After creating the Paris Play-Direct Academy, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris is pursuing its commitment to young musicians and launching an academy in 2021/2022 to encourage the emergence of young women composers.
Composing in the feminine
Promoting parity in the world of classical music is a strong commitment of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Today, women are still in a very small minority of composers. To overcome this problem, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris has joined forces with Thomas Lacôte and Clara Olivares to set up an academy dedicated to young women musicians who do not yet dare to take the step of composing. This multi-year academy is an incubator for young women creators and an opportunity to learn about writing for orchestra.
It is aimed at young women musicians at the start of their career, from the conservatories in Paris and Ile-de-France. A space for discussion with professional musicians, it is neither a school nor a conservatory, but a real laboratory promoting interaction. Several writing workshops per family of instruments are planned during the two years of training. The musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris are called upon to share with each academician their feedback on their work.
The academicians are supervised by an artistic team made up of Clara Olivares, composer, Thomas Lacôte, composer and organist, and Lars Vogt, musical director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. To conclude this apprenticeship, each academician receives a commission for an orchestral piece performed by the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, conducted by Lars Vogt, its musical director, at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
“This original academy is a journey over a long period, a real immersion within the orchestra. » – Thomas Lacôte
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Spanning two seasons at the Philharmonie de Paris, the academy involves a series of workshops (on composition, and sectional and full-orchestra sessions) centred on a commission from the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. This new work will be premiered by the orchestra during its 2026/2027 season. The composition process is overseen and guided by composer Yves Chauris. Alongside the main orchestral commission, the programme includes workshops devoted to ‘applied’ composition projects linked to the orchestra’s cultural outreach and communication activities, as well as numerous artistic encounters, including concerts and rehearsals during the orchestra’s symphonic season.
2023-2025 Edition
Aline Gorisse
Compositrice de pièces mixtes, électroacoustiques et instrumentales diplômée du CRR93 en composition électroacoustique et composition instrumentale, Aline Gorisse a travaillé avec divers ensembles instrumentaux comme Multilatérale, Soundinitiative, Sillages, 2e2m, Ars Nova, Court-Circuit ou encore Accroche Note […]
Laura Pacheco Nieto
Originaire de Bogota en Colombie, Laura Pacheco Nieto est compositrice et chanteuse. En 2017, elle commence une licence de composition à la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Au cours de sa formation, elle cultive un fort intérêt pour les oiseaux et l’étude ornithologique, qui influence son processus de création et de composition […]
About Yves Chauris, the academy’s head of composition.
Born in 1980, Yves Chauris is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he obtained three first prizes. His work has been widely recognised: among other distinctions he has received the Fondation Francis and Mica Salabert Prize (2005), the Pierre Cardin Prize for Musical Composition (2008) and the Hervé Dugardin Prize from SACEM (2019). From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the artistic section of the Académie de France in Madrid, and he was artist-in-residence at Villa Kujoyama in Japan in 2011. At the invitation of violinist Renaud Capuçon, he took part in the Nouveaux Horizons Festival in Aix-en-Provence in 2020. […]
2021 Edition
The 4 composers-academicians
Schedule
In May 2021, four young musicians under the age of thirty were auditioned and selected from fifteen candidates from the music conservatories of the Ile-de-France region (CRR). Based on preparatory work and a motivational interview, the selection was made with Deborah Nemtanu, solo violin super soloist of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and Thomas Lacôte, artistic curator, composer and organist.
The calendar of the first season of this academy foresees writing workshops for strings and winds, then the realization of a written miniature for small orchestra which will be conducted by Lars Vogt in spring 2022. Academicians will benefit from direct contact with around ten volunteer musicians from the Orchester de Chambre de Paris who, alongside the artistic team, will support them in their creative process. Finally, to offer everyone the widest possible panel, they will be invited to discover all the components of an orchestra and will discuss with the orchestra’s administrative services: control room, library, production.
2021-2022 season
May / June 2021 :
- meeting with potential candidates
- Motivational interview
Fall / winter 2021
September 20:
- meeting with Lars Vogt and the musicians of the orchestra
- meeting with the artistic team
- exploration and discovery of scores
- preparation of workshops with Thomas Lacôte and Clara Olivares
November 12:
- Workshop “Writing for strings”
December 3:
- Workshop “Writing for Winds”
Spring / summer 2022:
- small group concert conducted by Lars Vogt
2022-2023 season
Fall / winter 2022
- 1 meeting session with orchestra leaders, presentation, listening to scores
- 1 percussion workshop
- 2 or 3 individual indoor sessions for major training sessions, including one with a mentor
- 1 collective workshop to prepare the score and the parts with the librarian
Spring / summer 2023
- 1 public workshop with the orchestra
- 1 group session with debriefing
- post-workshop rewrites
- rehearsals and concert on piece for orchestra
