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Florentine Mulsant
Composer
Born in 1962, Florentine Mulsant studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis and orchestration) and at the Schola Cantorum, where she obtained a First Prize in composition in 1987 in the class of Allain Gaussin. She followed the teaching of Franco Donatoni at the Academia Chigiana in Siena (Italy) and perfected her skills with Alain Bancquart, and taught music writing at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne (1991- 1998). In 2011 she received the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Awarded prizes in numerous international composition competitions, her works have been commissioned and performed by renowned soloists and orchestras (Lise de la Salle, the Debussy Quartet, the Manfred Quartet, the Terpsycordes Quartet, Vahan Mardirossian, Laure Favre Kahn, Lyonel Schmit, Hélène Schmitt, Henri Demarquette, Raphael Pidoux, Boris Andrianov, Florent and Frédéric Audibert, Laurent Korcia, Anne Queffélec, Romain Leleu, Lise Berthaud, Adam Laloum, Ensemble Vocal Sequenza 9.3, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre Colonne, Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Orchestre National de Chambre d'Arménie, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestre National de Caen, He has also performed at major international festivals in France (Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, Festival d'Ambronay, Festival Cello Fan, Festival Musiciennes à Ouessant, Festival Présences, Festival Radio-France Montpellier), in Germany (Festival Beethoven in Bonn), in Switzerland and in the United States, Taiwan and Chile.
Her discography includes, in addition to a chamber music CD (Ar Ré-Sé, 2007), a participation in the CD Musique Française au Féminin (Ensemble Latitudes, Triton, 2012), the First Symphony for strings op. 32 and the 24 Preludes for piano (Maestria, 2013). In 2016 the recording of her three Fantasias op. 48 for violin and harp (Animato) was released, as well as the Sonata for double bass and piano op. 52 (Triton).
In 2015 she was appointed Composer in Residence at the Marseille Conservatory.
From 2013 to 2016 she was Vice-President of the Commission of Symphonic Music at the SACEM.
Although she claims the aesthetic influences of the French School of the 20th century, notably Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux, Florentine Mulsant professes an attachment to expressiveness, freedom of language and firmness of formal design.
At the age of 61, Florentine Mulsant was awarded the "Composer of the Year " prize for her work "Le Chant du soleil", at the 31eVictoires de la musique classique awards ceremony, held on Thursday February 29, 2024 at the Corum in Montpellier. To coincide with the release of the AR RE-SE Classic recording, selected string quartets will be played live by the Quatuor Debussy and the Quatuor Una Corda.