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French classical guitarist, lute player, composer and educator Arnaud Dumond is one of the most fascinating musical guitarists on the French and international scene. He asserts himself as one of those rare instrumentalists-composers who has taken the classical guitar to an unexpected dimension. Invited to major festivals around the world, he has participated in thousand concerts as a soloist, as well as in numerous masterclasses across more than sixty five countries and especially throughout France. 
 
With over 16 albums to his credit, he has recorded some of the most beautiful performances of the acoustic guitar international repertoire, his original compositions for the guitar, and also for choir (Mass, Requiem) and orchestra (guitar concerti). His virtuosity ranges from Renaissance to contemporary music. His sensitivity for new interpretations of baroque and renaissance music and the great guitar classics is as much appreciated as his deep knowledge contemporary guitar music. His original compositions for guitar parallels those of the masters and now form part of guitar students’ worldwide repertoire. His repertoire ranges from John Dowland to Luciano Berio (He was elected to play his Sequenza for guitar during the integral of Berio's Sequenze, in presence of the composer, Grand Théâtre of Geneva feb.2002).
 
Arnaud Dumond is the first French guitarist to win the 1st prize of the Paris-Radio-France Guitar Competition, founded by Robert Vidal and several other prestigious international competitions: Tokyo Yamaha Competition (for performers-composers) Gaudeamus Competition (contemporary music), at the International Youth Musical Competition in Belgrade. In each competition he was given the public prize.

After having started in music as an autodidact, he completed his graduate studies in classical guitar at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under the direction of Alberto Ponce. He has studied under the masters of the guitar Narciso Yepes, Emilio Pujol, John Williams and Joseph Urshalmi.
 
Dumond has performed in the company of prestigious musicians such as bassist Jaco Pastorius, jazz pianist Claude Bolling, flautists Georges Alirol, Pierre-Yves Artaud, William Parrot, André Stocchetti and Alain Marion, harpsichordists Elisabeth Chojnacka and Michèle Delfosse, violinists or baroque cellists Patrick Bismut, Philippe Foulon, Jean-Pierre Nouhaud, the Contrechamps Ensemble of Geneva and others bands. He has also played in the company of conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Nahon, Cyril Diederich, Leo Brouwer, Philippe Bride, Daniel Kawka, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Jean-Marie Curti, Roland Douatte, and Leo Samama.
 
For years and parallel to his career as a soloist, Arnaud Dumond has also focused his passion on Duets of various style. To day, after V.Le Gall, JB Marino and Samuelito, he plays with the great Andalusian guitarist Pedro SIERRA with musics based on famous classical tunes confronted, transcended, rearranged and so to speak, inflamed by the Flamenco style : Clasico for flamenco.

Dumond has also developed his career as a composer. He has written hundreds of works of all kinds: solos, duets and quartets for the guitar, but also works for strings, choir, orchestra and various ensembles. He is the author of several concertos for guitar(s) and orchestra. He has a sustained interest in sacred music, which he has portrayed in his works : Mass, Requiem (premiered in Reims Cathedral, then in Paris, Rouen, Evreux, Laon), 9 Tenebrae, Quintet  Olivers garden-tonight-be alone, madrigals...
 
He has distinguished himself by a committed approach to contemporary music. In the 1990s he created a guitar festival in Paris called the S.P.A.G. (Semaines de Paris Autour de la Guitare – Paris Weeks Around the Guitar), aimed at decompartmentalize the guitar by associating it with other instruments (including the voice) through contemporary creations. The honorary presidency of the festival as comprised of composers Maurice Ohana, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter and Edison Denisov.
 
Arnaud Dumond enjoys accompanying literature with the help of actors such as Anne Alvaro and François Marthouret (Journées Maria Casares), or through poetry / music recitals in the company of Marie-Christine Barrault, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marie Bernicat, Alain Carré, Pierre Lamy, Michel Paulin, Richard Vachoux, Frédérique Villedent, Clara Dumond, Paul Bouffartigue, Bertrand Festas and Rabah Medaoui.
 
