Press Release

Following interviews this week, five first-year students were shortlisted for the Genesis Photography Scholarship at the RCA.  The prize, worth £20,000 in total, and paid over the course of the two-year MA programme, is awarded to a first-year MA student alternate years. The funds are used for making work.

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

The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continues with the release in May 2011 of a CD of six new choral works from three of Britain’s most exciting contemporary composers: Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams and Ruth Byrchmore.

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.  A unique partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation means that participants will receive a bursary for all travel, accommodation and board costs while participating on the scheme’s four annual courses around the UK.

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

L I G H T
By Chris Levine (with Harry Christophers & The Sixteen)
Opens 1st June, 2010
ONE MARYLEBONE, 1 Marylebone Road, NW1 4AQ

Joe Hill-Gibbins is to become the first Genesis Fellow at the Young Vic.  Developing its long association with the Young Vic, the Genesis Foundation has awarded a grant for two years for this new position.  In his new role as deputy artistic director, Joe will support David Lan in all aspects of the work of the theatre while continuing to direct.  His next production will be the first major London revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh this July in the Main House.

Young Vic artistic director said:

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

3 February 2010

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.

“Tête à Tête continues to extend the barriers of what is operatically possible often with very entertaining results"

The Daily Telegraph, December

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). The purpose of the commissions was to refresh approaches to creating contemporary liturgical music and to inspire and delight people of every faith and conviction.