Brice Pauset
Composer
Born in Besançon in 1965. Brice Pauset, who also performs as a harpsichordist, studied piano, violin, chamber music, analysis, and later composition (with Michel Philippot, Alain Bancquart, and Gérard Grisey, among others) in Paris. Further studies with Franco Donatoni in Sienna and with Brian Ferneyhough in Royaumont. 1994-95 courses in musical informatics at IRCAM.
In the 2004–2005 season he was Composer in Residence at the Mannheim Opera, from 2010 to 2020 Artist in Residence at the Opéra de Dijon (France) and for the 2021–2022 season Artist in Residence at the Cité Musicale – Arsenal de Metz (Lorraine, France).
His works cover all musical genres and are organized in extended cycles, often dedicated to particular extra-musical themes: the immanence of truths, a portrait of the current historical period, a reading of Karl Marx.
Currently, the ecological question is central to his work and will be the focus of a new opera and three intermedia works.
At the same time, he is working on a trilogy of operas based on texts by Philip K. Dick, Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke and Karel Capek.
In 2008, Brice Pauset was appointed professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he has lived since 2002.