Katie Tearle
Director for New Music for Edition Peters Group (London, UK)
Biography
Edition Peters has been publishing music for over 200 years, since its formation in Leipzig at the beginning of the 19th Century. In August 2010 the Edition Peters Group was created and incorporates Peters Germany, Peters UK and Peters USA. The Edition Peters catalogue has at its heart core content of over 12,000 titles, including editions of the majority of mainstream repertoire – from J.S. Bach to Richard Wagner. Its roster of 20th and 21st century composers includes Mark Andre, Sally Beamish, Daníel Bjarnason, John Cage, George Crumb, James Dillon, Jonathan Dove, Richard Dubugnon, Sebastian Fagerlund, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Clara Iannotta, Mauricio Kagel, Roxanna Panufnik, Rebecca Saunders, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Charles Wuorinen.
Before taking up her role in music publishing in 2012, Katie founded and led the Education Department at Glyndebourne for 25 years. Glyndebourne Education made a major contribution to the company’s presentation of new work, including the commissioning of many innovative and ground-breaking projects for young people and the community to participate in. In 2010 Glyndebourne commissioned the youth opera Knight Crew from composer Julian Philips and writer Nicky Singer. The creation of Knight Crew at Glyndebourne was the focus of the BBC TV series Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne, which reached 2 million-viewers and subsequently went on to win an International Emmy Award.
Katie is a trustee of The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation, Spitalfields Music, panel member of the ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music) British Section and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a past chair of RESEO (the European Network of Opera Education), former Regional Council Member of Arts Council England, South East. In spring 2011 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University. Katie won the Opera Ability Media International Award in November 2010 run by Leonard Cheshire Disability for her work as Head of Education for Glyndebourne and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Birthday 2012 Honours List for services to music.
Events
Une semaine d'échanges et de dialogues entre des lauréats du Concours de Genève et des professionnels du monde de la musique et de la scène, entre cas pratiques, exemples personnalisés et ouverture sur les aspects "indirectement artistiques" de la vie du jeune musicien.
This year’s Prizewinners’ Workshop 2020 was supposed to be held during the first week of May and bring together half a dozen recent prizewinners of the Geneva Competition (2019) along with a few students from the HEM, who are completing a Masters in specialized music performance as soloist. Due to the sanitary crisis caused by the Covid-19, this workshop could unfortunately not take place in person, despite it having been postponed to the month of September. The Geneva Competition therefore decided to innovate by offering a Prizewinners’ e-Workshop, which will be held online during more than a month.
The content of this e-Workshop has been adapted to fit the present circumstances and conditions of implementation, whilst maintaining its initial objectives and values. Privileging a method of personal coaching, it will focus on two main themes: career management and digital & audio-visual training.
This alternative experience will take place over a period of more than a month and will include personal evaluations, collective broadcasts, one-on-one interviews and times of independent work. During the last day of the Workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to meet up (hopeful in person) to share their experience with others and present their work. This final meeting will be a great way to reinforce the collective nature of the project, whereas the eWorkshop will be essentially run at a distance.
Participants in the eWorkshop will be given the mission of completing two distinct and complementary personal projects: the first one on the theme of career management and the second one resulting in the production of a short video. By addressing issues that are crucial to the development of a young musicians’ career, these projects follow the objectives fixed by the Geneva Competition’s Prizewinners Workshop since its creation in 2017.
The e-Workshop is managed by the Geneva Competition and its line producer ProMusica Concert Agency. Both of these entities provide recognized professional competences to participants (artistic management, financial management, production, communication, public relations, etc.), as well as an experience of several years in event organization.
The permanent team will be reinforced by specialists in multimedia, as well as a journalist- presenter and a technical manager. These personalities will form the reference team in charge of organizing and animating the eWorkshop.
This 4th edition of the Prizewinners workshop of the Concours Genève is supported by the Art Mentor Foundation (Luzern, Switzerland).