Claude Lenners (1956, Luxembourg). Luxembourg composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been successfully performed throughout Europe; he is also active as a promoter of new music. Claude Lenners studied music and musicology with Alexander Müllenbach and François-Bernard Mâche and at conservatories in Luxembourg and Strasbourg.

His honors include a scholarship to stay at the Villa Medici in Rome (1989-91), First Prize in the Henri Dutilleux Competition (1991), a scholarship to attend Darmstadt (1992), the First International Irino Prize for Chamber Music (Tokyo, 1993), and the Lions Prize (Luxembourg section, 1997).

He has composed for various ensembles, including Alter Ego, the ASKO Ensemble, the Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, l’Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13, and l’Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has also written for Ensemble Quadro, Ensemble Recherche, the Ex Novo Ensemble (directed by Claudio Ambrosini), l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, le Trio à cordes de Paris, and the United Instruments of Lucilin.

Soloists who have performed his works include violinist Irvine Arditti, percussionist Guy Frisch, saxophonists Pierre-Stéphane Meugé and Olivier Sliepen, pianists Oscar Pizzo and Béatrice Rauchs, and flautist Manuel Zurria.

Since 1992, he has taught analysis, composition and computer music at the Luxembourg Conservatory. In 1999, he founded of the electronic music association Pyramide and was artistic director of the new music festival Rainy Days in 2000.