Hélène Blanic

Vocal Coach

A pianist and vocal coach who has collaborated at France’s major opera theaters, including the Paris Opera.

Having made her debut at the CNIPAL in Marseille, under the management of Raymond Duffaut, she subsequently joined the opera theaters of Avignon, Monte-Carlo and Nice.

Since 1992 Ms. Blanic has worked as a freelance artist and has been engaged by international theatres and institutions including Opéra de Paris, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Chorégies d'Orange, Radio France, Opéra de Montpellier, Opéra de Massy, Valencia Opera House, Shanghai Opera House, and Mexico Opera House Bellas Artes.

She has also worked with renowned conductors such as Marek Janowski, Michel Plasson, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Alain Guingal, Pinchas Steinberg, Daniel Harding, Alain Altinoglu, Bertrand de Billy, Myung-Hun Chung, Luciano Accocella, and Mikko Franck.

Her experience has enabled her to build a vast knowledge of repertoire, as she continues her work as a vocal coach for international opera singers.

Among her projects: Traviata, Rigoletto, Bohême, Nozze di Figaro

Gaspard Brécourt

Conductor, Vocal Coach

An award-winning conductor and pianist, serving as co-director of CLA France and the Artistic Director of France’s Saint-Céré Opera Festival.

After completing his musical studies at the Maîtrise de Radio France and at the Conservatoire National de Région of Boulogne-Billancourt, where he obtained 1st Prizes in piano, percussion, harmony and counterpoint, Gaspard Brécourt began a professional career as coach, répétiteur and conductor.

In the capacity of collaborative artist Mr. Brécourt has performed frequent recitals with singers such as Irina Vassilieva, Aurélie Loilier, Isabelle Philippe, Armando Noguera, Olivier Heyte, Mathias Vidal, and Martial Defontaine. Maestro Brécourt has had the great honor of working in the capacity of a coach in a variety of renowned theaters including Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, and abroad at the Teatro Colòn in Buenos-Aires.

As a foray into his conducting career he assisted Maestro Marek Janowski at the Radio-France Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique and collaborated with Maestro Jean Fournet on French lyric repertoire. Maestro Brécourt’s conducting credits include Puccini’s La Bohème, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with the lyric company Al’Opéra, Bach’s St. John’s Passion with the Chamber Orchestra of Versailles, and Mozart’s Così fan tutte with the Ostinato Orchestra. Additionally, he conducted this ensemble in concerts during its residency at the Paris Opéra Comique.

Maestro Brécourt was the Musical Director of the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne for the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 seasons, conducting Une Éducation Manquée by Chabrier, Jean de Paris and Ma Tante Aurore by Boieldieu, L’Arlésienne et Djamileh by Bizet, and numerous symphonic concerts. In 2009 he made his Japanese debut with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in an all-French program, as well as the world premiere of Cyrano et Roxane by the Greek composer Stavros Xarhakos at the National Greek Opera in Athens. In 2012 he conducted the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien by Debussy, as well as Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Festival de Saint Céré, France.

www.gaspard-brecourt.com

Glenn Morton

Artistic Director

Glenn Morton, a faculty member at New York’s three music conservatories, is proud to serve as the Artistic Director of all three Classic Lyric Arts Programs.

One of New York City’s most sought-after vocal coaches, he is honored to coach and mentor every singer and pianist attending Classic Lyric Arts workshops.

Mr. Morton currently serves on the faculties of Mannes College the New School for Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School, teaching courses in Italian Diction, French Vocal Literature, and Song Interpretation.

He received a Bachelors degree in piano performance from the Hartt School of Music and a Master of Music degree in collaborative piano from the Manhattan School of Music.

His work includes a wide variety of collaborations with companies such as the Opera Company of Boston, Tulsa Opera, New Orleans Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Santa Fe Opera, and Glimmerglass.

Mr. Morton serves as the founding Artistic Director of Classic Lyric Arts, Inc., a non-profit organization encompassing CLA Italy in Novafeltria, Italy, founded in 2009, and CLA France in the Périgord region of France, founded in 2012, providing advanced training in the techniques and traditions of French and Italian lyric music to emerging opera singers.

Raphaël Treiner

Language Coach

An instrumentalist, composer, singer, diction coach, screenwriter and film director, who moves between classical and popular forms.

After winning first-prize as a cellist in Paris, Raphael Treiner turned to lyric singing, in which he earned degrees in Paris and from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

His love for Opera and French literature has led him to teach at the EMION music school in Normandie. While in New York he became a French diction coach for singers (Opera Orchestra of New York, MSM…) and created an Opera & French literature class at the Alliance Française–French Institute.

He has written original scores for theater and dance performances (Le dibbouk by Shalom Anski, L’île des esclaves and Le petit maître corrigé by Marivaux).

Passionate about cinema, Mr. Treiner has composed and recorded soundtracks for several commercials and short films, including The Piano Tuner (L’accordeur–César for Best Short Film), Unicornio (Rodrigo Bellott) and Témoins (David Koch) in 2016. He designed the sound environment and wrote the music for the web documentary A Whaling Season In Alaska (Victor Gurrey & Zoé Lamazou). He co-wrote the original soundtrack for To Whom It May Concern (Manu Boyer) as his first feature film score. He appears frequently in a range of venues, from La Fête de l’Huma to Bus Palladium to Solidays. He performs in various collaborations, including a solo project under the name SHERIFF.  Sursis, a short film released this year, was his debut as both a writer and director.