Voir aussi :
  Réponse de Florentine Mulsant à un questionnaire réalisé par Danielle Pistonne (French)
  Florentine Mulsant biography by Stéphanie Carne (French)
  Réponses au questionnaire de Proust
  Studies and professional experiment

     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.

     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 op4 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 op26.

     Her pieces are played at different International Festivals, in several concert In 1987, she obtained the first prize in composition, with unanimity of the jury, at the Schola halls in Paris and at Radio-France too. Her pieces performed in Germany, in Belgium, in Nederland, Switzerland and in the United States.

     Several of her compositions were commissions, for example the string quartet, commissioned by Radio- France and broadcasted in January 2004.

     In 2004, the great cellist Henri Demarquette has created in March, the cello Sonata op27 to whom it is dedicated. Florentine Mulsant received also the commission for the Piano Quartet op28 created in May from the Festival des Jeunes Interprètes and the fantastic young pianist Lise de la Salle has commissioned the Passacaille op29 and gave the creation of this piece in a major Piano Festival in September 2004 in Paris.

     In June 2005, The Wind Quintet op30 was created at the Festival: Musiques Démesurées in Clermont- Ferrant and in September 2005, the Beethoven Festival has invited Lise de la Salle for the German creation of the Passacaille op29.

     In October 2005, a record of her Quartet with clarinet op 22 played by the Ensemble Latitudes published by Triton and obtained excellent critics from the main French musical magazines.

     In February 2006, her Symphony for Strings op32, commissioned by Radio-France was created during the Festival Présences, played by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio- France. This work was played again during the International Festival of Radio-France Montpellier in July 2006 by the Hanseatica Orchestra, under the conducting of Enrique Mazzola.

     In July 2006, she received the Henri Sauguet Price for her organ work: “Suite Sacrée op31” at the Concours International de Composition de Saint Bertrand de Comminges.

     In March 2007, AR RE –SE has edited a Cd including four of her works of chamber music:

     The Sonate de Concert op19, the op21, the Trio op23 and the Sonata for solo cello op27 interpreted by Henri Demarquette.

     She also has received a Commission from Radio France for her second Symphony: “Exil” op33 for orchestra which the creation took place in Prague during the Festival “Prague Premieres” in April 2008.