La Rêveuse" ensemble
Viola da gamba
Florence BOLTON
Co-Artistic Director of the ensemble "La Rêveuse" and Viole de gambe
Florence Bolton studied viola da gamba with Marianne Muller at the CNSM in Lyon, where she was awarded first prize in 2001. She also holds a master's degree in Japanese from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Civilisations Orientales (INALCO).
As a soloist and continuo player, she performs with ensembles such as Akademia, Doulce Mémoire, La Fenice, Il Seminario Musicale, l'ensemble Pierre Robert, Le Poème Harmonique, etc....
In 2004, she and Benjamin Perrot founded the ensemble La Rêveuse, where they are artistic directors. Interested in artistic cross-fertilization, she works regularly with stage directors Benjamin Lazar (L'Autre Monde ou les Etats les Etats et Empires de la Lune by Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Caractères by La Bruyère) and Louise Moaty (Les Mille Et Une Nuits), with Jean Philippe Guye, Professor of Arts and Civilizations at the CNSM in Lyon, and with composer composer, singer and stage director Vincent Bouchot.
She has taken part in numerous recordings and regularly teaches viol and chamber music at workshops.
Recorder, traverso
Sébastien MARQ
Sébastien Marq studied recorder in France, then in the Netherlands, where he obtained his Uitvoerend Musicus diploma.
First Prize winner at the Bruges competition with the Lous Landes Consort, soloist with William Christie's Arts Florissants, he has also been invited by Jordi Savall, Emmanuelle Haïm, Julien Chauvin's Concert de la Loge, and the Ensemble Marguerite Louise ensemble. He performs chamber music with Accademia dei Dissonanti, Ensemble La Rêveuse and Marq's Brothers & Sisters, a group of musicians from his family. He was recently guest soloist with the Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Sébastien Marq is also interested in conducting, having recently conducted Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, Campra's L'Europe Galante and Lully's Atys in Utrecht, Paris and The Hague. He also plays the traverso, which he studied with with Hélène d'Yvoire and Pierre Tarteaut. He is also musical director of the Festival L'Hiver Musical de Saint-Leu la Forêt.
He has taken part in some 100 recordings, notably with harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï and Le Concert Français, violinist and conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi (La Notte, Vivaldi concertos), and Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot's Ensemble La Rêveuse. Bolton and Benjamin Perrot.
Sébastien Marq teaches recorder and chamber music at the CRR de Paris. Honorary professor at the Conservatory of The Hague (Netherlands), he is invited to give Master Classes in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Mexico and Japan, Mexico and Japan.
Guitar, Theorbo, Lute
Benjamin PERROT
Benjamin Perrot studied theorbo, lute and baroque guitar at the C.N.R. in Paris (Diplôme Supérieur in 1997), with Eric Bellocq and Claire Antonini, and went on to perfect his skills with Pascal Monteilhet.
In 1996-1997, he also took a special accompanist training course at the Studio Baroque de Versailles (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles).
He has worked for many years as soloist and continuo player in ensembles such as Il Seminario Musicale, Le Concert Brisé, Ensemble Pierre Robert, La Fenice, Le Poème Harmonique, Le Concert Spirituel, Les Arts Florissants, etc., and has taken part in over fifty recordings.
He currently devotes his time in particular to the ensemble La Rêveuse, where he shares artistic direction with Florence Bolton.
He teaches lute and theorbo at the Conservatoire de Versailles and is vocal director at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Les Alizés" ensemble
Lute, Theorbo, Vihuela
Parsival CASTRO
A lutenist, theorbist and vihuelist of Ecuadorian origin, Parsival Castro studied musical culture and composition with Mark André, and lute and theorbo with Yasunori Imamura's class at the CRR de Strasbourg, where he obtained a DEM in these disciplines. He then entered Hopkinson Smith's class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), where he obtained a master's degree.
He takes part in masterclasses with Eugène Ferré, Marianne Muller, Gabriel Garrido, Eduardo Egüez and Le Concert Lorrain.
A member of the Los Biganos ensemble, he also performs with the nota Bene, Musa Armonica, Parlement de Musique and Capilla Panamericana ensembles at numerous festivals in Europe and Latin America.
