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Académie Voix Nouvelles
Timeline
Submission period
Wed Nov 6 at 05AM UTC
End of submission period
Sun Nov 17 at 11PM UTC
Results date
Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 05PM UTC
Period
August 8 to 22, 2025
Presentation
In 2025, the Académie Voix Nouvelles will be a laboratory for new collective vocality. It will welcome ten composers, twelve singers and six conductors. The composers will be asked to write a new work for the proposed number of singers. The singers will perfect their knowledge and practice of individual and collective vocality in the 20th and 21st centuries, and will premiere some of the compositions written during the Académie.
The Académie Voix Nouvelles will open with a time dedicated to choral conducting on repertoire ranging from the 19th to the contemporary, under the guidance of Mathieu Romano and the ensemble Aedes. Together, they will share times of physical practice, reflection and exchange, collective improvisation sessions and guided listening sessions.
Philosophy of this Academy
At the Académie Voix Nouvelles, singers and composers are invited to enter the laboratory of creation together, so that vocality, composition and improvisation move forward in a collaborative fashion. These reciprocal exchanges will enable them to experiment with the color and dynamic possibilities of vocal polyphony, with the advice of artists such as Raquel Camarinha, Juliet Fraser, Elaine Mitchener, members of the Neue Vocalsolisten and the ensemble Aedes, and the accompaniment of composers Frédéric Durieux and George Lewis. The selected singers, composers, conductors and choirmasters will all be part of a shared approach. Vocal issues will be the focus of attention, not only for singers and conductors, but also for composers, with the aim of exploring together the possibilities and constraints of the vocal ensemble as an instrument. The aim of the Académie is to create a large-scale collective form integrating new works, improvised sequences, recitations and repertoire. During the course of the Académie, all the artists present at Royaumont – whether for the Académie Voix Nouvelles or the Académie de musiques transculturelles – will meet for physical preparation workshops, collective improvisation sessions and guided listening sessions. Through these shared milestones, we hope that participants will considerably enrich their artistic and intellectual horizons, and share the unifying emotion of collective creation.
Details about composition path, singing course and choir conducting course are available at web pages:
https://www.royaumont.com/en/professional-training/academie-voix-nouvelles/
August 8 to 22, 2025
Presentation
In 2025, the Académie Voix Nouvelles will be a laboratory for new collective vocality. It will welcome ten composers, twelve singers and six conductors. The composers will be asked to write a new work for the proposed number of singers. The singers will perfect their knowledge and practice of individual and collective vocality in the 20th and 21st centuries, and will premiere some of the compositions written during the Académie.
The Académie Voix Nouvelles will open with a time dedicated to choral conducting on repertoire ranging from the 19th to the contemporary, under the guidance of Mathieu Romano and the ensemble Aedes. Together, they will share times of physical practice, reflection and exchange, collective improvisation sessions and guided listening sessions.
Philosophy of this Academy
At the Académie Voix Nouvelles, singers and composers are invited to enter the laboratory of creation together, so that vocality, composition and improvisation move forward in a collaborative fashion. These reciprocal exchanges will enable them to experiment with the color and dynamic possibilities of vocal polyphony, with the advice of artists such as Raquel Camarinha, Juliet Fraser, Elaine Mitchener, members of the Neue Vocalsolisten and the ensemble Aedes, and the accompaniment of composers Frédéric Durieux and George Lewis. The selected singers, composers, conductors and choirmasters will all be part of a shared approach. Vocal issues will be the focus of attention, not only for singers and conductors, but also for composers, with the aim of exploring together the possibilities and constraints of the vocal ensemble as an instrument. The aim of the Académie is to create a large-scale collective form integrating new works, improvised sequences, recitations and repertoire. During the course of the Académie, all the artists present at Royaumont – whether for the Académie Voix Nouvelles or the Académie de musiques transculturelles – will meet for physical preparation workshops, collective improvisation sessions and guided listening sessions. Through these shared milestones, we hope that participants will considerably enrich their artistic and intellectual horizons, and share the unifying emotion of collective creation.
Details about composition path, singing course and choir conducting course are available at web pages:
https://www.royaumont.com/en/professional-training/academie-voix-nouvelles/
