The Ensemble 2e2m is a French musical ensemble specializing in the interpretation of works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Ensemble 2e2m was founded by Paul Méfano in 1972. 2e2m means études et expressions des modes musicaux ("Studies and expressions of musical modes"). It is one of the oldest ensembles devoted to contemporary classical music. [1]
The repertoire of the Ensemble 2e2m is essentially oriented towards contemporary music and the creation of new works. Over 600 scores have been created by the ensemble since its founding. [2]
Bruno Coulais is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks.
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Nguyễn Thiện Đạo was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen. He lived in Paris, France. In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet in 1984. He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75.
Georgia Spiropoulos is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time, she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.
Paul Méfano, was a French composer and conductor.
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Francesco Filidei is an Italian concert organist and composer. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino, he has performed internationally. As a composer, he has collaborated with singer-songwriter Claire Diterzi and written operas premiered in Porto and Paris. His music has been performed by notable contemporary music ensembles. His Japanese wife, Noriko Baba, is also a composer.
Suzanne Giraud is a French music educator and composer of contemporary music. Her works are marked by a predilection for percussion, voices and strings; they resonate with her artistic, poetic and architectural inspirations.
Founded in 2006, the Quatuor Béla is composed of four French musicians, graduates of the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSM): Julien Dieudegard, Frédéric Aurier, Julian Boutin, and Luc Dedreuil.
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Jean-Pierre Ouvrard was a French musicologist, music educator, researcher at the François Rabelais University and choral conductor.
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