Biography
Florentine Mulsant (born 27 March 1962) is a French composer.
Born in Dakar, Mulsant studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, musical analysis and orchestration at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Schola Cantorum de Paris, where she won a First Prize in 1987 for composition in Allain Gaussin's class. She followed the teaching of Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and furthered her skill with Alain Bancquart.
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From 1991 to 1998, she was teaching harmony and counterpoint at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 2011, she won the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Winning many international competitions of composition, many of her works are commissioned and performed by great soloists and orchestras (Lise de la Salle, Quatuor Debussy, Quatuor Manfred, Quatuor Terpsycordes, Quatuor Gaia, Quatuor Akilone, Vahan Mardirossian, Laure Favre Kahn, Lyonel Schmit, Hélène Schmitt, Henri Demarquette, Raphael Pidoux, Boris Andrianov, Florent and Frédéric Audibert, Xavier Gagnepain, Marc Coppey, Laurent Korcia, Anne Queffélec, Romain Leleu, Lise Berthaud, Adam Laloum, Yan Levionnois, Eric Crambes, Nathanael Gouin, Alexandre Chabod, Thierry Barbe, Marie Catherine Girod, Jean Baptiste Fonlupt, Lydia Jardon, Françoise Gnéri, Jean- Louis Beaumadier, Ensemble 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, Orchestre Philharmonique de Trêves, Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio de Prague, and in major international festivals in France (Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, Festival d'Ambronay, Festival Cello Fan, Festival Musiciennes à Ouessant, Festival des Arcs, Festival Fractales, Festival Présences, Festival Radio-France Montpellier), Festival de Chaillol, Germany (Beethoven Festival in Bonn), Switzerland, United States, in Taiwan and Chile. The French music label Triton included one of her compositions on the CD Musique Française au Féminin. In 2007 the label Ar Re-Se published a monographic CD with her chamber music works with the Cello Sonata op. 27 played by Henri Demarquette. In 2011 she was awarded to the Prix Nadia et Lilli Boulanger of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Her discography includes a CD of chamber music (Ar Ré-Sé, 2007), a contribution to the CD Musique Française au féminin (Ensemble Latitudes, Triton, 2012) and the First String Symphony and the 24 Preludes for piano (Maestria, 2013). In 2016 were published her three Fantaisies op. 48 for violin and harp (Animato) and her Sonata for double bass and piano op. 52 (Triton). In 2017 were published a CD of chamber music (AR Ré-Sé, 2017), recorded during the Ouessant Festival as well as the Suite for String orchestra op 42 recorded in Armenia. This CD was selected for the twentieth Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs
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