Compositor, pianista, autor

The Musicians of Bremen

2010-2011
Young audience show based on the story of the Brothers Grimm, for seven soloists and one actor, 45'
Recorded by Jacques Bonnaffé
Created in February 2015 by the students of the Pôle Supérieur de Boulogne-Billancourt, revival in March 2017 by the Orchestre de Douai, and premiered by the Denis Levaillant Music Ensemble at the Gennevilliers Conservatory on February 10, 2021 (film on this site). Revival on May 17 and 18, 2021 at Espace André Malraux de Sarcelles. On tour from September.

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Bruno Nouvion, soloist at the Philharmonique of Radio France, recorded the Rooster’s part.


A Little Trifle

2005/2006
Melodrama for piano and voice, based on the book by Maurice Roche, Un petit rien-du-tout tout neuf plié dans une feuille de persil (Editions Gallimard)
First performed at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris, 14 March-1 April 2006, by the composer and Irina Dalle.

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La Petite danseuse de Degas (The Little Dancer)

Choreography Patrice Bart, Opéra national de Paris - 2003
Revivals , December 2005 and July 2010.

'Denis Levaillant’s score deserves much praise. It uses the classical orchestra enriched with a few instruments such as the accordion, typical of the era, and the tenor saxophone, and others, even rarer, like the oboe d’amore and contrabassoon, intended to contribute their color to certain characters. Quite colorful and rhythmically rich (jazz is the most noticeable influence), it is hugely active support for the dance throughout the evening. Conducted by Koen Kessels, the Orchestra of the Paris Opera plays this beautiful but difficult score with fantastic spirit, making it a key element in a production indeed worthy of the house that brought it into the world.’
Olivier Brunel, ConcertoNet

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Le Bal

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Eloge de la radio (In Praise of the Radio)

1999/2000
Musical show for 15 musiciens, two sound-effects engineers and electronics.

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Techno Space Piano

1998/1999
Musical show for piano, turntables and electronic music.

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La Femme sur la Lune

1995
Musical show, chamber music written for the Fritz Lang's last silent movie, The Women on the Moon (ob, cl, b, horn, tb, viola, cello, bass).

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Passions

1995
Musical show, including Les Pierres Noires, Sunny Cash Passion, Compassion, Madrigaux de Guerre and Tombeau de Gesualdo


Poètes et burlesques

1994
Musical show, piano pieces written for a program of very old Pathé movies (1910).


Piano Circus

1993
Musical show, fantasia for a pianist and a magician (Abdul Alafrez). Text by Henri Michaux, voice Elise Caron.

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Lettres de Georgie

1992
Ballet, choreography by Caroline Marcadé

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Passage de l'heure bleue

Choreography Stéphanie Aubin, GRCOP, Paris Opera 1989.

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O.P.A MIA

1987-1989
Opera, for chamber orchestra, choir, two singers and two actors.

Click here to see a video on YouTube

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Solo piano solo

1987
Musical show, Douze mouvements, Piano transit et Souvenirs de Félicité.

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Les heures défaites

Choreography Bouvier/Obadia, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris - 1987 (Quatuor Joachim).

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Les Passagers du delta

Musical show for trio jazz, with Barre Phillips and Barry Altschul - 1986

Rhythmic Training

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Le Dernier Pèlerinage

Musical show, late works by Franz Liszt, for piano, string quartet and voice - 1986

Bagatelle sans tonalité

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Eaux-fortes

Choreography by Dominique Petit, St Quentin en Yvelines -1986

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Rythm'n'shoes

Choreography by Aby Dance Trio, Bagnolet -1984 (electroacoustic).

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The Blue Street

Musical show for jazz sextet (Kenny Wheeler, Tony Coe, Yves Robert, Barre Phillips, Pierre Favre) - 1984

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Les Pas perdus

Choreography Dominique Petit, Maison de la Danse de Lyon -1983 ( Youval Micenmacher playing the zarb)

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Deux pièces à louer

1983 Musical show, Piano check-up and Le Baigneur

Le Baigneur

Opéra-bouffe on a story by Maurice Roche - 1976

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Piano check-up 1978

Musical show for a pianist, an actor and a saxophonist - 1978

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Aranzaquil

Choreography Dominique Petit, Maison de la Danse in Lyon - 1983

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Inside

Musical show, for a sound-effects engineer, trumpet and cello, chamber orchestra (3 tp, 2 tb, trio viola, cello, bass) and electroacoustic - 1983

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D.D.Blue Gold Digger

Choreography Dominique Petit, Centre Pompidou Paris - 1982

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Dérive

Choreography Brigitte Lefèvre, Opéra de Nantes - 1982 (with Claudia Phillips)

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Grand Corridor

Choreography Dominique Bagouet, Opera de Montpellier - 1981


Portrait de l'artiste

Musical show (melodrama for a voice and piano), text by Maurice Roche - 1981


La Chevauchée

Musical show in collaboration with Caroline Gautier (melodies, melodramas and improvisations adapted from Franz Liszt) - 1981

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Piano check-up

Musical show for a pianist, an actor and a saxophone - 1978
Excerpt of the radio play (commissioned by France Culture for the Italia Price 1980)

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Le Jardin du sanglier

Choreography Caroline Marcadé, Opéra de Paris, 1979.

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Embellie fixe

Musical show for two jugglers, saxophone and piano - 1978

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L'oreille bée

Musical show for two clowns and one actor -1974

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