Arnaud Dumond taught in Paris conservatories, at the ENM of Evreux, at the Catholic Institute of Paris, at the CRD of Créteil, at the Summer Academy of Fontainebleau (alongside Nadia Boulanger and Narcis Bonet). He has given internships and master classes in the United States, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Russia, England, Italy, Greece and in many cities throughout France. He is now a full professor emeritus hors classe and teaches in Paris. Every summer, he leads a workshop in Limoges, France, where for many years he has incorporated his love for the flamenco guitar to his teachings.
 
He is the author of several experimental methods, including one preface by Cuban composer, conductor, classical guitarist and honorary member of the International Music Council, Leo Brouwer. He has also written occasional columns, published in several medias especially in France such as guitaremag.com, La lettre du Musicien, France-Musique, Le Monde, Liberation, Les Cahiers de la Guitare, Guitare Classique, and on social networks.

 

ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

Solo Guitar:
  • Comme Un Tango 🎧
  • Comme un Tango (Tank'go home), Award prize Competition GFA, USA 🎧
  • Sonnerie 🎧
  • Sonata Da Requiem (Lythanie), Award prize Radio-France Competition 🎧
  • Variations Sur La Folie 🎧
  • Solo (for MIDI Guitar) 🎧
  • My Lady Boleyn’s Complaint 🎧
  • Au Bout de la Nuit (Prélude 24) (Live at El Alcazar de Sevilla) 🎧
  • Au Bout de la Nuit (Prélude 24) 🎧
  • Sonate N° 8 Invocacion & joropo (2019) 🎧
  • Sol à Seul (1998) Sonate 4 🎧
  • Sol à Seul, for Guitar & voice of the performer (live in Japan) 🎧
  • Variations Sur la Folie (2e enregistrement ) 🎧
  • Un silence d'oiseaux (1984) Sonate 3 🎧
  • Prélude & Toccata (2016) Sonate 5, commissioned by Concours International Robert Vidal de Barbezieux (2016) 🎧
  • Recitatif, Bel Canto & Procession (2018) Sonate 6, Commissioned by Concours International d'Antony 🎧
  • Greensleeves' Changes (Différences sur Greensleeves) 🎧
  • Lythanie (Sonata da requiem) 🎧
  • Sarabande by Haendel arranged by Arnaud Dumond 🎧
CINQ HOMMAGES FRANÇAIS :
  • Cinq Hommage Francais I: Couperin (Passacaille Sur Purcell) 🎧
  • Cinq Hommage Francais II: Poulenc (Sarabande En Choral) 🎧
  • Cinq Hommage Francais III: Milhaud (La Création Du Train) 🎧
  • Cinq Hommage Francais IV: Debussy (De La Neige Sous Les Pas) 🎧
  • Cinq Hommage Francais V: Ravel (Comme Un Hommage) 🎧
CINQ HAÏKUS ATONAUX :
  • Cinq Haïkus Atonaux I 🎧
  • Cinq Haïkus Atonaux II 🎧
  • Cinq Haïkus Atonaux III 🎧
  • Cinq Haïkus Atonaux IV 🎧
  • Cinq Haïkus Atonaux V 🎧
LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES :
  • Leçons de Ténèbres I: Lachrymae 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres II: Nuit 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres III: Passacaille 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres IV: Lamentations 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres V: Chant Profond 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres VI: Sarabande Iontaine 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres VII: Eruptio 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres VIII Initium 🎧
  • Leçons de Ténèbres IX: Jubilus 🎧
  • Oiseaux de soir 🎧
  • Sur un psaume russe 🎧
  • 24 préludes rassemblés pour guitare - work in progress
  • 36 études de style (Editions Lemoine, Paris)
  • Christmas music, dedicated to Stephen Robinson, Orlando University, Florida
  • Quatre petites saisons (Tant de printemps, Sol étude d'été, Passacaille d'automne, Raga d'hiver)
  • Tant va au ciel, in Memory of Roland Dyens
 
