MENUT Benoît
Né en 1977
Energy in sounds, driven by meaning.
Passionate about the close relationship between music and words, he draws constant inspiration from the latter.
For the stage, he wrote Fando et Lis (2018) and won the SACD’s 2019 New Talent Award and the 2019 Charles Oulmont Prize for this first opera, further establishing his growing operatic trajectory: Micromégas, an opera based on Voltaire (commissioned by Ars Musica Festival in Brussels), Le Rouge et le Noir for Opera de Paris, Beethoven Celtique, with Sir Bryn Terfel and Carlos Nunes (2023), the opera Stella et le Maître des souhaits (commissioned by Philharmonie de Paris, 2020). Always open to new adventures, he is preparing Un Match, his new opera set in the world of football, for 2025 (Paris, Opéra de Reims…).
Compositions
Solos
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Amico
for guitar
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Ar Men
voyage en cinq stations for viola
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Canto Per Matteo
for violin
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Iroise
for cello
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L’Hippocampe
for violin
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L’Oiseau Didariel
for piano
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L’Ombre du Vent
for flute
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La Marianne de Kovider
for piano
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La Valse de Camille Claudel
for piano
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Le Guerrier Combattant
for piano
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L’Argonaute
Etude-Statue nº 4 for piano
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Micro-suite
for cello
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One Shot
for solo trumpet
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Postlude
for cello
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Regards de Vartan
for cello
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Regards de Vartan (pour alto)
for viola
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Valse retrouvée
for piano
Duos
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Après une lecture de Dante
for piano & cello
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Caraïbes
for two cellos
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Danza dei Contrasti
for piano four hands
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Duo les Îles
for violin & cello
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Le Sel de la Terre
for piano & viola
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Les Nombres
for violin & piano
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Les Pierres chantent
for piano four hands
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Les Sons dessinés
for 2 violins
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Outside
for cello & piano
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Un Fragment de Rimbaud
for violin & percussion
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Ys
for piano & alto saxophone
Trios
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Barockissimo
for violin, mandolin & cello
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Les Allées sombres
for violin, cello & piano
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Partita
for traverso, baroque oboe & viola da gamba
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Trio le matin
for violin, viola & cello
Quatuors
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Bagatelle-Prélude
for clarinet quartet (conductor and separate parts)
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Danses
for flute & string trio (conductor and separate parts)
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Danses
for flute & string trio
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Kol Nidré
for string quartet
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Kol Nidré
for string quartet
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Stèles
for violin, viola, cello & piano (conductor)
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Stèles
for violin, viola, cello & piano (material)
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Urbs
string quartet n° 2
Quintets
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Alba
for flute, string trio & harp (conductor and separate parts)
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Alba
for flute, string trio & harp
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La Danse de Saint Bernard
for flute, violin, cello, percussion & harp
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Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune (Claude Debussy)
for string quartet & piano (conductor and separate parts)
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Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune (Claude Debussy)
for string quartet & piano (conductor and separate parts)
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Rehearsal
for clarinet & string quartet (conductor and separate parts)
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Rehearsal
for clarinet & string quartet
Musique Symphonique
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America
for soprano solo, violin solo & chamber orchestra (poem by Claude Mac Kay)
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Anita
for orchestra
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Anita
for orchestra (PO and material)
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Depuis le Rivage
poem for trio with piano, percussion & string orchestra
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Depuis le Rivage
poem for trio with piano, percussion & string orchestra
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Die Sehnsucht nach dem Glück
rhapsody for cello & orchestra
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Die Sehnsucht nach dem Glück
rhapsody for cello & orchestra (PO and material)
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En Résonance
for symphony orchestra (PO and material)
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En Résonance
for symphony orchestra (PO and material)
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Icare
for piano & ensemble
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L’Année du daim
for orchestra (PO and material)
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L’Année du daim
for orchestra (PO and material)
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La Parade des Animaux bizarres
Portraits animaliers for narrator and instrumental ensemble for flute, clarinet, two pianos, percussionist and string quintet or ensemble text by Benoît Menut
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La Parade des Animaux bizarres
Portraits animaliers for narrator and instrumental ensemble for flute, clarinet, two pianos, percussionist and string quintet or ensemble text by Benoît Menut
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Les Trois Abers
for orchestra
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Les Trois Abers
for orchestra (PO and material)
