Short biography

Pierre Fourré © Ferrante Ferranti
Pierre Fourré © Ferrante Ferranti

Pierre Fourré

Composition

March, April, May 2026

Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg

After practicing Classical, Jazz and Afro-Cuban percussion, Pierre Fourré moved on to the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), where he obtained Bachelor and Master's degree cum sum laudae in Musical Composition. He also studied analysis, orchestration, music history, medieval counterpoint and conducting. He strives to create music that bridges different worlds, influenced by his experiences with jazz, hip-hop, and fusion, as well as his encounters with Indian, Balinese, and African music.

His music has been performed by ensemble interContemporain, Ensemble Aleph, OLC, musicians from the CNSMDP, KCB and the HEM in Geneva and Lausanne, and conducted by Léo Margue, Clara Baget, Kyrian Freidenberg and Jean-Philippe Wurtz.

As an artistic director and advisor, he worked with conductor Clara Baget, pianist and composer Charles Heisser, pianist Marina Saiki, and double bassist and improviser Jules Bauer de Milleret.

His work received unanimously First prize by Tristan Murail & Yvan Fedele at the 5th Kazakhstan International Composition Competition, Special prize at the 3rd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition, Coup de Coeur of the Académie Charles Cros, the SACEM and the SACD Prize.

Pierre Fourré has been nourished by French poetics and Italian rigor. He searches for what silence has to say to us in the poetics of the body and in the outpouring of song.

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