Michael Levinas

Michael Levinas is a Compositeur and Pianiste French born with Paris the April 18th 1949.

Biography

His/her father is the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. After studies with the Conservatory of Paris (Yvonne Loriod, Olivier Messiaen) where it obtains many first prices, Michael Levinas carries out training courses with GRM, follows courses to Darmstadt (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Ligeti) and, in 1974, becomes cofounder then responsible for the Ensemble the Route. Pianist international concert performer, it teaches the analysis with the Academy of Paris since 1992.

As of the first works, in margin of the serialism, Michael Levinas develops a singular style of an extraordinary expressive power. Shock and dramatic, is two key words of the work of the type-setter. Shock, because it leads us to marvellous and the fantastic one, dramatic, because integral part of the universe levinassien: theatricalness. On the basis of sounds “impure”, “dirty”, it considers space (true “setting in scene of the sound”) and the recourse to technology (bands, devices electroacoustics) like revealing of the instrumental world. With the beginning of the year eighty ten, he works actively on the transients of attack and the hybridization of the sounds between them, thus continuing his research on the renewal of the theatrical dimension of the instrument.

Principal works

Arsis and Thésis , for wired for sound low flute, 1971, ED. Henry Lemoine, 7 min.
Clov and Hamm , for trombone, tuba, percussions and magnetic band, 1973, ED. Henry Lemoine, 8min.
Calls , for 11 instrumentalists, 1974, ED. Henry Lemoine, 9min.
Opening for a strange festival , two orchestras and device electroacoustic, 1979, ED. Henry Lemoine, 16min.
Concerto for piano spaces n° 2 , 1980, ED. Henry Lemoine, 12 min.
the laughter of Gilles , for five instrumentalists and magnetic band, 1981, ED. Henry Lemoine, 8min.
the conference of the birds , musical production according to a Persan tale of Attar, 1985, ED. Henry Lemoine, 55 min.
the cracked bell , for orchestra and device electroacoustic, 1988, ED. Henry Lemoine, 12 min.
Vaults , for 6 percussionnists, 1988, ED. Henry Lemoine, 11min.
Prefixes , for 17 instrumentalists and device electroacoustic, 1991, ED. Henry Lemoine, 15 min.
Rebounds , for sextet and device electroacoustic, 1993, ED. Henry Lemoine, 15 min.
Go-gol , opera in two acts on a booklet of Frederic Tristan according to news of Gogol, 1996, ED. Henry Lemoine, 120 min.

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