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Jérôme Comte & Denis Pascal

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Jerôme Comte

After studying in Geneva and Paris with teachers of the eminence of Thomas Friedli, Pascal Moragues and Michel Arrignon, Jérôme Comte was noted at several international competitions in Paris, Prague and Munich and was awarded scholarships by the Meyer Foundation for cultural and artistic development and the Foundation d’Entreprise Groupe Banque Populaire. In 2003, he became the first young musician to be sponsored by the Charles Cros Academy. Jérôme Comte embarked on a career as chamber musician that has taken him all over the world. Among the internationally acclaimed orchestras with which he has performed are the London Symphony Orchestra, The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, which he joined at the age of 25. The following year he performed Yan Maresz ‘s Éclipse for clarinet and ensemble under the direction of Pierre Boulez at the Festival d’Aix en Provence. In 2009, he again appeared with Boulez in Elliot Carter’s Clarinet Concerto during a tour of major european concerts halls. He recorded the work for Alpha Classics in 2016 with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Matthias Pintscher. In 2010 he was invited to perform Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double on the occasion of a retrospective of the composer at the Louvre. Since then he has regularly played the work. Among significant milestones in Jérôme Comte’s career have been his performances of Unsuk Chin’s clarinet Concerto under the direction of Matthias Pintscher at the New World Center in Miami and Hans Werner Henze’s Le Miracle de la Rose at the Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris.

Jérôme Comte plays exclusively on a Buffet Crampon Tosca Green line Clarinet.

 

Denis Pascal

Denis Pascal became one of the last significant disciples of Pierre Sancan at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He attented the classes of Jacques Rouvier, Leon Fleisher and György Sandor.

He won several international prizes, such as the competitions of Lisbon and Zurich, and the Concert Artist Guild Competition in New York and the Cziffra, Lavoisier and Menuhin Foundations, and finished his studies with György Sebök in Bloomington, Indiana, where he received the Artist Diploma.

Denis Pascal plays many solo and chamber music performances in Europe, USA and Asia : Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris), Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Merkin and Alice Tully Concert Halls (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington)…and with orchestras such as
National Orchestra of Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, New Japan Philharmonic, San Francisco Chamber Philharmonic, Pacific Chamber Orchestra…

He has been awarded several times for his recordings of Liszt’s 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, receiving the «Choc du Monde de la Musique», «Classica Award» and the Prize of the Franz Liszt Association.

He is also very interested in rare music and had great success with the world première of Joseph Marx’s piano music. In march 2008, his recording dedicated to Jean Wiener’s music was awarded by a Diapason d’Or.
Numbers of composers have written for him, such as Régis Campo, Jean-Philippe Bec and Guillaume Connesson.

Denis Pascal has been lately appointed piano teacher at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon in January 2010, then of Paris in may 2011.

His latest CD was released last February : Schubert’s sonata (La Musica Label).

 

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May 05
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Joanna Goodale

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JOANNA GOODALE, pianist & composer

Born into a British-Turkish family, Joanna Goodale is a French-Swiss pianist with an eclectic and creative identity, opening up the classical repertoire to traditional world music and to her own comprovisations.

She has been invited to perform in Switzerland, in France, in Germany, in Turkey, in Spain and in the United Kingdom. Graduate of a Master of Arts in Piano (Geneva) and a Master of Arts in Anthropology (London), she has benefitted from the support of the Fondation L’ABRI in Geneva and of the advice of internationally renowned pianists such as Alice Ader, Alain Kremksi, Cedric Pescia, Menahem Pressler and Anne Queffélec. Deeply convinced that music can transcend borders and touch the sublime, she invites her public to enter in communion with sound and silence in a space-time of rare intensity.

 

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Jul 13
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Juliana Steinbach

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Praised by the critics for her fiery temperament, exceptional charisma and great command of her instrument in the romantic and modern repertoires, as well as for the elegance, subtlety and intelligence of her classical interpretations, Brazilian-born pianist Juliana Steinbach is considered as one of the most gifted artists of the young generation.

