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Conductor, teacher, musicologist, radio producer, director of institutions, Bruno Mantovani is above all a composer. Born on October 8, 1974, he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he won five first prizes, and at Ircam, where he completed the "computer music curriculum". His works have enjoyed international success since 1995, and have been performed in such venues as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Berlin's Philharmonie, London's Barbican Center, Milan's La Scala, New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Paris' Philharmonie and Vienna's Musikverein. Faithful to his preferred interpreters, he collaborates with prestigious soloists (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Tabea Zimmermann), conductors (Marin Alsop, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Peter Eötvös, Philippe Jordan, Cristian Macelaru, Susanna Mälkki, Yannick Nézet Seguin, François-Xavier Roth), ensembles (Accentus, Intercontemporain) and orchestras (Bamberg Symphony, Berlin Radio, Chicago Symphony, National de France, Gewandhaus Leipzig, BBC London, Scala Milan, Münchner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonique de Radio France, RSO Vienna).
He was in residence at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Médicis) in 2004-2005, at the Besançon Festival from 2006 to 2008, with the Orchestre national de Lille from 2008 to 2011, then with the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse between 2010 and 2018, with the Orchestre national de Lyon in 2014-16 and with the Orchestre national de Strasbourg from 2021 to 2023. The Musica festival, of which he has been a special guest since 2001, dedicated a portrait to him in 2006.
He premiered three works at the Opéra national de Paris: the ballet Siddharta in 2010, the opera Akhmatova in 2011 and Jeux d'eau, concerto for violin and orchestra in 2012.
Fascinated by the relationship between music and other forms of artistic expression, he has collaborated with novelists Hubert Nyssen and Eric Reinhardt, librettists Dorian Astor, Christophe Ghristi and François Regnault, chefs Ferran Adrià and Mathieu Pacaud, choreographers Jean-Christophe Maillot and Angelin Preljocaj, and filmmaker Pierre Coulibeuf. His work regularly questions the history of Western music (Bach, Gesualdo, Rameau, Schubert, Schumann) and popular repertoires (jazz, oriental music).
Alongside his composing career, Bruno Mantovani is also a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from Mozart symphonies to new works. He regularly conducts contemporary music ensembles (Accentus, Intercontemporain, Lemanic modern ensemble, TM+), as well as the German Youth Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Caracas, the French National Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Paris Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. He is appointed Music Director of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain from January 2020.
Producer of a weekly program on France Musique in 2014-15, he directed the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris from 2010 to 2019, then taught contemporary repertoire performance there for a year, and became director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in September 2020. From May 2021, he will also be artistic director of the Printemps des Arts Festival in Monte Carlo.
He has won numerous awards in international competitions, including the Hervé Dugardin and Georges Enesco prizes and the Grand Prix de la Sacem in 2000, 2005 and 2009, the André Caplet prize from the Institut in 2005, the SACD New Talent prize in 2007, the Belmont prize from the Forberg-Schneider foundation in the same year, and the Victoire de la Musique for "Composer of the Year" in 2009, the Claudio Abbado Prize from the Berlin Philharmonic and the International Music Press Prize in 2010, the Cecilia Prize in 2012, and numerous awards for his recordings (including several "coups de coeur" from the Académie Charles Cros, a "Choc de l'année" from Le Monde de la Musique, and a selection in the New York Times' top ten records of 2008). He was made a Chevalier, Officier then Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres in January 2010, January 2015 and April 2022, a Chevalier in the Ordre du Mérite in April 2012 and a Chevalier in the Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur in July 2016. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts on May 17, 2017 and made an honorary doctor of the University of Cluj - Napoca in 2019.
His works are published by Henry Lemoine.