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The Royaumont Foundation has long supported new generations of professional artists. It offers to round out their training, and to accompany them at the start of their careers, enabling them to broaden their professional experience, and even to reorient their activity. The Foundation’s training sessions are intended for singers, instrumentalists, composers, improvising musicians, and choreographers. The program that has been prepared for 2008, and which offers no less than 19 training sessions, has a wide variety of work themes and modes of accompaniment. This is because we are convinced that the artists of tomorrow will need to be able to perform in extremely diverse repertoires and participate in highly innovative projects. There will be a need for a constantly renewed dialogue between performers, researchers and creators. In order to carry out its programs, Royaumont can count not only on experienced masters but also a new generation of already-recognised musicians, who are desirous of sharing the experience acquired in their respective domains. In addition, the Foundation can count on the presence of ensembles in residence at Royaumont, who are conducting three or four year projects that combine the study of repertoires with research, concerts in the abbey and on tour, as well as taking part in the training programmes. In 2008, seven such ensembles will be present. The Foundation makes it possible for all young professionals to enjoy optimal working conditions, in the serene surroundings of the old Abbey. In the case of several of the projects, the Foundation will strive to promote the artists by programming them in the Saison musicale concerts, as well as inviting them to take part in the productions and tours that follow certain training sessions, notably those of the Unité scénique. It also sends them abroad to other countries in the framework of exchanges, as with Voix Nouvelles.
Francis Maréchal
general director
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Centre de la VoixSacred Music of Alexander Agricola (1446-1506)
Coaching : Lucien Kandel, singer and artistic director of the Musica Nova ensemble
Marc Busnel, singer
Gérard Geay, musicologist
with the participation of the members of the Musica Nova ensemble (September)
Dates : From Saturday, March 15 to Thursday, March 20, 2008
From Friday, July 4 to Tuesday, July 8, 2008
From Wednesday, September 24 to Sunday, September 28, 2008
Places available for : 8 singers (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone)
Auditions (to be confirmed) : February 14, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A concert as part of the Saison musicale on Sunday, September 28, 2008
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Alessandro Grandi and the birth of the Italian cantata
Coaching : Gérard Lesne, singer and artistic director of Il Seminario Musicale ensemble
Blandine Rannou, harpsichord player
Florence Malgoire, violinist
Dates : From Wednesday, March 26 to Sunday, March 30, 2008
From Friday, June 27, 2008 to Monday, June 30,2008
From Thursday, 9 to Sunday, October 12, 2008
Places available for : 8 singers, all tessituras, 2 continuos (i.e. 2 harpsichord players and 2 cellists or theorbo players) 2 violins, 1 singing leader
Auditions (to be confirmed) : February 11, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Monday, June 30, 2008
A concert as part of the Saison musicale on Sunday, October 12, 2008
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Johann Sebastian Bach, sacred airs and cantatas
Coaching : Benoit Haller, singer and artistic director of La Chapelle Rhénane ensemble
Tanya Apelsmeier, singer
Dates : From Tuesday, April 1 to Saturday, April 5, 2008
From Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 4, 2008
From Sunday, September 14 to Thursday, September 18, 2008
Places available for : 10 singers (soprano, mezzosoprano,
tenor, baritone, bass) and 1 instrument player leader singer (harpsichord
and positiv organ)
Auditions : February 13, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Thursday, September 18, 2008
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Schumann, Pilgrimage of the Rose
Coaching : Geoffroy Jourdain, musical director of chamber choir Les Cris de Paris
Anne Le Bozec, leader singer
Dates : From Thursday, March 20 to Tuesday, March 25, 2008
From Friday, June 27 to Thursday, July 3, 2008
From Monday, September 22 to Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Places available for : 8 singers (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone)
Auditions : February 12, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Monday, June 30, 2008
A concert as part of the Saison musicale on Saturday, September 27, 2008
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Musical theatre : Il Trittico by Puccini
Coaching : Mariame Clément, stage director
Sabine Vatin, leader singer
Dates : From Tuesday, August 12 to Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Places available for : 10 singers (soprano, mezzosoprano, tenor, baritone-bass)
Auditions : May 2008 (to be specified)
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Recital training
Coaching : Ruben Lifschitz, pianist
Dates : From Saturday, October 4 to Friday, October 10, 2008
Places available for : 3 pianist and singer duets
Auditions : May 2008 (to be specified)
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Friday, October 10, 2008
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Unité ScéniqueGounod, Le Médecin Malgré Lui
Direction : Sandrine Anglade, stage direction
Pascal Verrot, orchestral conductor
Françoise Pollet, vocal consultant
NN, theatrical consultant
Emmanuel Olivier, leader singer
Hélène Lucas, leader singer
Joël-Marie Fauquet, musicologist
with the participation of the Orchestre de Picardie
Dates : From Monday, July 14 to Saturday, July 26, 2008
From Friday, September 12 to Saturday, September 20, 2008
From Saturday, January 3 to Monday, January 12, 2009
Places available for : 9 roles (1 light soprano, 2 mezzosopranos, 3 tenors, 1 baritone, 2 basses)and 2 singing leaders
Auditions : From February 9 to February 13, 2008 in Paris and Lyon
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Saturday, July 26, 2008
Two concerts as part of the Saison musicale on Saturday, September 20, 2008: Le Médecin malgré lui (concert version), melodies by Gounod
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Orgue et claviersVoix Célestes
Coaching : Bernard Tétu, choir conductor and artistic director of Les Solistes de Lyon
Joris Verdin, organist
Joël-Marie Fauquet, musicologist specialised in the study of 19th century repertoires
Jean-Yves Hameline, musicologist and liturgical specialist
Kurt Lueders, musicologist
as well as the participation of two instrumentalists (harpist and cellist)
Dates : From Sunday, April 27 to Sunday, May 4, 2008
Places available for : > 9 singers (3 sopranos at home in lower register,
or mezzosopranos at home in upper register, 3 tenors at home in higher register, 3 baritones basses)
› 4 organists
Auditions : From February 28 to March 1, 2008 at Royaumont
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Sunday, May 4, 2008
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Voix NouvellesVoix Nouvelles composition course 2008
Direction : Brian Ferneyhough, composer
Xavier Dayer, composer
Jérôme Combier, composer
with the collaboration of Neue Vocalsolisten and the Vortex ensemble
Dates : From Monday, August 25 to Saturday, September 13, 2008
Places available for : 15 young composers
Auditions (to be confirmed) : Selected on the basis of a dossier only,
prior to April 18, 2008
Public presentation : The works will be played (read through) and recorded on September 13 as part of the Saison musicale.
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Session of interpretation
Direction : Neue Vocalsolisten
Dates : from 10th till 14 november, 2008
Places available for : 9 singers (2 sopranos, 1 mezzo, 1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass)
Auditions : May 2008 (to be specified)
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Friday, November 14, 2008
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Musiques Orales et ImproviséesSlam/Improvisation
Direction : Dgiz, poet, slammer
Médéric Collignon, bugle, cornet, electronics
Dates : From Monday, August 4 to Sunday, August 10, 2008
Places available for : 8 slammers or improviser musicians
Auditions (to be confirmed) : Selection based on dossier before June 15, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Saturday, August 9, 2008
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Mezwej/Zajal : Arab music and electroacoustic writing
Direction : Zad Moultaka, director of the Mezwej ensemble and composer
Dates : From Monday, December 8 to Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Places available for : 8 singers or / and instrument players
Auditions (to be confirmed) : Based on dossiers before October 15, 2008
Public presentation : Fenêtre sur cour[s] Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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