André Bon


André Bon is a French composer. A student of Olivier Messiaen, he has composed over fifty works including several chamber operas. He is Professor of Composition at the Argenteuil Conservatory.

Biography

André Bon was born in Lille and studied music and composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Following his graduation from the Conservatoire, he won the Prix de Rome, and spent two years of further study at the French Academy in Rome.
In succeeding years, his work in composition has been supported by several further fellowships and prizes, including the Lili Boulanger Prize, the Hervé Dugardin Prize from SACEM , SACEM's Composers Prize, and the Monbinne Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Awards for his operas include the Award for the Best French Creation granted by the French Society of Drama and Music Critics and the New Talents Award of the French authors’ society, the SACD, in 1988 for Le Rapt de Persephone ; the Samuel Rousseau Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Wolf-Ebermann Prize of the International Theatre Institute in Munich for his opera La jeune fille au livre ; and Prix Musique 2009 from SACD Iq & Ox.
In addition to his professorships at Argenteuil and the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, Bon has taught 20th century musicology at the University of Aix-en-Provence and has been a composer-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and at the Henry Clews Foundation.

Works

Orchestral

;Convergence
;Emergence
;Fresques
;Ode
;Ode II
;Poursuite

Ensemble

;Andare
;Carnets
;Concertare
;La Création
;Ricercare
;Travelling

Chamber

;Canzone
;Four études for three trombones
;Seven études for Émergence
;Iniziare
;Invention
;Polyptyque, volet 1
;Polyptyque, volet 2
;Suonare I
;Suonare II
;Suonare III
;Suonare IV
;Winter in Kyoto

Operas

;Adam et Eve
;Iq et Ox
;La jeune fille au livre
;Le Rapt de Persephone
;Tobias

Other vocal music

;L'Amour de loin
;La Cantate des oiseaux
;Chants espaces 1: Aujourd'hui et demain
;Chants espaces 2: Enchaînement
;Chants espaces 3: D'amour du dire
;D'un chant perdu
;Deux paroles de Prévert
;Enquêtes
;Gala
;Les Guerres du poète
;La Morte di Ulisse
;Que nous deux sur la terre
;Le retour du soleil
;Sonnet
;Uki
;Les vallées du cinéma
;La Voix

Electroacoustic

;L'image des sons
;Histoire