PRODUCTIONS : WORKSHOPS

SUMMER 2010

Le Nouvel Opera presents the second edition of its Summer Opera Workshop in collaboration with Festival Montreal Baroque and Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, opened for 12 t0 15 young singers.

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI'S SACRED MUSIC & THE ROMAN CANTATA
From June 19-23, 2010

Alongside well-known Canadian artists Suzie LeBlanc, Alexander Weimann and Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, all founding-members of Le Nouvel Opéra, the teaching staff will include French soprano and main singing teacher at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam Valérie Guillorit, Italian language coach and dramaturge Laura Pietropaolo, art historian and baroque dancer Mickaël Bouffard and renowned Dutch bass and teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Bremen Harry van der Kamp.

The workshop will include daily movement and baroque gesture classes, Renaissance dance, Italian diction and rhetoric classes, group-work on operatic scenes, private coaching and daily master-classes/conferences on the musical repertoire proposed for the workshop. Participants will also have the possibility to have tickets for the Festival Montreal Baroque 2010 main musical events.

All classes will be held at the centrally located Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (4750 avenue Henri-Julien). The repertoire will be determined by Le Nouvel Opéra according to voice type and experience of each student.

Example of proposed daily Schedule

9:00-10:00
Body wake up Class

10:00-10:30
Individual vocal warm up

10:30-12:30
Individual classes and group coachings / Italian rhetoric and diction

2:00-2:55
Baroque dance and Gesture Class

3:00-4:00
Masterclass / Conference

4:15-5:30
Group workshops

Course repertoire will be predetermined depending on who is accepted for the course.

WORKSHOP FEE : $700 + taxes (which includes tickets to all the main concerts, A series, at the Montreal Baroque Festival 2010).

Travel and accomodation are the responsibility of the students but if accepted, good and affordable options will be proposed.

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR SINGERS:
Friday April 23, 2010

Singers are requested to please provide an audition recording and a summary of their experience. Audio material should include a minimum of two pieces, one in Italian. Inclusion of a recitative and aria would be helpfull as well as some material from the 17th century.

APPLICATION FORM - download

APPLICATION CAN BE SENT TO:
LE NOUVEL OPÉRA
7835 Drolet, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2R 2C8

Applications can also be made directly by email to dlapierre@lenouvelopera.com if accompanied by resumes and MP3 audio samples.

BIOGRAPHIES

VALÉRIE GUILLORIT

French soprano Valérie Guillorit began her musical studies with violin and finished further her vocal study with Margreet Honig at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam in 1997.

Her professional operatic experience has already been quite extensive as she has performed the roles of Susanna in Mozart?s ?Le nozze di Figaro?, Belinda in Purcell?s Dido and Aeneas, Romilda in Haendel?s ?Xerxes?, Euridice in Gluck?s ?Orfeo?, La Voix Humaine of Poulenc and Delia in Gomez?s ?Fosca? with Gail Gilmore in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.

However, Ms. Guillorit?s ambities are not limited to the operatic stage, as she has proven to be equally as confortable in oratorio. She has performed with Orchestre d?Aquitaine, Gelders Orkest, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Radio filharmonisch Orkest of Nederland, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Tonhalle orkest of Zurich, as a soloist in the Masses of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Rossini, Bach, Poulenc, Franck and Szymanowski, in the Nederlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany.

Equally as intriguing are Ms. Guillorit?s interpretative skills in the Lieder and Mélodies repertoire.In 1997 she was awarded first prize in the ?Vriendenkrans Competition? of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for her interpretation of Debussy and Tchaikovsky and Jury prize in the lyric competition of Clermont-Ferrand. Future recitals pairs Ms.Guillorit with pianists: Paolo Giacometti, Arthur Schoonderwoerd,Frans van Ruth, Irene Russo, Dido Keuning , Arriaga Quartet, Bridge Ensemble en Uriel Ensemble.

She has performed in Villa Lobos?s Bachianas nr.5 with conductor Roy Goodmann in Amsterdam and worked in severals concerts conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend, Lev Markiz, Klaus Peter-Flor, Miguel Gomes Martinez.

In 2001 Ms. Guillorit performs with conductor Lev Markiz ?Les Illuminations? by B.Britten in the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and in Genève, in an Italien programme with Arriaga quartet for the Festival van Vlaanderen and in Festival de Grignan (France), in The Concertgebouw of Amsterdam in Stravinsky?s?Pulcinella; in 2003 in a recital with pianist Irene Russo (Amsterdam), in a Spanish recital with Katona Twins in Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, with Arriaga quartet in Festival van Flanderen (Belgium), with gitarist Frederic Zigante in Festival chamber Music in Rome( Italy) with David wilson Johnson in Prinsengracht Festival van Amsterdam and with Arthur Schoonderwoerd , violist Graaf Mourja and acteur Porguy Franssen in een Berlioz programma (Tour in Nederland); in 2004 with David Wilson Johnson (Baryton) in Brahms?s Requiem in Londen Southwark Cathedrale (England), in Paulus from Mendelssohn in Bremen (Germany), in Poulenc?s La Voix Humaine (Amsterdam-Nederland), in Berlioz?s L?Enfance du Christ (Brabant Orkest- Nederland).In 2005-2006 she will perform with Ives Ensemble in Stravinsky?s songs (Amsterdam), with Katonatwins in Eindhoven (Nederland), with Erard Ensemble sogs from Ravel en Caplet and will record by ?Festivo? a CD of Les Angelus and Ave Verum of L. Vierne with Christine Kamp organist.

