Songs of love and childhood: The vocal works of Claude Vivier
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Introduction
Pursuing the exploration of the song and consonance in contemporary music, initiated with the session on Stockhausen’s Stimmung, Voix nouvelles proposes a study workshop on the principle vocal ensemble works by Claude Vivier. A Canadian composer murdered in 1983 at 35, Vivier in the 1970s built up a hard-to-classify corpus of works foreshadowing post-modernism. Based on melody and homophonic texture, his music owes an essential debt to the Stockhausen of Stimmung and Mantra, works that the German master composed while Vivier was his pupil. As an adopted child, Vivier throughout his work sings of the nostalgia of a universal yet absent mother whose voice expresses itself via a powerfully expressive lullaby, often consonant, always respectful of natural vocality. A loner seeking to enflame the world with candid love, Vivier – particularly in Chants (1973) and the Love Songs (1977), programmed for study here, sets forth the tenderness and permanance of childhood wonder.
Calendar
Audition
8 April 2009
Session
Monday 7 through Saturday 12 December 2009
for a total of 6 days of instruction
Présentation publique
Fenêtre sur cour[s] Saturday 12 December 2009
Faculty
from the Neue Vocalsolisten:
Sarah Maria Sun, soprano ; Susanne Leitz-Lorey,soprano ; Truike van der Poel, mezzo ; Martin Nagy, tenor ; Guillermo Anzorena, baritone ;
Andreas Fischer, bass
Places available for
14 singers (soprano, mezzo, contralto, tenor, baritone)
Session Curiculum
Theoretical Instruction
Presentation of the composer Claude Vivier in the era’s musical context and exacting study of his vocal works
Practical Instruction
Cumulative approach to several vocal techniques, from the speaking voice to the singing voice.
Mastery of tone and of vocal positioning.
Ensemble work.
Love Songs (1977) for seven solo voices
Chants (1973) for seven female voices (2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 3 altos)
Nanti Malam (1977) ballet in one scene for seven voices
Method
Individual and semi-collective vocal technique lessons (by tessitura or complementary tessituras).
Group classes for the interpretation of the work overall
Fee information
The cost-sharing fee is made up of a compulsory registration fee (which includes membership in the Association des amis de Royaumont), tuition, and boarding expenses.
For this session a scholarship arrangement with the AFDAS is pending.
Financial aid for tuition
› for salaried employees (full or part time): via their employers’ continuing education programs.
› for the unemployed: instructions available from the local ANPE and/or ASSEDIC offices.
› for RMI beneficiaries: via authorities in each département (Conseil Général) contact the appropriate services for further information.
If you are eligible for financial assistance, a total amount of 150 € remains at your expense.
Scholarships
Every year the Association des amis de Royaumont grants scholarships to artists under 28 years of age who do not yet have a regular professional
activity. This grant is made by a commission on the basis of a portfolio (resume, letter of motivation).
If you are eligible for this financial assistance from the Association des amis
de Royaumont, a total amount of 150 € remains at your expense.
For participants who do not qualify for any other financial aid, the Foundation grants scholarship stipends on request and based on a portfolio.
If you are eligible for this scolarship, a total amount of 270 € remains at your expense.
Information and enrolment
Mélanie Guichard
Fondation Royaumont
F-95270 Asnières-sur-Oise
tel + 33 1 30 35 59 84
fax + 33 1 30 35 39 45
formation(at)royaumont.com
How do I enroll ?
In all cases it is mandatory to send an application form containing:
› motivation letter
› detailed curriculum vitae
› hand-written biography
› photo
After examination of the dossiers, the selected candidates will be convened to an audition.
All sessions, except where indicated to the contrary, are to take place at Royaumont, in residency.