David Chaillou

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David Chaillou is a French composer, born in 1971.

Biography

Chaillou is a senior lecturer at the University of Lille^[1]

His music has been released by Preiser Records,^[2] Gérard Billaudot^[3] and Universal Editions.^[4]

Chaillou's works have been broadcast among others by France Musique,^[5] RTS (Switzerland),^[6] RAI3,^[7] and RBBKultur.^[8]

His music combines for some a form of modern impressionism and

• Les mains nues for piano. World premiere by Moisès Fernàndez Via. La Puda. Festival Les Serenates d'Estiu
• Empreintes for piano. World premiere by François-Frédéric Guy au Beethovenfest, Beethoven Hall, Bonn (Allemagne)
• Une voix for piano. World premiere by Nina Barkalaya au Conservatoire Tchaikovsky, Moscou
• Diableries for piano. Public world premiere by Jeffrey Grice at the Sorbone amphithéâtre Richelieu, Paris. Published by Gérard Billaudot^[9] ISBN: M-043-07351-2.
• Légende for piano
• Mirages for piano
• Blocs for piano
• Temps inverses for piano
• Pluie blanche for piano
• Temps inverses for piano
• Plein air for piano
• Final for piano
• Au piano de Sibelius for piano
• Seul for cello. World premiere by Emmanuel Bellanger at the
  Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Published by Gérard Billaudot^[10]
• Solo for cello, World premiere in 2020
• Solliloquy for flute solo
• Solo Solo for violin, premiered by Valeria Zorina (dédicataire) at the Madrid National Auditorium in 2019.

• Gulf stream for string quartet. Commande of orchestre de Bretagne for the 100 years anniversary of the writer Louis Guilloux. Gérard Billaudot Publishing^[11]
• Sur un visage for wind sextet
• Rappoport for string trio with voice. Commande of Ariam Ile de France, selected for the 30 years anniversary of Ariam. Premiered at the Cité internationale des Arts of Paris.
• Duo violon violoncelle premierded by Christophe Pantillon and Clara Fleider, Austrian radio (ORF). Mozarteum^[12]

Orchestral

• Symphonie du bout des terres, commande of Orchestre de Bretagne. Conducted by Stefan Sanderling. Gérard Billaudot Publishing.^[13]
• Rhapsodie pour orchestre
• Paris miniature (Paris IXème arrondissement), mouvement concertant for violin and orchestra. Commande of
  Mairie de Paris
  . Premiered at Auditorium Saint-Germain, Paris (Orchestre du Conservatoire supérieur de Paris, conducted by Xavier Delette

Vocal

• Nunc Dimittis for a cappella choir. Premiered^[14] by the Choeur sacré de Paris (conducted by Till Ally)
• Magnificat for mixed choir and organ. Commande for the 500 years anniversary of La Trinité-des-Mont, Roma. Premiered at La Trinité-des-Monts
• Une mélodie upon a text by Pauline Bernon-Bruley for countertenor and piano
• Prose du suaire upon a text by Michel Deguy for three women voices. Premiered by the Trio Chrysilis (Isabelle de Biron, Sylvie Deguy, Christine Raphaël) at the Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris^[15]
• Mémoire de Loire upon a text by Michel Chaillou for mezzo, an actor, mixed choir and instrumental ensemble. Premiered at Salle Vasse with Jean-Louis Vicart and Isabelle Sokoja.^[16]
• Le chêne et le roseau according to
  Jean de la Fontaine
  for cembalo and children's choir
• Tableaux, melody from a poetry by
  Picasso premiered at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (Chloé Briot
  , Julien Beaudiment). Broadcast by France Musique

• Little Nemo opera all audience in 3 acts (libretto Arnaude Delalande, Olivier Balazuc)
• Conrad original music for a series of shows for France-Culture (Radio France). Produced by Philippe Taroni
• Léger au front for three instruments and magnetic tape with Jacques Gamblin and Patrice Alexandre. Commission of the Marne county and the conseil général of Champagne-Ardenne, France.
• Philomène et les ogres tale for children upon a text by Arnaud Delalande, premiered by Jean-Pierre Marielle and Agathe Nathanson

Music for motion pictures

• A la lisière directed by Fabianny Deschamps
• La mort de Jean-Philippe Gatien directed by Christophe Régin on a screenplay of
  Denis Podalydes
• Caserne 52 minutes directed by François Barat. Broadcast on France 3
• Léger au front 52 minutes directed by Philippe Lanfranci. Broadcast on La chaine Histoire
• David et la mort de Marat directed by Martin Fraudeau, produced by Caméra Lucida / Arte production)

Music for young audiences and educational pieces

• Philomène with Jean-Pierre Marielle et Agathe Nathanson. Theatre version (2015)
• L’orchestre d’Odilon Le Grillon (quintett and narrator) CD-book Gallimard Jeunesse. Selected by the Crédit Mutuel
• Trois petites miniatures for piano, commande of Argenteuil, premiered at Argenteuil, France
• Philomène et les Ogres piece for flute, percussions, piano and children's choir narrated by Jean-Pierre Marielle. CD-book Gallimard Jeunesse

Music films

• Nocturne,^[17] directed by Grégoire Pont and produced by Stéphan Aubé for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2018)
• Solo,^[18] interpreted by Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds (violin), directed by Philippe Mottet (2020).

Recent works

• Little Nemo^[19](libretto by Arnaud Delalande and Olivier Balazuc), an opera first performed at Angers-Nantes Opéra and the Opéra de Dijon in 2017 with the mezzo-soprano Chloé Briot and the Ensemble Ars Nova.The opera was awarded the Prix de l’Association Beaumarchais (SACD).^[20]
• Léger au front, music theatre performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in 2018 with the sculptor Patrice Alexandre, staging by Jacques Gamblin.^[21] Léger au front has been performed in German by Karl Markovics^[22] in Vienna (Theater Odeon), Bonn (LVR museum),^[23] The Carinthian Summer Music Festival (2015). Léger au front is Laureate of the French National Centenary Committee.^[24]
• Tableaux, a song to a poem by
  Musée d’Orsay in Paris.^[25]
• Solo for violon, first performed by Valeria Zorina at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid in 2019.[26]

Discography

• Légendes by Laura Mikkola, piano. Monographic CD published by Fuga Libera/Outhere (2020).
• Les mains nues by Moisès Fernandez Via, Lili Boulanger, David Chaillou and Federico Mompou. Published by Urtext Digital classics (2015)
• Paroles de violoncelle by Christophe Pantillon, David Chaillou. ‘’Seul’’, monologue for violoncelle. Published by Gramola (2013)
• Paris-Vienne-Moscou par Aron Quartett, David Chaillou, Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich. Published by Preiser Records (2010)
• Philomène et les ogres, fantastic tale read by Jean-Pierre Marielle and Agathe Nathanson, set to music by David Chaillou. Published by Gallimard Jeunesse
• L'orchestre d'Odilon le Grillon.text Antoon Krings Published by Gallimard Jeunesse

Publications

• Napoléon et l'Opéra (Fayard publishing)^[27]

Awards and distinctions

• 2004 – Grand prix of the Fondation Napoléon for his book Napoléon et l'Opéra (Fayard publishing)^[28]
• 2014 – Laureate of the French National Centenary Committee for Léger au front ^[24].
• 2015 - Awarded of the Prix de l’Association Beaumarchais (SACD) for Little Nemo, children 'opera.^[29]

References