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Chimene Seymen was born in Izmir. She started playing piano when she was nine years old. After graduating from American College for Girls, she went to France to study music. She completed her doctoral degree on musicology at Paris VIII University. At the same time she graduated from the Piano Department at Versailles Conservatory. Because of her interest in Baroque Music and opera repertoire, she continued her opera study with Prof. Rachel Yakar at Paris Conservatory. Seymen then continued opera works with Prof. Noelle Barker at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Prof. Laura Sarti at Guildhall School of Music. In Belgium, Seymen participated in the Falnder Opera Studio, which was directed by the famous Baroque Music conductor Rene Jacobs. To study Baroque Cantatas, Seymen worked as an intern at Pamparato Baroque Music Institute in Italy and the Foundation Royaumont Centre de la Voix in France (with counter tenor Gerard Lesne)
Seyman began working as a soprano with Jean-Claude Malgoire at Tourcoing Lyric Workshop and performed in many opera works by J.B. Luly, A.Vivaldi, and G.F. Haendel at famous opera theaters such as Versailles Palace Opera, Champs Elysees Theatre, Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Monte-Carlo Operas. She performed in M. Da Gagliano’s “Daphne” at the Baroque Olympic Theatre in Vicenza, Iltay. She also participated in the Bach Festival with a famous counter tenor, Andreas School in Milano.
Seymen has given many concerts with famous Baroque orchestra conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe and Gustave Leonhardt. She has participated in many Baroque Music festivals in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In addition, Seymen served as a voice director in the Opera Junior Youth Orchestra of the Montpellier Opera. She gave a conference on voice training in the Europe Voice Professors Symposium. In 2007, she released the CD “La Serenissime et la Sublime Porte” with Emsemble La Turchescha and Ensemble Cevher-i Musiki.
As a musicologist, Seymen has organized many concerts. In 2009, she organized and directed the project “Müsennâ: Baroque Carnivals and Ottoman Festivals” at the Topkapi Palace Museum within the 38th International Music Festival in Istanbul. For the Season of Turkey in France, she organized, directed and choreographed the “Müsennâ: Mirror game between Turkey and Europe at the 17th Century”, which mixes French Baroque dance and Turkish traditional art, involving Turkish and French artists such as Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek. She also arranged for two musical ensembles, La Turchescha and Cevher-i Musiki, to perform together on the stage.
Reference: chimene.seymen.free.fr, iksv.org
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