Clift Paul
(1978)
Genre: Classical Music
Biography
* 1978 Melbourne AUS.
Paul Clift (b. 1978) is an Australian composer based in Basel, Switzerland. His music often attempts to make abstract associations with a variety of concepts such as linguistics, modernist literature & painting, cognitive phenomena, and extra-European musical traditions. Paul's music has been performed by ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, ICE, Argento, Mivos Quartet, L'instant Donné, Either/Or, Contrechamps, Proton, Neofonia, Novel Ensemble Modern & Klangforum Wien, and by esteemed soloists such as Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Olivia Steimel, William Lang, Patrick Stadler, Geoff Landmann, as well as his wife, Slovenian flautist Anja Clift.
Paul's compositional outlook is marked by formative studies with George Benjamin, Jean-Luc Hervé, Fred Lerdahl, Philippe Leroux, Fabien Lévy & Tristan Murail. He obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Columbia University, New York, a Masters of Music at King's College, London and also completed the IRCAM Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale, culminating in the premiere of With my limbs in the dark, composed in collaboration with choreographer Alban Richard. He has also participated in master-classes such as Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Acanthes, Domaine Forget, IMPULS, June in Buffalo, MATRIX, Internationale Sommerakademie der MDW & Darmstadt Ferienkursen. In 2016, Paul was awarded a residency at Villa Sträuli/Sulzberg Foundation in Switzerland.
In addition to composing, Paul is active as a researcher; he has undertaken research-residencies notably at the Paul Sacher Foundation (2014), Basel and at IRCAM (2014-15). Paul is also the Artistic-Director of neuverBand, a new-music chamber ensemble based in Basel. Paul's music is published online at www.babelscores.com. For more information, visit www.paulclift.net
Paul Clift (b. 1978) is an Australian composer based in Basel, Switzerland. His music often attempts to make abstract associations with a variety of concepts such as linguistics, modernist literature & painting, cognitive phenomena, and extra-European musical traditions. Paul's music has been performed by ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, ICE, Argento, Mivos Quartet, L'instant Donné, Either/Or, Contrechamps, Proton, Neofonia, Novel Ensemble Modern & Klangforum Wien, and by esteemed soloists such as Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Olivia Steimel, William Lang, Patrick Stadler, Geoff Landmann, as well as his wife, Slovenian flautist Anja Clift.
Paul's compositional outlook is marked by formative studies with George Benjamin, Jean-Luc Hervé, Fred Lerdahl, Philippe Leroux, Fabien Lévy & Tristan Murail. He obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Columbia University, New York, a Masters of Music at King's College, London and also completed the IRCAM Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale, culminating in the premiere of With my limbs in the dark, composed in collaboration with choreographer Alban Richard. He has also participated in master-classes such as Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Acanthes, Domaine Forget, IMPULS, June in Buffalo, MATRIX, Internationale Sommerakademie der MDW & Darmstadt Ferienkursen. In 2016, Paul was awarded a residency at Villa Sträuli/Sulzberg Foundation in Switzerland.
In addition to composing, Paul is active as a researcher; he has undertaken research-residencies notably at the Paul Sacher Foundation (2014), Basel and at IRCAM (2014-15). Paul is also the Artistic-Director of neuverBand, a new-music chamber ensemble based in Basel. Paul's music is published online at www.babelscores.com. For more information, visit www.paulclift.net
Work list
Action Painting (2006)
Instrumentation: for solo piano
Duration: 7' 00"
1950c (2010-2011)
Instrumentation: for restrung classical-guitar
Duration: 7' 30"
Infinite Regress (2011)
how do you express X? (2011)
Instrumentation: for flute, harp & viola
Duration: 8' 00"
homage à Tristan Murail
Instrumentation: for solo alto flute
Duration: 4' 00"
Instrumentation: for solo alto flute
Duration: 4' 00"
Third Station, 1960 (2014)
Instrumentation: for bass-flute, accordion & trigger-trombone
w/optional video projection
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for flute solo & ensemble of eight musicians
Duration: 8' 30"
Instrumentation: for string octet with sound-file playback
Duration: 12' 00"
duet/anagram (2015)
Instrumentation: for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Duration: 13' 00"
Instrumentation: for accordion & real-time electronics
Duration: 10' 00"
Instrumentation: for nineteen instruments
Texts: Duineser Elegien
with texts from Duineser Elegien: Die erste Elegie by Rainer Maria Rilke and citations from Maurice Ravel's Concerto for Piano in G Major
Duration: 12' 00"
radotements avec citation (2016-2017)
Instrumentation: for solo F/Bb trombone
Duration: 5' 30"
Manuscript
élan vital (2017-2018)
Instrumentation: for flute, saxophone, clarinet & piano
Duration: 10' 00"
The sea isn't rising, the ground is sinking (2017)
Instrumentation: for soprano, saxophone, percussion, piano & real-time electronics
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
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