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LIST OF PARTICIPANTSBIOGRAPHIESOPERA CREATION WORKSHOPJUNE 22 — 26, 2020

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OPERA CREATION WORKSHOPThe Académie du Festival d’Aix has adapted and developed new online training programs in order to continue to carry out its mission of training and accompanying young musicians in their professional development. Country borders currently pose a challenge to an artist’s mobility and so it becomes important to create new work spaces and meeting places which allow for the preservation of the vital links and intercultural dialogue at the heart of these programs.The training programs were created through a process of reflection and ongoing exchange with the artists and pedagogical experts who were initially involved in training sessions that were scheduled to take place in Aix during the 2020 edition of the Festival d’Aix. Through these newly adapted programs, the Académie du Festival d’Aix continues to defend its values which include artistic excellence, innovation, the expression of cultural diversity, and activities which promote social inclusion.

Offered for several years to young creators from all disciplines, the Opera Creation Workshop is a place for reflection and discussion on artistic opera-related issues. This workshop usually seeks to define, discuss current values of opera and the tasks it will assume in the future and reflects on opera creation today and on the multidisciplinary aspects that it encompasses. This year, the workshop will take place entirely online over a period of five days and will encourage discussions that reflect on the sanitary crisis that we are all facing at the moment. The discussions will be fueled by the interventions of the stage directors Peter Sellers and Simon McBurney and Professor Didier Sicard who have been invited to speak during the workshop. The workshop itself will be led by the Franco-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf – elected to the Académie française in 2011.

This workshop is supported by SACD.

MENTOR

WRITERAMIN MAALOUF

PARTICIPANTS

ZSUZSANNA ARDÓ— PLAYWRIGHT, VISUAL ARTS CREATORCHRISTINA ATHINODOROU— COMPOSER, CONDUCTORDAHAE BOO— COMPOSERTOM CREED— STAGE DIRECTORPENDA DIOUF – PLAYWRIGHT LOUIS GOLDFORD— COMPOSERSTACY HARDY— PLAYWRIGHT MAURO HERTIG— COMPOSERGOLFAM KHAYAM— COMPOSERMICHAEL KLEINE— STAGE DIRECTOR, SCENOGRAPHER, COSTUME DESIGNERNANINE LINNING— STAGE DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHERGARETH MATTEY— PLAYWRIGHTMATTHEW RICKETTS— COMPOSERCLAIRE TIPY— PLAYWRIGHT, STAGE DIRECTOR

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Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut in 1949. He studied economics and sociology and then worked as an international reporter until the Lebanon war broke out in 1975. He settled in Paris in 1976 with his family and became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique.In 1983, he published his first book, an essay entitled The Crusades through Arab Eyes and resigned from his position as a journalist in 1986 to devote himself to his second book and first novel, Leo the African, which received an important critical and public praise when it was published. Highly acclaimed books followed, until 1993 when The Rock of Tanios, his fourth novel, won the Goncourt Prize. He has written many other works, all set in the Middle-East, Africa and the Mediterranean world, among which novels such as Ports of Call, Balthasar’s Odyssey, Samarkand or The Disoriented. He also published essays such as In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong, Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century, Un fauteuil sur la Seine, and opera libretti: L’Amour de loin and Adriana Mater. Le Naufrage des civilisations is his latest published work. He was granted the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2010. In June 2011, he was elected to join the Académie Française.

