Roland Auzet 

Composer Auzet, Roland

Born in 1964, Roland Auzet studied composition with Georges Bœuf, and percussion with Gérard Bazus at the Conservatoire National de Région de Marseille, where he obtained his degree. Later, he received First Prize (by acclaim), as well as a prize for virtuosity in Gaston Sylvestre's class at the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison. He received First Prize for Performance at the Darmstadt International Contemporary Music Festival, and he also received an award in 1991 from the Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet pour la Vocation. He gives recitals and performs chamber music in France and abroad, and has performed numerous premieres, notably with the 2e2m Ensemble and at IRCAM. In 1991, he performed the first percussion recital at the Pleyel Hall in Paris. In 1992, with the Crédit Lyonnais Foundation, he created, with Iannis Xenakis, the musical drama Histoire d'un Faust. Aiming to sensitize the public to today's music, and to broach the fundamental themes of our existence, he produced a show, along with "image artists", focussing on the characters of Niebelungen. In 1996, he participated in IRCAM's Composition and Computer Music course, which led to the creation of a personal project. He is also initiating the creation of an itinerant musical theatre which goes by the name of Cirque du Tambour. This project constitutes an elemental step in the career of Auzet, who wishes to take musical thinking on a journey of discovery, to give it a nomadic colour and in particular a popular life, and to rejoin the artistic tradition. His work 'Les chemises de nuit n'ont pas de poches' was presented at the Radio-France Présences Festival 97. In 1997, the Commission de la République Française pour l'Education, la Science et la Culture nominated Roland Auzet for UNESCO's International Music Council Prize.