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Sommaire
La Folle Journée de Nantes 2016
22nd edition
La Nature
Pays de la Loire Region, 29th – 31st January 2016
Nantes, 3rd - 7th February 2016
Press file
Editorials
Key topics Unique projects
Guest artists
Cultural mediation
La Folle Journée’s partners
> pages 4-7
> pages 8-11
> pages 12-15
> pages 16-19
> pages 20-21
> pages 22-23
and on the web site www.follejournee.fr
Programme
Artist biographies
Photographs of the artists
History of La Folle Journée
Accreditation application
Folle Journée’s visual : LMY&R design – Mark Tipple photo
Texts by CREA / the City of Nantes and SAEM La Folle Journée
Useful information about
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Editorials
La Folle Journée is a unique event.
© N. M - P. Garçon
The festival’s artistic excellence and its determination to offer the best are
always achieved, year in and year out. Great artists perform for us, and
sometimes help us understand a wide variety of music works.
The great strength of La Folle Journée, what sets it apart, is that it is not only
an outstanding musical event but it is also deeply rooted in the region.
La Folle Journée is an audience-oriented event. The easy-to-digest format of
the concerts (45 minutes each) and the ticket prices are major contributing
factors to making La Folle Journée accessible to all.
To further encourage the audience to connect with music, I wished La Folle
Journée to organise concerts in the public space and in the outlying towns
of our metropolis, and we know now that this will happen from 2016. This
is the culture I desire to develop for our metropolis: a culture for everyone,
everywhere.
I would like to highlight the exceptional work La Folle Journée carries out with
specific audiences, the educational activities aimed at younger age groups,
especially school children, as well as the concerts organised in hospitals and
prisons.
Via its success, and the large audience attracted by its quality to our region,
and also via the image of Nantes metropolitan area it projects, La Folle Journée
is a driving force and a source of attraction. This is of course important since
culture, Nantes’ asset, is highly relevant to our regional dynamics.
I am confident that this new edition will, once again, delight the large audience
who will come to discover how, since the Renaissance, composers have
drawn their inspiration from mother Nature and her sounds, of course, but
also the emotions she arouses.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to all those who make this festival
a success: René Martin, obviously, but also La Folle Journée’s team, Nantes
Events Center’s personnel, the CREA’s volunteers and President, Jacques
Dagault, who all contribute their skills and enthusiasm to this exceptional
event. I also thank all the partners who support the festival.
I wish you all excellent Folle Journée 2016.
Johanna Rolland
Mayor of Nantes,
President of Nantes Métropole
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Editorials
© Marc Roger
This year, La Folle Journée celebrates Nature: a universal theme and the
fabulous common heritage of humanity. The 2016 programme shows how
men and women have attempted, with so much passion, to translate into
music the emotions Nature has inspired in them, whether it be water, earth,
fire, vegetation or animals. In 2016, La Folle Journée will illustrate, in music,
Seneca’s fine quote: “All art is but imitation of nature”.
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La Folle Journée is a unique concept created by René Martin, initiated and
supported by the City of Nantes. It reflects our shared desire to sow a rich
musicality, to irrigate the region, to create conditions for a widespread access
to music emotions and enjoyment, and to a top quality cultural programme.
The festival has, in fact, always strived to promote accessibility to music for
all through many mediation activities, part of Nantes City’s cultural proximity
policy.
La Folle Journée also cultivates the complementarity of the actions
implemented with Nantes’ musical education structures, the development of
these hothouses for musicians, which are involved in the region creativity and
contribute to its cultural vibrancy.
Stimulated by both its success and artistic excellence, La Folle Journée
continues to expand in the region and is offering, this year, a series of
concerts in several other towns of the metropolis. As part of the metropolis
attraction policy, it is also pursuing its international development.
Again this year, our success will be based on both the synergy developed by all
our partners and the professionalism of those involved in its implementation.
Joëlle Kerivin
Director General
SAEM Folle Journée
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La Folle Journée
La Folle Journée: an original and daring concept
A truly unique cultural event, Folle Journée aims to demystify classical music
to allow in a wider audience, yet without sacrificing artistic excellence.
