Festival Ensemble(s)
Festival Ensemble(s)
Ensemble. This is a word that illustrates our desires after this difficult period: to find ourselves, share, play, think and have fun together.
Ensemble is also one of the usual words of composers. Not quite an orchestra or a chamber music group, just a formation of musicians who come together for the duration of a piece of music.
For the festival, the 2e2m, Cairn, Court-circuit, Multilaterale and Sillages ensembles are joining forces, their vivacity and their inventiveness.
For a few days, each presents a program of their own, highlighting composers of all generations, aesthetics and origins combined. In closing, a concert will bring together the five ensembles on stage around works in large formation.
And, beyond the concerts, the evenings will be punctuated by friendly and/or didactic interventions, meetings with the composers, screenings, "pots" where we comment on what we have heard...
To continue to create, to invent, to innovate together is to resist things that pass away, it is in a way to give permanence to what is disappearing, but it is also and above all to pursue this quest for the unheard of which cannot be focused only on the future.
Ensemble(s) is, as its name suggests, a project and a festival full of hope.
Program
2025
En regard(s) - Multilatérale
Pierre Boulez, Anne Castex, Lanqing Ding, Philippe Hurel, Ikumi Yamauchi
Pulse - 5 Ensembles
Daniel Arango-Prada, Philippe Hurel, Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis
2024
Verlassene souls - Multilatérale
Sarah Nemtsov, Agustin Castellon Molina, Bernhard Gander, Bruno Mantovani
Notation(s) - 5 Ensembles
Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez, Georg-Friedrich Haas Ausweg, Sarah Nemtsov, Tobias Feierabend
2023
ARIA - Multilatérale
Agata Zubel, Anne Castex, Christophe Bertrand, Lorenzo Troiani
Melodia - 5 Ensemble(s)
Franck Bedrossian, Luigi Nono, Lara Morciano, Agata Zubel, Toshio Hosokawa, Jean-Luc Hervé
2022
Entrelacs - Multilatérale
Michael Seltenreich, Hugues Dufourt, Franck Bedrossian, Yan Maresz
Bridge(s) - 5 Ensemble(s)
Sébastien Gaxie, John O’Gallagher
Origine - 5 Ensemble(s)
Mauro Lanza, Philippe Leroux, Sofia Avramidou, Hugues Dufourt
2021
Territoires - 5 ensembles
Beat Furrer, Lucas Fagin, Florent Caron Darras
Teatro - Multilatérale
Vinko Globokar, Giulia Lorusso, Stylianos Dimou, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei
Espaces mouvants - 5 ensembles
Paul Méfano, Beat Furrer, Demian Rudel Rey
2020
A bout de Souffle - Multilatérale
Gérard Grisey, Frank Bedrossian, Johannes Maria Staud, Yann Robin
Vivos Vocos - 5 ensembles
Jonathan Harvey, Théo Mérigeau, Noriko Baba, Jonathan Harvey
Cast
2e2m
Cairn
Court-circuit
Multilatérale
Sillages
More information
September
Programme:
Lanqing Ding, Argile
Philippe Hurel, Tombeau in memoriam Gérard Grisey
Anne Castex, Automate I
Ikumi Yamauchi, blue horizons, tinnitus, red train, inorganic lines and their sorrows
Pierre Boulez, Dérive 1
For its 6th edition, the Ensemble(s) Festival teams up with the Maison de la Musique Contemporaine for a day of reflection on the place of creation and composers within music education in France. Testimonies, exchanges and discussions will shape the event, which will conclude with a concert at 7 pm, co-organized with the CMA XI and XX of Paris, the CRC of Ivry-sur-Seine and the CRR 93.
For its 6th edition, the Ensemble(s) festival opens with a concert bringing together the five ensembles around works by Philippe Hurel, Daniel Arango-Prada and Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis. Three pieces where sound topography explores perception, space and memory: Hurel’s modular miniatures, Arango-Prada’s imaginary cities inspired by Calvino, and Macahis’s engaged reflection on land and Philippine traditions.
September
September
For this final concert, the five ensembles come together for a total of eighteen musicians and two soloists. Around four composers, the program declines the question of Origin: origin of an idea, a sound, a sound sensation.
This concert, the result of a partnership between the Festival Ensemble(s) and the jazz department of the Royal Birmingham Conservatory, explores the links between contemporary music and jazz. Five students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatory join five musicians from the 5 Ensemble(s) for the interpretation of two creations, commissioned from two composers belonging to the double culture of improvised/written music: the Frenchman Sébastien Gaxie and the American John O' Gallagher.
How do works, from a poetic and symbolic point of view, respond to each other? If these resonances exist, are they relevant from a perceptual point of view? The bet of this program is to try to give an answer to the question of a possible balance through the choice of the instrumentation and the personality of the soloists who will appropriate these four sound worlds. The unknown is all the greater when the variable of a creation is introduced...