Recent highlights include appearances with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Choral projects include performances with RIAS Kammerchor Berlin this season, Swedish Radio Chorus, Coro Casa da Musica, DR VokalEnsemblet, Chamber Choir Ireland, NFM Choir Wroclaw and Sao Paulo Symphony Choir.
Jeannin’s new role with Ars Nova Copenhagen will include many unique programmes with music ranging from well-known works by Pärt and Allegri to lesser-known gems by Langgaard, Rehnqvist and Baek.
Jeannin is leading the BBC Singers through their centenary season. Highpoints will be the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s work for choir, Ordo Virtutum, and music ranging from Tavener to songs from West End musicals. With the BBC Singers, Jeannin is regularly at the BBC Proms. Beyond this, in recent seasons, Jeannin and the BBC Singers have given the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s opera Song from the Uproar, and the world premieres of works by Shiva Feshareki and Nico Muhly. Their work together forges new cultural bridges and introduces audiences to unique combinations. Notable collaborations include one with the Academy of Ancient Music and South Asian dance company Akademi, exploring the dances of Rameau with classical and contemporary Indian dance; with British-Indian Soumik Datta and his work Awaaz weaving Indian classical music, Bengali folk, Tagore and Partition songs; with South African cellist and vocalist Abel Selaocoe, and another one featured Poulenc’s iconic choral work Figure Humaine with jazz interpolations from BBC New Generation Artist Misha Mullov Abado.
Jeannin’s post of Music Director of la Maîtrise de Radio France – the choir favoured by Messiaen and Dutilleux – gives her musical and pedagogical responsibility for 180 choristers. This season, she conducts Vivaldi’s Gloria with the ensemble Pulcinella and Ophélie Gaillard, gives the French premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Keyframes for a Hippogriff, and conducts the world premiere of Zad Moultaka’s The Children’s Passion, partly sung in Aramaic, with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien.
With la Maîtrise since 2008, Jeannin has commissioned multiple new works, collaborating with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Peter Eötvös, John Adams and Thierry Escaich, and has given regular broadcasts on France Musique. She has conducted regularly at the Saint Denis Festival, including repertoire such as Messiaen Trois petites liturgies, Mozart Vespers and the Sinfonia Concertante with Renaud Capuçon and Adrien La Marca.
Committed to education and outreach work, Jeannin has worked with the chorus and orchestra of Kinshasa, Congo, and has also been involved in El Sistema, Greece, since early 2017. She regularly gives workshops and masterclasses around the world.
Jeannin studied conducting and singing at the Stockholm Royal College of Music, the Nice Conservatoire and then at the Royal College of Music, London, with Paul Spicer. She conducted her first BBC Radio 3 broadcast, the British premiere of Consolation I by Helmut Lachenmann, in 2006, and prepared the Royal College of Music Chorus for conductors including Bernard Haitink, Peter Schreier and David Willcocks.
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