Projets

Multidisciplinary, international and nomadic, the Festival d'Automne à Paris has been supporting artists since 1972, producing and presenting their work in a spirit of fidélité, openness and discovery.

Multilatérale is embarking on a tour of China, in Hangzhou, to develop its international presence, particularly in East Asia. The project is composed of three concerts. The first two are 'Musical Portraits', two...

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...

Bad Ischl was a centre of the European operetta scene until the 1930s. It was here that popular, political, lustfully vicious forms of musical theatre were created, complex pieces full of abysses and laughter, until...

As part of its regional residency in the Val d'Oise, the Ensemble Multilatérale is proposing a project for Conservatoires in the Centre Val d'Oise area (Montmorency Valley sector) based on Berio's Folk songs. At the...

Two decades after his death, Fausto Romitelli continues to exert a powerful influence on a new generation of composers. His work embodies the successful fusion of popular and scholarly music, chaotic expression and...

It is to the sick children of the pediatric hospitals of the AP-HP that the soloists of Ensemble Multlatérale want to address themselves through lullabies and folk songs by successively investing the sites of Armand...

In 1887, Master Jigoro Kano, founder of the Kodokan Judo, gave birth to one of the first katas in the history of judo, the Nage No Kata. In judo, katas, which are sequences of highly codified techniques, are essential...

In his late works, Luigi Nono transformed sounds by working with the legendary SWR Experimentalstudio. This is the case in Diario polacco No. 2, in which electronic sounds permeate the room. Hay que caminar - soñando,...

The International Festival of Modern and Contemporary Music Traiettorie was founded in Parma in 1991 and it has become a leading festival of contemporary music in Italy and in Europe. In 2024 it will reach its XXXIV...

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For Pierre-Yves Macé, writing is often a palimpsest, a constant rewriting of what has already been written, for the pleasure of crossing forms anew and disturbing their lines, to arrange their sequences differently...

At the CRR de Cergy-Pontoise in particular, composition teachers and students on their way to becoming professionals work on writing pieces that are then rehearsed and premiered by the soloists of the Multilatérale...

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"To be awake while the master sleeps". With these words, Gérard Pesson defines transcription. Chiselling irony and distance from the original, he breathes new life, not without melancholy, into the imaginary lands of...

Propagations is a festival for all kinds of creative music and sound experiments. From written instrumental music to the most unexpected performances, every aesthetic is accompanied by original scenic forms designed to...

The piano and percussion instruments alone have hundreds of different sounds and playing techniques, making the musical and rhythmic possibilities infinite. This project proposes to highlight some of the facets of these...

The Barcelona Modern Academy is a composition academy open to all young composers, regardless of age or nationality, structured around three meetings of three days each. The selected participants developed a composition...

What is the music composers of today are writing? Every day of the week, the "Alla Breve" gives us an answer to that question. Throughout the week you will discover a new composer by way of a musical puzzle that will...

A concert featuring two works by Portuguese composer Emmanuel Nunes, a piece by Franck Bedrossian for solo cello and Luis Naón's Caprices 3 and 4 for bass clarinet and electronics.

Genius film director, mime artist and acrobat who has been able to set himself free from the rules of gravity. Buster Keaton is truly the alpha and the omega of silent cinema. His films have the ability to turn the...

"When men die, they sing". This verse by Khlebnikov gives its title to one of the most moving major works of Luigi Nono's last period. The same breath of life runs through the pieces for flute by Salvatore Sciarrino and...

If it is a little easy to automatically associate Italian music with the voice, it goes without saying that, from Monteverdi to today, there are many composers who have been able to play with the colors of the Italian...

It is a journey through the history of Portuguese music, from the golden age of its audacious or seraphic polyphony, to the major figure of Emmanuel Nunes. Its moiré timbres evoke the paintings of Vieira, while the a...

In 1994, Messe un jour ordinaire intersected the vehement and shattering words of the mass with those, individual and derisory, of Laurence, a young drug addict who appeared in a documentary by Jean-Michel Carré. The...

Directed by Antoine Gindt and Léo Warynski, produced by T&M in Nîmes, in an appropriate setting and exceptional cultural context, the Academy offers a unique training course dedicated to the approach and practice of...

Four distinct violins (including a quarter violin), with very unusual scordature are played by the soloist who will try throughout the three movements to find the original chord of the instrument, like a quest for...

