User:PhilippeTreuille

I am a classical composer and media artist. While my music and my artwork are both serious responses to the current climate in the world of arts and music I am primarily focused on the production of modern classical art music. My website is: http://www.philippetreuille.com/

“The music did what real art does, it elevated those witnessing into a moment that connected us and gave us a glimpse into the mystery.” - Tian Dayton, The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-tian-dayton/new-york-the-city-that-gi_b_6584838.html)

“The overall effect was one of power, the harnessing of music on a massive scale making profound words real and moving.” - Steven C Kaye, The Millbrook Independent (http://www.themillbrookindependent.com/content/requiem-philippe-treuille)

I am not only collaborating with classical performers but also with more contemporary media based artists and designers. Both my individually based and collaborative works call to audiences with a clear message to their hearts. Our hearts are connected through musical works of great kindness that can live with us all throughout the ages.

My major musical works currently center around the three masses that I wrote for the three primary ceremonies within the lifetime within the Christian faith tradition which are baptism (Baptism Mass in G Major), marriage (Nuptial Mass in C Major), and funeral (Requiem Mass in D Minor). Each of these masses has nine movements which work their way around the conventional Latin liturgy for these services in the Catholic tradition. The Requiem Mass was premiered on January 30th, 2015 by The SymphoNYChorus while conducted by Henric Idestrom at The Church of the Incarnation in New York City to a full house of very esteemed guests who were not used to seeing a new Requiem premiered within their own lifetimes with such a high level of scholarly discipline and composure put into the piece that they witnessed. The premiere featured four choral soloists from the choir and a full orchestra that included guest concertmaster Stephanie Song who is a graduate of the Juilliard School and who attended L'Ecole des Beaux Arts de Fontainebleau with Philippe Treuille in 2009. The premiere of his Requiem Mass also featured the well-known harp prodigy Coline-Marie Orliac who Philippe also met while at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts de Fontainebleau.

The premiere of his Requiem was attended by Sarah Jones Nelson who was a professor in the philosophy department at Princeton University. She had the pleasure of introducing Philippe to Nobel Memorial Prize winner and Senior Research Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. at Princeton University at the breakfast table of Princeton's Prospect House for faculty. The two were able to meet only briefly and did not see each other again before the tragic passing away of both Nash and his wife Alicia in May of the same year. The two both of whom Philippe had the pleasure to meet had a meaningful impact on the composer's growth.