In the past few years, Juliana Steinbach has performed extensively throughout Europe, as well as in North and South America, Israel and Asia. Following her debut in 2002 with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, she has appeared as a soloist with the Rundfunk Blasorchester Leipzig, Budapest Mav Symphony Orchestra, Freiburg Youth Orchestra, Paris Symphony and Lyric Orchestra, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, Paris ConservatoryLaureates Orchestra… collaborating with conductors such as Mendi Rodan, Jan Cober, László Kovács, Théophanis Kapsopoulos, Michael Cousteau, Sergio Monterisi and François-Xavier Roth. Her performances have taken her from Paris (Auditorium du Louvre, Cité de la Musique, Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier, Théâtre Mogador,Théâtre Marigny) to several major European venues (Leipzig Gewandhaus, Hamburg Musikhalle, München Gasteig, Budapest Liszt Academy, Prag Rudolfinum, Firenze Teatro della Pergola and Teatro Comunale, LisbonTeatro São Luis), as well as to many distinguished festivals (such as Périgord Noir in France, Salzburg in Austria, Bologna Festival and Lago Maggiore in Italy, Santander in Spain, Farsund in Norway). She has performed at the Tel-Aviv Museum in Israel, Lincoln Center in New York, Calgary’s Rozsa Center in Canada, Sala Cecilia Mereiles in Rio de Janeiro and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 2005 she made her first tour in Asia, with concerts in major venues of Seoul, Manila, Bangkok, Hong-Kong, Yokohama and Tokyo, alongside with a series of master classes given at different universities. Her performances have been broadcasted on such European radio and television channels as France Musique, France Culture, Radio France Internationale, France 3, Arte, Rai.

Laureate of Cziffra, Natexis, Umberto Micheli, Reinhold and Meyer foundations, Juliana Steinbach has been awarded top prizes in several international piano competitions, such as the Artlivre International Piano Competition in São Paulo (Brazil, 2001), the Tel-Hai Performance Prizes (Israel, 2000 and 2001) and the International Young Pianists Competition in Meknès (Morocco, 1996). In France, she has been awarded the FLAME Prize of the UNESCO, the Zonta International Music Scholarship and the Great and Special Prizes of the Forum Musical de Normandie. An avid chamber music player, she won in 2002 the First Prize at the ‘Premio Vittorio Gui’ International Chamber Music Competition in Firenze (Italy) and in 2005 the Beethoven Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition ‘Trio di Trieste’ (Italy), in a duo with French cellist Guillaume Martigné. She also performed these last years with violinists Marina Chiche, Amaury Coeytaux, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Ivry Gitlis, Saténik Khourdoian, Nemanja Radulovic, Svetlin Roussev, Sayaka Shoji and Ayako Tanaka, cellists Eric-Maria Couturier, Sol Gabetta, Pavel Gomziakov and Béatrice Reibel, flutists Sarah Louvion, Jaime Martin and Virginie Reibel, clarinettists Jérôme Comte and Tibi Cziger, fagottist Klaus Thunemann, pianist Jonas Vitaud, as well as with the Accord, Bennewitz, Kuss, Psophos and Sine Nomine string quartets.

Very interested in contemporary music, she gave various premieres and collaborated with composers Jean-Louis Agobet, Yves Chauris, Guillaume Connesson, Thierry Escaich, Balázs Horváth, Fabio Nieder, Matan Daniel Porat and François Sarhan. In 2010, the French festival ‘Aspects des Musiques d’Aujourd’hui’ in Caen entrusted her the performance of Philippe Manoury’s Chryptophonos and Pierre Boulez’s Structures.

In 2003 and 2004 she made two chamber music debut recordings produced by Cultures France, Radio Franceand the BNP-Paribas Foundation, and she has been supported since then by the French Ministery of Foreign Affairs’ program for the promotion of French musicians around the world. Her discography – which includes three other recordings made for German and French labels between 2001 and 2009 – features various works by Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Ravel, Shostakovich and Messiaen. Her new solo album, ‘Tableaux’, wasreleased in May 2010 by French label Paraty/Integral and presents piano works by Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition) and Debussy (Estampes, L’Isle Joyeuse). In August 2005, Juliana Steinbach launched the ‘Musique en Brionnais’ piano and chamber music festival in France (www.musique-en-brionnais.com). An annual event,it draws an international audience to the exquisite Romanesque churches of Southern Burgundy. A full week of performances and workshops, the festival allows the young pianist to build original programs and to present new projects, in recital and with some of her finest music partners.