He teaches guitar, theorbo and lute at the CRR du Grand Besançon and the ESM de Bourgogne Franche-Comté.
recorder
Clémence COMTE
After brilliantly completing her recorder studies in France, Clémence Comte went on to perfect her skills with Baldrick Deerenberg, Heiko ter Schegget and Marion Verbruggen at the Utrecht School of the Arts (Netherlands), where she obtained a teaching diploma with honors and a concert diploma in obtained a teaching diploma with honors in 1992 and a concert diploma in 1994. At the same time, she studied musicology in France, graduating with a DEA in 1991.
She performs frequently throughout Europe at prestigious festivals and concert series as a soloist and with various ensembles, with whom she has won a dozen national and international competitions. and international competitions.
Equally passionate about teaching, Clémence Comte taught her instrument and chamber music in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2003. Since September 2003, she has been recorder teacher and head of the early music department music department at the CRR du Grand Besançon Métropole.
Since September 2019, she has also been performing the same duties as part of the ESM de Bourgogne Franche-Comté.
His discography includes recordings released by zig-zag Territoire, Ligia Digital and Et'cetera.
Harp
Vincent KIBILDIS
Vincent Kibildis studied historical harps at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, and then furthered his knowledge with Mara Galassi at the ESMUC in Barcelona.
A permanent member of the "Exquisite noyse" ensemble, he can be heard on the 2015 CD release "La voce del violino", where he performs 16th-century instrumental music and plays his own improvisations. Until 2019, he was a permanent member of the "Sollazzo Ensemble", with whom he took part in the eeemerging program, won the 2015 York Early Music Young Artist Competition and was selected as an associate ensemble of the CCR d'Ambronay. of the CCR d'Ambronay.
He plays on the two CDs "En Seumeillant" and "Parle qui veut", awarded a "Diapason d'or" and a "Diapason d'or de l'Année 2018", among others.
Since 2019, he has been focusing more on his own projects, including the duo "Rootstock", whose debut CD "Harvested from tradition" was released in 2018.
Vincent also performs as a soloist and continuo player in various ensembles.
Murmure" ensemble
Harpsichord, trombone, sackbut
Baptiste ZERONIAN
Born in 1999, Baptiste Zeronian began his musical training at the Conservatoire de Pau in Hervé Bultot's harpsichord class. Two years later, he discovered the trombone with Michel Golias. After a short year at the CRR de Bayonne where he worked with Erouan Loiret and Jérôme Capdepont, he continued his TMD studies at the Lycée Saint Exupéry and his musical studies at the CRR de Lyon in the harpsichord class of Catherine Latzarus and in the Marc Gadave's trombone class.
He added the sackbut to his two favorite instruments, and during his years in Lyon, he was introduced to a wide variety of musical styles, from baroque to rap, classical, jazz, contemporary and contemporary music. and contemporary music.
In 2018, he unanimously obtained his DEM in harpsichord from the CRR de Lyon (class of Catherine Latzarus), then, after joining Hamid Medjebeur's trombone class at the Saint Etienne conservatory, his DEM in trombone in 2019. That same year, he was admitted to the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève in Kenneth Weiss's harpsichord and basso continuo class, and to Stefan Legée's sackbut class a year later.
Increasingly passionate about early music, he attends numerous master classes with renowned teachers such as Enrico Baiano, Nicoleta Paraschivescu, Olivier Beaumont and Franck Poitrineau.
In 2018, he and his musician friends from Lyon created the baroque ensemble 416, with which he will perform at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon as part of a nocturne, at the auditorium in St Romain en Gal and in the salons of Lyon's Hôtel de Ville.
recorder, harpsichord
Lysianne VINCENT
Born in 2000, Lysianne VINCENT began her musical journey at the age of 6 in the piano class of Bernadette Bourcier, then of Hélène Peron at the CRD de Gap (05). It was in 2013, during a rehearsal with a recorder consort, that she became enchanted by this multi-faceted instrument. The following year, she joined Meillane Wilmotte's class at the same conservatory.
She entered the recorder DEM in 2016, and the following year obtained a piano CEM with Congratulations from the Jury.
In 2017, she was accepted into the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Lyon (CRR), in the double curriculum that unites the University of Musicology (Lyon2) and the Conservatoire. She spends 3 years in Susi Mölhmeier's class, and at the same time harpsichord with Catherine Latzarus.
