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ACADÉMIE ACADÉMI ACADÉM ACADÉ ACAD ACA AC A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES OPERA CREATION WORKSHOP JUNE 28 — JULY 2, 2021 MENTORS PARTICIPANTS STAGE DIRECTOR KIM BOUTIN ANDREA BRETH RAQUEL GARCÍA-TOMÁS ALEX HO CAPUCINE JOHANNIN SIMON JOHANNIN VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA KIRSTEN MILENKO ROBERT REID ALLAN KÉVIN ROUILLARD BAHZAD SULAIMAN ANDREW V.LY 3 MENTOR ANDREA BRETH STAGE DIRECTOR GERMANY Born 1952 in Rieden near Füssen, Andrea Breth grew up in Darmstadt. From 1971 to 1973 she studied literature at the University of Heidelberg. Her first directorial engagements took her to Bremen, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Berlin (including 1981 Lessing's Emilia Galotti at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin), the Zurich Schauspielakademie and the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich. From 1983 to 1985, she was director at Theater Freiburg. Her production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba won her the first of a number of invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1985. In the same year, Theater heute voted her Director of the Year. From 1986 to 1989 Breth worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Green’s South and Gorki's The Last Ones saw Andrea Breth win her second invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 1990 and 1992 she directed Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Burgtheater and O'Caseys The End of the Beginning at the Akademietheater. From 1992 to 1997, she was artistic director at the Schaubühne Berlin, where her productions of Vampilov's Last Summer in Chulimsk, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya gained her yet another invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen. From 1999 to 2006 she was resident director at the Burgtheater, staging Horváth's Der jüngste Tag, Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart, Albert Ostermaier's Letzter Aufruf and Nach den Klippen, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. Her directorial work at the Burgtheater from 2009 onwards included Motortown by Simon Stephens, Quay West by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Zwischenfälle (with scenes from Courteline, Cami and Charms), Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg in a co-production with the Salzburg Festival, Shakespeare's Hamlet, This Story of You by John Hopkins, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party (in co-operation with the Salzburg Festival) and finally, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. She was once again invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen with Lessing's Emilia Galotti and Schiller's Don Carlos. Andrea Breth also directed Schnitzler's Das weite Land and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky at the Salzburg Festival. In 2009, she directed Albert Ostermaier's Blaue Spiegel at the Berliner Ensemble and Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Ruhrtriennale. In 2011, she directed Isaak Babel's Marija at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, in 2013 Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and in 2014, Pinter's The Caretaker at the Residenztheater in Munich. Her work for opera from 2000 onwards includes Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Leipzig Opera, Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm at the Stuttgart State Opera, Bizet's Carmen at the Styriarte in Graz, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Salzburg Festival, Janáčeks Katya Kabanova and La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lulu and Wozzeck by Alban Berg, Medea by Luigi Cherubini at the Schiller Theater of the Berlin State Opera and Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. Andrea Breth has received numerous awards, including the Nestroy Prize for Best Director, first in 2003 for Lessing's Emilia Galotti and then 4 again for Zwischenfälle in 2011 and 2016 for John Hopkin's This Story of Yours. She also won the Berlin Theatre Prize in 2006, the Schillerpreis of the City of Marbach in 2015 and Der FAUST award in 2015 in the Musical Theatre Direction category for Jakob Lenz. She was Professor of Directing at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin, and is a member of the Akademie der Darstellenden Künste in Frankfurt am Main, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, as well as the Bayerische Akademie der schönen Künste and the Order Pour le Mérite. She is also the holder of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the 2018/19 season Andrea Breth is directing Die Ratten" by Gerhart Hauptmann at the Akademietheater. 