Jean-Philippe Calvin

In the past two years, Genesis has funded Tête à Tête.  This has enabled them to fulfil the following projects:

·       Blind Date, 2007 –London première and national tour of six new operas

·       Tête à Tête: the Opera Festival - Riverside Studios, in both 2007 and 2008

·       The Cumnor Affair: An Elizabethan Murder-Mystery, November 2008

The Genesis Foundation was to have supported a London production in November 2009 of the new opera that it commissioned from Jean-Philippe Calvin based on the iconic French play by Eugene Ionesco, La Cantatrice Chauve. The production was being developed by the company Tête à Tête.

However, a situation has arisen which has driven Genesis to the conclusion that it is simply too financially risky at this stage and in the current economic climate to continue to support this production.

In its new initiative to find original approaches to opera and music theatre for the 21st century and also new audiences for the lyric stage, OperaGenesis are working with French composer Jean Phillipe Calvin to complete a one-act, absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco play, La Cantatrice Chauve or The Bald Soprano. Calvin writes an introductory explanation of what he is doing as he finishes the piece and looks forward to a showcase performance in London during November.

Biography

Composer, conductor and percussionist, Jean Philippe Calvin, was born in France in 1974. He has eclectic taste and is as happy with contemporary pop music, jazz and musical comedy as he is with formal opera, film music and stage music of all kinds, making him a multi-faceted musician with an interest in every form of music making. Today, he maintains an international career and pursues all the activities that interest him.

In its new initiative to find original approaches to opera and music theatre for the 21st century and also new audiences for the lyric stage, OperaGenesis has worked with French composer Jean Philippe Calvin to complete a one-act, absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco play, La Cantatrice Chauve or The Bald Soprano.

Jean-Philippe Calvin, the French composer who is developing a new opera for Genesis, based on Ionesco's legendary play La Cantatrice Chauve, is about to have a piece performed at the International Gaudemus Festival. Called FLUX II, the piece will be performed in a concert given at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on the 4th of September 2007. FLUX II is published by the Editions Billaudot in Paris.

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.

Composer, conductor and percussionist, Jean Philippe Calvin, was born in France in 1974.

He has eclectic taste and is as happy with contemporary pop music, jazz and musical comedy as he is with formal opera, film music and stage music of all kinds, making him a multi-faceted musician with an interest in every form of music making.

Today, he maintains an international career and pursues all the activities that interest him.