In 2007 -2008 she performs : Les Nuits d'Eté from Berlioz, Les Chants Hindou de M. Delage with members of the Concertgebouworchestra, Hommage á Lubimov from F.Karajev with the Schoenberg Ensemble.

In 2009-2010 she is often asked to perform french/spanisch recitals and with organist Christine Kamp the Vierne repertoire.

Valérie Guillorit is since september 2004 main singing teacher at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam and gives regularly master classes in Europa.

HARRY VAN DER KAMP

Harry van der Kamp studied singing with Elizabeth Cooymans and Max van Egmond at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. He also took courses with Alfred Deller, Pierre Bernac and Felix de Nobel. From 1974 he studied with Herman Woltman. Until 1975 Harry van der Kamp was a member of Cappella Amsterdam, directed by Jan Boeke, and until 1994 of the Nederlands Kamerkoor, whose artistic adviser he was from 1982-7. In 1984 he founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, an experimental ensemble for both early and new music that appears in many European festivals. Since 1994 he holds a professorship of Singing at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Bremen, and he gives masterclasses throughout Europe on the performance practice of early music. In 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

In the world of Baroque music Harry van der Kamp enjoys a great reputation as a bass-baritone. His 30-year career has taken him all over the world, from New York to Peking, and he has performed with all the leading Baroque specialists, such as Nicolaus Harnoncourt, John Eliot Gardiner, Gustav Leonhardt, Franz Brueggen, Ton Koopman, William Christie, Sigiswald Kuyken, Jos van Immerseel and Philippe Herreweghe. He is one of Europe's leading ensemble singers, having appeared with the Hilliard Ensemble, Huelgas Ensemble, Capella Ducale, Les Arts Florissants, Cantus Coelln, Concerto Vocale (Rene Jacobs) and with the Weserrenaissance ensemble of Bremen.

As an opera singer he has sung 30 roles in operas by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Landi, Cesti, Rameau, Sacrati, Keiser, Handel and Mozart, throughout Europe and America. One of the company he has worked with is Nederlandse Opera, in productions of Monteverdi's Orfeo and L'incoronatione di Poppea, and also in such modern productions as Reves d'un Marco Polo by Claude Viviers, and, recently, Alexander Knaifel's Alice in Wonderland, all produced by Pierre Audi.
He can be heard on more than 100 CDs, including Haydn's Missa in tempore belli and "Nelson" Mass, all of Schubert's masses, Mozart's Requiem, Verdi's Requiem and Haydn's Creation (which the BBC in 1995 hailed as the best recording of the work), Handel's Orlando (conducted by William Christie), Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni (Sigiswald Kuyken) and Die Zauberfloete (Ton Koopman), Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronatione di Poppea (Alan Curtis), Francesco Cavalli's Giasone (Rene Jacobs), Stefano Landi's La morte d'Orfeo (Stephen Stubbs), Reinhard Keiser's Masaniello furioso (Thomas Albert's Fiori Musicali), Ezra Pound's Testament de Francois Villon (Reinbert de Leeuw) and Stephan Wolpe's Zeus und Elida (Werner Herbers). Countless great solo works and solo cantatas from the 17th century have appeared on the Teldec, Astree, CPO, Capriccio, Accent and Sony labels, accompanied by Gustav Leonhardt (Purcell, Awake and with attention hear, Evening Hymn, etc.), Andrew Lawrence King (Purcell, Begin the song), Stephen Stubbs (Monteverdi, Io nell'otio nacqui; Landi, Superbi colli; Mazzocchi, Padre del ciel), Hermann Max (J.C.F. Bach, Pygmalion), and Musica Fiata (Foerster's dialogues and oratorios; Rosenmueller, Domine ne in furore tuo).

For the Sony Vivarte label Harry van der Kamp has recorded North German cantatas for solo bass by Bruhns, Tunder, Johann Christoph Bach, Schuetz, Buxtehude and Rosenmueller. He has also recorded Johann Sebastian Bach's oratorios and cantatas with Gustav Leonhardt, Franz Brueggen, Sigiswald Kuyken and Thomas Albert.
With his Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam he is preparing the recordings of the complete vocal works by the Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.