Jean-Paul Penin

He was a Fulbright scholar in 1979 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied analysis with John Coolidge Adams and obtained a M.A.

Again, in 1990, when he was just back from a Russian tour, he performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, for the Dutch première of Olivier Messiaen's piano concerto La Ville d'en haut, in the presence of the composer, (Yvonne Loriod, soloist, TV broadcast, Radio Philharmonic).

Following this concert, he was invited to tour with the orchestra (Berlioz, l'Enfance du Christ, Madrid, Auditorio Nacional, 2002 and 2003 with Spontini's Fernand Cortez).

The previous year the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet had invited him to conduct Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.

After two series with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, he was invited by the Korean National Opera to take part in a production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann).