Jean-Paul Penin

Jean -Paul Penin ( born December 31, 1949 in Saint- Dizier ) is a French conductor.

Biography

Penin studied at the Strasbourg Academy of Music (double bass, chamber music) and the Strasbourg University and graduated in 1978 with the Ph.D. in biophysics and an MA in Musicology from. In addition, he attended the Paris Music Academy ( Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique ), where he studied musicology. A Master's Degree Conducting he could make in 1979 thanks to the Fulbright scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (including John Adams). Penin 1979 prize winner at the International Min-On Conducting Competition in Tokyo. He worked in 1980/81 as an assistant to Alain Lombard at the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra from 1982 to 1984 and as assistant to Lorin Maazel at the Vienna State Opera. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, he was from 1989 to 1993 first guest conductor of the Krakow Philharmonic. Parallel to this, he worked as a music director of the Opéra 1989-1994 d' Automne in Semur, France.

In May 1986, Jean -Paul Penin jumped overnight for a live radio symphony concert at the NOS Hilversum. 1990 after a tour of Russia, he jumped too short notice for a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Dutch premiere of Olivier Messiaen 's Piano Concerto La Ville d' en Haut. The composer himself was present at the concert, which was broadcast on "Radio Philharmonic "; Soloist was Yvonne Loriod, wife of the composer ( Volkskrant, November 12, 1990).

From Bärenreiter Penin received the exclusive rights for the French premiere of Hector Berlioz's rediscovered " solo exhibition Nelle ". Later he played the show as the world's first recording (Basilica of Vézelay, October 7, 1993), Radio France, Accord - Universal CD and France Télévisions, a. This was followed by invitations to the global performance of the piece, which realized Penin, among others at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá and Buenos Aires (May 1998) and at the Santander International Music Festival ( 2003).

In September 2000, Penin was invited by Dvořák Festival for the opening concert with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague. This was followed by a tour with the orchestra in Spain 2001.

Three times in a row Penin was invited by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for tour concerts featuring works by Berlioz, Saint- Saëns, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.

In September 2002 he appeared at the Dresden Philharmonic with pieces by Béla Bartók and Claude Debussy. The concert was broadcast live in 24 countries. This was followed for Penin in the Dresden Semperoper a Berlioz program. In September 2003, the National Opera in Oslo invited him for Francis Poulenc's " Dialogues of the Carmelites " one.

As an important excavation shall Penins use for Spontini Fernand Cortez, which he claimed his own grossed Edition 1998 on CD and a concert in Paris (2002) and Madrid (2003 ) Release, all of whom were supported by the Napoleon Foundation. Finally, he conducted the stage performances at Erfurt (2006 ) Theatre.

Two concert series with the KBS Symphony (Seoul), he was finally invited by the Korean National Opera for Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

On 9 July 2009 Penin conducted the premiere of François Fayts Stabat Mater ( Saint- Riquier Music Festival, Chamber Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre, Choir musicaa, Jean -Philippe Courtis, bass - baritone ).

Recordings

In addition to his recordings of Liszt Faust Symphony and Saint- Saëns Organ Symphony (1998) Penin held several world premieres at:

  • Beethoven: Cantatas Joseph II and Leopold II ( 1992)
  • Hector Berlioz: Messe Solenelle (1993 )
  • Chabrier: Gwendoline, the recording was internationally known as one of the Opéra of the most interesting in recent years ( 1997)
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz ( French version of Berlioz with recitatives ) ( 1998)
  • Gaspare Spontini: Fernand Cortez (1998) Fernand Cortez
  • Antonio Sacchini Oedipe à Colonne (2005)

Compositions

  • " Nuits Parisiennes ", suite for orchestra, premiere Milan, December 2004 Pomeriggi Musicali
  • " Nuits Parisiennes " (2009), Ballet

Books and articles

  • Les Baroqueux ou le Musicalement Correct, Gründ Editions, Paris, 2000. " Exciting, humorous and dust free " ( Neue Musik Zeitung, 2001/07-08 ).
  • Les Premieres arm you jeune Berlioz: La Messe Solenelle, Revue Internationale d' Etudes Musicales, Editions Jean -Michel Place, Paris, 2004.
  • L' Interprète face à la partition. Museum design ou appropriation? Prague National Music Academy 2000

Swell

  • Jean -Paul Penin, new music newspaper
  • The article is based on the entry Jean -Paul Penin Dictionnaire des interprètes, Paris, Laffont, ISBN 2221102142
  • Site Berlioz 2003.
  • De Ontdekking van Berlioz 's Messe Solenelle
  • La Messe Solenelle de Berlioz, 13 October 1993 La Croix
  • La Messe Solenelle de Berlioz, October 13, 1993 Le Monde
  • Conductor
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
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