André Brégégère
André Brégégère is a composer, music scholar and teacher, based in Brooklyn, NY. His music has been commissioned and/or performed in the US by ensembles including Cygnus, Second Instrumental Unit, MIVOS, VocalEssence, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and Lunatics at Large. His piece “En route” is featured on the CD “Atlas” (New Dynamics Records).
Mr. Brégégère is a member of ASCAP. For more information, please visit: www.abregegere.com.
About his piece for the New Art Songs project (2012):
"This song cycle combines poems from two collections by French-Caribbean poet Édouard Glissant (1928–2011): Le Sel noir (1960) and Boises (1983). I was immediately attracted by the remarkable musicality of Glissant’s language, and by the vividness of his poetic imagery, creating in each poem a unique landscape of sonic and visual representations. My musical setting, guided by my own, subjective interpretation of the poems, is intended as a dialogue, each time renewed, with these poetic representations."
