Éric Tanguy

Éric Tanguy (born 1968) is a French composer.

He studied composition with Horatiu Radulescu from 1985 to 1988, then with Ivo Malec and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), where he was awarded first prize for composition in 1991. In 1988 he received the Darmstadt Stipendienpreis, and in 1989 the Villa Medici extramural Prize. In 1991 he was awarded a bursary by the Haut Conseil Culturel Franco-Allemand, and in 1992 he received the Villa Medici Award (successor of the famous and much coveted Prix de Rome) and the Darmstadt Kranischtein Musikpreis. Then came the André Caplet Prize awarded by the Institut de France (1995) and the Hervé Dugardin Prize awarded by the SACEM (French Performing Rights Society) in 1997.