Continuum XXI
Ensemble Modern
hr-Bigband
hr-Sinfonieorchester
IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26
Synergy Vocals
Trondheim Voices
Alberto Arroyo
Hed Bahack
Sylvain Cambreling
Helena Cánovas Parés
Pia Davila
Caio de Azevedo
Justine Emard
Bernard Foccroulle
Georg Friedrich Haas
John Hollenbeck
Eloain Lovis Hübner
Justė Janulytė
Michael Jarrell
Malika Kishino
Eungjin Lee
Lucie Leguay
Leon Liang
Brad Lubman
Sarah Nemstov
Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus
Julian Prégardien
Steve Reich
Diego Ramos Rodríguez
Rebecca Saunders
Yixie Shen
Miroslav SRNKA
Toby Thatcher
Thierry Tidrow
Stefan Weiller
Adriane Westerbarkey
Haotian Yu
Artist
© C. Daguet / Editions Henry LemoineMichael Jarrell
Born 1958 in Geneva, Michael Jarrell studied composition at the Geneva Conservatory with Eric Gaudibert and at various workshops in the United States (Tanglewood, 1979). He completed his training with Klaus Huber at the Freiburg Staatliche Hochschule für Musik im Brisgau.
Starting in 1982, his works have received numerous prizes: prix Acanthes (1983), Beethovenpreis from the city of Bonn (1986), Marescotti prize (1986), Gaudeamus (1988), Henriette Renié (1988), and Siemens-Förderungspreis (1990). Between 1986 and 1988, he was in residence at the Cité des Arts in Paris. He resided at the Villa Médicis in Rome during 1988/89, and then joined the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in 1989/90.
From October 1991 to June 1993, he was composer in residence with the Lyon Orchestra. Beginning in 1993, he became professor of composition at the University in Vienna. In 1996, he was composer in residence at the Lucerne festival, and then was heralded by the Musica Nova Helsinki Festival, which dedicated the festival to him in 2000. In 2001, the Salzburg Festival commissioned a concerto for piano and orchestra entitled ›Abschied‹. The same year, he was named ›Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres‹. In 2004, he was named professor of composition at the Geneva Conservatory.
Michael Jarrell composes in 2016 ›Aquateinte‹ for oboe and orchestra premiered by François Leleux. The same goes for two other concertos, ›Des nuages et des brouillards‹ (violin and orchestra), and ›Emergences-Résurgences‹ (viola and orchestra) for Tabea Zimmermann. In 2017, his flute concerto ›Un temps de silence‹ composed for Emmanuel Pahud and Scharoun Ensemble, is premiered in Berliner Philharmonie. A new opera, Bérénice adapted from Jean Racine (commissioned by Opera National de Paris) has been be created in 2018 in Paris with Barbara Hannigan (Bérénice) and Bo Skovhus (Titus).