, and Musikhochschule of Freiburg. In 1992, it is named professor of composition to the Conservatoire higher national of music of Paris.

“ Emmanuel Nunes carried out very early the synthesis of the two dominant steps of the music of post-war period: those of Swell and Stockhausen. At one it took the concerned rigor of the harmony, at the other the direction visionary of the great form and the acoustic phenomenon in all its complexity. Its music plunges its roots still further, in singular balance between the great polyphonic tradition and the romanticism of Schubert or Mahler (…). There is at his place of the mystic and Wanderer ” (Philippe Albèra).

Emmanuel Nunes was appointed officer of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters in 1986 and was promoted Commendador da Ordem of Santiago de Espada by the President of the Portuguese Republic in 1991.

With the pleasant authorization of the Press service of the Management of the Music of Radio France.

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