
Jean-Philippe Calvin is a young French composer who is working with the Genesis Foundation to develop an opera based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play La Cantatrice Chauve. After the successful completion of its workshop phase via the OperaGenesis programme, Genesis will co-produce this opera in Paris for 2009. Jean-Philippe has recently composed a piece of music, Sophia, which he has dedicated to the Founder and Chairman of the Genesis Foundation, John Studzinski.
Jean-Philippe Calvin is a young French composer who is working with the Genesis Foundation to develop an opera based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play La Cantatrice Chauve. After the successful completion of its workshop phase via the OperaGenesis programme, Genesis will co-produce this opera in Paris for 2009. Jean-Philippe has recently composed a piece of music, Sophia, which he has dedicated to the Founder and Chairman of the Genesis Foundation, John Studzinski. The piece will be commercially recorded in the future along with other works, but meantime Jean-Philippe has arranged for us to have an exclusive performance of the work for the Genesis website. The composer is conducting the Paris Conservatory Orchestra.
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Monday, 26 September 2011We are delighted to present this short film which follows the first Genesis Sixteen training course, the UK's first fully-funded choral programme for young singers.
View media...The first group of talented young singers to make up the Genesis Sixteen will take part in an intensive training course this weekend, the third in their programme, at the National Opera Studios in London.
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