ABBAYE DE MAUBUISSON, Grange dîmière
COLOMBINERebel songs
FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH 2025 - 20:00
Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano
Clémence de Forceville, violIn
Violaine Despeyroux, viola
Héloïse Luzzati, cello
Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux, flute
Constance Luzzati, harp
NN, percussions
PROGRAMME
COLOMBINE
Works by Ethel Smyth, Henriette Puig Roget, Poldowski, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion…
Come and meet us after the concert to celebrate the opening with a drink!
ARTISTS
MARIELOU JACQUARD
Between Baroque music and contemporary creation, Marielou Jacquard cultivates her taste for eclecticism in the diversity of her repertoire. She began her vocal training at a very early age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, then at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and attended numerous masterclasses at the Fondation Royaumont. She collaborates regularly with Vincent Dumestre’s Poème Harmonique (Coronis), Sébastien Daucé’s Correspondances and Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion ensemble. On stage, she recently appeared in Duron’s Coronis, Delibes’s Lakmé at the Opéra Comique and is currently playing Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, a joyful and delirious show by Eric Perez on tour in France. Musical theater plays an important role in her artistic career, and she has created numerous shows combining music and pure theater. Next autumn, she’ll be back in a revival of Samuel Achache’s new show, Sans Tambour. She also gives numerous chamber music concerts and recitals, and is the creator of several new works.
CLÉMENCE DE FORCEVILLE
Clémence de Forceville is considered one of the most promising French violinists of her generation. Her many activities as soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher make her an accomplished and versatile musician. She has performed on stages all over the world and collaborated as soloist with numerous orchestras. Clémence trained with Olivier Charlier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, then went on to perfect her skills in Germany with Antje Weithaas and Mihaela Martin. A versatile musician, she is passionately committed to the chamber music repertoire, first with the Hieronymus String Quartet, where she was first violin for three years, then with the Trio Sōra, with whom she recorded the six great Beethoven trios for a triple album released on the Naïve label. Acclaimed by international critics, the album also received a Choc Classica de l’année 2021. She was appointed concertmaster of the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne in 2023, and teaches as an assistant in Philippe Graffin’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.
VIOLAINE DESPEYROUX
Violaine Despeyroux sees musical interpretation as a singular, immersive experience. Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, the Munich Hochschule and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, this French violist stands out on stage for her precise, electrifying personality and energy. A spirit and tenacity that she has displayed in prestigious European and international venues, alongside such renowned partners as Renaud Capuçon, Gary Hoffman, Claire Désert, Suyoen Kim, Alexandra Soumm and the Smoking Josephine Ensemble. Violaine Despeyroux has won numerous awards for her talent as a performer, including 1st prize at the Concours National des Jeunes Altistes and 2nd prize and the prize for best Bach interpretation at the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition in Birmingham. A multi-faceted artist, Violaine Despeyroux is equally at home in chamber music and as a soloist. She has performed in France, Italy and Belgium, notably under the baton of Vahan Mardirossian and Ian Fountain.
HÉLOÏSE LUZZATI
Héloïse Luzzati is founder and director of the Cité des Compositrices. After her studies at the CNSMDP, she played in orchestras such as Les Dissonances, the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris and the Orchestre National de France. In 2020, she founded the video channel La Boîte à Pépites, for which she writes and directs documentaries on female composers. A few months later, she launched the Festival Un Temps pour Elles, followed by its digital counterpart, the La Boîte à Pépites Advent Calendar. La Boîte à Pépites became a record label in 2022, with a highly successful first release devoted to Charlotte Sohy. A sheet music publishing house, La Boîte à Pépites Pubslihing, was created in its wake in 2023. Now internationally recognized for her expertise on women composers, Héloïse Luzzati collaborates with the most prestigious cultural institutions as part of the Cité des Compositrices initiatives: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musée d’Orsay, Philharmonie de Paris, Abbaye de Royaumont… A passionate chamber musician, Héloïse also pursues her career as a cellist alongside such performers as Xavier Phillips, Célia Oneto Bensaid, David Kadouch, Raphaëlle Moreau, Manon Galy, Léa Hennino, Elsa Dreisig… Recognized for her work in favor of greater equality in musical programming, Héloïse Luzzati was named one of the “100 Women of Culture” in 2022, and was named “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture.
ANASTASIE LEFEBVRE DE RIEUX
CONSTANCE LUZZATI
Continuing the work begun as part of her doctorate in harp transcription of the 18th-century French harpsichord repertoire, Constance Luzzati has adapted works for harp by Rameau, Couperin, Royer, Forqueray, Duphly, Scarlatti and Bach. Enharmonique (2023), a solo album devoted to Rameau, and Jupiter (2024) were hailed by critics from Classica to Télérama and Médiapart. She was the dedicatee of works for solo harp by Bruno Mantovani and Édith Lejet, in 2023-24 she premiered works by Vincent Trollet and Josephine Stephenson, with the Regards ensemble and the Trio Haydée. She recently recorded La montagne magique (Cascavelle, 2023) with the Lontano quartet and Charlotte Sohy, compositrice de la Belle-Époque (La boîte à pépites, 2022) with flutist Mathilde Calderini and the Hermès quartet. Winner of six international competitions, she has been honored in France by Avant-scènes (CNSMDP), Cultures France, the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation and the Tissier-Grandpierre Prize. She has been teaching music history at the CNSMDP since 2021. An alumnus of the Florent drama school, she has directed plays by Emmanuel Demarcy-Motta and Jacques Vincey, and created shows combining music, text and circus arts, including La Volière magique (2023), for harp and corde lisse.
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