Created in Nantes in 1995 by René Martin, the artistic director of CREA - the
Centre of Artistic Creation and Studies -, the festival takes place at the Nantes
International Convention Centre holding about 300 concerts of 45 minutes
each, and attracting some of the greatest artists in the world (about 2000 in
each edition). Each year, the event selects a theme composer, a major music
history movement and, since the 20th edition, this is unique. Since 2003, La
Folle Journée was extended to 11 cities in the Pays de la Loire region and has
become a resounding success among the best international festivals. It has
become internationally renowned, appearing in Lisbon from 2000 to 2006, in
Bilbao since 2002, in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, in Warsaw since 2010 and in five
cities in Japan (Tokyo, Niigata, Kanazawa, Biwako, Tosu) where every year
since 2005 it gathers over one million music lovers. Ekaterinburg, Russia, has
just been added to the repertoire with a first edition in 2015 dedicated to the
theme of “Passion” holding 80 concerts with over 35,000 spectators for three
days.
The history of
Folles Journées de Nantes
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
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Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Brahms
Hector, Gabriel, Maurice and others
Bach
Ivan Illich
Haydn and Mozart
From Monteverdi to Vivaldi
The 1810 generation
Beethoven and friends
The Harmony of Nations
The Harmony of Peoples
Schubert in all his forms
From Schütz to Bach
The Universe of Chopin
The Titans
Russian religious music
French and Spanish Music
From the canyons to the stars - the 20th anniversary edition
Passions of the heart and sou
Editorials
For its 22nd edition, La Folle Journée explores the universal theme
of nature. From his very origins, man has been fascinated by the
changing seasons, the variety of landscapes and the wildness of the
elements and always attempted to translate into music the infinite
range of sensations procured by contact with Nature; one might say
that music is born of nature, and that it has never ceased to inspire
musicians throughout the ages.
From Renaissance times, and throughout the Baroque era, composers
loved to imitate the sounds of nature, including birdsong which has
always charmed men - Clement Janequin then Jean-Philippe Rameau,
François Couperin and more; the music then becomes essentially
descriptive. In the early 18th century, the French composer JeanFery Rebel became part of this movement with an original work: Les
Éléments, which offers a musical composition of the four elements. At
the same time, the reflection on nature is already more contemplative,
with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Then, a long tradition of pastoral music
developed, with composers such as Carl Stamitz (The Variable Day)
and Justin Henry Knecht (Musical Portrait of Nature), which opened
the way to the famous Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven. Conducive
to contemplation and meditation, nature becomes a confidant and is
an essential muse for the romantic composers who draw inspiration
from their solitary walks: forests populated with hunters, birds,
inns, seasons, the elements, the night and its mysteries all inspire
Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms in a multitude of works.
Also very influential at the dawn of 20th century for composers such
as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, nature greatly inspired the
musical creation of modern times: Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen
and Toru Takemitsu, Maurice Ravel and Dutilleux, and it continues to
inspire composers winding through endless themes to generate via the
composer emotions to reach all listeners.
René Martin
Art director
La Folle Journée abroad in 2016
La Folle Journée, Bilbao
La Folle Journée, Japan
La Folle Journée, Ekaterinburg
La Folle Journée, Warsaw
from March 4 to 6, 2016
from April 28 to May 5, 2016
from July 9 to 12, 2016
from September 23 to 25, 2016
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Key topics
The Nature
in Music for piano
A. Decaux : La Mer, extrait de Clairs de Lune
Alkan : Barcarolle
Alkan : Chant de la folle au bord de la mer
Bartok : Musiques nocturnes
Bridge : Hiddenfires
Cage : Child of Tree
Cage : Pools
Chabrier : Sous-bois, extrait de Dix Pièces
pittoresques
Chaminade : Primavera
Cras : Paysage Champêtre