MENTORAMIN MAALOUFWRITER FRANCE / LEBANON

Zsuzsanna Ardó is an award-winning visual artist, curator and writer. Her work received awards and artist residencies by Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, ASL NY, Frankfurter Kunstverein, UNESCO, Skopje City and Museum and the Festival d’Aix. She has been invited to serve as chair and member of international juries, and curated international projects for both mainstream and alternative spaces e.g. in Antarctica, the Arctic, the British and European Parliament and the European Commission. She was jury-selected to represent the United Kingdom in UNESCO’s creative residency in 2018, with works created featured in 2019 at UNESCO headquarter in Paris.As a writer and visual artist she works across disciplines, genres, languages and cultures. Her visual art includes painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, film, and 3D works. Her visual language investigates the crossovers between the figurative and abstract, human and animal, natural and unnatural; it explores the ambivalent edges between observation and imagination, memory, mystery and mythology. Her climate change inspired land art installations started in the High Arctic, popping up and engaging locals wherever she goes since then. In England this work continues to take her along vulnerable coastlines and areas be it by the Irish, Celtic and the North Sea, the English and the Bristol Channel, a lighthouse embraced by the sea or an Elizabethan Hall on glaciated Jurassic and Cretaceous land. The Glacier Strikes Back, her fine art print based on her land art installations was jury-selected for the 7th International Print Biennale Shortlist at the National Museum in Guanlan, China, dedicated to the art printmaking. Her work has been published internationally e.g. Philosophy Now, The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, Logos, OUP, Macmillan, and her satirical social anthropology book about her native culture was published in three editions on three continents. Her short film, Allegro Barbaro, a triple-flashback visual poem, was screened at the India International Centre Delhi, Harvard in Boston, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. She has curated international projects on a variety of relevant themes, including climate change, slavery, feminism. Her large-scale solo exhibition about the language of film featured at the headquarter of the British Film Academy. She wrote and directed The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger, her play for the Harvard short play festival. She adapted her play as a libretto for opera, which premiered in New York, and the staged version in Chicago, featuring her art work inspired by the zeitgeist of the opera. Collaborating on creative projects with scientists and composers act as creative catalyst in her practice. Her poems, set to music by composers, are registered with BMI and performed internationally. For years she served as a voting member of Writing Chapter of the British Film Academy Awards. She is a member of ICOM.

www.ardo.org

PARTICIPANTZSUZSANNA ARDÓPLAYWRIGHT, VISUALARTS CREATORHUNGARY

www.ardo.org

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Christina Athinodorou (born 1981, Paphos) is a composer increasingly rising into prominence, with a growing catalogue of symphonic, chamber and vocal works.She studied composition with Julian Philips and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and later she studied composition privately with Philippe Leroux in Paris. She also took courses at the UNT, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon and Ircam. She is based in Cyprus and works internationally, while maintaining her strong bonds with both the United Kingdom and France.Her music suggests her preoccupation with musical pacing and the harmony of movement. It is also informed by contemporary approaches to timbre, extended techniques, and almost inevitably by the rich Mediterranean and Hellenic traditions, including drama, prosody and microtonality. Her compositions have been performed worldwide (Venice Biennale, Grafenegg Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Music Biennale Zagreb, Musikprotokoll Graz, ISCM World New Music Days) by the Tonkünstler Orchester, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra Ensemble Aleph, the Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble BlauerReiter and Sentieri Selvaggi to name a few. She also appears as a conductor and has collaborated with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia Finlandia, the Nederlands Symfonieorkest, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta among others. She has also directed new music with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Southampton University Winds, the dissonArt Ensemble and the Ensemble Cyclamen.

www.athinodorou.com

PARTICIPANTCHRISTINA ATHINODOROUCOMPOSER, CONDUCTOR CYPRUS

Born in 1988 in South Korea, Dahae Boo has a lot of experience in various countries: South Korea (Seoul National University), France (Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris), Germany (Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg), Japan (Tokyo University, Kunitachi Music College). During the 2016-2017 academic years, she studied composition and computer music at Ircam. Her music has been performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Divertimiento Ensemble, Berliner Ensemble Essenz, Prometeo Quartet, Béla Quartet, Mivos Quartet and Debussy Quartet among others. In 2017, she did a residency as a composer at the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019, she get Sacem and Fondation Salabert prizes.

