EVENT
CHANTS LIBRES
29th June 2024
A CHORAL ART FESTIVAL
"Eighty singers, amateurs and professionals, children, teenagers and adults, have come together to form this ephemeral choir.
The dream that unites them is to share their passion for choral singing with the public, through the experience of immersion in sound and polyphony. Placing listeners at the heart of the sound, close to the voices, rather than in a frontal relationship will be the driving force behind this performance, which will feature a succession of Renaissance spatialized music and contemporary collective improvisation.
For the occasion, Henrique Cantalogo, a young Brazilian composer, is composing "chants libres", an a cappella piece for all the participants, which will be presented as a world premiere."
Geoffroy Jourdain
This event is part of the programme of the Chants libres choral art festival, initiated by the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation.
To register, visit the Explore Paris website.
Drawings: Françoise Pétrovitch © Adagp, Paris, 2023 - graphic design: deValence
LOCATION
La Chaufferie
INFORMATION
The 29th of June 2024
All public, free entrance.
43, rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville
Metro 5 – Bobigny – Pantin – Raymond Queneau Station
Bus 145 et 318 line – Louise Dory Station
PROGRAMME
Clément Janequin (1480-1560), Les Cris de Paris (1547)
Terry Riley (1935), Olson III (Associated Music Publishers, 1967)
Henrique Cantalogo (1990), Chants libres, commissioned by Les Cris de Paris, global creation, 2024
Presentation of the choirs
Les Cris de Paris
Created and directed by Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris is a company dedicated to the vocal arts. They bring together singers and instrumentalists with a dual profile as soloists and ensemble musicians. Their artistic project is based on collaborations with artists (composers, stage directors, visual artists, choreographers) such as Francesca Verunelli, Benjamin Lazar, Oliver Beer, Aurélien Bory, François Chaignaud...
Their latest albums, recorded for Harmonia mundi, have been hailed by the critics: Melancholia - Motets et Madrigaux anglais et italiens, Passions - Venezia 1600-1750, Berio To Sing. David et Salomon, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz, was published in 2022.
With a dual career as a musicologist and interpreter of the Baroque repertoire, particularly Italian, Geoffroy Jourdain is today recognised for his eclecticism and his commitment to contemporary creation.
He has premiered works by Beat Furrer, Mauro Lanza, Marco Stroppa, Francesco Filidei, Oscar Strasnoy, Ivan Fedele, Eva Reiter, Francesca Verunelli and others.
Le CRÉA d’Aulnay-sous-Bois
Founded by Didier Grosjman, the CRÉA is a unique structure for artistic education in France, a place of creation, training and resources dedicated to vocal and scenic practice accessible to all. Under the patronage of Natalie Dessay, the CRÉA centre for vocal and stage creation offers hundreds of children and adults the chance to practise singing and the performing arts without an entrance audition. Lyric art, taught by professionals in a fun and demanding way, becomes a pretext for a global education that values listening, respect, concentration and sharing. These are the values that have underpinned the success of the creative projects, cultural initiatives and training programmes we have been developing for over 35 years. A pioneer in the creation of works performed by children, CRÉA has produced over 80 premieres (including 30 opera commissions). CRÉA works in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture to develop choral singing.
CRÉA offers tailor-made training courses. Since its creation in 1987, CRÉA has passed on its educational philosophy to more than 7,000 singers.
La Maîtrise Populaire de l’Opéra-Comique
France's first Maîtrise Populaire, a partner of the French Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, was founded in September 2016 at the Opéra-Comique. Under the impetus of Sarah Koné, its Artistic Director, the Maîtrise Populaire promotes diversity both in the profiles it recruits and in the activities it offers: musical training, choral singing, vocal technique, theatre, dance, tap dancing and piano lessons.
Using the performing arts as a lever for social integration, this training is at the heart of every student's career. From lower secondary school through to higher education, the traditional school timetable is combined with their artistic curriculum.
In addition to the special timetable for their artistic studies, the pupils are involved in the performing arts, taking part in 35 to 40 concerts and artistic performances a year.
For these children and teenagers aged between 8 and 25, this is a promise of multi-disciplinary training of excellence, essential to the Opéra-Comique's project of transmission.