Suzanne Giraud (born 1958)
Suzanne Giraud was born in Metz, France, and grew up in Strasbourg. She studied piano, violin, viola, and music theory at the Strasbourg Conservatory, and then continued at the Paris Conservatoire.
Suzanne Giraud has composed music for orchestras, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments. Here’s a 1997 work for flute and marimba entitled Envoûtements II:
This is her 1999 piano composition Zephyr:
She has also composed several operas of various lengths, including Caravaggio (2008 – 2012) about the painter that she wrote for the French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Here is a little clip from an unstaged concert performance of Caravaggio. In this scene, the painter brings a prostitute named Anna to his studio and paints her portrait. (I believe that she was the model for Martha in Caravaggio’s painting of Martha and Mary Magdalene.)