Roland Dyens

Roland Dyens (* October 19, 1955 in Tunis ) is a French guitarist and composer.

Life

Dyens moved to Paris in 1961, where he still lives today ( in the suburb of Ville d'Avray ). He studied with Alberto Ponce and Désiré Dondeyne at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He has won numerous awards and guitar and composition competitions. Dyens now teaches classical guitar at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and gives master classes worldwide.

Compositions

Dyens composition work includes more than 60 titles, including tributes and eulogies for Heitor Villa-Lobos, Leo Brouwer and Frank Zappa. Among his most famous compositions Tango en skaï heard. 2007 Dyens composed for the competition of the Guitar Foundation of America, the compulsory piece. Contemporary guitarists like his pupil Thomas Viloteau, Elena Papandreou, Gerald Garcia or Michael Langer published recordings with Dyens compositions.

Some of his works have word playful or humorous titles such as 1provisation (instead of improvisation, there is also a 2provisation ), Light Motif (similar to the English loan word leitmotif ), Lettre mi - longue ( semi- long letter, a milonga ) or Lettre et le néant ( with a dedication for Jean Sol Partre, an allusion to Sartre's L' être et le main work néant - the piece consists of a page without notes, but with the performance indication quasi niente ma non troppo, and it therefore offers little more than John Cage's 4'33 ").