Philippe Manoury

Philippe Manoury (born 19 June 1952) is a French composer. Biography Manoury was born on June 19, 1952, in Tulle, France, and began composition studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot, Ivo Malec, and Claude Ballif. In 1975, he undertook studies in computer-assisted composition with , and joined IRCAM as a composer and electronic music researcher in 1980. From 2004 until 2012, Manoury served on the composition faculty at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught composition, electronic music, and analysis in the graduate program. After retiring from UCSD, he returned to France, settling in Strasbourg. Music Manoury’s work is strongly influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis, and his early work from 1972 to 1976 combines serial punctualism with dense sound masses characteristic of the music of Stockhausen and Xenakis, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock. In it “Manoury … mercifully knows how to use the abundance of percussion instruments in ways far more discriminately than his contemporaries beholde