News

March 3, New York

    Philippe Bodin was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

March 2010

March 15 - Long Beach, CA

    The Mojave Trio performs Poétique des FluidesCSU Long Beach - DRH 8 PM

March 28 - Syracuse, NY

    The Society for New Music presents Inner Banners with pianist Adrienne Kim Hosmer Auditorium - 2:30 PM

April 2010

April 18 - Davis, CA

     The Empyrean Ensemble premieres La Femme AdultèreMondavi Center - 7 PM

April 25 - Washington, DC

     Verge, DC première of pealCorcoran Gallery - 4PM

May 2010

May 20 - Nanterre, France

     Robert Expert sings the title role in the World Premiere of Soap opera (the diary of one who vanishes), with TM+ Maison de la Musique 8:30 PM

May 25 - New York, NY

     Keys to the Future and Eric Huebner (piano) present two excerpts from Inner BannersLe Poisson Rouge - 7:30 PM

CD release

    In 2008, Albany Records released ELEMENTS, a CD of solo piano works by Genevieve Feiwen Lee which features my 35 minute cycle Inner Banners.     Available on Amazon, or CD Universe, it's also available for download on Genevieve Feiwen Lee - Genevieve Feiwen Lee: Elements

Biography

Described by LA Weekly as “an original composer with something important to say”, Philippe Bodin aims at writing music which, inspired by poetry, mathematics, language games, Renaissance techniques and Bulgarian or African rhythms, transcends geographic or stylistic boundaries.

His works have been commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players (NY), the Orkest de Volharding (Amsterdam, Netherlands), TM+ (France), the Eroica (NY), Mojave (LA), Mannes (NY) and Kungsbacka (Göteborg, Sweden) trios, the Chamber Ensemble Left Coast (San Francisco), Empyrean (Davis, CA), and Lost Dog (NY), among others. Other performers include the American Composers Orchestra, Las Vegas Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, New Zealand Piano Trio, Xtet, Verge, Brave New Works, and pianists Thomas Sauer, Jeff Panko, and Eric Huebner.

Philippe's music has earned recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, the Barlow Endowment, the Utah Arts Festival Competition, and the Lutoslawski (Warsaw 2005), Angelo-Comneno (Rome 2006), and Homage to Mozart (Moscow 2006) international competitions. He has been offered residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Arts.

A Doctor in Musical Arts from Yale University where he studied with Martin Bresnick and Nicholas Maw, Philippe has taught composition at Illinois Wesleyan and Lawrence universities. Prior to his incarnation as a composer, he studied mathematics, architecture, piano, and organ, and had a career as an operatic baritone under the batons of Myung-Whun Chung, Philippe Herreweghe and Marc Minkovski. Born in Calais, France, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY.


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