www.dahaeboo.net

PARTICIPANTDAHAE BOOCOMPOSER SOUTH KOREA

http://www.athinodorou.comhttp://www.dahaeboo.net

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Tom Creed is a theatre and opera director based in Dublin. Recent opera productions include Griselda and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Irish National Opera), Owen Wingrave (Opéra national de Paris and Opera Collective Ireland), Acis and Galatea, Il segreto di Susanna and La Voix humaine (Opera Theatre Company) and world premieres of Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger (BAM, New York), Annelies van Parys’s Private View (Opera Vlaanderen, Operadagen Rotterdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and on tour) and Jürgen Simpson’s Air India [redacted] (Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver). Other productions include Mavra and The Bear (Royal Conservatoire of Scotlandas) well as Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica, Mavra and Renard (Royal Irish Academy of Music). Private View was awarded the FEDORA Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera in 2014, Best Production at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest in 2015 and was named as one of 14 notable productions of the last three years by Music Theatre NOW in 2016. His work as a theatre director has been seen at all the major Irish venues and festivals, and on tour to the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2007. His productions of Watt by Samuel Beckett with actor Barry McGovern has been presented in Ireland at the Dublin Theatre Festival, the Galway Arts Festival and on tour, in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Barbican Centre in London, in Australia at the Perth and Melbourne International Festivals, in New Zealand at the Auckland Arts Festival, and in the USA at the Public Theatre in New York and on tour. He was Festival Director of Cork Midsummer Festival from 2011 to 2013 and was nominated for an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award in 2012. He has previously been Theatre and Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival and Associate Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company. His forthcoming productions include a new production of Private View for the International Opera Academy in Ghent and world premieres of new operas by Irish composers Michael Gallen and Emma O’Halloran.

www.tomcreed.org

PARTICIPANTTOM CREEDSTAGE DIRECTOR IRELAND

Penda Diouf is a theater author and has directed during 10 years four libraries in Saint-Denis in France. She is also co-founder, with Anthony Thibault, of the label Jeunes Textes en Liberté, an itinerant theater festival which promotes the authors of contemporary theater and tries to fill the gaps in terms of representation and narration. She is an associate artist at the Centre dramatique national de Valence under the direction of Marc Lainé. Her play La Grande Ourse is published by Quartett éditions. Her play Pistes… staged by Aristide Tarnagda will be on tour in 2020-2021 in Germany, in France at CDN de Valence and at MC93 as part of the Festival d’Automne. It will be published on January 2021. She is also president of the association Scènes appartagées which promotes theater readings in a family context. She leads writing workshops too.

PARTICIPANTPENDA DIOUFPLAYWRIGHTSENEGAL

http://www.tomcreed.org

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Louis Goldford is a composer of acoustic and mixed music whose works often draw inspiration from auditory illusion, transcription and psychoanalysis. In 2019, he completed his Cursus in computer music composition at Ircam, supported by the Fulbright Commission in France. He was concurrently a Laureate in Music Composition and resident composer of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. He is currently a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University, where he studies with Georg Friedrich Haas, Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, George Lewis and Fred Lerdahl.Recent performances include those by the Talea Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62, the Meitar Ensemble and Rage Thormbones. Upcoming engagements include new pieces for Longleash, Fonema Consort and a residency at the Académie Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont.

www.louisgoldford.com

PARTICIPANTLOUIS GOLDFORDCOMPOSERUSA

Stacy Hardy is a writer, an editor and a teacher. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Chimurenga, Ctheory, Bengal Lights, Evergreen Review, Drunken Boat, Joyland, Black Sun Lit and New Orleans Review. A collection of her short fiction, Because the Night, was published in 2015. She regularly collaborates with Angolan composer Victor Gama on multimedia works that have been performed in Chicago, Berlin, Lisbon, Luanda, Cape Town, amongst other places and her experimental performance piece, Museum of Lungs, created together with Laila Soliman, Neo Muyanga and Nancy Mounir, premiered in Johannesburg (2018), followed by dates in Europe. She is currently working on a research-and-performance-based collaborative endeavor with anthropologist Kaushik Sunder Rajan and musician Neo Muyanga exploring biographies and geographies of breath, through a focus on the colonial histories and postcolonial politics, as well as a libretto for a new opera with composer Bushra El-Turk and director Laila Soliman.

