Michael Jarrell was born in Geneva. Having been attracted to both art and music ("Music was always more important to me... I have hesitated at some point."), he decided on Geneva Conservatory, where he attended the music theory classes of Eric Gaudibert and studied composition under Klaus Huber in Freiburg im Breisgau. ("I owe him everything, especially for his transference of skills."). Between 1986 and 1988 he lived in Paris where he completed a stage in musical information at IRCAM and then in Rome (1988-89 at Medici Villa and the Swiss Institute) where he continued his work on the 'Assonance' series, a sequence drawn from sketchbooks. ("The sketch is a perfectly natural stage in the painting, in which the artist attempts to solve certain problems... These aspects are less manifest in music. This I find regrettable.") From 1991-1993 he was composer in residence with the Lyon National Orchestra. Today Jarrell teaches composition at the Vienna School of Music ("Normally, even before I begin, I can get an overview of what happens on the level of form, motive etc., but for some time now it has been the opposite: I begin and then tend to allow for a more unleashed development.")
Elenco delle opere
Aber der Wissende (1981)
Strumentazione: pour voix et marimba
Durata: 14' 00"
Henry Lemoine
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In te, anime meus, tempora metior (1982)
Strumentazione: pour trio à cordes
Durata: 28' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Trei II (1982-1983)
Strumentazione: pour soprano et 5 instruments (fl., clar., vl. vlc., p)
Durata: 15' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Assonance I (1983)
Strumentazione: pour clarinette seule
Durata: 10' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Trace-écart (1984)
Strumentazione: pour soprano, contralto, percussion et double ensemble de 8 instruments (flûte, hautbois, clarinette, basson, 2 cors, trompette, trombone, 2 percussions, piano, harpe, violon, alto, violoncelle, contrebasse)
Durata: 17' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Dérives (1980-1985)
Opéra de chambre
Strumentazione: pour trois chanteurs (s, bar, réc), un comédien, et ensemble instrumental (choeur parlé, flûte, clarinette, percussions, piano, guitare, violon, alto, alto, violoncelle)
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Lysistrata (1985)
Musique de scène pour "Lysistrata" d'Aristophane
Strumentazione: pour 3 percussions
Durata: 2h 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Instantanés (1985-1986)
Strumentazione: pour grand orchestre (3,3,3,3 - 4,3,3,1 - perc(4), pno, hpe - cordes)
Durata: 16' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Anagrammes (1986)
Strumentazione: pour quintette à vent
Durata: 13' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Eco (1986)
Strumentazione: pour voix et piano
Durata: 10' 00"
Henry Lemoine
24, rue Pigalle F-75009 Paris Tel. +33 1 48 74 09 25 Fax +33 1 45 26 74 42
Servière, Antonin: Processus de composition et artisanat. L'exemple de "Trei II" (1983) de Michael Jarrell, in: Dissonanz 120 (2012), S. 36-51 [Internet]
Meyer, Thomas: Ins Gedächtnis zurückgerissen. Michael Jarrells "Le père" an den Schwetzinger Festspielen, in: Dissonanz 111 (2010), S. 65-66 [Internet]
Michel, Pierre: Michael Jarrell et l'orchestre, in: Dissonanz 102 (2008), S. 50-51 [Internet]
Meyer, Thomas: Création de "Galilée", opéra de Michael Jarrell, in: Dissonanz 94 (2007) [Internet]
Steiner, Christoph: Eines blauflimmernd Bestimmten sich erinnernd. Michael Jarrells "Assonance V", in: Dissonanz 57 (1998)
Kager, Reinhard: Klangblitze in stiller Dunkelheit. Zur Musik der Schweizer Komponisten Beat Furrer und Michael Jarrell, in: Programmheft der Internationalen Musikfestwochen Luzern, Luzern 1996, S. 142ff
vogel, Peter: Assonanz und Stimmen. Uraufführungen von Michael Jarrell und Beat Furrer, in: Basler Zeitung (6. September 1996) 208 (1996), S. 46