Creations

Bunka Kaikan Tokyo / Japan Japanese premiere
Interpretation of French souvenir, Let’s go!, Spiral, Influences
Akiko Ebi & Kotaro Fukuma, piano 4 hands

Iitti Music Festival / Finlande World premiere
Interpretation of Répliques
Fredrika Mikkola, violon – Laura Mikkola, piano

Espace Toots Evere (Brussels) / Belgium Belgian premiere
Interpretation of Spiral
Gauvain de Morant & Fabio Schinazi, piano 4 hands

Centre Le Phénix Fribourg / Switzerland World premiere
Interpretation of Laura Mikkola & Michel Runtz, piano 4 hands

Maison Elsa Triolet / France World premiere
Interpretation of De l’empreinte au souvenir
Fanny Clamagirand, violin – Vanya Cohen, piano

Shanghai conservatory / China
Various works by Michel Runtz chosen as twentieth-century compulsory pieces for composition Masters students.
Prof. Wen Deqing, Dean and Director of the Composition Department, invited Michel Runtz to give MasterClasses, analysis classes and lectures on his works. Concert-portrait by the students.
Piano recital by Michel Runtz.

Braque Year in Varengeville / France World premiere
Interpretation of Braque – poem by Jacques Prévert Varengeville
Nicole Schnitzer-Toulouse, mezzo – Nicole Palmieri, piano

Scots Kirk Paris / France French premiere
Interpretation of En équilibre
Boris Baraz, cello

Ecole Normale Fribourg / Switzerland World premiere
Interpretation of Nordlicht
Irina Kataeva-Aimard, piano

Documentary film by Isabelle Dufour / Switzerland
Et au milieu coule la Sarine
Original music by Michel Runtz
Laurent Estoppey, saxophone – Michel Runtz, piano
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Swiss Festival in Séoul / South Korea Korean premiere
2^nd Festival New Music Week, Shanghai / China Chinese premiere
Interpretation of Fusion
Simone Keller, piano

Festival Murten Classics / Switzerland

Liaoning Grand Théâtre de Shenyang / China

Oriental Art Center Shanghai / China

Le Podium Düdingen / Switzerland World premiere
A new concert concept integrating lighting design with compositions by Michel Runtz.
Gaëlle de Malglaive, lighting designer
Simon Lambelet, lighting director – Michel Runtz, piano

Palais Brongniart Paris / France Voyages creation and performance
Music composed and played by Michel Runtz, piano

Opéra Comique Paris / France Planète Couture creation and performance
Music composed and played by Michel Runtz, piano

Grand-Hôtel Paris / France Epopée de Velours creation and performance

Théâtre de la Gaîté Montparnasse Paris / France
60 performences with Jean-Paul Farré et Bernard Dhéran, comedians
Michel Runtz, piano

Festival de la Correspondance Château de Grignan / France world premiere
Correspondence by Erik Satie
Jean-Luc Tardieu, concept and direction
Jean-Paul Farré et Frédéric Lodéon, comedians
Michel Runtz, piano