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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES CULTURAL JOURNALISM WORKSHOP JUNE 28 — JULY 3, 2021

MENTORS PARTICIPANTS

JOURNALIST MARCIN BOGUCKI SHIRLEY APTHORP MATILDA CERONE JORDAN HARDESTY DRAMATURGE EMA KATROVAS WILLEM BRULS JUDITH LEBIEZ GABRIELE SLIZYTE JEAN TAIN MIROSLAVA TYRINA MENTOR SHIRLEY APTHORP JOURNALIST IRELAND / SOUTH AFRICA

Shirley Apthorp was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She grew up in Australia and studied music in Tasmania. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and an Australia Council grant to study music criticism in Europe in the mid-1990s. She lives in Berlin since 1996, writing about music for Bloomberg, The Financial Times and numerous specialist music publications. She travels extensively to write about music, not only around Europe but also to Venezuela, the USA, Colombia, Bolivia, Japan, and the Middle East. Her work is translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, German and Spanish. She teaches courses in music journalism in Austria, Australia, France and South Africa. In 2010, she creates Umculo, an organization dedicated to social change through music in South Africa. Annual performance and education projects bring international experts in their field to produce collaborative work with and for disadvantages communities in South Africa. Umculo’s work has won numerous international nominations and awards, including the 2019 Classical Next Innovation Award. Together with Dutch author and dramaturg Willem Bruls, she has embarked on a series of podcasting projects, producing in-depth studies of composers and their work for music organisations.

4 MENTOR WILLEM BRULS DRAMATURGE NETHERLANDS

Author, librettist and dramaturge Willem Bruls wrote several books, most notably a study on Wagner’s Ring-cycle, on Orientalism in Opera, and on Opera in Venice, published in 2021 in Germany under the title Venedig und die Oper. His collected essays on music and opera were published in 2009. As a music critic he wrote for De Standaard (Belgium), Opernwelt and The Wall Street Journal Europe. For composer Richard van Schoor and Stadttheater Giessen, he wrote the opera libretto Alp Arslan, premiered in May 2019. Together with composer Mathilde Wantenaar, he wrote the libretto for the children’s opera Een lied voor de maan (2020). He also wrote the script for the music theatre production of Façade: the final days of Mata Hari. Together with choreographer Krzysztof Pastor he made stage adaptations of Shéhérazade, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. With choreographer Kim Brandstrup he realized the dance performance Life is a Dream for Rambert Ballet. For the Ruhrtriennale and Toneelgroep Amsterdam he wrote a stage adaptation of Pasolini’s Teorema, directed by Ivo van Hove, which was selected for the Lincoln Center Festival in New York. As a production dramaturge he worked on Il re pastore, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Pique Dame, Werther, Prince Igor, Xerse, The Rape of Lucretia, La voix humaine/L’heure espagnole, A Little Night Music, and with Pierre Audi on La Juive, Partenope, Orlando furioso, Médée, and Tristan und Isolde. Bruls directed several music theatre productions, for Operadagen Rotterdam, Delft Chamber Music Festival and Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival. He made radio programs on Lorca, De Falla, Verdi, the pianoforte, Theresienstadt, Aleppo and Venice. With music journalist Shirley Apthorp he realized podcast series on Josquin des Prez and Chopin. He also gave workshops on contemporary music theatre, libretto writing, youth opera and (with Shirley Apthorp) cultural journalism in Barcelona, Hobart, Stavanger, Ghent, Brussels and Aix-en-Provence.

5 PARTICIPANT MARCIN BOGUCKI MUSICOLOGY RESEARCHER POLAND

Marcin Bogucki – graduate of cultural studies, art history and musicology. Since 2019 he works at the University of Warsaw (Institute of Polish Culture, Section for Theatre and Performance). His research focuses on the cultural history and modern staging of opera. His Ph.D. thesis was devoted to the relations between opera and madness. In 2012 he published a book about Peter Sellars's operatic work. In 2011 and 2013 participant of the program “Music Critic 2.0”, organized by the Polish Institute of Music and Dance. In the academic year 2014-2015 he spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the Indiana University in Bloomington. Participant of the team grant project ‘Cultural History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition’ (2017-2020). Member of the Polish Society for Theatre Research (2016-2020 – secretary of the Society), and member of the Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision.

