NEWS
Grand Prix of Music Symphony SACEM 2006 and named the "Victoires de la musique classic" four times in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008, Nicolas Bacri, born in Paris in 1961, is the author of more than one hundred and ten partitions including six symphonies, six cantatas, ten concertos (for violin (3), for clarinet (2), Trumpet (2), for cello, piano, flute) and many other concert works (Requiem, Folia, Sinfonia Concertante, Concerto Nostalgico, amoroso Concerto, Une Prière, Divertimento, Nocturne, Notturno etc ...) for various instruments and eight string quartets, four piano trios and a number of sonatas and suites for violin, viola and cello and eleven motets for choir. Among the recent successes that confirm the distinctive place of N. Bacri in a new generation of French composers including his Concerto tenebroso (Winter), joint command of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra for François Leleux, created at the Theatre des Champs- Elysees in January 2010 and again in Gävle (Sweden) the same year, Entre terre (dedicated to miners and former miners from around the world) for narrator and orchestra, choirs, commissioned by the Orchestre de Douai, created in November 2009, the Sixth Symphony op. 60, written in 1998 at the request of Radio-France and recorded by the Orchestre National de France under the direction of Leonard Slatkin (taken over by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Harding in 2003 at the Royal Festival Hall) and his Divertimento op. 66, for piano, violin and orchestra, commissioned by the City of Paris, created by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Pascal Rophé at the Theatre du Chatelet, broadcast live on France Musique and TV (2000) taken in 2006 for the same time Salle Pleyel with the same partners. In 2002, his work, Une Prière, in its version for violin and orchestra, is registered by the company RCA (BMG), with Laurent Korcia and the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne under the direction of Semyon Bychkov, which in stride, orderd from N. Bacri's 3rd Violin Concerto op. 83, created, recorded and televised (Germany) in November 2003 by the violinist Mirjam Tschopp from Zurich. It's yet again Germany, which lead to the creation of his Concerto amoroso (Spring), dedicated to François Leleux and Lisa Batiashvili, the joint command Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Tapiola Sinfonietta (Helsinki), in March 2006 and its Capriccio for three violins and orchestra op. 118, command of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in July 2010, while the years 2002-2010 have been marked by an ongoing collaboration with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris which he is the associate composer from 2009 to 2011, the Festival of Forests ( Compiègne) where he is in residence from 2010 to 2012, the Tapiola Sinfonietta (Helsinki), the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Massy (Dominique Rouits), Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi), Orchestre de Bretagne, "Ensemble-Orchestra of Lower Normandy" (Dominique Debart), the Ensemble instrumental "La Follia", the Choir Mikrokosmos (Loïc Pierre).

TRAINING AND CAREER
N. Bacri begins with learning the piano at the age of seven and completed his training by studying harmony, counterpoint, musical analysis and composition with Françoise Gangloff-Levéchin Christian Manen and then in 1979, with the composer of German origin Louis Saguer. In 1980, he entered the Paris Conservatory where he will receive the teachings of Claude Ballif, Marius Constant, Serge Nigg and Michel Philippot. He left the Conservatory with the first prize for composition in 1983 and became a two-year resident at the Academy of France in Rome (Villa Medici) not without studying in private, the technique of conducting with Jean Catoire, a disciple of Leon Barzin. He also participated in master classes of Franco Donatoni and Brian Ferneyhough organized by the Paris Conservatory in 1983 and received the advice of Gilbert Amy, Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux and Emmanuel Nunes.
In 1987, Radio France appointed him the position of Artistic Director of the service chamber music. He abandoned this business in 1991 to devote himself entirely to the new composition by becoming resident at the Casa de Velasquez (until 1993). Supported by the Foundation's Corporate Credit National (now the "Banque Populaire") from 1993 to 1996 he lived in La Pree (Indre) at the invitation of the Cultural Association "Pour Que l'Esprit Vive" in 1993 in 1999 and won numerous awards including the Grand Prix of the Académie du Disque in 1993 and several awards from SACEM and the Academy of Fine Arts for the whole of his work. First guest composer of the French Symphony Orchestra (direction Petitgirard Lawrence) was appointed " residing composer " at the Picardy Orchestra by Louis Langrée for which he wrote his 4 and 5 Symphonies, then Xavier Delette for he wrote his cantata 5 °, created and recorded by the Orchestre de Bayonne-Côte Basque, where he lived from 2001 to 2006. In 2005 he was appointed professor of orchestration at the Conservatoire / High School of Music in Geneva where he resides from 2006 to 2007. Composer associate the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (2009-11) and residing composer at the Festival of forests (Compiègne) (2010-12), he lives in Brussels since 2007.

Since the creation of his first Violin Concerto (Op. 7) in the series of concerts for Radio-France "Perspectives of the XX Century" (1985), programmed by Harry Halbreich, N. Bacri has received regular orders from Radio France, the Ministry of Culture and numerous orchestras, soloists and French and international festivals.

"A time anchored in a post-constructivist aesthetic webernienne culminating is his Symphony No. 1 devoted to Elliott Carter, his music has gradually returned from his Cello Concerto of 1987 (dedicated to Henri Dutilleux),with the melodic continuity with the predominant aesthetics of the postwar had evacuated. Far from being a regression in the sense of Adorno's term, this shift is helping to register N. Bacri in the aesthetics of his time, an aesthetic of reconciliation. "(Philippe Michel, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001 edition).