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Aurélien Dumont (born 1980) holds a doctorate in music composition from the SACRe programme of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He also studied at IRCAM (courses 1 and 2 in composition and computer music) and was a fellow at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Médicis - in 2017/2018.  He has been professor of instrumental and vocal composition at the CNSMD in Lyon since September 2024.

 

His music is conceived as a cartography of musical objects in resonance with other arts and philosophy, in particular with the concepts of François Jullien. It is based on opening up gaps between heterogeneous elements and bringing distant realities closer together: the close ties he cultivates with Japan and pop culture are expressed in his works. Live performance is central to his work, and he sets to music the words of Antoine Volodine, Annie Ernaux and the poet Dominique Quélen, with whom he has forged a long-term collaboration.

 

Aurélien Dumont's research focuses on the notion of alterity and its various forms of expression in the field of music, and has been the subject of several articles published by PUF, Editions de l'Observatoire, Actes Sud and others. His scores are included in the catalogue of the Artchipel music publishing house.

 

He has won several international competitions and prizes, including those awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation, SACEM, SACD,

San Fedele in Milan and the Takefu International Music Festival in Japan. In 2023 he won the schoolchildren's vote in the 24th Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs.

 

His three solo albums, While (2015, NoMadMusic), Stillness (2018, Odradek - Grand Prix International du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros) and Tide (2020, NoMadMusic) have been unanimously acclaimed by music critics. 

update: september 2024

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