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| Born in 1958, Pascal
Gaigne studied music composition at the University of
Pau, in France, with Guy Maneveau, and at the National
Conservatory of Toulouse, where he was the winner of the
first prize in composition and acousmatic music (within
the field of electroacoustic music). Pascal Gaigne is a versatile composer, working in the areas of concert music, music for movies and music for the theater. In the realm of concert music Pascal Gaigne has been commissioned by the French State, Radio France, and the Basque Government, as well as by instrumental ensembles and soloists such as Ensemble Pythagore, Oiasso Novis, Próxima Centauri, GRM, Jean François Verdier, Josetxo Silguero, Iñaki Alberdi, Oskar Espina Ruiz, etc., receiving top prizes at the international festivals of Linz, in Austria, and Bourges, in France. His main concert works include IO-portes d´Aerea (for 6 percussionists); Boreal (electroacoustic music); Signes Ascendants (clarinet and tape); Traversees II (wind quintet and computer); Shen (cello and computer); Alphabet (saxophones, accordion and percussion), Mnemophonia (for alto saxophone, percussion and digital tape), STYX (for sax, percussion, mezzo-soprano, cello and harp), Iris (for clarinet and piano) and Avant la nuit (accordion and string quartet). Pascal Gaigne has composed music for 30 full-length movies, over 50 shorts and several documentaries, working with directors Víctor Erice (el sol del membrillo), Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Azul oscuro casi negro; Gordos), Icíar Bollaín (flores de otro mundo), Montxo Armendariz (Silencio roto), Salvador García (Mensaka; el otro barrio; las voces de la noche; Castillos de cartón), Ramón Salazar (Piedras; 20 centímetros), Gracia Querejeta (7 mesas de billar francés), Eduardo Chapero-Jackson (A contraluz), etc... His music for movies won several prizes, including a Palma de Oro for “El otro barrio” at the Buenos Aires Film Festival, and the prize to the best soundtrack in Europe for “Azul oscuro casi negro,” from the Federación Europea de Asociaciones de Compositores de Cine. He has also composed for the theater, in commissions by Txalo, Théatre du Rivage, Théatre des Chimères (El Círculo de tiza), Pok Producciones, Teatro Español (Nina), Aracalad Danza, Rakata Cie (Fuente Ovejuna), etc. Pascal Gaigne has worked as producer and orchestrator with many ensembles and singers, such as Amaia Zubiria, Labordeta, Faltriqueira, Tapia, Labrit, Abya Yala..., producing a large number of recordings. |
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