Cras : Paysage Maritime
Curran : Endangered Species
D’Indy : Chanson de plein vent
De Falla : La Danse du feu
Debussy : Bruyères, extrait des Préludes
Debussy : Ce qu’à vu le vent d’Ouest,
extrait des Préludes
Debussy : Feux d’artifice, extrait des Préludes
Debussy : Jardins sous la pluie, extrait des
Estampes
Debussy : L’Isle Joyeuse
Debussy : La Terrasse des audiences au
clair de lune, extrait des Préludes
Debussy : Les Collines d’Anacapri, extrait
des Préludes
Debussy : Les Sons et les parfums
tournent dans l’air du soir, extrait des
Préludes
Debussy : Reflets dans l’eau, extrait des
Images
Dupont : Dans les dunes par un clair
matin, extrait de la Maison dans les dunes
Dupont : Du Soleil au jardin, extrait des
Heures dolentes
Dupont : Houles, extrait de la Maison dans
les dunes
Dupont : La Chanson du vent, extrait des
Heures Dolentes
Dupont : Le Soleil se joue dans les vagues,
extrait de la Maison dans les dunes
Dupont : Mon Frère le vent et ma soeur la
pluie, extrait de la Maison dans les dunes
E. Melartin : Surullinen Puutarha (Le Jardin
mélancolique)
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Glass : Evening Song
Glass : Metamorphosis
Glass : Opening
Grieg : Waldesstille (Dans le silence de la
forêt)
Griffes : Night winds, extrait des Three
Tones pictures
Griffes : Valley of Dreams, extrait des Three
Tones pictures
Ibert : Le Vent dans les ruines
Koechlin : Les Heures persanes
L. Aubert : Sur le rivage, extrait des Sillages
L. Boulanger : D’un jardin clair
L. Boulanger : D’un vieux jardin
Le Flem : Vieux calvaire
Liszt : Jeux d’eau à la villa d’Este
Liszt : Murmures de la Forêt
MacDowell : Of Salamanders, extrait des
Fireside Tales
MacDowell : Woodland Sketches opus 51
Malipiero : Barlumi (Les lueurs)
Massenet : Papillons blancs, papillons
noirs
Messiaen : Un reflet dans le vent, extrait
des Préludes
Ravel : Jeux d’eau
Ravel : La Vallée des cloches, extrait des
Miroirs
Ravel : Ondine, extrait de Gaspard de la
Nuit
Samazeuilh : Tempête et lever de soleil sur
les flots, extrait du Chant de la mer
Satie : Embryons desséchés
Satter : Solitary Bird for the right hand alone
Scriabine : Flammes sombres opus 73
n°2, extrait de Deux danses pour piano
Scriabine : Vers la flamme opus 72
Severac : Coin de cimetière au printemps
Severac : Les muletiers devant le Christ
de Llivia
Strauss : Auf stillen Waldespfad
V. Raitio : Haze opus 22 n°4
V. Raitio : The Yellowed Birch opus 22 n°3
Vierne : Trois Nocturnes opus 34
Key topics
The Nature
in chamber music
Barber : Summermusic opus 31 pour flûte,
hautbois, clarinette, basson et cor
Bartok : Quatuor à cordes n°4
en ut majeur Sz. 91
Beethoven : Quatuor à cordes n°8 en mi
mineur opus 59 n°2 “Razumovsky”
Beethoven : Sonate pour violon et piano n°5
en fa majeur opus 24 ”Le Printemps
Beethoven : Trio opus 1 n°1 en mi bémol
majeur, dit « la poule »
Bloch : In the mountains
Bloch : Landscapes
Boulanger : D’un matin de printemps
Brahms : Sonate pour violon et piano n°1 en
sol majeur opus 78
Brahms : Trio opus 8 en si majeur (version
de 1854)
Canteloube : Chants d’Auvergne pour
soprano, quatuor à cordes, contrebasse,
flûte, hautbois, clarinette, basson, cor, harpe
et percussion
Debussy : Épigraphes Antiques
Dutilleux : Ainsi la Nuit
Dvorak : De la forêt de bohème opus 68
Dvorak : Klid – Le calme de la forêt
Dvorak : Quatuor à cordes n°12 en fa majeur
“Américain” opus 96
Eislar : Quatorze manières de décrire la pluie
Enesco : Impressions d’enfance opus 28
Hahn : Nocturne pour violon et piano
Haydn : Quatuor à cordes en ré majeur opus
64 n°5 « L’Alouette »
Haydn : Quatuor à cordes opus 33 n°3
« L’Oiseau »
Haydn : Quatuor en si bémol majeur opus 76
n°4 « Le Lever du Soleil »
Haydn : Trio Hob. XV. 21 en do majeur dit trio
« Pastorale »
Haydn : Quatuor en ré majeur opus 50 n°6
Hob.III.49 « La Grenouille »
Jolivet : Chant de Linos
Jolivet : Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano
Liszt : Tristia - La Vallée d’Obermann
Martin : Pavane couleur du temps
Messiaen : Quatuor pour la fin du temps
“ My music is as a garden and I am the gardener” Toru Takemitsu
Works of Takemitsu played at La Folle Journée
Seascapes
Archipelago 1993
Toward the sea 1981
Between tides 1993
Water music 1960
The constellations
Orion 1984
The trees
Music of trees 1961
Tree line 1988
Eucalypts 1970
Folios 1974
The wind
Air 1995
The seasons
Seasons 1970
From far beyond chrysanthemus and
november fog
The rain
Rain coming 1982
Rain dreaming 1986
Rain tree sketch 1982
Rain tree sketch II 1992
