ETHEL SMYTH (1858 – 1944)
Four Songs 
for voice, flute, harp, violin, viola, cello and percussions 

GRACE WILLIAMS (1906 – 1977)
Songs of Sleep
I. The Cypress Curtain of the Night
for voice, flute and harp

MARCELLE DE MANZIARLY (1899 – 1989)
Claire nuit efface-toi 
for voice and strings quartet

RITA STROHL (1865 – 1941)
Arlequin et Colombine
II. Andante

MARIELOU JACQUARD

Marielou Jacquard began her vocal training at a very young age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, before going on to study at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin), where she was taught by Martin Bruns and Christine Schäfer. She also studied with the soprano Julia Varady, with Wolfram Rieger for Lied and with Peter Berne for Bel Canto. She regularly collaborates with Vincent Dumestre’s Poème Harmonique, Sébastien Daucé’s Ensemble Correspondances, and Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion orchestra. Marielou is also deeply involved in contemporary music. Several works have been dedicated to her, notably Héloïse Werner’s Le Coeur Crucifié and Kaoli Ono’s Ceux qui nous attendaient. In recent years, she has performed at the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Chapelle Royale de Versailles, the Festival d’Ambronay and the Festival Musica Sacra (Quito, Ecuador). Her voice leads her quite naturally towards the art of the recital. She is also committed to highlighting the work of female composers, having collaborated on several occasions with the Cité des Compositrices and the Femmes artistes, Femmes d’action festival. Passionate about acting, she has taken on the roles of Sascha, Ivanov’s lover in Chekhov’s eponymous play, and Hitler in Heiner Müller’s Germania at the Berlin Academy of Arts.

CLÉMENCE DE FORCEVILLE

Clémence de Forceville is regarded as one of the most promising French violinists of her generation. Her wide-ranging activities as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher make her an accomplished and versatile musician. She has performed on stages around the world and has collaborated as a soloist with numerous orchestras. Clémence trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, in Olivier Charlier’s class, before furthering her studies in Germany with Antje Weithaas and Mihaela Martin. A versatile musician, she is passionately committed to the chamber music repertoire, first as first violin with the Hieronymus String Quartet for three years, and subsequently as part of the Trio Sōra, with whom she recorded Beethoven’s six great trios for a triple album released on the Naïve label. Acclaimed by international critics, the album also received a Choc Classica award in 2021. She was appointed principal violin of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in 2023 and teaches as an assistant in Philippe Graffin’s class at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse.

VIOLAINE DESPEYROUX

Violaine Despeyroux views musical performance as a unique and immersive experience. This French violist, who trained at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, the Hochschule in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, stands out on stage for her personality and energy, which are both precise and electrifying. This passion and tenacity have been showcased in prestigious European and international venues, alongside renowned partners such as Renaud Capuçon, Gary Hoffman, Claire Désert, Suyoen Kim, Alexandra Soumm and the Smoking Josephine Ensemble. Violaine Despeyroux has received numerous awards for her talents as a performer, including winning first prize unanimously at the Concours National des Jeunes Altistes and second prize and the prize for the best interpretation of a work by Bach 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

ANASTASIE LEFEVBRE DE RIEUX

Trained in flute by Jean-Claude Marin and Georges Alirol, Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux went on to specialise in the piccolo at the CNSMD in Paris, studying under Pierre Dumail.
A member of the Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes, she is also regularly invited to perform with major orchestras: the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Paris Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Les Dissonances.
A multi-faceted artist, she performs in various chamber music ensembles.
Her enthusiasm for teaching and her passion for music were recognised with a Certificate of Aptitude from the CNSMD in Paris and her success in the City of Paris teaching competition. She teaches the flute and piccolo at the conservatoire in Paris’s 8th arrondissement.

CONSTANCE LUZZATI

Building on the work she began as part of her PhD in performance practice, which focused on transcribing the 18th-century French harpsichord repertoire for the harp, Constance Luzzati has adapted harpsichord works by Rameau, Couperin, Royer, Forqueray, Duphly, Scarlatti and Bach for the harp. Enharmonique (2023), a solo album dedicated to Rameau, and Jupiter (2024) have been acclaimed by critics, from Classica to Télérama and Médiapart. Dedicated the works for solo harp by Bruno Mantovani and Édith Lejet, she premiered works by Vincent Trollet and Josephine Stephenson in 2023–24, with the Regards ensemble and the Haydée Trio. 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. A winner of six international competitions, she has been recognised in France by the 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. A former student of the Florent drama school, she has worked on productions directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Motta and Jacques Vincey, and created shows combining music, text and circus arts, including La Volière magique (2023), for harp and tightrope.

RODOLPHE THÉRY

Rodolphe has been Principal Timpanist with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019 and is a member of the Cercle de l’Harmonie; he is a musician with a wide-ranging range of engagements. In 2013, he was admitted as the top candidate to Michel Cerutti’s class at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied the contemporary repertoire for solo percussion and specialised in timpani under Jean-Claude Gengembre. Very quickly, he was invited to perform with leading European orchestras such as the Philharmonia in London, the Orchestre de Paris, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Les Siècles and Les Dissonances, and worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Lava Shani, Daniel Harding and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In addition to his work as a musician, Rodolphe devises and directs performances combining various art forms. His first production, The Voyage of Ulysses, premiered in April 2025 at Studio 104 of Radio France and is available as a podcast on France-Musique. His new adaptation of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges will premiere in December 2025 in Paris, before being revived at the Montpellier Festival in the summer of 2026.