Guitar Duets:
  • S'il vous plaît compose-moi une chanson 🎧
  • Adagio & Passacaile 🎧
  • Un rossignol sur le cœur (A duet in memory of Roland Dyens) (2017) - 12'
  • Ex Cathedra 🎧
  • Voyage En Car 🎧
  • Beast Heaven 🎧
  • Alap à Herbie Bartok 🎧
  • Herbie Bartok 🎧
  • Permis de Jouer 🎧
  • Un Vention, Une Ventionne 🎧
  • Sambach 🎧
  • Le Temps Voleur en Fuite 🎧
  • Danza Característica de Brouwer 🎧
  • Étude 5 de Brouwer 🎧
  • Étude 6 de Brouwer 🎧
  • Étude 1 de Brouwer 🎧
  • Au bout de la nuit
  • Valse à l'envers (2018) 🎧
  • Ground for Two
  • Greensleeves' Changes (Différences sur Greensleeves) 🎧
  • Tank'go home, neo-tango dedicated to Salvador Allende, Lech Walesa & Alekos Panagoulis
  • My Lady Boleyn's Complaint 🎧
  • Twelve small duos and trios ("J'aime nos petits", Valses, Agua d'eau, Dissonances dynamiques)

Arrangements for 2 guitars :
  • Jeux Interdits 🎧
  • Haendel : Sarabande 🎧
  • Johan Sebastian Bach : Chaconne
  • Johan Sebastian Bach : Sinfonia in E Major (prelude from the 3rd suite for violin)
  • Barrios : La Catedrál (Allegro solennel)
  • Johan Sebastian Bach : Two Preludes (in C and D Minor)
  • Fernando Sor : Étude in B Minor 🎧
  • Valse à l'envers inspired by the valse « Bellefleur » by Pieter van der Staak
  • Gaspar Sanz: Canarios 🎧
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major, RV 93: II. Largo 🎧
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude In D Minor, BWV 999 🎧
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: V. Gavotte I 🎧
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude In C Major, BWV 846 🎧
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C Major, RV 443: II. Largo in E Minor 🎧
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio 🎧
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: II. Andante 🎧
  • Fernando Sor: Etude In B Minor, Op. 35 No 22 🎧
  • Traditional: Valse Tziganézuélienne 🎧
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W 390: II. Ária 🎧
  • Bela Bartok: Four Romanian Folk Danses, Sz. 56 🎧
  • Mikis Theodorakis: Dioti 🎧

Chamber Music:
Un Jour de Nuit, for String Quintet, in 5 movements (2021) 45'
  • Un Jour de Nuit for String Quintet, 1st movement (2021) 45' 🎧
  • Un Jour de Nuit for String Quintet, 3rd movement: Lettera Amorosa (2021) 9'28 🎧
  • Un Jour de Nuit for String Quintet, 5th movement: Notturno a Vapore (2021) 8'29 🎧
  • Médée Midi Désert, For Recorder & Guitar (also in version for flute, clarinet & violin) (Prize Tokyo Yamaha) 🎧
  • Miroirs De Lascaux, for harpsichord and guitar 🎧
  • Empressement & Passacaille for String Trio d'amour and Théorbe
  • Pas de deux, for violin and guitar 🎧
  • Neiges, for marimba, percussions and guitar 🎧
  • ​Les trois faces du silence, for cello and guitar - 11'
  • Colloque Senti et Mental, For Cello & Double Bass - 6'
  • Le grand chaperon rouge, Mono-drame for Percussionnist and Skin Drum Ensemble
  • La Guitare Endormie, For Reciter & Guitar (Scripts by Pierre Reverdy)
  • Jardin des oliviers - ce soir - soyez seul, for Guitar & String Quartet - 12'
  • Roman, For Guitar & String Quartet - 5'
  • Adagio & Passacaille, For Guitar Duo and Flute Trio - 7'
  • Claires et nettes, For Clarinet Ensemble - 6'
  • Sax à piles, For Saxophone Ensemble - 6'
  • Un silence si doux, For Flute and Recorder Ensemble - 5'
  • Suite Aladin, 12 Movements for Quartet (Clarinet, Cello, Guitar and Double Bass) - 40'
  • Sonnerie du Cor des Alpes, For Alphorn and Sextet (Commissioned by Festival des Instruments d'Amour 2015)
  • Rhapsodie, For Clarinet & Guitar
  • Empressement & Passacaille pour trio à cordes d'amour (dessus, cello, violone) et théorbe. Version pour Trio à cordes & guitare 8'

