Award winning of several international competitions
(including the Gaudeamus Foundation for contemporary music
in Rotterdam-Holland), Jean-Luc Menet, flutist creates the
Ensemble Alternance. He elaborates and explores new cultural
rotations, gives life to music of our time, creates a repertoire
of essentially fickle new works.Thus, he premieres or records
works by composers as varied as Klaus Huber, Philippe Hersant,
Elliott Carter, Mark André, Alessandro Solbiati, Bruno
Mantovani, Philippe Schoeller, Mauro Lanza... In Orléans,
side-by-side with John Cage, he elaborates the stage direction
of « Sixteen Dances » or with Ornette Coleman
« the Statue, Symbol of Freedom », while proposing
Varèse and Donatoni as the musical fabric for a choreography
for the Venise Biennale or performs in Warsaw with the Polish
Philharmonic Radio Orchestra, promotes french classical music
in Japan with Arditti Quartet, the harpist Naoko Yoshino and
the clarinettist Eduard Brunner or contemporary music : Hersant
at the National Dublin Concert Hall, the Kolarac Hall in Belgrade,
Boulez at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Schoeller at the Moscow
Tchaikowsky Conservatory, Pesson and Andre at the New-York
Guggenheim Museum. He is associated to the Solistes XXI choir
to premiere the « Miserere Ominibus » by Klaus
Huber at the Lucern festival then to the Paris-Bastille Opera,
the Casa di Musica in Porto, the Schauspielhaus in München.
He collaborates with the IRCAM (Paris) to prepare the R.HP
Platz’s alto flute concerto premiered with the Aachen
Symphony Orchestra then with the Belgrade Philhamonic Orchestra.
He participates to a concert tribute to Iannis Xenakis at
the Bastille Opera of Paris and joins to the Orchestra of
the Staatskapelle of Mecklemburg-Schwerin leaded by Matthias
Foremny to perform the flute concerto of Kaija Saariaho.
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