RICHARD DUBUGNON,

Lengnick's youngest composer, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1968. After studying music in Montpelier, France, he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, from which he graduated with first prizes in both composition subjects and the double bass. He subsequently studied composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music, from which he graduated with a Master of Music degree and the DipRAM. He has been awarded many prizes and scholarships, including the Fondation de France Prize, SACEM Scholarship, Bourse Lavoisier, Fondation Nadia et Lili Boulanger prize, and the Mosco Carner Award and Edwin Samuel Dove Prize from the Royal Academy of Music. In 1998-9 he was awarded the Manson Fellowship for Composition at the RAM

Richard Dubugnon's compositions have been performed worldwide, including at the Exeter and Huddersfield Festivals, Ravinia Festival (Chicago), the Wellington Festival (New Zealand). His works have also been broadcast on Swiss Radio, Radio France, and BBC Radio 3. In April 1997 he was awarded Second Prize in the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne Young Composer Competition for the stunning tone poem, Horrificques, published by this company.

Dubugnon appears regularly as a double bass soloist and tours with the Helvet Quartet, performing Swiss contemporary music and works of other composers. He also has entrepreneurial abilities and successfully organises series of chamber music concerts. Currently he teaches composition at the Purcell School.

His works have emerged from the French romantic tradition with much more to say. Although tonal and based on big, lush chords, there are definite jazz influences and also forays into extremely sophisticated harmonies. The music is always dramatic and his song-writing most effective.

Some works:
Solo instrument Five Masques for Solo Oboe
Vocal Les Messages Personnels for soprano, doublebass, piano
Eight Songs for soprano and piano
Eleven Songs for soprano and string orchestra
Orchestral Horrificques, tone poem
Sisyphe for string orchestra
Chamber music Septuor for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, double bass, piano
Two Ekskizes for flute and harp
Canonic Verses for oboe, oboe d'amore, and cor anglais
Frenglish Suite for wind quintet
Fanfare Caprice (4 trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones, euphonium, tuba)
Piano Quartet
Sisyphe for string quintet