Jean-Paul Pruna is currently a répétiteur on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His assignments in the 2010/11 season are joining the music staff for L'isola disabitata in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Hänsel und Gretel, Die Zauberflöte, Fidelio, Werther and Cendrillon for The Royal Opera and playing for the JPYAP Summer Performance on the main stage. In the 2011/12 season, his assignments include acting as music staff for the staged performance of Les Nuits d’été and Le Portrait de Manon for Meet the Young Artists Week in the Linbury Studio Theatre and joining the Royal Opera music staff for Suor Angelica, Faust, Così fan tutte, Rigoletto, Rusalka, La Fille du régiment, Salome and Otello. Other credits as a répétiteur include; Il signor Bruschino and La scala di seta for British Youth Opera, La voix humaine for Kypria international festival, Pelléas et Mélisande for Opera Holland Park and Le notti bianche for Théâtre des Variétés in Monte-Carlo.
Jean-Paul completed three diplomas at the Paris Conservatoire: solo piano, chamber music and piano accompaniment, studying with Bruno Rigutto, Daria Hovora and Anne le Bozec. He then completed a masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Pamela Lidiard, Graham Johnson, Paul Roberts, Iain Burnside, Eugen Asti, Sarah Walker, Linnhe Roberston and Robin Bowman. He then studied at the National Opera Studio, supported by the Friends of Covent Garden and the Leonard Hancock Memorial Trust.
He participates in numerous master classes: Vera Gornostaeva, Michail Iaschine, Yoanna Adam for solo piano, Xavier Gagnepain, Michel Michalakakos for chamber music, Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Allen, Jeff Cohen, Martin Isepp, Barbara Bonney, Bengt Forsberg, Ilmo Ranta, Gerald Finley, Rosalind Plowright, Christopher Underwood, Yvonne Kenny, Yvonne Minton, Philippe Huttenlocher, Emma Kirkby, Barry Banks, Robert Tear, Paolo Gavanelli, Stéphane Degout for vocal repertoire.
As an accompanist, he has performed in various London venues including King’s Place for Iain Burnside’s The lads in their hundreds, the Barbican for a Rachmaninov song recital, the Wigmore Hall in the Wigmore Song Competition and recitals for the Chelsea Arts Club, the Ivy Club and Sadler’s Wells. He also gives several recitals in the Linbury Studio and in the Crush Room, cultivating solo, lied and chamber music repertoires.
