Genesis Press Releases

Here you will find links to a selection of the press releases that the Genesis Foundation has issued in recent years.

Please use the search function in the Archive section of the website to find archive press releases.

Joanna Piotrowska awarded second Genesis Photography Scholarship at the Royal College of Art (2011-13) Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Joanna Piotrowska becomes the second artist to be awarded the Genesis Scholarship for Photography at the Royal College of Art. The scholarship provides a full award for a student for both years of an MA course.

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O Guiding Night - The Genesis Foundation’s second major collaboration with The Sixteen Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release world premiere recording of new works by three of Britain’s most exciting composers
Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams & Ruth Byrchmore

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Genesis Sixteen: the UK’s first fully-funded choral training programme for young singers Tuesday, 7 December 2010

 

GENESIS SIXTEEN is the first programme for young singers, aged 18 to 23, designed to provide vocal training specific to future professional work in consorts and choirs.

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Hayley Stobo becomes first Scottish girl to train at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy Monday, 26 July 2010

Double success for the Genesis Foundation as two of its awards recipients are the only British girls ever to have been accepted at the prestigious ballet school

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'LIGHT' by Chris Levine - The 2010 Genesis Foundation Commission Friday, 21 May 2010

The Genesis Foundation has commissioned revered light artist Chris Levine to install a glass crucifix in the former Holy Trinity Church on Marylebone Road. Levine’s installation forms part of the Genesis Foundation’s two-day cultural event in the heart of London. The installation embodies light’s remarkable ability to restore equilibrium between the hearts and minds of the human race, and will be on show to the public at One Marylebone from 2nd June.

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News from the Young Vic: First Genesis Fellow announced Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Current associate director Joe Hill-Gibbins is given a new role as Genesis Fellow and deputy artistic director of the Young Vic.

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Genesis Foundation collaborates with HighTide to create, the Genesis Laboratory Thursday, 11 February 2010

Announcing the Genesis Laboratory, HighTide's Research and Development Studio for emerging theatre practitioners at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill, supported by the Genesis Foundation.

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Spanish post-graduate photography student awarded first full two-year Genesis Foundation Scholarship Monday, 26 October 2009

Greta Alfaro has been awarded the Genesis Foundation Scholarship at the Royal College of Art.  The first of its kind, the scholarship provides a full award for a student for both years of an MA course.

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Tête À Tête The Opera Festival – A Kick Up the Aria 30 July – 16 August 12 July 2009

First the three tenors put the opera into football; now it’s up to Tête à Tête to put the kick into opera. Join us as we take the terraces by storm in a jubilant festival of more than 30 new works in our biggest programme yet of entirely 21st century drama and storytelling driven by music and the voice. Over an action-packed three weeks, we host up to six different performances a night where artists will strain every sinew to poke, prod, nudge, dribble and lovingly kick about this most immediate, engaging, sensual, consuming and sweaty of art-forms.

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Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release world premiere recording of new works by leading British composers James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Will Todd The Sixteen, 30th Anniversary26 April 2009

The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continues with the release in May 2009 of a CD of three new choral works from three of Britain’s most respected contemporary composers: James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik and Will Todd. Each work is a setting of the prayer Stay With Me, Lord, by the Capuchin priest Padre Pio (the familiar name by which millions know St Pius of Pietrelcina).

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Genesis Sixteen

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Monday, 26 September 2011

We 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.

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Genesis Sixteen Continue to Flourish Friday, 3 February 2012

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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