Guitar Quartets / Guitar Ensembles:
  • Allegro Barbaro 🎧
  • Lumières sur le Saint-Laurent 🎧
  • Concertino for solo Guitar & Guitar Orchestra "Compter Until Zwölf" (8 min) 🎧
  • Le Temps Voleur En Fuite: Course, Fête, Passacaille (15 min) 🎧
  • Le Temps Voleur en Fuite (Youtube) 🎧
  • Cordes de brume, Commissioned by Genève-Meyrin (7 min) 🎧
  • La sortie est au fond de l'espace, For Slammer, Electric Guitar, Guitar Ensemble and Double Bass - work in progress
  • Trois musiques plectrales, For Guitar and Mandolins Ensemble - Award Competition Suisse
  • Fandin'go, for Guitar Ensemble of 4 or 5 guitars 🎧
  • John Lennon les notes, for guitar quartet
  • Choral & Bal, for guitar quartet
  • Elégie & Passacaille, for guitar quartet
  • Grande sonnerie, For Guitar Ensemble, Violins, Flutes and Percussion
  • Un instant si doux, For Guitar Ensemble
  • Adaptation of Gustav Mahler 3rd Movement Symphonie No 1, for guitar ensemble (Commissioned by St Paul 3 Châteaux Festival)
  • Promenade en ville, For Guitar Trio or Quartet (2015) 🎧
  • Parfums d'Europe (6 parts) : Au pas de Bretagne, Blues d'est, Bouquet de Sévillanes, Air de Macédoine, Barcarole Mittel Europa, Train de nuit
  • Boulevard des solitudes, for Guitar Quartet (2017)
  • Quatre valses de saisons, for Guitar Quartet (2017).
  • Marche au pas de Bretagne, for Guitar Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Percussion and Double Bass (2017) 🎧
  • Pluie d'étoiles sur Loire, in memory of R. Dyens, For Guitar Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Percussion and Double Bass (2017) 🎧
  • Allegro Barbaro, For 2 Guitars, Guitar Orchestra and Double Bass (2018) 🎧
  • Homenaje a Lorca: 1) Un silencio de tambor 2) Allegro Apassionato (Commande du Festival de Petrer, Espagne) 🎧
  • Lumières en Appalaches, For Electric Guitar, Guitar Ensemble, Percussion, Double Bass (Commissioned by Ensemble Forestare, Québec, 2021) 🎧

Concerti for Guitar(s) and Orchestra / Choir :
  • L'Arbre Aux Aurores, Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra (2004) 🎧
  • Concerto for 2 Guitars and Strings (or String Quintet) 1st Movement (2016)  🎧
  • Concerto for 2 Guitars and Strings (or String Quintet) 2nd Movement (2016)  🎧
  • Concerto for 2 Guitars and Strings (or String Quintet) 3rd Movement (2016)  🎧
  • Allegro Barbaro, Concerto for 2 Guitars, Guitar Orchestra and Double Bass (2018)
  • Neige sous les orangers, Concertino for Guitar and String Orchestra
  • Compter Until Zwölf, Concertino for Solo Guitar and Guitar Ensemble
  • Psaumes sans paroles, Concerto Breve for Guitar and Mixed Choir pour chœur
 
Works for Choir & Orchestra:
Requiem pour une Nativité, Oratorio for Mixed Choir, Children’s Choir, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Reciters, Instrumental Ensemble (flûte, clarinette, cor, trompette, quatuor à cordes, percussions) et ensemble of plucked strings 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Requiem 1 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Miserere 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Requiem 2 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Requiem 3 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Dies Irae 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Forêt-Agnus 🎧
  • Suite De Requiem: Danse Macabre & Tango Funèbre 🎧
Messe in Terra Pax, For Mixed Choir a cappella accompanied by Organ ad lib. 1st Price at Ciudad Ibague Competition in Colombia 🎧
  • Messe In Terra Pax: Kyrie 🎧
  • Messe In Terra Pax: Gloria 🎧
  • Messe In Terra Pax: Credo 🎧
  • Messe In Terra Pax: Sanctus 🎧
  • Messe In Terra Pax: Agnus 🎧
  • Jusque dans l'Oubli Je T'aimerai… (hommage à Orphée & Eurydice), for Mixed Choir, Vocal Quartet and Harmony Orchestra 🎧
  • Sonnerie à Réveiller Les Morts, For Mixed Choir, Vocal Quartet and Harmony Orchestra 🎧
  • Cêne de ménage, For Mixed Choir a cappella 🎧
  • Voi ch'intrate…, For Mixed Choir (Script from Dante’s Inferno, Divine Comedy)
  • Et Nous Ferons des Plorations Vers La Lumière Inclinés…, For Mixed Choir, Vocal Quartet and Harmony Orchestra
  • Passion Selon (A story of Mr Jesus)  Oratorio pour speakers, choir, soloists and small orchestra - work in progress
  • À La Gloire des Dieux qui n'existent pas,  a multiconfessionnal Oratorio - work in progress
  • Folia des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison, For Children’s Choir (Script by Debussy)  - work in progress
  • Agnus & Paradisum, for children's choir (extraits from Requiem de la nativité) 🎧
  • Notre Père, For Vocal Ensemble a Cappella
  • L'amour Est Infatigable, For Mixed Choir a Cappella (Script by Paul Verlaine)
  • Partir-revenir, For Harmony Orchestra
  • Livre de Madrigaux (Les loups, Ma-man, Lumières)
 
