Philippe FORGET - Symphonie n°6 "Pathétique"
de Tchaikovski, extrait 3è mvt -
Tournée au BRESIL
Biography
Philippe
Forget, Conductor, Composer
Philippe Forget, born in 1970 is a Conductor and Composer of Choral
music. He has studied the bassoon, choral direction and orchestral
conducting.
Philippe Forget studied at the Austro-Hungarian Academy in Budapest
with Wolfgang Harrer, before following the work of James Conlon at
the National Opera Paris-Bastille.
From1990 until 2001 as Founder and Director Philippe established the
Regional Youth Orchestra of Burgundy.
He
was Associated Conductor with the Camerata of Burgundy from 2004 to
2009. In parallel this was a period of close collaboration with the
Choir and Soloists of Lyon / Bernard Tetu. Where from 2007 to 2010,
he conducted many concerts and created several works as the head of
the training, partnering with artists such as Jean-Claude Pennetier
and Sylvia Vadimova .
He works regularly in productions of the Opera National de Lyon as
Assistant Conductor (Hanjo T. Hosokawa, La Traviata ...) and as a
guest conductor (French premiere of Philip Glass opera In the Penal
Colony).
He has also been invited to lead the soloists of the Orchestra National
de Lyon (Denisov, Berio, Saint-Saens ...) at various concerts.
Since September 2009 he has been Associate Conductor with the Orchestra
Regional Bayonne Côte Basque and has been invited to conduct
several symphony and opera productions for the coming seasons.
Philippe Forget is regularly the guest of many festivals and theaters,
both in France and abroad:
International Festival of Verbier (Switzerland) Edinburgh Festival
and Ramsgate (UK)Opera Festivals ENARTIS Amazonas (Brazil)Autumn Festival
in Normandy Great Hours of Cluny, Radio and Television of Lebanon
He
was invited to Brazil in 2005 by the Brazilian Federal University,
where he gave several series of master classes and concerts televised
in Belém.
As a Composer he interprets the classical repertoire of Twentieth
and Twenty-First Centuries, and the official works of Olivier Greif,
Akira Myioshi, Toshio Hosokawa, Girolamo Arrigo, Lucio Berio, Philippe
Fénelon and Edison Denisov.
His music is a large canvas of chamber and vocal pieces. A lover
of the sound of words Philippe Forget has been inspired by the works
of Michelangelo, Emily Dickinson and Henry Bauchau.
He was artist in residence at the Abbaye de la Pree from 2000 to 2002.
In
2000 he won the Second International Competition Award "Composer
of the Year" at the Ramsgate Spring Festival. In 2004 he won
second prize in the International "New Music for Keyboard"
in EdinburgHis music is appreciated and interpreted by many performers
and is heard on numerous stages (Cami Hall and Brandeis University
in New York, Radio France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Brazil, Lebanon,
Denmark ). He has recorded two discs with the label EntreMuses.
The music of Philippe Forget is published by Editions Musicales Hapax
and Editions Musicales Rubin.