Sospeso performs a new work by Mr. Dalbavie at the Boulez tribute concert on May 10, 2005, at Zankel Hall.

Dalbavie’s luminous and tactile music explores timbre and color, drawing on the French spectral school, but also reinterpreting the post-serial music of Boulez and the New York minimalism of Steve Reich and Morton Feldman.  Born in 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Marc-André Dalbavie took his first piano lessons at the age of six, and won his first national prize at the age of eight.  As early as 1971, one of his interpretations had been recorded for television.  Later he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris.

In 1980, he worked with John Cage in London; he went to the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, on an exchange scholarship in 1984.  From 1983 to 1985 he pursued a composition course with Tristan Murail, and this stage marked his first musical experience with the computer.  Since 1985, he has been working at IRCAM in the music research department. in addition to his activities as conductor.  He also studied with Pierre Boulez; he has received numerous prizes and awards.

Marc Andre Dalbavie was awarded a Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Diademes in the category of computer music.