Featured on Film Soundtracks, Theater and Ballet:
El Dorado, a film by Carlos Saura, Soli and duets with singer Amancio Prada:
  • El Dorado : En la tienda de Inés de Atienza 🎧,
  • El Dorado : Canción lejana en el río 🎧,
  • El Dorado: Inés de Atienza, La más bella de Cuzco 🎧
  • El Dorado : Noche en el campamento 🎧.
  • Catherine, Piece by Guy Kerner, For Solo Violin (Created by Jean Mouillère)
  • Les Troyennes, Text by Euripide, Staged by Pierre Lamy
  • Des bleus à l'âme, Film by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
  • Whisper, Music for ballet by Marie-Laure Bédel-Tarneaud
  • Hope, Electroacoustic Music for ballet by Marie-Laure Bédel-Tarneaud
  • Aladin, Music for ballet by Marie-Laure Bédel-Tarneaud
  • Profanes, stage music after Jeanne Benameur (Grand Prize RTL - Lire) staged by Antoine Chapelot – 2016
 
Electroacoustic Music:
  • Un rêve sans importance spéciale, For MIDI Guitar & Synthesizer 🎧
  • Oud of Africa (Script by Césaire & Isabelle Rimbaud) For MIDI Guitar, Meta-instrument & Voice 🎧
  • Solo, For MIDI Guitar & Electronics (Prize Concours Lycéen de La Lettre de la Musique) 🎧
  • Hope, for ballet by Marie-Laure Bédel-Tarneaud
  • Derviche tourneur le retour (Hommage à Marcel Dadi) For MIDI Guitar & Electronics
 
Piano Music:
  • 24 petits préludes
  • 3 vals 

 

EDUCATIONAL BOOKS:

  • Répertoires Pédagogiques Volume 1
  • Répertoires Pédagogiques Volume 2 (duos)
  • Répertoires Pédagogiques Volume 3 (70 créations de guitaristes-compositeurs-enseignants)
  • La Guitare Méthode pour débutants (Guitar Method for Beginners) - Preface by Leo Brouwer
  • 36 Études de style, 12 études faciles (Cycle 1)
  • 36 Études de style, 12 études faciles (Cycle 2)
  • 36 Études de style, 12 études faciles (Cycle 3)

 

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS:

As a Guitarist:
  • 2nd Prize of the International Competition Paris Radio-France (1972)
  • 1st Prize of the International Competition Paris Radio-France (first French guitarist to win the 1st Prize of this Competition) (1973)
  • Audience Prize and 3rd Prize of the Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Competition (he is the first guitarist to reach the final in the history of this Competition)
  • Audience Prize and 1st Prize of the Yamaha Tokyo Competition for Performers-Composers, (1st nominated performer/composer to perform his own piece, Médée Midi Désert for Flute & Guitar alongside the flutist William Parrot)
  • Audience Prize and 2nd Prize of the Belgrade International Musical Youth Competition
 
As a Composer:
  • 1st & 2nd Prize of the Competition "Ciudad Ibague" in Colombia for his Messe in Terra Pax
  • High School Composers’ Prize for La Lettre du Musicien
  • Prize of the Competition Radio-France for his Lythanie / Sonata da Requiem
  • Prize of the Composition Competition GFA in the United States for his Leçons de Ténèbres for Solo Guitar
  • Prize of the Menuhin Foundation for Comme un tango (2008)
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