Luis Gomes and Clement Dionet have collaborated with Kim Patrick and Raymond Yiu to create My Fatal Plurality.
Clément Dionet, baritone, studies singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He has taken masterclasses under, amongst others, Maciej Pikulski and Dalton Baldwin. His operatic premiere took place in a 2006 production of Die Zauberflöte, Mozart at the Hôtel Gouthière, Paris, where he sang the part of Papageno. He made his debut in Italy in 2008 at Sala Verdi, Milan with the part of Benoît in Puccini's La Bohème. His wide repertoire goes from medieval and baroque music with The Royaumont Foundation, to contemporary music with songs by Guy Sacre. In Paris, he performs regularly with pianist François-Xavier Villemin, sings with acclaimed Russian pianist Katia Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, and in Shanghai, China with pianist Zhang Liang. He has also performed as a soloist with Ut Cinquième Orchestra, Paris et Note et Bien, as well as with the Ensemble vocal du COGE and Concert Latin. He was recently invited to Osaka, Japan, to give a recital of French songs.
Always keen in the exploration of new repertoire and innovative performance genres, he has participated in several projects aiming at bringing together different art forms. He was involved, under the direction of the classical and jazz pianist Giovanna MacGregor, in the Bath Festival Video and Music project, with videographers from the Royal College of Art, London; he has done song improvisations on silent film with two cellists for the Barbican Big Screen Festival; and performed Mussorgski’s song cycle Without Sun with a direction based on video images by Tano Mallia and Emmanuele Delrio. His immediate projects include working with visual artists and dancers both in France and Japan to create yet another new dimension and breakthrough in his work. He has been generously supported in his musical activities by The Académie française, The Insitut des Beaux-Arts and the Royaumont Foundation.
Portuguese tenor Luis Gomes is currently finishing his music degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, sponsored by the Guildhall School Trust, under the tuition of the renowned singing teacher Mr. Rudolf Piernay. He started his vocal studies with João Paulo Reya at the age of eleven. A few years later, Luis entered the Lisbon Conservatoire, where he studied with Filomena Amaro and became one the most promising tenors of his age. In 2007 he was offered a place at the prestigious Guildhall School, entering directly the third year undergraduate programme and sponsored by the City of London Corporation. Luis has worked with many distinguished teachers and coaches, such as Sarah Walker, Peter Robinson, Eugene Asti, Julian Gavin, Yvonne Kenny, Yvonne Minton, Isobel Buchannan, Lada Valesova, Elizabeth Marcus, Stephen Rose, Nuno Vieira de Almeida, Marimi del Pozo and conductors David Angus, Paolo Olmi, João Paulo Santos, Christofer Bochmann, Armando Vidal and António Carneiro. Luis’ solo awards include the Barclays Award for Young Musicians at Festival de Música do Estoril, Lisbon 2008, and an honourable mention at Concurso de Canto Luisa Todi, Setubal 2007. In August 2009 he sang to more than 30.000 people at the greatest Opera Gala ever made in Portugal. This took place at the Festival de Música do Avante with Ginásio Opera Orchestra, under the direction of Kodo Yamagishi. Luis is a resident singer of Ginásio Opera Company. Luis has recently made his debut at the Barbican Hall, on a concert broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, singing in Henze’s Voices with the Guildhall New Music Ensemble, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Next year Luis will be in the first year of the Opera Course at Guildhall School.
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