Brice Pauset

À propos de Brice Pauset

Brice Pauset's initial musical studies took place in Paris and Siena (Italy), and included the piano, the violin, the harpsichord, and composition. In 1994 he was awarded a Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation scholarship, and from 1994 to 1996 he studied at the IRCAM. Since then he has divided his time between his composing career, teaching, and harpsichord performance.
His works are frequently performed by soloists including Teodoro Anzellotti, Irvine Arditti, David Grimal, Nicolas Hodges, Salome Kammer, and Andreas Staier, as well as the Arditti String Quartet, ensemble recherche, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Klangforum-Wien, the Freiburger Barockorchester, and many of the German and Austrian radio orchestras.
Pauset's works cover all musical genres, and are organized in vast cycles which are often dedicated to extra-musical subjects such as the immanence of truths (the cycle Wahrheitsverfahren) and a six-part portrait of the “historical present” verb tense (which will include Kataster for solo ensemble and orchestra, Film und Psyche for ensemble, electronics and images, and Strafen, an opera based on narrations by Franz Kafka, all of which are currently being written).
In 2008 Brice Pauset became professor of composition at the University of Music in Freiburg/Breisgau. He also gives frequent master classes in Royaumont (France), Graz (Austria), and Rome (Italy).