2019 : Grand Prix Sacem: Composer of the year for her life’s work, Contemporary Classical Music.
Florentine Mulsant is a French composer born on 27th of March 1962 in Dakar. Her musical style derives from two marked sources: the post-serial heritage which influenced the European composers in the 50s, and the revival of musical expressionism which is more and more vivid among today’s composers. Florentine Mulsant studied during 12 years at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she benefited from a classical education in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis and orchestration provided by major French Professors. In 1987, she obtained the first prize in composition, with unanimity of the jury, at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where her teacher was Allain Gaussin. She also studied composition with Franco Donatoni at Chigiana in Sienna, Italy, and with Alain Bancquart at CNSM in Paris. From 1991 to 1998, she taught music writing at University Paris IV-Sorbonne. Since 1999, she fully devotes herself to compostion. In 1998, her work “Amers” for piano op. 4 was awarded at the Concorso di Composizione International: Premio Città di Pescara and in 2004 she won the Gold Medal at the Concours International de l’Académie de Lutèce for her String Quartet op. 26. In July 2006, she received the Henri Sauguet Price for her organ work Suite “Sacrée” op. 31 at the Concours International de Composition de Saint Bertrand de Comminges. Her pieces yet were played at various International Festivals, in several concert halls in Paris, in different French cities and at Radio France, too. Her pieces have been performed in Germany, in Belgium, in The Netherlands, Switzerland and in the United States. Several of her compositions were commissions. In February 2006, her Symphony for Strings op. 32, commissioned by Radio France has been performed during the Festival Présences, played by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France. In March 2007, the label AR RE – SE has edited a CD including four of her works of chamber music: The “Sonate de Concert” op. 19, the “Sonate pour violon et piano” op. 21, the “Trio” op. 23 and the “Sonata for solo cello” op. 27 interpreted by Henri Demarquette. She also has received a commission from Radio France for her second Symphony “Exil” op. 33 for orchestra, which was first performed in Prague during the Festival “Prague Premieres” in April 2008. Her works are published by the publishing house Furore Verlag.
