Ivan Bellocq Composer

First an autodidact before being Max Deutsch’s student for the analysis and Olivier Greif’s for the composition, Ivan Bellocq won Radio France’s 24th International Composition Contest in 1982. He also won other international contests, as flutist or composer, in particular in Berlin in 1988.

His Two Poems by Rene Char, premiered in Paris in 1991, made him noticed, and the work went on to be recorded in 1996 by Yumi Nara with the Erwartung Ensemble, conducted by Bernard Desgraupes. From then on, commissions and performances come from Europe and the United States. Since then, his music has been played and broadcast in over 30 countries.

Director of a music academy until 2003, Ivan Bellocq also taught flute and chamber music at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Nowadays he dedicates himself to composing.

“Voyages” for choral and orchestra, “Hallucination” for 12 instruments, “Symphonie Deconcertante” (“Disconcerting Symphony”) for soloists, orchestra and jazz big band, “L’envol de la locomotive sacree” (“the sacred locomotive take off”) for 16 instruments, “la Folia” for violin, cello and piano are amongst his best known pieces.

Der Gelbe Klang from trumpet, 2 pianos and 2 drums was programmed at the Radio France’s Presences 2000 festival. Radio France also commissioned Estrans (Alternance Ensemble, conducted by Jean-Luc Menet). Other orders (from the Theatre du Chatelet, the “Musique d’Aujourd’hui” Festival in Perpignan, the Beethoven International Festival in Bonn…) led him to write for the orchestra, the violist Pierre-Henri Xuereb, the Auryn quartets, Kandinsky, and the Helios, Polycordes, Werther, and Opus 93 ensembles…

Ivan Bellocq is a composer in residence at the Conservatoire de Rambouillet in 2005 and 2006. The Val d'Oise invited him in 2006 and 2007 (Adiam 95, EMM and city of Bezons, Festival and ENM of Argenteuil, etc), then the Ariam Île de France in 2007-2008 and the department of Mayenne between 2007 and 2009. He is also a collection Director for the Delatour publishing company and leads several projects at once.

Many musicians perform Ivan’s music.



Contact Biography Performers	First an autodidact before being Max Deutsch’s student for the analysis and Olivier Greif’s for the composition, Ivan Bellocq won Radio France’s 24th International Composition Contest in 1982. He also won other international contests, as flutist or composer, in particular in Berlin in 1988. His Two Poems by Rene Char, premiered in Paris in 1991, made him noticed, and the work went on to be recorded in 1996 by Yumi Nara with the Erwartung Ensemble, conducted by Bernard Desgraupes. From then on, commissions and performances come from Europe and the United States. Since then, his music has been played and broadcast in over 30 countries. Director of a music academy until 2003, Ivan Bellocq also taught flute and chamber music at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Nowadays he dedicates himself to composing. “Voyages” for choral and orchestra, “Hallucination” for 12 instruments, “Symphonie Deconcertante” (“Disconcerting Symphony”) for soloists, orchestra and jazz big band, “L’envol de la locomotive sacree” (“the sacred locomotive take off”) for 16 instruments, “la Folia” for violin, cello and piano are amongst his best known pieces. Der Gelbe Klang from trumpet, 2 pianos and 2 drums was programmed at the Radio France’s Presences 2000 festival. Radio France also commissioned Estrans (Alternance Ensemble, conducted by Jean-Luc Menet). Other orders (from the Theatre du Chatelet, the “Musique d’Aujourd’hui” Festival in Perpignan, the Beethoven International Festival in Bonn…) led him to write for the orchestra, the violist Pierre-Henri Xuereb, the Auryn quartets, Kandinsky, and the Helios, Polycordes, Werther, and Opus 93 ensembles… Ivan Bellocq is a composer in residence at the Conservatoire de Rambouillet in 2005 and 2006. The Val d'Oise invited him in 2006 and 2007 (Adiam 95, EMM and city of Bezons, Festival and ENM of Argenteuil, etc), then the Ariam Île de France in 2007-2008 and the department of Mayenne between 2007 and 2009. He is also a collection Director for the Delatour publishing company and leads several projects at once. Many musicians perform Ivan’s music.