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O Vis Æternitatis
for solo violin & strings
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O Vis Æternitatis
for solo violin & strings (PO and hardware)
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Scherzo
for orchestra
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Scherzo
for orchestra (PO and material)
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Symphonie pour une plume
for actor, orchestra & solo percussion (PO and material)
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Symphonie pour une plume
for actor, orchestra & solo percussion (PO and material)
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Un Poème
rhapsody for violin and orchestra
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Un Poème
rhapsody for cello & orchestra (PO and material)
Musique Vocale
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A Marée basse…
for children's choir & piano
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America
for soprano solo, violin solo & chamber orchestra (poem by Claude Mac Kay)
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Au milieu de la mer…
for soprano & cello
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Bérengère
cantata for actresses, youth and adult choirs & wind band
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Bérengère
cantata for actresses, youth and adult choirs & wind band
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Bérengère (chœurs)
cantata for actresses, youth and adult choirs & wind band
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Caelestis Hierusalem
for three equal voices or women's choir
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Chemins d’amis
for clarinet, viola, piano & children's choir (conductor and separate parts)
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Chemins d’amis
for clarinet, viola, piano & children's choir
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Et audivit vocem…
for children's choir with equal voices & organ (conductor and separate parts)
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Fusées
for soprano, flute, oboe, bassoon & piano (conductor and separate parts)
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Happy Morning
4 duets for strings & soprano
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Insectitudes
for flute, trumpet, cello and children's voices
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Io seguo con disio
for soprano & string quartet
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Le Christ aux coquelicots
lyric poem for vocal ensemble text by Christian Bobin
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Le Dormeur du Val
for two female voices & piano
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Le Guetteur mélancolique
for baritone & piano Text by Guillaume Apollinaire
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Le Monologue d’Anna
pour mezzo-soprano, clarinette & piano
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Paroles d’îles
for soprano & piano poem by Aimé Césaire
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Paroles d’îles (voix solo)
for soprano poem by Aimé Césaire
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Petite Cantate
for baritone solo, choir, flute, viola, cello & organ
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Pour l’Odyssée
pour chœur mixte pouvant être intégré dans l’interprétation de Une Odyssée (pour ensemble vocal utilisant quelques percussions)
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Qui donc, qui donc…
for soprano (using castanets) & cello poem by Aimé Césaire (conductor and separate part)
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Shéhérazade, une fille de la ville
féérie d’après Les Mille et une nuit pour soprano, baryton, choeur à voix égales, récitante, violon, clarinette, piano & percussion livret de Rania Meziani
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Shéhérazade, une fille de la ville
fairy tale based on The Thousand and One Nights for soprano, baritone, equal-voice choir, narrator, violin, clarinet, piano & percussion libretto by Rania Meziani (conductor and separate parts)
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Sources
for soprano, cello & piano (text: Marie de l'Incarnation)
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Trois Poèmes galants
for soprano & piano
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Trois Prières
for choir of 3 equal voices
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Un grand vent s’est levé (choir & string quartet)
for children's choir, string quartet & harp (conductor and separate parts)
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Un grand vent s’est levé (chœur et orgue)
for children's choir & organ
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Un grand vent s’est levé (chœur et quatuor à cordes)
for children's choir, string quartet & harp (conductor and separate parts)
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Une Odyssée
for vocal ensemble with percussion
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Vidi madonna sopra un fresco rio
for soprano & string quartet (or string ensemble) Sonnet by Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (conductor and separate parts)
Lyrical music
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Fando et Lis
opera in a prologue and six tableaux (PO and material)
Musique de Scène
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La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier
Music for the eponymous tale by Gustave Flaubert
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Le petit garçon qui avait envie d’espace
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Lupus Lupa Lupiot
for soprano, violin, clarinet, cello & piano
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Lupus Lupa Lupiot
for soprano, violin, clarinet, cello & piano
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Un Loup affamé
for piano & narrator
Educational Works
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Pour préluder
for piano
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Une Bretagne en mots et en sons
15 educational pieces:
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Une Bretagne en mots et en sons
15 teaching pieces (driver and separate parts)
Biography
Energy in sounds, driven by meaning.
Passionate about the close relationship between music and words, he draws constant inspiration from the latter.
For the stage, he wrote Fando et Lis (2018) and won the SACD’s 2019 New Talent Award and the 2019 Charles Oulmont Prize for this first opera, further establishing his growing operatic trajectory: Micromégas, an opera based on Voltaire (commissioned by Ars Musica Festival in Brussels), Le Rouge et le Noir for Opera de Paris, Beethoven Celtique, with Sir Bryn Terfel and Carlos Nunes (2023), the opera Stella et le Maître des souhaits (commissioned by Philharmonie de Paris, 2020). Always open to new adventures, he is preparing Un Match, his new opera set in the world of football, for 2025 (Paris, Opéra de Reims…).
In his catalogue of approximately 160 works, chamber music for strings holds a special place.