Juliana Steinbach began her piano studies in France, having left Brazil when she was only three years old. Following her first years at Lyon Conservatory (CNR), she became a private student of Greek-American pianist Christine Paraschos. After earning a Litterature Baccalaureate, she studied at Paris Conservatory (CNSM), where she graduated with First Prize in piano (2000) and chamber music (2003). In 2002 she was admitted by unanimity into the post-graduate program (Troisième Cycle) as a student of Jacques Rouvier. At this occasion, the Alfred Reinhold Foundation awarded her a Blüthner grand piano. Following her studies in France, she worked regularly with Franco Scala at the Accademia Internazionale del Pianoforte ‘Incontri col Maestro’ in Imola (Italy), with Maria João Pires at her home in Belgais (Portugal), and Pnina Salzman in Tel-Aviv (Israel), besides attending master classes with musicians such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Christoph Eschenbach, Emanuel Krasovsky and Alicia de Larrocha. In May 2007 she graduated from The Juilliard School in New York, where she had been a piano student of Joseph Kalichstein, also receiving regular chamber music coaching from clarinettist Charles Neidich and the members of the Juilliard String Quartet. She currently resides in Paris

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Jun 02
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Julie Azoulay

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JULIE AZOULAY

Julie Azoulay propose une forme d’un lyrisme francophone contemporain nourri de formes éclectiques lointaines. La littérature comparée lui est familière et elle affirme son style nourri d’une diversité étendue. La lyrique courtoise du Moyen-Age y croise la chanson marquée par l’inspiration des musiques méditerranéennes. Nous ne sommes pas dans un exotisme flou mais plutôt avec une
esthétique habitée par la témérité de Julie Azoulay d’emprunter la langue de sa propre
culture pour dire à haute voix la conviction que le vivant cherche à tout prix à se manifester et à se réaliser. Une intention qui aspire à s’extraire des sociétés modernes. La chanteuse et compositrice emprunte un art de l’exultation, avec une place accordée à l’écoute de ce qui est au-delà de soi. D’où un style épuré, contemplatif, un souci de la précision des mots qui déroulent le monde à nos oreilles, un désir poétique de donner chair aux mots. Une approche qu’avaient les inventeurs de la chanson, les troubadours et les trouvères, celle de trouver la bonne formule musicale au poème. «Agis dans ton lieu, pense avec le monde» disait Edouard Glissant, une nécessité évidente devant l’hyper-
mondialisation dans laquelle il s’agit de reconnaître et distinguer ses propres origines pour
rencontrer l’autre.

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Feb 21
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Kenneth Weiss

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Kenneth Weiss

Born in New York, Kenneth Weiss began his musical studies on piano. After attending the High School of Performing Arts he entered the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Joseph Schwartz (piano), William Porter (organ) and Lisa Goode Crawford (harpsichord). It was through his studies on organ and harpsichord that he became aware of the vast early keyboard repertoire and decided to devote his professional life to it. He continued his studies with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory and in 1985 settled in France where he is still based today. Kenneth Weiss has worked as an accompanist, vocal coach, opera continuist, chamber musician, conductor and soloist for several decades, performing extensively in Europe, North America and Asia. A dedicated teacher, he has taught at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Haute École de Musique in Geneva and the Juilliard School, and has given master classes in Mexico, Great Britain and Israel. He has been professor of Chamber Music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris since 1996. His solo recordings on the Satirino label include Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Partitas, and Well-Tempered Clavier, a recording of Rameau operas and ballets transcriptions, two Scarlatti albums, and two albums devoted to Elizabethan keyboard music — A Cleare Day and Heaven & Earth.

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Jul 13
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Knut Jacques

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Pianist and fortepianist Knut Jacques studied at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMD), where he was awarded three degrees (diplômes de formation supérieure).

Mr Jacques continued his studies with Denis Pascal and Ruben Lifschitz (modern piano) and Bart van Oort (fortepiano) at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.

Over the course of his musical life he also worked with renowned musicians Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Eric Hoeprich, Alessandro Moccia, and Kenneth Weiss.

Mr Jacques is an active performer both as a soloist and chamber musician. His career has taken him to Japan, Austria, Spain, India, Italy, the Netherlands, and throughout France.

A regular guest at festivals, he has performed at the Kyoto International Festival, the Académies Musicales de Saintes, and the Festival ‘Les Chants de la Dore’, among others.

Mr Jacques tours as a piano soloist, as fortepiano soloist with orchestra, and performs chamber music with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. He regularly gives lecture-recitals at the Musée de la Musique in Paris.

In addition to his active performance schedule, Knut Jacques is a dedicated teacher. Having earned the CA, the French nationally accredited teaching certificate, Mr Jacques teaches at several regional conservatories in Paris. He is also Associated Professor at the Pôle Supérieur d’Etudes Musicales in Burgundy.

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Nov 13
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Knut Jacques & Morgane Le Corre

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Le Duo Pégase composé de Morgane Le Corre & Knut Jacques, artistes passionnés  de pianos anciens, œuvre pour présenter sous un jour nouveau le répertoire classique et pour faire découvrir les œuvres méconnues des grands compositeurs. Leur répertoire de prédilection se base sur Mozart, Beethoven ou encore Schubert.

