Benoît Menut's music, lyrical and structured, does not shy away from stylistic encounters. He sees his art as "energy in sound carried by meaning". His works have been performed at various festivals and musical seasons (Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims, the Musée d'Orsay, La Chaise-Dieu, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Biennale d'artvocal de la cité de la musique, Festival contemporain de Vienne, Festival de chœur d'Arezzo...). Winner of the SACEM Grand Prix for symphonic music and the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation Prize (2014), he was associated with the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne from 2014 to 2018, for which he composed, among other works, the "Symphony for a Feather", premiered at the Rennes Opera and the Théâtre de Cornouaille in December 2016. The following year, he wrote his first opera, "Fando et Lis", commissioned by the Opéra de Saint-Etienne and based on the play by Fernando Arrabal.

Daniel Capelletti - coordination

Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
Site Chêne IAuditorium Joseph Jongen
Rue du Chêne 17 - 1000 Brussels
BELGIUM

Free entrance, no reservation required*
*Subject to availability

As part of the first edition of Next Opera Days at the Ars Musica Festival.