Gisèle Barreau
Gisèle Barreau is a French composer.Life
Gisèle Barreau was born in Cuëron, west of Nantes in Brittany, and studied with Émile Leipp and Michèle Castellengo for musical acoustics at Jussieu University. She continued her studies with Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris Conservatory and later with Olivier Messiaen. In 1977 she received a diploma in electroacoustic music from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
After completing her university studies, Barreau obtained a teaching certificate for music. She was composer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in 1978 and resident at the Villa Medici from 1980-82. Barreau works as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire.Selected works include:
- Blue Rain for 2 pianos, 2 percussion, 1998
- Océanes for orchestra, 1988
- Piano-Piano for ensemble, 1982
- Little Rain
- Tlaloc, for two percussionists
