Sophie Lacaze

Sophie Lacaze (born 1963) is a French composer.

Lacaze was born in Lourdes. She studied music at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, and continued at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, where she received the Composition Prize. Afterwards, she studied with Allain Gaussin, Philippe Manoury and Antoine Tisne in France, and with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone in Italy. She also engaged in music theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Centre Acanthes, and attended Pierre Boulez's courses in Collège de France.

After having travelled in several countries, especially in Australia, she came back in France in 2006. Her compositions, which range from works for solo instruments to chamber and orchestral music, with also two operas and works with tape, are regularly performed in more than 20 countries.

In 2009, she is recipient of the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs (France) for "les quatre elements", concerto for flute, children choir and small percussion instruments. In 2010, the SACEM gives her the Claude Arrieu Prize for her body of work. In 2012, she is laureate of Beaumarchais-SACD association.

Unsubdued but attentive to musical trends and schools, she has developed an original aesthetics that takes into account the current research on sound while looking to restore music its primary functions, i.e. ritual, incantation, dance, and its links with nature.

She teaches composition and orchestration at Montpellier University and is Artistic Director of the Festival Turbulences Sonores.

Selected works

(1992): Trois melodies, for soprano voice and string trio. On poems by Jules Supervielle.
(1993): Voyelles, for flute. On a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
(1996): Jetez-vous sur l'avenir, for female voice, flute and piano. On a poem by Jean-Pierre Rosnay.
(1996): En Quete, for female voice, narrator, violin and piano. For an exhibition of photographs by Guy Bompais. On texts by Jean-Pierre Rosnay.
(1997): La vita e bella ?, for flute and cello.
(1998): Le Becut, for wind instrument, didgeridoo, children choir and small percussions.
(1999): Comme une rue pavee, for violin, clarinet and piano.
(2000): Broken Words, for flute and string trio. On a poem by Henry Kendall.
(2000): And then there was the sun in the sky, for flute, didgeridoo and flute orchestra.
(2001): Iotife, for string trio. On a poem by Henry Kendall.
(2001): Messe de Nostre Dame, for a cappella choir. Tribute to "Messe de Nostre Dame" by Guillaume de Machaut.
(2002): Concerto n°1, for piano and string orchestra. On "Vexations" by Erik Satie.
(2002): Histoire sans paroles, for violin, cello and piano.
(2002): Voices of Australia, for solo flute and recorded voices.
(2002): L'enfance de Catherine, for flute and string trio. Music for the film "l'enfance de Catherine" by Anne Baudry.
(2003): Messe de Nostre Dame, version for 8 female voices and percussions. Tribute to "Messe de Nostre Dame" by Guillaume de Machaut.
(2003): Tarentella, for piano.
(2004): Dreaming, chamber opera for two female voices, didgeridoo, flute, viola, percussions and tape.
(2005): Oceans, for flute, bassoon, violin, viola, double-bass, children choir and small percussions.
(2005): Cinq Voyelles pour Quatre Flutes, transcription of "Voyelles" for 4 flutes. On a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.
(2005): Py, for flute and piano.
(2005): Het Lam Gods, for string quartet. On "Het Lam Gods" by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck.
(2005): Duo, for voice and tape.
(2006): Archelogos I, for voice and tape.
(2006): Les quatre elements, concerto for flute, children choir and percussions.
(2006): Deux mouvements, for tenor saxophone and orchestra.
(2006): Musique de la mer, for clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, children choir and small percussions.
(2006): Vents du sud, for tape. For the exhibition of photographs "Vignes" by Guy Bompais.
(2006): The great flood, for alt-saxophone and saxophone ensemble.
(2007): Archelogos II, for bass-flute and tape.
(2007): Het Lam Gods II, for flute and flute orchestra. On "Het Lam Gods" by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck.
(2007): Fenouillet I, acousmatic short piece.
(2008): Quatre haikus, for alt-saxophone and piano.
(2008): Le Petit Prince, music for theatre, for Martenot waves, flute and string trio.
(2008): Archèlogos IIb, for Martenot waves and tape.
(2009): L'art est le plus beau des mensonges, for soprano voice and vibraphone. On a text by Alain Carre.
(2009): Het Lam Gods III, for flute quartet and narrator. On "Het Lam Gods" by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck and a text by Alain Carre.
(2009): Variations sur quatre haïkus, for cello.
(2010): L'espace et la flûte - Variations sur des textes de Jean Tardieu, for narrator and flute orchestra. On texts by Jean Tardieu.
(2010): Souffles, for four flautists (2 zamponias, 2 bajones, 3 Boehm flutes).
(2011): Marco Polo, chamber opera for choir and ensemble.
(2011): Calligrammes, for barytone, choir and saxophone quartet. On texts by Guillaume Apollinaire.
(2011): Archèlogos III, for guitar and tape.
(2011): Après avoir contemplé la lune, for orchestra.
(2012): Estampes, for flute quartet.
(2012): Ukiyo-e, concerto for Martenot waves and flute orchestra.
(2013): O Sapientia, for 5 women voices. On texts by Hildegard von Bingen.
(2014): Maye, for percussion instruments.

Discography

"Musiques francaises du XXe siecle", REM, 1996. With Voyelles by Chiharu Tachibana.

"En Quete", Galun Records, 2000. With En Quete, Kulungalinpa, La Vita e Bella ?, Jetez-vous sur l'avenir and Le Becut. By Marie Kobayashi, Marcelle Rosnay, Ivan Bellocq, Mie Ogura, Phillip Peris, Fuminori Tanada, Lucie Bessiere, Marie-Agnes Letellier, Arnaud Limonaire, Paul Broutin, Bernard Vandenbroucque, and children of Lappacca (in Lourdes) and Parc Suzanne (in Argeles Gazost) primary schools.

"Aperto (Re)Forms", Gaudeamus (Roumania), 2000. With Comme une rue pavee and Trois preludes by the Trio Aperto and Dolores Chelariu.

"Plurielles", Maguelone, 2004. With Broken Words and Voyelles by the Helios Ensemble and Christel Rayneau.

"Cosmogonies", Galun Records, 2005. With Voices of Australia by Ivan Bellocq.

"Sophie Lacaze - Works with flutes", Solal (Germany), 2008. With Het Lam Gods II, Voices of Australia, Archelogos II, And then there was the sun in the sky, Cinq voyelles pour quatre flutes, Py and Les quatre elements by Pierre-Yves Artaud, French Flute Orchestra (conductor Pierre-Alain Biget), Phillip Peris, Fuminori Tanada and Michel de Maulne.

"Encounters / Rencontre", AF Adelaide (Australia), 2012. With two Preludes for piano, by Stephen Whittington.

"Souffles", Les Editions de l'Astronome, 2012. With L'espace et la flute, En quete, Quatre haikus, Voyelles and Het Lam Gods III, by Alain Carre, Baudoin Giaux, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Amaya Dominguez, Martin Surot, Hinemoa Quartet and Royal Conservatory of Brussels flute ensemble.

Bibliography

"la musique pour flûte(s) de Sophie Lacaze" - Traversiere Magazine n°104, 2012. Official magazine of French Flute Association (in French).
"Compositrices françaises au XXe siècle", Association Femmes et Musique, with an article about Sophie Lacaze by Michèle Friang, p. 103-105, Editions Delatour France

References and External links

Sophie Lacaze's official website.
Page on the Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine Website

Excerpts from sound archives of Sophie Lacaze's works.
Wikipedia website in French

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