Tribute to Olivier Messiaen
Gardens
Spirit garden 1994
A bird came down the walk 1994
Landscape 1960
The light
Rocking Mirror Daybreak 1983
Over the rainbow 1974
The sky
Piano pieces for children Breeze / Clouds
1978
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Music of 20th and 21th centuary
The Nature in the music
of 20th and 21th centuary
Aaron Jay Kernis : Musica Celestis
Alain Louvier : Eclipse
Alexandre Sylvain Petit : Gouttes d’eau
Alvin Curran : Endangered Species
Anders Hillborg : Peacock tales pour
clarinette et orchestre
Arold Harlen : Over the rainbow
Aulis Sallinen : Chamber music 3 opus 58
the nocturnal dances of Don Quixote pour
violoncelle
Berio : Naturale
Bolcom : The Garden of Eden – The
Serpent’s Kiss
Boulez : Dialogue de l’ombre Double pour
clarinette et électronique - Explosante fixe
pour flûte
Cage : Child of Tree – Pools In a landscape –
Saisons - Trois études australes
Casals : Chant des oiseaux
Charles Boone : Second landscape
Charlotte Sohy : Tryptique champêtre pour
flûte, harpe et trio à cordes
Chick Corea : Spain
Christian Villeneuve : Invitation au voyage
pour violoncelle et guitare
Crumb : Vox balaenae
Cyrillus Kreek : Les chants sacrés folkloriques
Daniel Ciampolini : Gouttes de son
-Théâtre d’eaux
Daniele Gasparini : Quando il vento
sognava
David Leisner : Three Moons
Dutilleux : Black Bird
Edith Canat de Chizy : Formes du vent
pour violoncelle
Eliott Carter : Saëta pour timbales solo
Emmanuel Levinas : Froissement d’ailes
pour flûte solo
Eric Ewazen : Roaring Fork
Ernst Bacon : The Rio Grande pour
orchestre avec narrateur
Fazil Say : Space Jump
Franck Bedrossian : Les Ombres
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Francois Rosse : Aka pour flûte et
saxophone
Francois-Bernard Mache : Rituel d’oubli
Gang Chen He Zhan Hao : Butterfly lovers
pour violon et orchestre
Gerard Grisey : Talea, ou la machine et les
herbes folles
Gjeilo : Northen lights, aurore boréale
Henri Tomasi : Petite suite de printemps
pour flûte, harpe et trio à cordes
Ichiyanagi : Wind trace
Isang Yun : Li-na im Garten
Jacques Casterede : Ombres et clartés
Jacques Robetier : J’aime les fleurs
James A. Beckel : Waltz of the animals
Jean Claude Risset : Sud
Jean-Paul Dessy : Les chants de baleine
et de loup
Jindřich Feld : Nocturne
John Luther Adams : Become Ocean
Jolivet : Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano
Kaija Saariaho : Je sens un deuxième
coeur pour alto, violoncelle et piano - Sept
Papillons - Changing light pour flûte et
chant - Japanese Gardens - Mirages pour
violoncelle et piano
Keith Jarrett : Bridge of light, concerto pour
alto et orchestre
Kevin Volans : Quatuor à cordes n°5
Dancers on a Plane
Kodaly : Duo pour violon et violoncelle Peacock Variations - Sommerabend
Krystof Maratka : Nids de cigogne pour
alto et prise sonore de voix d’enfants
Kurt Atteberg : Suite Pastorale opus 34
Lauridsen : Deux nocturnes - Les chansons
des roses
Leo Brouwer : Cuban landscape with rain
Ligeti : Quatuor à cordes n°1
Métamorphoses nocturnes
Mantovani : Früh pour flûte
Masakazu Natsuda : West or evening
Music of 20th and 21th centuary
Maurice Ohana : Neige sur les orangers
pour chant et piano
Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Quatuor à cordes
n°7 « Nocturne »
Milhaud : Concertino d’été
Ned Rorem : The Mysterious Cat
Nicolay : Le chant des orchidées
Othmar Schoeck : Summernight opus 58
Paquito D’Rivera : Aires tropicales pour
clarinette et quatuor à cordes - La fleur de
Cayenne pour clarinette et piano
Patrick Burgan : Archipel des saisons pour
violoncelle et choeur
Paul Le Flem : Clair de lune sous bois pour
flûte, hrpe et trio à cordes
Per Nordgard : I Ching
Peter Eotvos : Cosmos
Philip Glass : Evening Song Metamorphosis (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) - Opening
Philippe Hersant : 5eme Miniature pour
flûte, alto - Nachtgesang pour clarinette,
violon, violoncelle et piano
Philippe Hurel : Eolia pour flûte
Philippe Leroux : AAA, d’après « La poule »
de J. Ph. Rameau - White Face pour quatuor
à cordes
Rautavaara : Cantus articus, concerto pour
oiseaux et orchestre
Ravi Shankar : L’Aube enchantée pour flûte
et harpe
Rolf Wallin : Stone wave pour percussions
Sandstrom : Det är en ros utsprungen
Scelsi : Arc en ciel pour deux violons
Soghomanian : Garm a (printemps)
Tan Dun : Concerto for water percussions
and orchestra - Crouching Tiger, concerto
pour violoncelle
Thierry Pecou : Grands fonds pour flûte,