During these years of study, Lysianne took part in numerous concerts, including the recording of Esther (music by J.B Moreau, on verses by J. Racine) with the Diane Française (S.M. Degand) on France Culture. She participates in several summer music workshops, notably with Clémence Comte, Jean-Pierre Nicolas, Cécile Orsini and Anastase Demetriadès.
In 2019, Lysianne obtained her DEM in Recorder, and the following year her Licence in Musicology. Since September 2020, she has been studying with Nathalie Houtman and Frédérick de Roos at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.
recorder
Barnabé BALMELLE
Born in Lyon in 1999, Barnabé Balmelle began playing the recorder at the age of 7 at the Saint Foy Lès Lyon music school. At the age of 10, he joined the Classes à Horaires Aménagés Musique (CHAM) of the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Lyon (CRR) in the recorder class of Elise Ferrière and Susi Möhlmeier.
At the same time, he began playing drums at the MJC in Saint Foy Lès Lyon and became involved in the Conservatoire's musical life with his two instruments. It wasn't until 2017 that he joined Pierre "Tiboum" Guignon's drumming class. Jazz class. The following year, he unanimously obtained a Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales (DEM) in Recorder in Susi Mölhmeier's class, and a Brevet d'Etudes Musicales (BEM) in Jazz Drums. During this year, with the invaluable help Catherine Latzarus, he formed a baroque ensemble with friends: Ensemble 416 (violin, recorder, cello, harpsichord).
With this ensemble, he will have the chance to perform in venues such as the salons of Lyon's Hôtel de Ville, the Musée de Saint-Romain en Galles and the Musée des Beaux Arts.
His dual musical personality led him to form a jazz trio with other friends: Abyss Trio (violin, keyboards, drums). Here too, he will have the opportunity to play in numerous clubs and jazz festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Jazz sur les Places.
In 2019, he was admitted to the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, where he studied recorder with Frédéric de Roos and Nathalie Houtman, and jazz drums with Thomas Grimmonprez. his two passions.
La Camerata Chiara" ensemble
recorder, baroque bassoon, dulcian, harpsichord
Grégoire FRANCO
At the age of six, he began playing the recorder at a small music school in Morbihan. Three years later, he continued his recorder studies with Jean-Luc Chauvel at the Manoir de Trussac in Vannes. He then entered the Conservatoire Conservatoire de Vannes, where he studied piano with Marie-Christine Ferlan.
Keen to improve his recorder skills, he moved to Nantes, where he obtained a Baccalauréat Scientifique from Saint-Stanislas. For six years, he studied the recorder with Marie-Noëlle Visse at the Conservatoire de Nantes, where he enriched his knowledge of early music and obtained his Recorder Prize. his knowledge of early music and obtained his Prix de flûte à bec.
To hone his recorder skills, he completed a Quatrième Cycle de perfectionnement in Evolène Kiener's class and Florence Malgoire's ensemble class at the CRR de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
After two years in basso continuo with Arnaud Pumir, he studied baroque bassoon with Philippe Piat and perfected his skills with Evolène Kiener at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, where he also studied in the harpsichord class of Aurélien Delage. of Aurélien Delage.
He studied from 2018 to 2021 in the class of Han Tol in Recorder, Donna Agrell in Baroque Bassoon, Carles Cristobal in Dulcian and Nicola Cumer in Continuous Bass at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. In 2021, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Renaissance-Romanticism.
Today, he studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Belgium, in the class of Frédéric de Roos and Nathalie Houtman for the Master of Performance in Recorder.
Passionate about music history, he obtained his Certificate in Music History at the CRR in Nantes, then met Gérard Sutton at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. He continued his research in music history at the the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and then at the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles (Belgium).
In 2012, he organized and conducted a concert in aid of a scientific project by Saint-Stanislas de Nantes in conjunction with CERN, in the Chapelle Saint Stanislas. He was a soloist at La Folle Journée de Nantes, Salle 800, conducted by Daniel Cuiller in J.S. BACH's 4th Brandenburg Concerto.
