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French composer, conductor and researcher Jean-Philippe Calvin read music at Hartt, University of Hartford, the Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales and at IRCAM in Paris. Calvin has studied composition with Iannis Xenakis and Ingram Marshall, electronic Music with Gerard Pape and conducting with Bernard Haitink and Harold Farberman. The author of numerous works for soloists, large orchestra and opera, Calvin has received commissions for his music from several major international institutions and music festivals, including the ROH and L'Orchestre Lamoureux, his compositions have been performed throughout the world. Until 2008, Calvin was the head of research and co-director of the Iannis Xenakis Musical Creation Center in Paris. Then between 2008 and 2014, Jean-Philippe Calvin was a Professor and Research Associate in Contemporary Music at the Royal College of Music in London, where he also initiated and directed the Variable Geometry contemporary music ensemble.