clarinette, violoncelle et piano
Toldra : Vistas al mar
Ton That Tiet : Et la rivière chante l’éternité Les jardins d’autre monde
Toshio Hosokawa : Stundenblumen
Tristan Murail : Bois flotté - Treize couleurs
du soleil couchant - Winter fragments
Veljo Tormis : Le cycle des miniatures
Paysages d’automne
Victoria Bond : Thinking like a mountain
Victoria Borisova Ollas : Colors of autumn
Viktor Knud : Symphonie du Lubéron
Wolfgang Rihm : Nature morte, still alive
Yves Chauris : Quatuor à cordes n°2 Cigales japonaises
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Unique projects
Unique projects
Time Lapse, with Ezra and Francesco Tristano
(Organic Orchestra)
Originally created for La Folle Journée de Nantes, Time Lapse is a performance
created by Ezra, with the pianist Francesco Tristano. Moving with bewildering
ease from classical to electronic music, jazz and contemporary music,
Francesco Tristano is an atypical artist passionately mixing genres and eras.
Ezra is the founder of the Organic Orchestra Company, which has sought
in recent years to define a contemporary sound scape combining musical
creativity with visual and interactive creation. Using the Human Beatbox
techniques - imitating instruments, mainly percussion, using voice - Ezra
creates a universe of sound and light that pushes the limits of body and stage
performance, including a special glove on-stage allowing him to trigger videos
as well as sound and light effects. Romain Tardy for his visual creation, Martin
Hermant for his IT development and audio processing, and Olivier Clausse for
set design and lighting effects are, along with Ezra and Francesco Tristano,
the key players of this animated, interactive and poetic performance.
Eitetsu Hayashi and the Japanese taiko
Born in 1952 in Hiroshima, Japan, Eitetsu Hayashi is now considered the
greatest specialist of taiko, large Japanese drums, the art of which developed
throughout history under the patronage of the great Buddhist temples in
the country. Founder in his youth of taïko orchestras and quickly gaining
international fame, in the early 1980s he developed a solo career after
highly acclaimed beginnings at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Exceeding
the techniques, physical endurance and expressiveness of traditional taïko
drum performance, today he is acclaimed on five continents. Sought by major
orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, he
also became the first taïko soloist invited by the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.
The work he will perform with five musicians during this Folle Journée, Hitenyu - can be translated as follows: Hi=fly, Ten=sky andYu=play - highlights the
essential relationship of man with nature.
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Unique projects
Cosmophonies with the Calliopée Ensemble
and Hubert Reeves
Joint creation of the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves and Karine Lethiec,
musician and Artistic Director of the Ensemble Calliopée, the Cosmophonies
performance has been conceived as a dialogue placing the creation of the
universe and musical creation in parallel. Deploying a poetic and musical
kaleidoscope inspired by Hubert Reeves’ research, it is as a hymn to Nature;
enriched with beautiful images of the universe and nature projected on a large
screen, opening to all the musical repertoire of 20th and 21st centuries inspired
by nature. “Listen to nature to discover ones roots, and to be rooted in the
reality that places us in a story that has lasted for hundreds of millions of
years” (Reeves), this is what is on offer to humankind in our era.
Spark - Wild Territories
Comprised of young German musicians, the quintet Spark has dizzyingly
rocketed to the top since its formation in 2007. Combining the virtuosity
and precision of a classical chamber music ensemble with the power and
spontaneity of a rock band, their electronic tempered repertoires combine
early music and modern music. A veritable revelation of La Folle Journée
2015, they are one of the highlights at this 2016 edition in a new program, Wild
Territories; evokes wide spaces, natural phenomena, dark waters and steep
cliffs; it is a fabulous journey through spaces and eras to which the listener is
invited. Spark...sparkles!
The Ashkelon Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra (Israel)
The Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra of Ashkelon is a unique ensemble.