He takes part in various workshops and master classes in France and Switzerland (Les Flanders, Jean-Pierre Nicolas, The Witches, Claire Michon, Clémence Comte, Evolène Kiener, Julien Martin, Maurice Steger, Sabrina Frey, Erik Bosgraaf, Giovanni Antonini, Giulia Genini, Michael Form, Diego Ares, Jan Van Hoeke). In 2016 and 2018, he participated in the Yehudi Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland, and in the Baroque Academy of the same festival, directed by Maurice Steger.
In August 2019, he takes part in a concert duo with harpsichordist Jean-Luc Ho in Bonnieux(84), then in October in four concerts at the Salon International de Musique Ancienne "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à bec et son Univers" in Nantes, including one with the great violinist Florence Malgoire. In August 2020, he gives a solo concert in Bonnieux, and in October, takes part in two concerts at the second edition of the Salon International de Musique Ancienne "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à bec et son Univers" with Sabrina Frey and a concert with Philippe Grisvard. In 2021, he and La CAMERATA CHIARA will take part in a concert in Bonnieux, as well as in the Salon International de Musique Ancienne "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à bec et son Univers" with Han Tol.
Since 2016, he has been giving concerts in aid of RECORDARA to enable the association to carry out its charitable project and illustrate its action in favor of the virtuoso recorder.
In December 2018, with friends from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he founded the ensemble La CAMERATA CHIARA, which will perform for the first time in 2019, in Nantes, at the Salon International de Musique Ancienne "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à bec et son Univers " (www.recordara.com).
harpsichord
Alessio ZANFARDINO
Alessio Zanfardino was born in Solofra in 1999. Dopo gli studi iniziali seguiti privatamente prosegue presso l'istituto "A. Peri" di Reggio Emilia frequentando la classe di pianoforte del M° Milo Martani e iniziando lo studio del clavicembalo sotto la guida il M° Giovanna Fornari per poi dedicarsi definitivamente allo studio di quest'ultimo e del fortepiano presso il conservatorio "Arrigo Boito" a Parma come allievo M° Francesco Baroni. Attualmente studia presso la Schola Cantorum Basiliensis a Basilea sotto la docenza del Prof. Francesco Corti.
Ha partecipato per due anni consecutivi alla rassegna "Omozzoli Parisetti" a Reggio Emilia. In Luglio 2016 ha partecipato a "Salso Summer Class 2016" in qualità di cembalista con il M° Giovanna Fornari e ha in seguito suonato con i Musici di Parma accompagnando l'oboista dei Berliner Philarmoniker Christoph Hartmann.
Nell'estate 2017 è selezionato per partecipare a l'"Académie de Musique Ancienne d'été" del Périgord Noir in Francia, sotto la docenza del celebre cembalista Francesco Corti, partecipando ai due concerti finali della rassegna concertistica in qualità di continuista al cembalo e all'organo. Ha vinto nel 2018 il Concorso di clavicembalo e fortepiano "A. Bianchi" della città di La Spezia.
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Alessio Zanfardino was born in Solofra in 1999. After he began his studies privately he enrolled in the conservatory "A. Peri" of Reggio Emilia attending the piano class of Prof. Milo Martani and beginning hi harpsichord studies with Prof. Giovanna Fornari to attend finally the class of harpsichord and fortepiano in the conservatory "A. Boito" of Parma under the teaching of Prof. Francesco Baroni.
Actually he studies in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel under the teaching of Francesco Corti.
He participated for two following years at the concerts organized by the chapel "Omozzoli Parisetti" in Reggio Emilia. In July 2016 he attended "Salso Summer Class 2016" as harpsichordist under the teaching of Prof. Giovanna Fornari playing with Christoph Hartmann as continuo.
In the summer 2017 he was selected for the "Académie de Musique Ancient d'été" in the Périgord Noir in France, under the teaching of Prof. Francesco Corti, taking part in final concerts.
In 2018 he won first prize at the Competition of harpsichord and Fortepiano "A. Bianchi" in the city of La Spezia.
traverso, recorder
Tommaso SANDRI
Studies:
He started studying the recorder when he was twelve under the guidance of prof. Gloria Uggeri (with whom he has performed at Casa della Cultura and the unified school Milano Spiga).
In 2017 he graduated at G. Verdi high school for music in Milan (grade: 100/100).
He graduated in Baroque Traverso with honours at the Conservatory G.Verdi of Milan (Bachelor's degree).