Régulièrement invité des festivals, on a pu entendre le duo à Saint-Gervasy dans le cadre de la Semaine Musicale du Lembron, à Saint-Alyre d’Arlanc, Saint-Nectaire, et Usson lors d’une tournée en Auvergne, à l’Ile d’Yeu, à Challans, à Montesson, Orly, Garches…mais aussi à l’église Saint-Sulpice à Paris, à Bruxelles, à Milan, à La Haye aux Pays-Bas, et même à New-York pour la Fondation Anne Fontaine,\nLes dernières œuvres à quatre mains de W. A. Mozart, d’une très grande maturité, poussent les interprètent à exploiter toutes les ressources de l’instrument pianoforte qui dévoile ses multiples richesses. Le duo de pianofortistes, plongé au coeur de l’inspiration mozartienne aux ressources illimitées se veut tantôt ensemble orchestral, tantôt co-solistes de concerto, tantôt musiciens de chambre, les quatre mains formant un vrai quatuor…

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Sep 30
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Kristi Gjezi et Louis Lancien

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Kristi Gjezi, violon

Kristi Gjezi started playing the violin with his father Spiro Gjezi. After studying at the Conservatory of Bordeaux, he joined CNSMD Paris at the age of 13 in the class of Patrice Fontanarosa. In 2005, Kristi Gjezi won the 1st prize at the International Violin Competition of Avignon (France). In 2007, he won his degree as honour student unanimously by the jury and then joined the advanced course in the classes of Jean Jacques Kantorow and Svetlin Roussev.

In 2008, Kristi Gjezi has won a 3rd prize at the prestigious International Violin Competition Tibor Varga – Sion (Switzerland). In 2009 he won the 2nd prize this time the famous international violin competition “Pablo de Sarasate” in Pamplona. He won also on September 2013 the 2nd prize at Vth Moscow International Competition David Oistrakh.

Regular festivals and classic scenes in France (Orangery Bagatelles, Autumn Music Festival, Petit Palais, City of Music, National Archives, Festival de Toulon etc..) Also he plays in Europe (Switzerland, Spain, France, Bulgaria) in Music room and as a soloist with many orchestras (Philharmonic Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Marseille Opera Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Navarre, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra …)

Regular guest on France Musique (invited on the emission Gaelle Legallic «Dans la Cour des Grands»), Kristi Gjezi was also supported by Natexis Banque Populaire Foundation and received a G.B Guadagnini violin of 1784, lent by the Zilber Foundation from 2007 to 2009. He also had the opportunity to play a Gagliano 1703 lent by the same foundation a year later.

Kristi Gjezi is actually 1st violin solo of Monte-Carlo Philarmonic Orchestra. He plays a J.B. Vuillaume loaned by an anonymous donator.

 

Louis Lancien, piano

Louis Lancien was born on 10 December 1989. He began studying the piano at age six with Michael Wladkowski, at the Conservatoire of the 18th arrondissement in Paris. In October 2000, he entered the Angers Regional Conservatory in Hélène Desmoulin’s class, and obtained his diploma two years later. In 2002, he enrolled at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under Michael Wladkowski. In April 2003, Lancien was awarded the “Excellence Prize” at the Angers Regional Conservatory, and in September of the same year, he completed his first year at the Paris Conservatory. He was awarded a Bachelor’s in performance (“prix”, or DFS degree) in June 2007, with the highest score of all piano graduates, as well as

a degree in harmony, which he studied with Yves Henry. Lancien began studies in chamber music with Itamar Golan in 2007 and continued in 2008 with Claire Desert and Ami Flammer. He began his Master’s degree in September 2008 with Brigitte Engerer at the Paris Conservatory

(CNSMDP), and at the same time won the Blüthner prize. Lancien was a scholarship student in 2009 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris for graduate studies with Michael Wladkowski. He was the sole laureate of the “Banque Populaire” foundation (NATEXIS) in June 2010.

Lancien returned to the École Normale to pursue a “Concert Performer’s Diploma” in Michael Wladkowski’s class, and was awarded a scholarship from the Zaleski Foundation for 2010-2011. He completed the concert performer’s diploma in April 2011 and subsequently obtained his Master’s in Accompaniment at the Paris Conservatory. He was appointed pianist at the Paris School of Dance and Opera in September 2016.

Lancien won 1st prize in the Montigny les Bretonneux Competition (2003) and the French Steinway Competition (2004); 3rd prize in the Brest Competition (2002) and the Claude Bonneton Competition (2009), 2nd prize at the Mayenne Competition (2009), as well as a special prize at the final stage of the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in 2006.