Founded in 1994 and consisting of musicians from the three main religions, it
is in itself a message of peace and harmony trying as best it can to contribute
to building a better future for the Middle East . Endeavouring to prolong the
tradition of music created 500 years ago in the south of Andalusia - from
a time when Jews and Muslims lived in harmony and created together - in
recent years, under the leadership of Tom Cohen they have expanded their
repertoire to include different styles from Mediterranean music to Spanish
flamenco, including Egyptian Tarab and Maghreb Chaabi. The 30 member
orchestra gathers around the pulpits classical strings, brass and percussion
with a set of traditional instruments where each musician proves to be a true
master in the art of Qanoun, the Oud, Ney , Kamancheh, the Arab violin,
flamenco guitar and banjo.
The Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra of Ashkelon has received, for all its
cultural achievements and contributions, the prestigious Israel Prize.
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Unique projects
Unique projects
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat - “Songs from a Persian Garden”
Born in Tehran in 1973, the Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat is now considered one
of the greatest representatives of traditional Persian singing, and was notably
a student of Pari Maleki. Prevented from producing freely in her own country
for political reasons, she leads a prolific career abroad. Working regularly with
her husband and musician Atabak Elyasi, Mahsa Vahdat also and and above
all performs with her young sister Marjan, with whom she formed a vocal duo
and with whom she has made several recordings including “Songs of a Persian
Garden” inspired by classical and contemporary Persian poems including
the famous “The Flower of a Paradise Garden”. Accompanied by traditional
musicians, both singers pay tribute to the beauty of Iranian landscapes and
poetry of the gardens of ancient Persia as described in the Koran.
Johann Strauss Ensemble
Founded in 1985 by members of the famous Bruckner Orchestra Linz in
Austria - birthplace of composer and residence of the orchestra - the Johann
Strauss Ensemble has been widely acclaimed in all major musical cities since
its creation - in Europe but also in Russia, Australia and Japan. Renowned for
their technical and artistic excellence, they play an authentic Viennese style;
as in the time of Johann Strauss, the first violin occupies a major role and
directs while playing. Specialist in the works of the master of the waltz, the
orchestra also performs works from contemporaries of Johann Strauss, while
placing emphasis on sacred music. Directed by Werner Steinmetz, trumpet
virtuoso and incarnation of the Austrian tradition of Straussian ensembles,
the Johann Strauss Ensemble will perform several programs dedicated to the
Danube and the Viennese music during La Folle Journée.
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Unique projects
The Sound of Nature
Birdsong, concrete music,
electroacoustic music
Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse- Bird singers
Originally from the Baie de Somme, Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse
discovered a rare passion for birds during their childhood. Today, recognised
as the greatest imitators of bird songs, they use an imitation technique
inspired by primitive techniques - aspirated, warbling, percussive and more
carrying the listener into an animal and plant world, both whistlers create
thousands of birds sounds, some very exotic: an amazing performance at
the heart of this Folle Journée dedicated to nature.
Boris Jollivet - Recordist
Capture life and the unexpected dimensions of the world of sound, ice
song and the vibrations of insects, rustling nature and echoes of the
valleys. Specialised in natures sounds, Boris Jollivet has worked at the
Alpine Bioacoustics Study Centre since 1995. Recording sounds, creating
compositions, animal film soundtracks, CDs; Boris Jollivet’s passion was
rewarded by an honour loan from the Fondation de France, and his work
was noticed at the 2002 CIMES, where he was awarded a special prize
awarded by radio stations.
Cinema for the ears: this multicast composition immerses the spectator in
the sound universe and is a live performance, made ​​up of various sound
elements, both abstract and concrete, all of which were recorded in the
wild. From the rustling of wings to a powerful torrent deep in gorges, the
listener, essentially blind and all senses at rest, perceives the different
spaces, matter and sensations that can be discovered with the sound.
GRM - Speaker Orchestra
Pioneer in its original approach to music creation, the GRM (Musical
Research Group) at the INA is both a witness and a major player in the
history of music from the second half of the 20th century until today.
Rising from the experiments of Pierre Schaeffer, since 1948 this group has
been developing creative and research activities in the field of sound and
electroacoustic music. As part of La Folle Journée de Nantes, the GRM
and their Acousmonium - an orchestra of 45 loudspeakers - will present a
panorama of acoustic and electronic works such asSud by Jean-Claude
Risset and Symphonie du Lubéron by Knud Viktor.