From 2019 he studies historical transverse flute and renaissance transverse flute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Prof. Marc Hantaï and Prof. Johanna Bartz.
Alongside his music studies, he has started university at Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca, Dept. of Psychological Sciences and Techniques.
Concerts:
He co-operates with Medit-Lab Orchestra (in various Milan theaters among which Teatro dal Verme). In 2015 he performed with Orchestra Giovanile Lago Maggiore, playing in particular Saint Matthew Passion (BWV 244) at Basilica Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. Between 2016-2017 He participated in Festival Musicale at Oriolo, Festival Scatola-Sonora (with the Ancient Musicdepartment of Alessandria for which he performed "Il Paratajo" by N.Jommelli) and Monza MusicWeek. He played in several concerts with the Ancient Music department of Conservatorio di Milano at Conservatory and Castello Sforzesco. In 2018 he played a fully Renaissance repertoire in numerous concerts at S.Carlo al Lazzaretto church in Milan together with the consort of bass viols of Conservatorio di Milano. The same year he performed classical repertoire in Milan and Cremona (6/8 key flute, 19th century guitar and violin). He took part in the second edition of the international festival "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à Bec et son Univers" (edition 2020), performing with the young ensemble "La Camerata Chiara" in Nantes.
Auditions and contests:
In 2011 he won the E.Arisi contest at Vescovato (cat. recorder, 98/100) and in 2012 he won the contest of the City of Cene (cat. recorder, 98/100).
He has been selected to represent Conservatorio di Milano in Art Prize section: "music for ancient voices and instruments" for two subsequent years, 2016 and 2017. As first classified in "transverse baroque flute" section, he has been fit at the auditions for Orchestra Nazionale Barocca dei Conservatori Italiani (Selection Board: Pascal Bertin, Paolo Grazzi, Gaetano Nasillo, Giovanni Togni, Daniele Ficola).
Extracurricular activities:
He has taken part in the Dono Delius day at Conservatorio N. Paganini of Genova.
He has occasionally worked as a voice actor and advertising speaker.
recorder
Han TOL
Han Tol is active as a soloist, ensemble player, musical director and teacher throughout Europe, the U.S. and the Far East. He holds a professorship at the "Hochschule für Künste" in Bremen, Germany, and was a guest professor at the "Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" in Basle, Switzerland and at "Jacobs School of Music" of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. His teaching activities include further courses at renowned music institutions in Vienna, Salzburg, Geneva, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, Baltimore, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong, to name a few.
Mr. Tol was a member of the outstanding "Flanders Recorder Quartet" from 1999-2007. In his orchestral work with the "Balthasar Neumann Ensemble" of Freiburg, Germany, his interpretation of 17th century Italian music, while clad clad in full clown apparel, was probably the most memorable. Han Tol was their artistic director for the production of the highly praised CD, "Perpetuum Mobile", with recently discovered repertory by Telemann (-"Perpetuum Mobile is the title that the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble has given to one of the most imaginative and satisfying Telemann discs that I have heard for a long time...recorder player Han Tol directs all with affection and an unerring sense of style", N. Anderson in "Early Music Today").
The German music magazine "Tibia" recently published two articles by Professor Tol, the result of his extensive research on the life and works of the mysterious sixteenth-century Venetian musician, printer and painter, Sylvestro Ganassi.
The artist can be heard on 40 CD recordings for such labels as Teldec, Harmonia Mundi, EMI, and CPO. Sony Music Entertainment launched a CD recently on which Han Tol is paired with the well known gambist, Hille Perl, and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Telemann's double concerto for recorder, viola da gamba and orchestra.
Showroom set
Soprano
Sylvie DEMAY
Friendly partner of the RECORDARA association
Her training is multi-faceted: piano, harpsichord, organ, cornet, musicology at the Sorbonne and chamber choir, classical dance, baroque dance, gestural rhetoric, mask and theater in PARIS, early music at the CRR in TOULOUSE... and she has since pursued a career in the baroque world. her career in the Baroque world. But not exclusively.
She studied (operatic) singing with Isabel GARCISANZ and repertoire with Irène AÏTOFF, among others, and performs the lyric repertoire for dramatic coloratura soprano in recital and opera. International Spanish Music Competition (UFAM PARIS 2007), Second Prize at the 2008 ALÈS and MARSEILLE international competitions.
