LE GENDRE, Dominique

  Born and brought up in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominique trained as classical guitarist in Paris with Ramon de Herrera while following courses in Musicology at The Sorbonne and composing music for experimental student films. A Londoner for 35 years,her musical trajectory spans performance, musical direction, teaching, curation and producing music events as well as composing music for theatre, dance, art installations, film, television and radio drama for BBC Radio 3 and 4.

She composed and produced music for all 38 Shakespeare plays in the audio collection, The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare. A former Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and of Manning Camerata, her chamber music and operas have been commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles including the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera House Soloists, Philharmonia Orchestra, Manning Camerata, Tête-a-tête Opera, artist Ingrid Pollard (UK); Ibis Ensemble, Metamorphosis Dance, Natalia Dopwell (Trinidad and Tobago); Ensemble du Monde and Maegan Pollonais (USA); Clarinettist Jože Kotar and Pianist Luca Ferrini (Slovenia). Her musical-theatre work, Jab Molassie with libretto by Bassist Caitlyn Kamminga was produced by Calabash Foundation for the Arts, premiering at the Little Carib Theatre ,Trinidad. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the UK arts charity StrongBack Productions.