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Guest artists
Artists Folle Journée “Nature” 2016
Orchestras
rchestre Philharmonique de l’Oural,
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Dmitri Liss conductor
Sinfonia Varsovia, Robert Trevino
& Aziz Shokhakimov conductor
Orchestre National des Pays de
Loire,
Pascal Rophé conductor
Johann Strauss Ensemble,
Werner Steinmetz conductor
Polish Chamber Orchestra
Kammerakademie de Postdam,
Antonello Manacorda conductor
Orchestre de chambre d’Auvergne,
Roberto Fores Veses conductor
Orchestre Poitou-Charentes,
Jean-François Heisser conductor
Calliopée Ensemble
with the cooperation of Hubert
Reeves
Mediterranean Andalusian
Orchestra Ashkelon,
Tom Cohen conductor
Baroque groups
icercar Consort,
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Philippe Pierlot conductor
Le Concert Spirituel,
Hervé Niquet conductor
Ensemble Double Sens,
Nemanja Radulovic conductor
Les Esprits animaux
Ensemble Les Ombres
Les Paladins,
Jerôme Correas conductor
La Simphonie du Marais,
Hugo Reyne conductor
Stradivaria, Daniel Cuiller conductor
Choirs
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Ensemble Vocal Lausanne,
Daniel Reuss conductor
Vox Clamantis,
Jaan-Eik Tulve conductor
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nsemble Jacques Moderne,
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Joël Suhubiette conductor
Chamber Music
ichard Galliano Sextet
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Folle Journée Camerata
Quartets
Quatuor Modigliani String quartet
Quatuor Prazák String quartet
Quatuor Danel String quartet
uatuor Ardeo String quartet
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Quatuor Bela String quartet
Quatuor Girard String quartet
Quatuor Vélasquez String quartet
Trios
Trio Wanderer trio with piano
Trio Chausson trio with piano
Trio Les Esprits trio with piano
Trio Karénine trio with piano
Traditional music
itetsu Hayashi Ensemble
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Japanese drums Taïko
Renegades steel band orchestra
Mahsa et Marjan Vahdat Iranian
singing
Jiang Jian-Hua Erhu – Instrument
Of music traditional Chinese
Invented more than 1000 years ago.
Mark Eliyahu Kamancheh
Nasreen Qadre voice
Neta Elkayam voice
Mor Karbasi voice
Current music and jazz
rancesco Tristano
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Ezra et la Compagnie Organic
Orchestra
- Romain Tardy visuel creation
- Olivier Clausse scénographies
et lights
- Martin Hermant informatic
development
GRM Groupe de Recherche
Musicale
Spark the classical band
aul Lay Alcazar Trio
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Yaron Herman
Duo Vincent Peirani accordion
et François Salque cello
Regional groups
topik, Michel Bourcier conductor
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Orchestre du IIIème cycle du
Conservatoire de Nantes
Aria Voce, Philippe Le Corf
conductor
Ensemble féminin Callisto,
Élisabeth Baconnais conductor
Éclats de Voix,
Gérard Baconnais conductor
Ensemble Vocal de Nantes,
Gilles Ragon conductor
Macadam Ensemble,
Etienne Ferchaud conductor
Nantes Philharmonie,
Frédéric Oster conductor
Brass Band des Pays de la Loire,
Nicolas Leudière conductor
Harmonie de Vallet,
Florent Abadie conductor
Orchestre d’Harmonie de Challans,
Julien Tessier conductor
Orchestre d’Harmonie de Cholet,
Hervé Dubois, conductor
Artistes
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Guest artists
Artists Folle Journée “Nature” 2016
Piano
oris Berezovsky
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Denis Matsuev
Anne Queffélec
Abdel Rahman El Bacha
Bruce Brubaker
Claire Désert
Emmanuel Strosser
Jean-Claude Pennetier
Luis Fernando Perez
Adam Laloum
Shani Diluka
Marie-Catherine Girod
Etsuko Hirosé
Duo Jatekok
Marie-Josèphe Jude
David Kadouch
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Matan Porat
Nicolas Stavy
Gabriel Urgell Reyes
Jonas Vitaud
Harpsichord
ierre Hantaï
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Jean Rondeau
Bertrand Cuiller
Maude Gratton
Strings
Violin
Nemanja Radulovic
Olivier Charlier
Fanny Clamagirand
Sayaka Shoji
Geneviève Laurenceau
Dmitri Makhtin
Julien Szulman
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i-Sa Yang
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manda Favier
D
an Zhu
Alto violin and cello
G
érard Caussé alto
M
iguel Da Silva alto
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lexander Kniazev violoncelle
H
enri Demarquette violoncelle
F
rançois Salque violoncelle
Guitar
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mmanuel Rossfelder
M
ichel Grizard
Winds
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hilippe Bernold flûte
J uliette Hurel flûte
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aphaël Sévère clarinette
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hilippe Berrod clarinette
Percussions
M
artin Grubinger
D
aniel Ciampolini
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nsemble AdONF percusionnistes de
l’Orchestre National de France
Vocalist
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aren Vourc’h soprano
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amille Poul soprano
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arie-Laure Garnier soprano
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aquel Camarinha soprano
J ohnny Rasse et Jean Boucault,
Singing of birds
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oris Jollivet audio-naturalist
Artistes
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Cultural meditation
The Endowment fund’s actions
and cultural mediation
The SAEM La Folle Journée and the City Council of Nantes set up the Cultural
Development Endowment Fund to bring classical music to audiences that do
not usually have access to the cultural offering through social, solidarity and
educational actions.