She lends her voice to contemporary creation and her pen to musicals as an author (10 shows combining literature and music).
An established chamber musician, she also works with several ensembles (A Sei Voci, Carpe Diem, Compagnie Baroque, Opus 62).
His discography includes a dozen titles, all of which have won critical acclaim (Diapason-Répertoire).
Teaching is an equal part of her life and artistic expression: she holds a C.A. in singing.
After ten years teaching at the CRR de Lille and the Ecole Supérieure de Théâtre de Lille (EPSAD), as well as at the EDT (Ecole Départementale de Théâtre, 91), she currently teaches at the CRC de Corbeil-Essonnes (91).
Sylvie DEMAY takes part in academies, training courses and colloquia on voice, ornamentation and aesthetics, notably for master classes and conferences.
She also collaborates with voice health professionals from the O.R.L. department of the C.H.U. de LILLE and speech therapists.
Finally, he has been heard on FRANCE MUSIQUE in Benjamin François's Le jardin des critiques, and on regional radio stations (France Bleue) for classical reviews and programming.
She is president of the association Café GADILHE, mémoire vive, which organizes local cultural events based on the Cévennes heritage of yesterday and today. She is also deeply involved in the MusicAgagnièreS festival festival she created in the Cévennes with Arnaud PUMIR.
harpsichord, harpsichord maker
Arnaud PUMIR
After beginning his musical studies on the piano, Arnaud Pumir, fascinated by the Baroque repertoire, turned to the harpsichord, which he first studied with Arthur Haas. He went on to perfect his skills with Robert Kohnen, Bob van Asperen and Noëlle Spieth, with whom he won a gold medal for harpsichord and a first prize for chamber music at the CNR in Lille. He also studied organ with Jean Boyer at the same conservatory.
Since then, he has performed as a continuo player with ensembles and orchestras such as La Symphonie du Marais (Hugo Reyne), Concerto di Bassi, 415 (Chiara Bianchini), La Grande écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire), Les Arts florissants (Christophe Rousset), Il seminario musicale (Gérard Lesne), Stradivaria (Daniel Cuiller), Sagittarius (Michel Laprénie), A sei Voci (Bernard Fabre-Garrus), solo and concerto repertoire with Le Concert Français (Pierre Hantai) and the Académie Sainte-Cécile (Philippe Couvert), and lyric and choreographic productions, which have led him to collaborate with C. Rousset, P. Lenaël and J.M. Villegier, B. Massin, F. Lancelot.
He took part in the activities of the Théâtre Baroque de France, founded by Philippe Beaussant in 1995, directing its first productions, notably at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
As a soloist or with these ensembles, he has made a number of critically acclaimed recordings, notably of G. Benda's harpsichord concertos and the harpsichord works of J.H. d'Anglebert. In 2005, on the (ADC) label, a recital-disc featuring a historic harpsichord from Lyon recently restored by L. Soumagnac.
He shared the direction of the Ensemble Polyphonique du Maine with Bernard Fabre-Garrus, an ensemble he has directed to this day under the name Ottava.
Holder of a C.A. in Early Music, he currently teaches harpsichord, basso-continue and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Nantes, and acts as "chef de chant" for students of the Maîtrise du center de musique baroque de Versailles.
recorder
Françoise DEFOURS
After completing her studies in France, Françoise DEFOURS obtained the Soloist Diploma from the Rotterdam Conservatory in Han Tol's class. Holder of the Certificat d'Aptitude de Musique Ancienne, she has taught since 1991 at the Conservatoire a Rayonnement Régional d'Aubervilliers-LaCourneuve (CRR 93), as well as at the Pôle d'Enseignement Supérieur de la Musique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup'93) from its creation in 2009 until the suspension of early music classes. early music classes.
Her passion for the recorder and her curiosity about the many facets of its repertoire have led her to perform at numerous festivals both in France and abroad: Les Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo, Le Festival baroque d'Ambronay, concerts at Abbaye du Thoronet, Chapelle Royale de Versailles, Coup de Cœur à la Péniche Opéra, Musicora, Baroque en scène à Nantes, C'est pas Classique à Nice, La Otra Musica à Valladolid....