In 1999, he played at the Minsk Opera with the conservatory orchestra of Paris’s 18th Arrondissement. In 2001, he was invited by the Jeunesses Musicales de France to play the role of “Mozart” at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, for thirty performances. In 2003, he was invited by French Minister of Education “Luc Ferry” to play in a broadcast on France’s Channel 2 television. In 2005, he portrayed Mendelssohn at the Théâtre Mogador with the Paris Orchestra.

In 2008, he had the opportunity to play a sonata recital at the Petit Palais, which was broadcast on France Musique, Radio France’s classical music network. In 2011, he gave a solo recital on France Musique.

Lancien has been invited to numerous festivals: The “Boulogne-sur-Mer International Festival”, the “Festival International de l’Enfance”, the “Chopin Festival” in Nohant, the “Festival Ars Terra”, the “Liszt Festival of Chateauroux”, the “En Artois” festival, and the Dinard Festival. He has taken part in master-classes with Jacques Rouvier, J.P. Collard, J.C. Pennetier, A.R. El Bacha and Giovanni Belucci.

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Apr 21
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L’ensemble Il Caravaggio – Camille Delaforge

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Il Caravaggio is a new player on the baroque music scene, an orchestra on period instruments directed by Camille Delaforge. In association with the most brilliant singers of the young generation, it explores the French and Italian lyrical repertoires. Alongside pieces from the great repertoires, whose approach it does not hesitate to rethink, Il Caravaggio pays particular attention to the rediscovery of an unpublished musical heritage. It is committed to promoting the work of women composers, creating at least one programme each year to discover the work of a forgotten creator: Isabelle Leonarda, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, or Mademoiselle Duval, whose opera “Les Génies” will be recorded in 2023 at the Opéra de Versailles

Placed under the spiritual patronage of the painter Caravaggio, the ensemble’s work is distinguished by its sense of theatricality, its intense expressiveness, its deeply embodied spirituality, and aims to show the universality of baroque sensibility, of a vitality intrinsic to the human experience. The ensemble also explores the porosity between the scholarly repertoire and popular music through more intimate formats: salon opera, street music, etc., which allow it to work closely with the public.

Ensemble Il Caravaggio

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La Camera delle Lacrime et le Jeune Choeur de Dordogne

La Camera delle Lacrime

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La Camera delle Lacrime et le Jeune Choeur de Dordogne

Grouped together around Bruno Bonhoure and Khaï-dong Luong as of 2004, the members of La Camera delle Lacrime are committed to showcasing and rediscovering heritage works while renewing them through their creative interpretative choices.

With the assistance of specialists and scholars who gravitate around the group, La Camera delle Lacrime offers historically-based programmes that dramatize the musical repertoire with the aim of making it more intelligible.

The ensemble’s name is an homage to Dante Alighieri, poet and friend to troubadours. Dante spoke of this ‘Chamber of Tears’ as a place where he would overcome distress and return to his roots, re-emerging with newfound energy.
Bruno Bonhoure – Musical Director, Solo Voice

Born in 1971 in Aurillac, Bruno Bonhoure carries with him the heritage of the songs and tales that punctuated the peasants’ daily life in the Haute Auvergne. Dedicating himself first to art history, his need for and love of the stage led him to Paris.

Compared to the ‘Bildung’ by Carlo Ossola (Professor at the Collège de France) and to Giovanna Marini by Lionel Esparza (Radio France), the quality of Bruno Bonhoure’s voice, his stage presence and his personality make him one of the most captivating of French tenors.

As the ensemble’s musical director, Bruno Bonhoure promotes the Occitan language through multidisciplinary shows. His creations offer a new interpretation of this historical-musical repertoire and have been praised by the Languedoc Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences.

Khaï-dong Luong – Staging, Scenography, Artistic Co-Producer

Born in Cambodia in 1971, Khaï-dong Luong arrived in France after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. With a degree from the Agrégation des mathématiques and a Master’s in film studies, his main focus is the creation of alternatives to pre-established styles. Thus Khaï-dong Luong restructures the usual formats and brushes aside convention in order to surprise and innovate. His contemporary vision of how to interpret historical repertoire has led him to consider new methods of communication, along the lines of the participatory show based around the Red Book of Montserrat.

A protean artist, while in Chicago he co-wrote the documentary Someplace Else, which was selected by the Los Angeles, New York and Chicago Film Festivals, as well as a series of animated films selected by the Annecy Festival.

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