Philippe Manoury

Philippe Manoury (born 19 June 1952) is a French composer.

Biography Manoury was born on June 19, 1952, in Tulle, France, and began composition studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot, Ivo Malec, and Claude Ballif. In 1975, he undertook studies in computer-assisted composition with , and joined IRCAM as a composer and electronic music researcher in 1980.

From 2004 until 2012, Manoury served on the composition faculty at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught composition, electronic music, and analysis in the graduate program. After retiring from UCSD, he returned to France, settling in Strasbourg.

Music Manoury's work is strongly influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis, and his early work from 1972 to 1976 combines serial punctualism with dense sound masses characteristic of the music of Stockhausen and Xenakis, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock. In it "Manoury [...] mercifully knows how to use [the abundance of percussion instruments] in ways far more discriminately than his contemporaries beholden to one bongo-frenzy after another". Quatuor à cordes – Quatuor Arditti MFA, Harmonia Mundi, C 5139, 1984 Cryptophonos – Claude Helffer (pno) MFA Harmonia Mundi, C 5172, 1986 Petit Aleph – Pierre-André Valade (Flute), ADDA, 581 075, 1988 Zeitlauf – Groupe Vocal de France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Peter Eotvös, Erato, ECD, 75552, 1990 Le livre des claviers – Les percussions de Strasbourg, Philips Classics, 444 218–2, 1993 Epitaphe – Ensemble FA, conducted by Dominique My, MFA 216007, 1995 Jupiter and La Partition du Ciel et de l'Enfer – Sophie Cherrier (flute) and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Conducted by Pierre Boulez. In Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui, Adès, 206 062, 1996 Pluton – Ilmo Ranta, piano, Technique Ircam Ondine Records, ODE 888–2, 1996 60ème parallèle – Orchestre de Paris, conducted by David Robertson, Naxos 8.554249/50, 1997 En écho and Neptune – Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano); Roland Auzet, Florent Jodelet, and Eve Payeur (percussion), Technique Ircam ACCORD, 465 526–2, 1998 Complete Chamber Music – Ensemble Accroche Note, Assai 222052, 2002

Awards and recognition Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2014