Jean-Paul Penin

Jean-Paul Penin, Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg, 1980

Jean-Paul Penin (born December 31, 1949 in Saint-Dizier ) is a French conductor.

biography

Penin studied at the Strasbourg University of Music (double bass, chamber music) and the Strasbourg University and graduated in 1978 with the Dr. Phil. In biophysics and a master's degree in musicology. He also attended the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he studied musicology. He was able to do a Master's Degree Conducting in 1979 thanks to the Fulbright Scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (with John Adams among others ). Penin won the 1979 Min-On International Conducting Competition in Tokyo. In 1980/81 he worked as assistant to Alain Lombard with the Strasbourg Philharmonic and 1982–1984 as assistant to Lorin Maazel at the Vienna State Opera . After the fall of the Iron Curtain , he was principal guest conductor with the Krakow Philharmonic from 1989 to 1993 . At the same time, he was music director of the Opéra d'Automne in Semur, France, from 1989–1994.

In May 1986 Jean-Paul Penin jumped in overnight for a live radio symphony concert at the NOS Hilversum. In 1990, after a tour of Russia, he also jumped in at short notice for a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, for the Dutch premiere of Olivier Messiaen's piano concerto La Ville d'en Haut . The composer himself was present at the concert, which was broadcast by "Radio Philharmonic"; The soloist was Yvonne Loriod , the composer's wife (Volkskrant, November 12, 1990).

Penin received the exclusive rights for the French premiere of Hector Berlioz 's rediscovered “Messe Solonelle” from Bärenreiter-Verlag . He later made the Mass as the world's first recording ( Vézelay Basilica , October 7, 1993) for Radio France, Accord-Universal CD and France Télévisions . This was followed by worldwide invitations to perform the piece, which Penin realized at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá and Buenos Aires (May 1998) and at the Santander International Music Festival (2003).

In September 2000 Penin was invited by the Dvořák Festival to the opening concert with the National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague . This was followed by a tour with the orchestra in Spain in 2001.

Penin has been invited three times in a row by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for tour concerts with works by Berlioz, Saint-Saëns , Rachmaninow and Tchaikovsky .

In September 2002 he made a guest appearance with the Dresden Philharmonic with works by Béla Bartók and Claude Debussy . The concert was broadcast live in 24 countries. This was followed by a Berlioz program for Penin in the Semperoper in Dresden . In September 2003 the Oslo National Opera invited him to Francis Poulenc's Conversations of the Carmelites .

An important excavation is Penin's commitment to Spontini's Fernand Cortez , which he recorded on CD in 1998 after his own edition and also conducted the concert premieres in Paris (2002) and Madrid (2003), which were supported by the Napoleon Foundation. Finally, he conducted the stage performances at the Erfurt Theater (2006).

After two series of concerts with the KBS Symphony (Seoul), he was finally invited by the Korean National Opera to play Offenbach's stories about Hoffmann .

On July 9, 2009, Penin conducted the premiere of François Fayts Stabat mater ( Saint-Riquier Music Festival, Prague National Theater Chamber Orchestra , Choir Musicaa, Jean-Philippe Courtis, Bass-Baryton).

Recordings

In addition to his recordings of the Liszt Faust Symphony and Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony (1998), Penin recorded various world premieres:

• Beethoven : Cantatas Joseph II and Leopold II (1992)
• Hector Berlioz: Messe Solennelle (1993)
• Chabrier : Gwendoline , the recording was described by Opéra internationally as one of the most interesting in recent years (1997)
• Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz (French version by Berlioz with recitatives ) (1998)
• Gaspare Spontini: Fernand Cortez , (1998) Fernand Cortez
• Antonio Sacchini's Oedipe à Colonne (2005)

Compositions

• “Nuits Parisiennes”, suite for orchestra, first performed in Milan, December 2004, Pomeriggi Musicali
• “Nuits Parisiennes” (2009), ballet

Books and articles

• Les Baroqueux ou le Musicalement Correct, Editions Gründ, Paris, 2000. "Exciting, humorous and not dusty" ( Neue Musikzeitung , 2001 / 07-08).
• Les Premières Armes du jeune Berlioz: La Messe Solennelle , Revue Internationale d'Etudes musicales , Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 2004. [1]
• L'Interprète face à la partition. Muséographie ou appropriation? Prague National Music Academy 2000 [2]

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• Jean-Paul Penin, New Music Newspaper [3]
• The article is based on the entry Jean-Paul Penin Dictionnaire des interprètes , Paris, Laffont, ISBN 2221102142
• Site Berlioz 2003. [4]
• De Ontdekking van Berlioz's Messe Solennelle [5]
• La Messe Solennelle de Berlioz , October 13, 1993 La Croix
• La Messe Solennelle de Berlioz , October 13, 1993 Le Monde