Lise Borel
About
Lise Borel is a French composer. She began her musical career by studying piano, singing and classical dance at the Suresnes Conservatory. Her apprenticeship with Frédérique Fontanarosa marked her desire to compose.
She then joined the Hauts-de-Seine children choir and then the Radio France professional children choir for seven years, under the direction of Toni Ramon and Sofi Jeannin.
After her baccalaureate, she enrolled in a literary preparatory course with a music option, where she was taught by Sabine Bérard. She then obtained a degree in Musicology from Sorbonne Paris University. She won several musical prizes at the Boulogne Billancourt conservatory (Analysis with Naji Hakim, Orchestration with Pierre Farago, Musical Culture with Constance Luzzati, Musical Writing with Fabien Touchard). She also attends Jean-Luc Hervé's composition class and Ariel Alonso's choral conducting class at the Conservatoire du 18eme.
Alongside her studies, she began teaching at the Radio France professional children choir (composition, musical training, assistant choir director...). She pursues her desire to pass on her knowledge by giving lectures (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, workshops with Radio France and French National Education). She taught piano at the Philippe Jaroussky academy for six years.
Lise was also responsible for the Christmas program at the Fontevraud Royal Abbey in 2022.
In this desire to promote heritage and creativity, by crossing different fields (literature, science, ecology, education...) Lise was lucky enough to take part in a number of artistic residencies (Villa Swagatam in India 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory artistic residency in Long Island 2024, Atacama Desert in Chile with La Wayaka Current 2022, Ircam in Paris with the Manifeste academy 2023, Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud 2021, Académie Musicale de Villecroze 2020...).
She is a prizewinner in several competitions (Japan International Composition Competition 2021, Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award 2021, Andrée Chedid Prize of singing poem 2016, …).