PARTICIPANTSTACY HARDYPLAYWRIGHTSOUTH AFRICA

http://www.louisgoldford.com

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Golfam Khayam was born and grew up in Iran in a family of artists in Tehran. She holds a Master of Music from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati and a Master of “Interprétation specialisée” solist and composition at Geneva University in Switzerland. She has been winner of numerous prizes which includes International Rostrum of Composer in category of windows on the world.She has evolved into an international career as a composer and improviser. So far, she has signed and published with ECM Doberman-Yppan, Hermes records. Her music is featured in Elbphilharmonie, Metropolitan Museum, NPR “songs we love”, Danish Cultural Radio, BBC3 . Her recent commissions include Loadbang, Stephan Schmidt, Ivan Podyomov (principle Oboist of Concertgebouw), the Opéra de-ci-de-là residency in Aix-en-Provence.She is currently a lecturer in Tehran Art University.

www.golfamkhayam.com

PARTICIPANTGOLFAM KHAYAMCOMPOSERIRAN

Mauro Hertig (born 1989, Switzerland) is a composer with an output of ensemble, chamber and site-specific works. His focus lies on the exposition of musical perception and memory and the fluid relationship between score and sound. He studied at ZHdK in Zürich and at Kunstuniversität Graz, receiving his Bachelor with Isabel Mundry and Master of Arts in Composition with Beat Furrer and Klaus Lang. Further studies include courses and masterclasses with Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenmann, Elliott Sharp, Felix Profos and Peter Ablinger. Works have been commissioned by Ensemble Recherche, Collegium Novum Zürich, Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF, Royaumont Foundation, Impuls Verein Graz, Soyuz21 Ensemble, Duo Klexs, Festival für Neue Musik Rümlingen, Open Music, Platypus Ensemble Vienna among others. In 2016, he has been selected as Promising Young Composer by the European-wide Ulysses Network/IRCAM, which resulted in a journey of international residencies from 2017 to 2020. More recently, he was composer-in-residence at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) Zürich and at 180° Festival for Innovative Art in Sofia. His site-specific work Liquid Contra for six speakers was displayed at London Design Festival 2018. 2018-19 has seen a portrait concert by the Austrian National Broadcast ORF and Jeunesse Vienna, as well as the premiere of the landscape opera Die Perfekte Passivität for the Festival für Neue Musik Rümlingen in Basel. For his choir work The Great Mirror, he has been chosen as laureate of the Voix Nouvelles Academy by the Royaumont Foundation – leading to the commission of a new work for Florentin Ginot (Musikfabrik Köln), to be premiered in September 2020 at Festival Royaumont. He lives in New York and Vienna.

www.maurohertig.com

PARTICIPANTMAURO HERTIGCOMPOSER SWITZERLAND

http://www.golfamkhayam.comhttp://www.maurohertig.com

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Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning was born in 1977. Since the beginning of her career she received numerous awards and recognition for her multidisciplinary projects crossing over into the fields of design, video, visual arts and fashion. In 2000 she initiated a six-year collaboration with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and became Europe youngest choreographer in residency. Then she was successively the Artistic Director for danse at the Theater Osnabrück (2009-2012), the Theater Heidelberg (2012-2018) and the Festspiele Ludwigshafen (2018-2019). She created and produced six productions with her own Dance Company Nanine Linning: Bacon (2006) from the life and work of the painter Francis Bacon ; Cry Love (2007), a multimedia performance of dance and video installation premiering in the Holland Festival ; Dolby, a cross-over between dance and rock concert presented at the Julidans festival ; Endless Song of Silence, a dance and video production in collaboration with Iris van Herpen set to Gorecki Symphony No. 3 and followed by the performance art installation Endless Song of Silence Extended; Requiem (2012) for 90 dancers, musicians, choir singers and vocal soloists set to Fauré’s Requiem ; Double Helix (2019), an installation based performance with 16 dancers in collaboration with artist Bart Hess. Her other creations include among other : Voice Over (2012) with composer Michiel Jansen, Synthetic Twin (2012) and Zero (2013) with haute couture designer Iris van Herpen, Hieronymus B. (2015) after the life and work of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, Silver (2015) in collaboration with high-tech material designer Bart Hess, The Black Painting (2015) with costumes inspired by Goya paintings, Khôra (2016) with food artist Remco Vellinga, Dusk (2017) in collaboration with the Russian fashion designer Irina Shaposnikova as well as Revolt (2019) commissioned by the Stuttgart Ballet and the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar to celebrate the Bauhaus centennial. This past decade she also staged three opera productions: Madama Butterfly (2010) by Puccini, Echnaton (2014) by Philip Glass at Theater Heidelberg and L’Orfeo (2019) by Monteverdi for the Dutch company Reisopera. She will make her debut in the United States next season with a commission from Boston Ballet. Her shows Bacon and Double Helix will be presented during the next Diagilev Festival in Perm. She will also create a mise-en-espace for the Nederlands Kamerkoor.

