Aurélien Hallopeau

Composer

Born in 1995, Aurélien Hallopeau is a French composer living in Switzerland. He currently mainly writes for choir, while keeping composing for other instruments. Also an engineer in the space industry, he sings as a baritone-bass in several ensembles such as the chamber choir Ensemble vocal Évohé, Lausanne.

Aurélien Hallopeau’s compositions have been performed in several countries in Europe and in the USA. He regularly works with French and Swiss ensembles such as Ensemble vocal Evohé conducted by Fruzsina Szuromi which premiered Surge amica mea, et veni in Geneva Cathedral in April 2022, or professional vocal ensemble L’Horizon Chimérique, conducted by Benoît Dubu.

Several of his choral works have been awarded prizes and premiered during international composition competitions, such as Petit Bestiaire (Eufonia-Bordeaux’s 2021 competition, France), Gaudeat iuventus (Concurso de Composicion Coral Carmina Nova 2021, Spain), and Sub tuum praesidium (Chorus Austin’s Composers Competition 2023, USA). In January 2023, Analemme, a longer and more ambitious composition for choir and percussion setting excerpts from astronomy treaties discussing the sun’s trajectory and the phenomenon of the equinox, received the City of Firminy’s Prize in the 3rd edition of festival FestyVocal’s composition competition, France.