The Fondation des Etats-Unis announces its presentation video which is now uploaded and viewable on the homepage of its website, www.feusa.org .  Created in partnership with the American Center France and the Embassy of the United States in France, the video features fully bilingual commentary presenting the Fondation’s history, mission statement, and spirit.

The film is dedicated to the Fondation’s residents past and present, and showcases several prominent members of its community, including Harriet Hale Woolley (HHW) scholars and members of PONT – Portes Ouvertes aux Nouveaux Talents, the pre-professional program for artists and musicians in residence at the Fondation.

Featured Artists and Fondation alumni

Director: Hermann Wendler (PONT 2006-09)

Producer: Elizabeth Askren (HHW 1998-99, PONT 1999-2001)

Featuring: Mimi Solomon (HHW 2004-06, PONT 2004-06); Idrissa Bailly; Clare Longendyke (HHW 2009-10, PONT 2009-present); Jonathan Shimony; Terence Murphy, Director.

Music: Jay Gottlieb (HHW 1976-77); Ivan Ilic (HHW 2004-05)

For More Information

To visit the Fondation’s homepage and watch the video, please click here .

Orchestre Note et Bien is one of Paris’ leading community orchestras, noted for its strong ties to charitable organisations which benefit from the proceeds of each concert.

The concerts will be held in Paris on the 14th, 16th and 17th of October.  For more information/reservations, please click here.

The concerts were held at Paris’ Théâtre 13, and were followed by an interactive question and answer session between the public, the composer and the performers.

Haendel’s celebrated opera, Gulio Cesare in Egitto, is the focus of a comprehensive and multi-purpose artistic project spanning the 2009-10 academic year.  More comprehensive and committed than most educative musical projects in France, the groundbreaking project involves members from all echelons of its music-making community, including professional musicians and choreographers of Opera Fuoco’s orchestra, pre-professional young artists of Opera Fuoco’s troupe unique in France, teachers from selected Yvelines public schools at risk, young students aged from 6 to 8, and their families.

Over the course of the next several months, the Fuoco/Saint Quentin educational team will lead several musical, dramatic, and movement sessions and coachings with the students, while their school teachers explore other facets of the opera in history, art, and literature classes.  There will be artist ateliers presented at the National Theater of Saint Quentin, as well as open masterclasses where the troupe artists will be coached by Opera Fuoco’s Music Director, David Stern, and co-Artistic Director and Coach, viola da gambist Jay Bernfeld.  The project will gain momentum in May, where the students will follow a 10-day intensive residency at the Theater, culminating in a final public performance of the opera including a mixed cast of children, pre-professionals, and professional musicians.

To find out more about « Gulio Cesare in Egitto (et aux Yvelines!) », please visit the Théâtre National de Saint Quentin en Yveline’s official page of the project, or its blog .