He collaborates with artists such as David Kadouch, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Trio Karenine, Quatuor Tana, ensembles Ars Nova, Musique Nouvelle, Les Surprises, and orchestras such as Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, as well as orchestras of Kiev, Washington, Kanazawa, the ORC of Wallonia. He also works with recording labels Harmonia Mundi and Deutsche Grammophon.
Twice nominated for Victoires de la Musique, Benoît Menut is the recipient of the Florent Schmitt Prize from the Institut de France (2022), the SACEM Grand Prize for Symphonic Music (2016), the Teachers’ Prize at the Grand Prix des Lycéens (2020), and a laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation (2008) and the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation (2014).
Published since 2008 by Éditions Musicales Artchipel, he is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
News
Benoît Menut
From 17 July 2022, Benoît Menut will be the guest of honour at the 16th Festival de Plage Musicale in Bangor, with a host of covers and world premieres. Program […]
Benoît Menut nominated for a Victoires de la Musique Classique award
Wednesday March 9, 2022 at 9pm, on France 3 and France Musique, live from the Grand Théâtre de Provence – Aix en Provence, Benoît Menut is nominated for the Victoires […]
(French) Benoît Menut – lauréat 2019 de la Fondation Charles Oulmont
Les Editions Musicales Artchipel ont l’honneur de vous annoncer que Benoît Menut est lauréat 2019 de la Fondation Charles Oulmont dans la catégorier compositeur.
(French) La Terre des Compositeurs
Les Éditions Musicales Artchipel produisent une série de portraits de Compositeurs, intitulée La Terre des Compositeurs. Réalisée par Clément Lesaicherre et Léa Reguillot de Rove Films production, avec le soutien […]
(French) Réécoutez Benoît Menut pendant la matinale de France Musique du 14 août 2019 avec Gabrielle Oliveira Guyon
https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/musique-matin/la-rentree-musicale-de-benoit-menut-74978 à 1h 28mn
(French) Benoît Menut – L’invité de la matinale de France Musique le 14 août 2019 avec Gabrielle Oliveira Guyon à partir de 8h30
https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/musique-matin/la-rentree-musicale-de-benoit-menut-74978
(French) Benoît Menut – Prix SACD Nouveau Talent Musique pour son opéra Fando et Lis
Les Editions Musicales Artchipel ont l’honneur de vous annoncer que Benoît Menut est lauréat du Prix SACD Nouveau Talent Musique pour son opéra Fando et Lis, opéra en un prologue et six tableaux, livret et […]
(French) Benoît Menut
Benoît Menut, compositeur en résidence des 18ème Rencontres de Saint – Cézaire du 08 au 14 juillet 2019 avec l’ensemble Calliopée. Programme des 18ème rencontres : http://ensemblecalliopee.com/18e-edition-des-rencontres-musicales-de-saint-cezaire/ 18e édition des […]
(French) Benoît Menut
Reprise de 3 poèmes galants pour soprano & piano jeudi 27 juin à l’Eglise du Bouclier 4 Rue du Bouclier, 67000 Strasbourg à 20h30 par par Françoise Kubler (soprano), l’Ensemble Accroche Note et Alexandre […]
(French) Benoît Menut
Reprise de Alba pour flûte, trio à cordes & harpe, commande de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne le 06 juin à 20h à l’opéra de Rennes. http://o-s-b.fr/spectacles/ar-gwalarn/
Events
05
Oct
2024
Benoît Menut
word premiere Dance suite (for two pianos) Auditorium du Conservatoire de Rungis – 11am Ludmila Berlinskaïa – pianoArthur Ancelle – piano Read more
04
Oct
2024
Benoît Menut
Word premiere Fort ( music from the play of the same name by Catherine Anne) Opéra Grand Avignon – 8pm Dana Ciocarlie – piano Read more
22
Sep
2024
Benoît Menut
La Quête de Merlin (for actor-singer, flute (and traditional instruments), harp (baroque and renaissance), accordion & viola da gamba) Septembre musical de L’Orne, Le Forum, Flers – 4pm Read more
15
Sep
2024
Benoît Menut
Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune – Claude Debussy (for string quartet and piano) music arrangement Benoît Menut Festival International Albert Roussel – Collégiale Notre-Dame – Cassel Quintette Syntonia Read more
17
Aug
2024
Benoît Menut
Word premiere Alteritas (for violin, cello, saxophone (alto and tenor) & bass clarinet) Église Sainte-Bernadette, Annecy -8pm Ensemble Ars Nova Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach – saxophone Éric Lamberger – bass clarinet Catherine […]