www.naninelinning.nl

PARTICIPANTNANINE LINNINGSTAGE DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER THE NETHERLANDS

Michael Kleine is a music theater director, stage designer, performance and visual artist. He received his Master’s Degree in Music Theater Directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.His interdisciplinary artistic practice comprises music theatre productions, stage and costumes designs, art objects, performances, scenarios and exhibition architectures. His works are situated in theatre, opera and the contemporary or classical music scene as well as in the context of fine art. In his work that originates in various genres and collaborations, he often relates subjects from European art and cultural history to contemporary display formats, emphasizing a discourse about the social implications of presentation formats. In his solo exhibitions and performances, he creates collective spaces of intense experience through turning attention to the art work/the object, the sound, the architecture, the social situation and the perception conditions on an equal level. Two of his most frequent artistic partners are the French director Aliénor Dauchez with whom he founded the music theatre company LA CAGE and the Swiss harpsichord player Johannes Keller who is artistic director of the research project Studio31 in Basel. Among others his works were shown in the following institutions: Volksbühne Berlin, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale Bochum, Theater Basel CH, Biennale Arte di Venezia, Schinkelpavillon Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Leipzig, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde Berlin, Sammlung Klosterfelde Hamburg, Gare du Nord Basel, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Reims, Radialsystem Berlin.

www.michaelkleine.com

PARTICIPANTMICHAEL KLEINESTAGE DIRECTOR, SCENOGRAPHER,COSTUME DESIGNER GERMANY

http://www.naninelinning.nlhttp://www.michaelkleine.com

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Matthew Ricketts (born 1986, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer currently based in New York City. He holds degrees in Music Composition and Theory from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music (B.Mus. 2009) and Columbia University (DMA 2017). His principal mentors include Brian Cherney, John Rea, Chris Paul Harman, George Lewis and Fred Lerdahl. He is currently a core lecturer at Columbia University. His music moves from extremes of presence and absence, from clamor to quietude, at once reticent and flamboyant. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 Gaudeamus Prize nominee. He is the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2020 Charles Ives Fellowship), Civitella Ranieri (2020), the MacDowell Colony (2019), the Tanglewood Music Center (2018 Elliott Carter Memorial Fellowship) and the Aspen Music Festival (2017), in addition to the 2016 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Prize, the 2016 Jacob Druckman Prize (Aspen Music Festival), the 2016 Mivos/Kanter Prize, the 2015 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award, a 2013 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and eight prizes in the SOCAN Foundation’s Awards for Young Composers.His works have been performed internationally by JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Flux Quartet, the Fromm Players, Quatuor Bozzini, the Chiara String Quartet; vocalists Margot Rood, Ellen Wieser, Tony Arnold, Sharon Harms and Ekmeles; Yarn/Wire, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Wet Ink, TAK, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Ensemble Paramirabo, Argento Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Jean-Willy Kunz, Sara Laimon and Julia Den Boer, the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra (Robert Spano, cond.), Esprit Orchestra (Alex Pauk, cond.), the Minnesota Orchestra (Osmo Vänskä, cond.) and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Kent Nagano, cond.). He was composer-collaborator-in-residency at East Carolina University from 2016-2018. In 2018, his multilingual opera Chaakapesh: The Trickster’s Quest (written in collaboration with renowned Cree playwright Tomson Highway) opened the Montreal Symphony’s 84th season to great critical acclaim and went on to tour Indigenous communities throughout Québec. Active as a writer as well as a composer, he has published articles, reviews, poetry and libretti, and has worked closely with authors and poets Lauren J. Rogener, Paul Legault, Christian Schlegel, Klara du Plessis and Tomson Highway on multiple collaborative projects. Other collaborative endeavors include recent works for dancer-choreographers Brendan Drake and Jennifer Nichols.