6 PARTICIPANT MATILDA CERONE JOURNALIST CANADA / ITALY

Matilda Cerone is a multimedia and multidisciplinary journalist based in Tiohtià:ke, also colonially known as Montreal, Canada. She predominantly works with photography and videography to tell socially conscious stories. Her hope is to raise awareness about social injustices and challenges faced by marginalized individuals. Matilda is also deeply connected to art and theatre, where she has been involved since a young age. In both opera and experimental theatre, she has covered multiple and diverse roles: silent acting roles, props-person, lighting and sound assistant, cameraperson, and live performance photographer. Through her journalistic work, she is interested in telling stories of artists who convey deeply political messages through their shows and creations. She recently completed her graduate studies in visual journalism after studying philosophy, obtaining both degrees from Concordia University. During her first degree, she received multiple awards. Most notably, she won the Thought Provoking Award with her 2019 essay Behind Italy's Politics of Abortion and Immigration. She is currently working on two main projects. The first is a feature on hip-hop artist Waahli, with whom she is exploring how multilingualism, racial discrimination, immigration and personal challenges have shaped his music. The second is a video documentary exploring how young adults' mental and social health has been affected by the pandemic. By using rave parties as a metaphor for resilience, community care and resistance, the documentary shows how COVID-19 has only brought to light the social pandemic that is capitalism.

7 PARTICIPANT JORDAN HARDESTY WRITER AND DRAMATURGE UNITED STATES

Jordan Scott Hardesty is a dramaturg and writer originally from the United States. He is a proud member of both the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the American Society for Theatre Research. Jordan is currently based in Amsterdam and is an MA International Dramaturgy student at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

8 PARTICIPANT EMA KATROVAS SOPRANO CZECH REPUBLIC / UNITED STATES

Ema Katrovas is a Czech-American singer, translator, and writer. Parallel to beginning a career as a soprano soloist in the Czech Republic, she worked as a translator, editor, and arts coordinator. As a teenager, she published a book of translation of the poetry of Pavel Šrut (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008) and her own fiction has appeared in Redivider Journal (2019.) In order to leverage her background as both a performer and writer, she began a blog (Soprano on the Verge) about the life of a classical singer, which gradually grew into a YouTube channel (Opera on the Verge) and a podcast (Convo on the Verge). Her aim is to speak candidly about what it takes to survive as a performing artist, dispel the half-truths of classical music history, and to report on the backstage world of live performing, especially so-called “indie,” artist-led creative projects.

9 PARTICIPANT JUDITH LEBIEZ MEZZO-SOPRANO FRANCE

Judith Lebiez grew up in Paris where she studied philosophy as a scholar of the École Normale Supérieure (class 2007) and comparative literature at the Sorbonne. The pursuit of her Master Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie led her to the UCLouvain in Belgium, the Hosei University in Tokyo and the LMU in Munich. She was a visiting student at the Scuola normale superiore in Pisa, the Collegio superiore in Bologna and the Freie Universität in Berlin. In 2018, she completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge on Nietzsche, Wagner and the role of lighting in opera staging. Concomitantly to these studies, she trained as an actress and a classical singer. From 2007, she took part in workshops on physical theatre and learnt the methods of Stanislavski, Grotowski, Barba, Donnellan in the professional acting class of the Studio Muller. From 2009, she studied singing with Sophie Hervé and took master-classes by Rockwell Blake, Robin Bowman, Graeme Danby, Yvonne Howard, Della Jones, Joseph Middleton, Nelly Miricioiu, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Christophe Rousset and Gerd Ücker. Her operatic roles have included Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Dafne in Cavalli’s Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne, Junon in Charpentier’s Actéon, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Cherubino and Contessa in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, the Rose in Schumann’s Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen and Masha in Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki. She has been a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat and Matthäus-Passion, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Dixit Dominus (RV 594), Handel’s Messiah, Dixit Dominus and Dettingen Te Deum, Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphonie. Equally at home backstage, she was a lighting designer for seventeen shows including Shakespeare’s Richard II, Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and several creations. She did internships as an assistant lighting designer by Christophe Forey at the Opéra de Lille (Janáček’s Jenůfa), the Theater an der Wien (Rossini’s Le Comte Ory), the Salzburg Festival (Bellini’s Norma) and the Royal Opera House (Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda). She has published several articles on opera and was a dramaturgy intern by Johanna Wall at the Komische Oper Berlin in the spring 2017. From July 2018, she worked as a staff director at the Staatsoper Stuttgart on revivals and new productions by Calixto Bieito (Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer), Barbara Frey (Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana / Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici), Peter Konwitschny (Cherubini's Medea), Andrea Moses (Puccini's La Bohème), Sebastian Nübling (Bizet's Carmen), Christiane Pohle (Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro), Árpád Schilling (Wagner's Lohengrin), Marco Štorman (John Adams' Nixon in China), Monique Wagemakers (Puccini's Madama Butterfly), Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito (Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Verdi's Rigoletto). Judith Lebiez has directed Racine’s Andromaque, Musset’s Les Caprices de Marianne, Hofmannsthal’s Elektra, the collectively devised Barat(h)a, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. 10 PARTICIPANT GABRIELE SLIZYTE VIOLONIST AND MUSICOLOGIST LITHUANIA

