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Summer 2010 brought a work commissioned from Chris Levine by the Genesis Foundation – a light-based cross installed in the former Holy Trinity Church on Marylebone Road in London.

In 2010, with the support of the Genesis Foundation, 15-year-old Hayley Stobo from Renfrewshire became the first Scot to receive a place on the full diploma course at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

In 2009, 16-year-old Natalie Carter became the first female British dancer to study at Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with support from the Genesis Foundation.

Genesis heard and took note of the work of Isidora Žebeljan at the first Genesis Opera Project workshops in 2002. A segment from an early version of her opera, Zora D, was developed and given a presentation.

Will Todd was born in Durham in 1970. He received an Honours degree in Music from the University of Bristol in 1991 and an MMUS in 1993. Will met Ben Dunwell, librettist, at Bristol University and began their collaboration at that time. Their first Genesis Commission was to write a special piece of music, Among Angels.

12 years after the Genesis Foundation commissioned Roxanna Panufnik’s Westminster Mass, which contines to be an international success, Roxanna Panufnik has become a composer in demand. Her 40th birthday year featured 18 premieres in nine countries.

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.