Bruno Mantovani

The confinement period in France that began in March 2020, provided the chance to reflect on the directions that I hoped to pursue in the coming years, and to give myself several small writing challen...

The highly virtuoso yet unstable work Bug was given its first performance on 6 February 1999 during Mériel festival by its dedicatee Philippe Soured. It is a musical metaphor of the disarray caused by...

After Eclair de lune for three principal snare drums, three ensembles and electronics, and after my Concerto for two violas written for Tabea Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit, I felt compelled to compo...

After Rainer Maria Rilke, Giacomo Leopardi and Friedrich von Schiller, it is Paul Tymich who has the place of honour in this fourth cantata. The poet from Leipzig, whose famous ''Komm, Jesu, Komm!'' w...

The title of this piano work refers to an Ornette Coleman jazz standard, Blue connotation. At the time of composition, the famous saxophonist had already shaken off the shackles of the rigid chorus-ve...

Da Roma reflects my current investigation of the notion of process. Written at the Villa Medici in 2004, this piece is the sequel to Cycle des gris for baroque orchestra or indeed Fées for string quar...