Philippe Bodin is a composer who has studied and taught in the U.S., having resided there for 20 years. A Guggenheim Fellow and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award winner, he has garnered accolades in many international competitions (U.S., UK, Italy, Poland, Russia, Finland, the Netherlands).
While at MacDowell, he started and completed an eleven-and-half-minute composition for large choir. This piece is a commission from the French National Radio Choir (Chœur de Radio-France) and will be premiered some time in 2020.
Studios
MacDowell
Philippe Bodin worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built
in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in
recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music
students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed
walls were intended to be soundproof.
Like
many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s
when the program began welcoming…
