He won four French Musical Theatre Awards [fr] (TCM): Best Director and Best Author for his musicals Comédiens! in 2018 and L'Homme de Schrödinger in 2019.
Early life and education
Samuel Sené obtained his baccalaureate at the age of 14.[1] In 1999, when he was 17, Sené entered the École normale supérieure de Cachan where he studied mathematics. After his time at the École normale supérieure de Cachan he obtained the French mathematics aggregation (agrégation de mathématiques). He thus became the youngest agrégé in France in this discipline.[2]
Sené first studied music at the Conservatoire d'Orléans and then at the Music school in Saint-Maur, where he won first prizes in piano, accompaniment and conducting.[citation needed]
Samuel composed the opera Le dernier jour[6] which was selected and subsidised by the Fonds de Création Lyrique de la société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD). He wrote the arrangements of Richard Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Mozart's Don Giovanni for the Nouvelle Troupe Lyrique. He composed the music for the ballet Derviche mon amour,[7][8] and the incidental music for plays such as Romeo and Juliet[9] and Dom Juan. His versatility also led him into the field of film music and variety: he worked as an arranger for Sabine Paturel, pop-symphonic shows, universal audiovisual programmes, etc.
Samuel then focussed on Anglo-Saxon musicals and was the musical director for Fame, Fiddler on the Roof, Rendez-vous, West Side Story, Next Thing You Know, Oliver!, Fantasmes de demoiselles, and, Into the Woods[10] (on tour in France 2018–19). He is also the educational director of the Musidrama workshops.[11] Co-founder of the West End Frenchies, a federation of Francophile musical theatre workers in London. He directed several of their Voulez-vous sing with me tonight cabarets, as well as the musical Pinot at the Colour House Theatre, also in London.
His dual musical and theatrical training has enabled Samuel to direct operas (Tosca, Orphée et Eurydice,[12]Pagliacci[13]...), musical shows (Contes sans frontière at the Théâtre des Célestins,[14] the 2008–2009 editions of the Cérémonies des Marius, the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Ville en lumières Festival in the city of Troyes[15]), musical theatre creations such as Légendes parisiennes, #hashtags, Flop, Jack l'ombre de Whitechapel, and Week-end! and theatre pieces such as The Lesson by Ionesco at the Théâtre Mouffetard and the Lucernaire centre[16] theatres. In 2018, he created the musical Comédiens! which successfully ran at the Théâtre de la Huchette and received five awards including for best libretto, best show, and best direction.[17][18] Then he wrote and directed L'homme de Schrödinger and Contre-temps.
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Samuel to go off the beaten track, and he directed the very first French virtual choir, The Show Must Go On, which was seen more than ten million times on various platforms. He created C-o-n-t-a-c-t, a remote theatrical experience 2.0,[19] which met with immediate success in Paris. It was soon translated into several languages and transferred to a dozen countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy,[20] He directed La flûte cyber-enchantée at the Opéra de Vichy, using a range of new video, streaming and videoconferencing technologies for a hyperconnected and interactive show.[21]
Theatre and musical theatre
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2018 : L'Homme de Schrödinger, de Samuel Sené, Eric Chantelauze et Raphael Bancou. Artistic Théâtre ;
2018 : Un chant de Noël, d'Eric Chantelauze, Michel Frantz, Raphaël Bancou, Julien Mouchel et Vincent Merval. Artistic Théâtre;
2019 : Ca bouge, de Raphaël Callandreau, La Générale;
2019 : Anna attend l'amour, d'Elisa Ollier et Vincent Fernandel. Théâtre des Mathurins[25]
2020 : c-Ω-n-t-α-c-t, de Gabrielle Jourdain, Samuel Sené et Eric Chantelauze.[26]
2020 : Contre-temps, de Samuel Sené, Eric Chantelauze et Raphaël Bancou. Studio Hébertot, Artistic Théâtre, Buffon Théâtre.
2021 : La flûte cyber-enchantée, d'après l'opéra de Mozart et Schikaneder.[27]
Musical director for musicals
2006 : Un violon sur le toit, Tournée française. Mise en scène d'Olivier Bénézech. Direction d'orchestre et directeur vocal (coach vocal et chef de chœur) ;
2008 : Fame, Théâtre Comédia, puis tournée française. Mise en scène Ned Grujic. Direction vocale et musicale;[3]: 19
2012 et 2013 : Concerts symphoniques et lyriques au Brésil, avec les orchestres de l'État de São Paulo [31]
2019 : Broadway in Vichy, concert d'extraits de comédies musicales à travers les époques, avec l'orchestre Musidrama, à l'Opéra de Vichy [33]
2020-2024 : Bond Symphonique, Grand Rex, avec l'orchestre Colonne.[34]
Compositions and arrangements
Divers programmes télévisés, depuis 2005 : Le Bruno Vaigasse Show (France5), Les plus étrangères de Paris (Editions Universal), Mangez-moi (Editions Universal),...
2002 : Le dernier jour, d'après Le dernier jour d'un condamné de V. Hugo – Opéra lauréat du F.C.L. (Fonds de création lyrique) de la SACD.
2012 : Le Noël Magique, Alhambra et Palais des Congrès, Paris.
Depuis 2016 : Ecriture de diverses musiques de scène, don't Roméo et Juliette et Dom Juan, mise en scène Manon Montel.
2020 : Arrangements et direction de The Show Must Go On, première chorale virtuelle française en réaction au premier confinement en 2020.
Publication
Allez, on s'échauffe !, Guide technique et pratique. Volume I "Le Chant", volume II "La Voix parlée".
Nominations and awards
Winner of the Wagner200 competition, a European competition organised by the Associazione Lirica Concertistica Italiana (As.Li.Co.), for arranging and composing a reduced version of Richard Wagner's The Phantom Ship, published by Casa Ricordi;
Winner of the Fonds de Création Lyrique de la SACD for the creation of Le dernier jour, an opera based on the work of Victor Hugo;