Her concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician have led her to collaborate throughout her career with many renowned ensembles and soloists, such as: Les Pages de la Chapelle Royale du Centre de Musique Baroque Baroque de Versailles, Stradivaria conducted by Daniel Cuiller for the Brandenburg concertos; the Prometheus 21 ensemble conducted by Raphaël Pidoux for the complete Brandenburg concertos with François Lazarevitch; Les Ambassadeurs conducted by Alexis Kossenko with Sabine Devieilhe in Warsaw, James Bowman in Tessalonica; the Capriccio Stravagante ensemble, with whom she recorded a William Byrd disc, awarded a diapason d'or.
Among its remarkable and particular activities with other arts:
- 2009 June: Solo recorder in PASTORALE, opera by G. PESSON, world premiere at Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris / conductor: Jean-Yves Ossonce / stage director: Pierrick Sorin.
- 2015-2016: 25 performances of CACTUS - storytelling & baroque music https://youtu.be/zyhpIaXY-gg in France and Spain.
Rape of GAMBE
Flore SEUBE
After completing a full curriculum at the Conservatoire de Brest, Flore Seube continued her studies at the CNSMD de Lyon, where she obtained a Master's degree in 2013 in Marianne Muller's class. She then completed a Perfectionnement at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with Paolo Pandolfo.
She performs regularly in France and abroad, as a soloist and in ensembles (Concerto Soave, l'ensemble Correspondances, l'ensemble Clément Janequin, Les Nouveaux Caractères, l'ensemble Consonance, Les Siècles...). Her career has taken her to France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Canada.
In June 2018, she obtained her CA in Early Music. She teaches viola da gamba at the Bayonne CRR.
Musician
recorder
Benoît TOIGO
After completing a full course of study with Pierre Boragno, he joined Pierre Hamon's class at the CNSM de Lyon, graduating unanimously with honors in 2000. He was a finalist in the Musica Antiqua Brugge solo instrument competition in 2005.
An eclectic musician with a passion for all kinds of music and instrumental practice, he takes part in productions with prestigious early music ensembles such as Le Concert des Nations (dir. Jordi Savall), Cappriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra (dir. Skip Sempé), Il Seminario Musicale (G. Lesne), Capella Mediterranea (dir. Léonardo Garcia Alarcon) and many others. He founded "Les lunes du cousin Jacques" (Baroque repertoire) and recorded Handel's "Théâtre intime" CD for Hortus - sonatas for recorder and continuo and cantatas by Handel. He also founded "La Dolçe Sere" (medieval music), with whom he created a concert-reading based on Machaut's Voir-Dit during the Académie Bach festival. 2018 festival, to which he is a regular guest, a musical theater project based on the Renard novel (Opéra de Lyon, etc.), and numerous other programs. He is one of the founding members of the "Résonance Recorder Consort "(with Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Pierre Boragno, Evolène Kiener), which toured the English repertoire of the Tudor dynasty for the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht in 2016-2017. In 2020, he participated with this consort at the Salon International de Musique Ancienne "Les Polyfolies de la Flûte à bec et son Univers", in Nantes.
Keen to continue exploring new horizons, he trained in baroque bassoon with Alexandre Salles at the CRD d'Orsay, where he obtained his DEM in 2017.
He also practices musical theater, having created the solo children's show "Tout fou l'vent" this season and performed the duo show "Vents contraires" with Sylvie Pascal for 2 seasons. contemporary music and improvisation with the contemporary dance company Mémé Banjo (for 5 years, he performed "Plexus", a contemporary duet with dancer Lionel Hoche, on tour throughout Europe).
Also a singer, he trained with Elisabeth Conquet and uses his voice in concerts and shows (Enée et l'Esprit with "Les folies du temps", "Papageno" with the Seine St Denis orchestra, or with Françoise Masset and Vincent Genvrin for recitals, etc.).
He holds Certificats d'Aptitude in Early Music and Flute-à-bec, and is deeply committed to pedagogy. Currently professor at the Dieppe CRD, he gives lectures and master-classes (Académie internationale de Musiques et Danses Discography with Hortus (CD Haendel/Les lunes du Cousin Jacques), Alpha (CD Stück/Les lunaisiens), Naïve (CD Istanpitta/Alla Francesca), Paradizo (several CDs with Cappriccio Stravagante),...