Gabriele Slizyte is working towards a Ph.D. in Musicology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is currently studying in Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP). Winner of Monique Rollin’s Prix de musicologie from Fondation de France, she is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and has recently obtained the Nadia and Lili Boulanger scholarship and SYLFF’s grant. Gabriele writes for Crescendo Magazine and for Muzikos barai, a Lithuanian classical music magazine. A classically trained violinist, Gabriele Slizyte obtained her National Professional Musician Diploma (DNSPM) in Paris and has played since in various orchestras conducted by Paavo Järvi, François-Xavier Roth, Fabien Gabel, Jean-Claude Casadesus and Wolfgang Doerner. As a musicologist, she has already presented her work in various conferences in France, in Germany, in United Kingdom, in Lithuania, in Italy and in the United States of America.

11 PARTICIPANT JEAN TAIN PHILOSOPHY RESEARCHER FRANCE

Jean Tain studied contemporary philosophy and literary theory at the École Normale Supérieure and the EHESS (Paris). He is currently writing his PhD dissertation about philosophical ways to read literary texts in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Long-time opera enthusiast, he has been writing online articles since 2015, among others for the blog of the Belgian-French journal “Alternatives théâtrales”.

12 PARTICIPANT MIROSLAVA TYRINA JOURNALIST RUSSIA

Miroslava Tyrina is a russian musical journalist, curator and concert performer who specializes in performing contemporary academic music. Works as a journalist writes for two major Moscow media - Musical life, which specializes in texts about traditional music and Stravinsky. Online, specializing in contemporary music. She also works as a curator and creator at young musical project Geometry of sound, which created like a try to form a community which understand ethical and respectful attitude to work of artists and express something personal and something not tied to well-known genres, formats or trends. Miroslava graduated of the Gnessin Musical College and Gnessin Russian Academy of music (in 2021 year). She is the winner of international competitions, as a curator and performer implemented more than 30 musical performances and projects in different spaces: Museum of Moscow, Center for Drama and Directing, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Art Center Moscow, Moscow Philharmonic Society, of the Mesto Festival.Smolensk.

13 14 PHOTO CREDITS Luca Ciammarughi © Davide Santi Judith Lebiez © Onur Pinar Gabriele Slizyte © Thomas Cardineau

Graphic design: Irma Boom Graphic execution: Laurie Wagner

15 THE ACADÉMIE DU FESTIVAL IS SUPPORTED BY: SINCE ITS CREATION IN 1998, THE ACADÉMIE HAS ESTABLISHED ITSELF AS A CENTRE FOR VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL EXCELLENCE, A PLACE TO REFLECT ON OPERA CREATION TODAY AND TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW INNOVATIVE FORMATS, WHILE ALSO SERVING AS A SPACE THAT PROMOTES AND AIDS THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ARTISTS.

AMMODO

Ammodo initiates, develops and supports projects in the visual arts, performing arts and sciences. Artists and scientists often see things before other people do. They identify social trends, extend boundaries and make revolutionary discoveries. By providing artists and scientists with the space and time to really immerse themselves in their work, and by helping to showcase that work, Ammodo seeks to stimulate the development of the arts and sciences. Ammodo supports the realisation of the new opera Innocence and the Opera de-ci de-la residency.

FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE TOTAL

TotalEnergies Foundation actively leads and participates in actions of solidarity throughout the world on a daily basis through its sites, its subsidiaries and its corporate foundation which stems from Total Group. With its solidarity program, Total is committed to contributing to the development of the zones where it is present. While focusing on youth, Total’s actions can be seen in four different areas including road safety, forest and climate action, education and the professional integration of young people, and dialogue around the subject of culture and heritage. Within the context of this fourth objective, TotalEnergies Foundation supports artistic projects that promote social inclusion, empower youth, and bring vitality to the regions where Total Group is present. The vocal residency of the Académie is a project that brings together all these objectives. TotalEnergies Foundation provides support to the Opéra de-ci de-là residency whose aim was to help young artists create participatory forms of opera. Sharing these newly elaborated and condensed forms of opera which were created during the residency adds a dynamic element to the daily life of the city. These operas were performed in public spaces and showcase heritage that can sometimes be overlooked, the everyday life of the residents of Aix.

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