Ensembles specializing in contemporary music present creations by young composers from all over Europe. During a marathon day made up of concerts and moments of exchange, the new voices of musical creation are brought...

« In the 70-80’s, « Spectral » music was born in France. This wave marks a new step in the way composers thought about sound and timbre, and how those can evolve. Gerard Grisey was one of the principal represent of this...

This opera composed by Yann Robin, will also celebrate the reunion of the brilliant director Arthur Nauzyciel and writer Yannick Haenel after Jan Karski (mon nom est une fiction). The sensual density of emotions and...

It's hapening in someone's head. Thoughts are disposed in chambers, opening and closing. Stories are told, visions and scenes collide and melt, until madness. There is the obsession for Colonel Kurz' face from...

Voix de Femmes aims at uniting some female inhabitants of Gennevilliers around an artistic project based on creativity and offer a space of freedom. Diana Soh will create a new piece in colaboration with the...

Benjamin de la Fuente and François Cotinaud are here, in keeping with the long tradition of the "open work" where the relation between interpret and composer is redefined. François Cotinaud is a soundpainter, founder of...

Georges Méliès is the first magician of the cinema. le premier magicien du cinéma. He invented a dreamlike world of which Le Voyage dans la Lune was the crown jewel, before in a day of despair burning all its film in a...

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This year, George Benjamin will be the hero of the festival

Multilatérale and the Tana string quartet will pay homage to this master born on the other side of the Atlantic ocean and born exactly 90 years ago. George Crumb is a secet man who has always fled the spotlights, still...

Enfances is a concert for voice, piano, harpe and cello that gives a second life to the first instants of our lifes. Interweaved around the idea of childhood the form is first and foremost adressed to adults, in the...

In 2018, Multilatérale is putting forward composer Yann Robin, artistic director of the ensemble, through its international tours. He will accompany the ensemble and give a serie of workshops to Thai composers. The...

Symétriades/Extensions takes is a work with three correlated focus: performance, sound and visual. The poetic universe of this project is directly inspired by Stanislas Lem’s science fiction novel Solaris. Solaris is a...

According to Aeschylus, Io had met Prometheus, chained, as she was roaming around the world, trying to escape Hera's vengeance. To create this libreto, Massimo Cacciari reuses elements of this drama and mixes them with...

In 2018, Multilatérale is putting forward composer Yann Robin, artistic director of the ensemble, through its international tours. He will accompany the ensemble and give a serie of workshops to Thai composers. The...

This new project was born out of a common desire to unite the Ensemble Multilatérale and the Orchestre National de Jazz ONJ in a singular creation situated at a crossroads where ambitions are placed in a single dynamic...

Bedroom mystery and living pictures. Almost fifty years after its controversial creation, its experimental form and the boldness of its libretto make of this Passion a work like no other. Inspired by Justine and the...

" Experience the paradox of opening within constraint and the birth of apparition within concealment... A landscape from the outside to the inside, a dive into the abyss of our perception. " Jonathan Schatz,...

In partnership with IRCAM, Multilatérale's soloists : Antoine Maisonhaute, Alain Billard, Hélène Colombotti and Raphaël Duchateau will play in Guanajato, Mexico, as part of the Cervantino Festival. Through a series of...

Since 1983, the Voix Nouvelles program has offered a top-level composition session at which young composers receive guidance from internationally renowned composers and have their music performed by the finest ensembles...

For the second year and under the impulse of the French Institute in Indonesia, Multilatérale will be touring Indonesia and Thailand. Meeting composers and students will be the core of this adventure as master-classes...

For the upcoming seasons, Multilatérale's soloists will stroll across the Parisian art galleries. First stop in this journey : the 24B gallery. The program of this recital, result of discussions between the soloists and...

Residencies are always a moment of special importance in term of creation but also for the privileged encounters between the composers and the audience it provides. This year, Yann Robin and Hèctor Parra are invited :...

To inaugurate the new Noisy-le-Sec Conservatoire, soloists from Multilatérale will hold educational actions in clarinet and saxophones classes as early as January 2017 that will rich its climax with a concert from the...

The central scene originated in an image from the TV news: Margaret Thatcher's visit to Augusto Pinochet in 1999 in an apartment in London during the pre-trial detention of the old dictator accused of a crime against...