The CREA (Center for Artistic Productions and Research) initiated this programme
which is aimed at a wide range of audiences: from very young children and schools
to early school leavers, young people in occupational integration programmes,
vulnerable people, the disabled, and dependent elderly people.
These actions are part of Nantes City’ Sharing Art cultural proximity policy which
aims to create conditions for equal access to art and culture for all, to bring
together the people of Nantes and the residents of the metropolis, and to provide
a venue for expression, open-mindedness and cultural enrichment.
These actions are articulated around two major thrusts: education and solidarity.
Accompanying musical education with projects and activities to promote
both the playing of musical instruments and awareness-raising.
Music transcription workshops initiated by CREA: With an on-going success
from the outset, they are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. From October
2015 till February 2016, groups of amateur musicians from Accoord and the
Conservatory of Music will gather in community centres to actively participate in
music transcription workshops. These will be coordinated by professional artists
and teachers from the Regional Conservatory. René Martin will mentor them.
Workshops, master class, individual and collective rehearsals will be organised on
a regular basis during a few months in order to achieve a collective performance.
Many Saturdays and evenings will be dedicated to passion for music, including
rock, pop, jazz or electro. These joint efforts will make it possible to create this
musical fresco.
In collaboration with ACCOORD:
A full scale musical: Nantes’ theatre company Nina Valès will combine classical
and contemporary music as well as dancing and singing to explore the four
seasons’ theme in both a fun and educational way.
Early-learning musical workshops: aimed at the very young, they are based on an
experimental approach of the sounds of nature. These fun and interactive short
classes help forge bonds, share musical moments through listening, exploring
sounds and playing. They will awaken young children’s interest in music (for
children up to the age of 3 years old who must be adequately accompanied).
The endowment fund for cultural development will keep implementing other
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actions that have also proven to be relevant. Schools will thus have access to an
artistic and cultural education programme designed in collaboration with the local
education authority and built around music, theatre, painting and architecture.
The programme focuses on discovery, knowledge acquisition and promotion of
self-expression.
Pupils will have the opportunity to attend a theatrical performance which will then
help them to better understand the themes of nature before they attend La Folle
Journée concerts.
A solidarity-based support for people without easy access to culture
La Folle Journée’s Fund for Cultural Development is also involved in improving
young people’s employment prospects. It encourages them to take part in
practical activities that help them to learn about the world of work and to discover
the world of classical music. With Plan Job, the Fund will prioritise forty young
people from the disadvantaged areas of Nantes the opportunity to welcome both
the public and the partner companies. With the Second Chance School, and
during the festival, La Folle Journée will give a small group the possibility to build
an action plan to mobilise skills related to their professional project.
Other actions will be maintained, such as the watercolour and writing workshops
proposed to the associations of Nantes and its outlying towns (around Nature, this
time). And the residents who write the newsletter Koncerto to enable the general
public to understand better the inner-most workings of the festival, will continue
to receive support.
On CREA’s initiative, the Endowment Fund for Cultural Development also supports
the programme for the inmates of Nantes prison and detention centres, as it
has done for the past years thanks to the SPIP and the Teaching League.
Since 2010, the Endowment Fund has been developing a special discount
ticket policy that makes it possible to offer €5 tickets on 50 concerts all day on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Our committed partners
The CREA
Nantes City Council and Nantes Metropolis’employees
The ACCOORD
The Ministry of Education and the local education authority
The Second Chance School
Nantes Conservatory
Léo Lagrange Ouest, with Plan Job scheme
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Thanks
The city of Nantes,
Nantes Métropole and
the SAEM La Folle Journée
thank their Partners
and the member companies
of the business club
La Folle Journée is a cultural event
Conceived by the artistic agency CREA who insures the artistic programming,
Introduced by the CITY OF NANTES AND
Produced by the SAEM LA FOLLE JOURNÉE
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Thanks
Institutionnel partners
Officiel partners
Parteners
LOGO AIRFRANCE
Nº dossier : 2007399E
Date : 28/11/08
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Information :
Alexandra Gaudet
02 51 88 21 46
[email protected]
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