A graduate of the Royal Academy Utrecht in the Netherlands (Musicology and Theatre History), and an established music editor in his native country, Mr. Fabius co-founded the Paris Opera school for young singers in 1979, before being appointed artistic program director at the Paris Grand Opera in 1983. In the 1990s, he ran a prominent artist management agency in Paris and was decorated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. In 2001, he moved to NYC to become artistic and executive director of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, leading a major building and capital campaign. The newly-redesigned Watermill Center for the Arts and the Humanities opened in 2006 as a year-round facility. Mr. Fabius recently left this position in order to join Mary Sharp Cronson as consulting producer for Works & Process, bringing three decades of expertise in arts and education to her program.

Blog Entries by Charles Fabius

Chinese Fall at Carnegie Hall

Posted October 19, 2009 | 12:40 PM (EST)


With the spectacular ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing last year, China made a dazzling debut on the world stage, showing off its potential supremacy in the new millennium. Three top Chinese "go-to" artists, who had once turned their back on their own country, were brought back to great acclaim...

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Kandinsky's Synesthesia and Rock and Roll ...And, My Mother Has To Understand It!

Posted September 10, 2009 | 10:50 AM (EST)


Why is it that many artists today are still experimenting with the idea of synesthesia of the senses in performance art? The short answer is: Vasily Kandinsky. Before him, Richard Wagner gave a first hint in his opera "Tristan and Isolde" (1865): waiting in despair for his beloved Isolde for...

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