www.matthewricketts.com

PARTICIPANTMATTHEW RICKETTSCOMPOSERCANADA

Gareth Mattey is a writer, director, dramaturge and filmmaker from the United Kingdom, based between London and the North West. Their work focuses on exploring queer stories and queer storytelling in all kinds of music-theatre, from musicals to songs to operas. They have also increasingly been exploring a multi-media multi-modal sensibility, exploring how integrating different technologies into live dramatic worlds, and how blurring between genres and forms can help in building a new queer vision of live performance and music. They studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before pursuing a further research MPhil on the relationship of opera and film at the university. They also completed an MA in Opera Making and Writing with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in association with the Royal Opera House, writing the chamber opera Reel Woman with Pedro Lima, subsequently performed in 2018. As a writer and librettist, their work, since graduating from Guidlhall, has been developed and performed across the United Kingdom and internationally, with the support of organisations like enoa and Theatre Nohgaku. Major projects as writer have included their improvising chamber opera Belladonna commissioned and performed by FAWN Chamber Creative in Toronto, the documentary opera Bermondsey, 1983 (developed with Robert Reid Allan on residencies with Snape Maltings and LOD muziektheater in Ghent, Belgium), the cantata Talkin(g) (A)bout My Generation (written with Pedro Lima for Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal) and A Father Is Looking for His Daughter (written with Alex Mills and staged as part of rough-for-opera at the Cockpit Theatre). They continue to prioritize new spaces and new narratives in contemporary music and in 2020 they are developing further music-theatre collaborations with Robert Reid Allan, Alex Mills, Crispin Lord, Pedro Lima and more. Furthermore, they now teach as part of the Opera Making and Writing MA at Guildhall. As a director, they have directed productions of work by Britten, Tavener, Dove, Weir, Stockhausen and more. Most recently, they have directed new work at the Tête-à-Tête Festival, Pélleas et Mélisande for Opera on the Move, a new pastiche Mozart singspiel with Classical Remix and the Opera Scenes for Royal Academy Opera. They were nominated for the Prize for Collaboration at the Scottish Awards for New Music 2019 for directing Robert Reid Allan’s Anthems for Queer Youth. They have also led workshops for Hampstead Garden Opera with The Latymer School, as well as Aldeburgh Young Musicians on introductions to opera directing. As a filmmaker, they have written and directed their first short Quartet with Random Acts North (working closely with SHOAL, a Manchester based contemporary music ensemble) and directing and editing a 360-degree short operatic video on a fragment of La Bohème while attending a lab on the relationship of opera and VR at the Banff Centre in Canada. They teach filmmaking to undergraduate students at the Guildhall and they are currently writing and developing a short operatic film with composer Ergo Phizmiz, as well as their first feature film with director Nicholas Hampson.

PARTICIPANTGARETH MATTEYPLAYWRIGHT UNITED KINGDOM

http://www.matthewricketts.com

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CRÉDITS PHOTOSAmin Maalouf © Hannah AssoulineTom Creed © Ste MurrayMauro Hertig © Emile KirschNanine Linning © John van HelvertMatthew Ricketts © Michael Kuhn

Création graphique – Irma BoomExécution graphique – Laurie Wagner

Claire Tipy is a writer, director and actress, and the cofounder of RPS Theatre company. After studying political sciences and theatre in Lyon and London, she moved to Burkina Faso in 2016 to work artistically on under-represented stories and narratives. She has collaborated with several burkinabe artists and has written and directed Where do you think I was born? and Dix Lions / Buugness Piiga / Ten Lions with RPS Theatre. Her last play Des pintades et des manguiers is a Jeunes textes en liberté 2020 laureate. Her writing, fun and accessible, is based on real testimonies and focuses on the impact of contemporary issues on the everyday life of individuals. She is currently working with Sidiki Yougbare on theatre writing in national African languages.

www.rpstheatre.com

PARTICIPANTCLAIRE TIPY PLAYWRIGHT, STAGE DIRECTORFRANCE / BURKINA FASO

http://www.rpstheatre.com

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