5 PARTICIPANT KIM BOUTIN DESIGNER FRANCE Kim Boutin is a French designer, specialised in unconventional and speculative interfaces for the digital space. Since 2020, she is developing an art-based research project at EUR ArTeC, a consortium of French institutions including universities, art schools and museums. In 2015, she co-founded the design studio DVTK with 3D designer David Broner. Based between London and Paris, their practice incorporates art direction, 3D animation, interactive installation and critical design. In addition to their many collaborations with fashion and luxury brands (KENZO, Nike, Dior, Galeries Lafayette), the studio has recently been commissioned by cultural institutions to design interactive projects (ZKM Karlsruhe, Serpentine Galleries, MKG Hamburg). Alongside her design practice, Kim is an associate lecturer at London College of Fashion and regularly conducts workshops with art students (Royal Academy School of The Hague, Slade School of Fine Art). 6 PARTICIPANT RAQUEL GARCÍA-TOMÁS COMPOSER SPAIN Raquel García-Tomás is a composer specialising in interdisciplinary creation who completed her Doctorate at the Royal College of Music. Highlights of her career include collaborations with the English National Ballet, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Recently she has received the National Award of Music 2020 (Spain), "for the interdisciplinary and innovative character of her personal musical language". Raquel was awarded El Ojo Crítico Música Clásica 2017 granted by RTVE (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation), "for the originality of her artistic approaches and the use and combination of her musical language with new technologies and video creation". Raquel's music has been premiered all around Spain in venues such as the Palau de la Música Catalana, L'Auditori de Barcelona, Teatre Lliure, Zaragoza's Concert Hall, Teatros del Canal, Teatro Español, La Casa Encendida and Auditorio 400 at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. Her works have also been performed in Berlin, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Luxemburg, Budapest, Vienna, Orléans, Lyon, Basel, Lausanne, Oporto, Edinburgh, Nagoya, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Rosario and especially in London (St. Martin in the Fields, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal British Society of Sculptors, the Royal Academy of Arts and The Place). Raquel has received commissions and worked with the Oslo Sinfonietta, the Phace Ensemble, the Orquestra de Cadaqués Contemporary Ensemble, the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, the Càmera Musicae Orchestra, the SIGMA Project, Experimental Funktion, CrossingLines Ensemble, Ensemble Sonido Extremo, Cosmos Quartet, Barcelona Clarinet Players, Barcelona Reed Quintet, BCN216 y PluralEnsemble among others. Within the framework of operatic creation, she has taken part in DIDO Reloaded (2013), produced by Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació Barcelona and, thanks to the opera Go, ÆNEAS, go!, has been awarded the Neuköllner Oper's Berliner Opernpreis'14. In 2015, she premiered her chamber opera disPLACE – Història d' una casa (text by H. Tornero and stage direction by P. Pawlik), at the MusikTheaterTage Wien Festival, with further performances in Teatros del Canal within the season 2016/17 of the Teatro Real in Madrid. Within the season 2017/18, she premiered the monodrama Balena Blava (text by Victòria Szpunberg) for one actress, large orchestra, choir and electronics, at the National Theatre of Catalonia. In 2019, she premiered the opera buffa Je Suis Narcissiste (libretto by H. Tornero and stage direction by M. Pazos), within the seasons of the Teatro Real de Madrid, Teatro Español, and the Teatre Lliure de Barcelona. The International Opera Awards have recently nominated Raquel's opera Je Suis Narcissiste for Best World Premiere. Recently, Raquel has received one of the Leonardo Awards (Fundación BBVA) to develop her new opera Alexina B., along with Irène Gayraud and Marta Pazos. This opera will be premiered within the season 2022/23 of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona). www.raquelgarciatomas.com 7 PARTICIPANT ALEX HO COMPOSER UNITED KINGDOM / CHINA Alex Ho is a British-Chinese composer based in London. Winner of the George Butterworth Award 2020, Alex has had pieces performed/commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, Royal Opera House, Music Theatre Wales, and London Sinfonietta. Alex was joint-winner of the Philip Bates Composition Competition in 2016, winner of the Arthur Bliss Prize in 2017, one of Sound and Music's 'New Voices 2018', a Help Musicians UK Fusion Fund Artist in 2019, and one of the LSO's "Soundhub" composers 2018-2020. Alex is studying for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music with a full AHRC scholarship (LAHP Studentship supported by RCM). The 2020/21 season includes selection for artist development schemes with Montpellier Opera and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Alex is the co-director of Tangram, an artist collective made up of researchers, composers, and performers of Chinese and western instruments. 8 PARTICIPANT CAPUCINE JOHANNIN AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER FRANCE Capucine Johannin was born in 1991 in the southern suburbs of Paris. After graduating from high school at the age of seventeen, she left France alone for Ireland, then went to work in a motel in the Australian bush, where the wide open spaces called for the first images. Freed from any framework, she focuses her practice on the things that are dear to her, the people who share her intimacy.