1/12/2023
FLAMMES DE MAGICIENNES
Marcq-en-Barœul, Church of the Sacred Heart – 20h
In co-production with Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back the time of a program of magician characters, guilty of crimes but also terribly fascinating and endearing. We thus find Medea and Circe, two mythological figures set to music by Charpentier, Leclair, Lully…
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
The Amarillis Meetings
From 21 at 25 November 2023 – Angers
For the first time, the whole invites you to its Amarillis meeting. This unique event is an opportunity for us to meet the Angevin public during a friendly and festive meeting.. Three concerts will be offered, accompanied by cultural actions aimed at school audiences.
24/11/2023
Grand Theater of Angers | 20h
DESTINIES OF QUEENS
Amarillis (7 musicians) and Patricia Petibon (soprano)
This program echoes the other projects imagined by Amarillis for Patricia Petibon for several years around emblematic female figures. This recital proposes to imagine in music the portraits of three heroine personalities who have marked our universal history. : Eleanor of Aquitaine, Agrippina the Younger and Queen Mary. These three sovereign women, confronted with power, are sometimes manipulative. They experience abandonment and betrayal, but are first of all human and deeply touching.
25/11/2023
Angers, Attics Saint-Jean | 14h30
CONCERT OF NATIONS
Free concert, FREE ENTRANCE
Around Lully, Campra, Buttons, From the Barre…
1Part of the early music classes at the Angers Regional Conservatory
2and part Amarillis (5 musicians)
Angers, Attics Saint-Jean | 18h
BA’ROCK BAL
Amarillis (5 musicians) and Bruno Benne and the Compagnie Beaux-Champs (2 dancers)
The soloists of the Ensemble Amarillis directed by Héloïse Gaillard and the choreographer and dancer Bruno Benne of the Beaux-Champs company, invite you to come and share a unique moment discovering the world of music from the century of Louis XIV (1643-1715).
Guided through the works of great Baroque composers, the participants of this Ba’Rock Bal become real spectators ! Everyone can then let their baroque imagination be invented throughout this participatory and festive event..
14/10/2023
Baroque Music Festival in Famenne Ardenne | 20h30
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians) & the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
30/09/2023
Ambronay Abbey | 20h30
DESTINIES OF QUEENS
Amarillis (7 musicians) and Patricia Petibon (soprano)
This program echoes the other projects imagined by Amarillis for Patricia Petibon for several years around emblematic female figures. This recital proposes to imagine in music the portraits of three heroine personalities who have marked our universal history. : Eleanor of Aquitaine, Agrippina the Younger and Queen Mary. These three sovereign women, confronted with power, are sometimes manipulative. They experience abandonment and betrayal, but are first of all human and deeply touching.
17/09/2023
European Heritage Days
Chapel of the Ursules in Angers – 11h
CHECKERS GAMES AT THE COURT
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (2 musicians)
The ladies, at Court and in the City, sometimes maintain a relationship of intimacy and charm with music, of which the gentlemen, so gifted they are, do not always have the secret. And as for the Court, that of the 18th century had a special gift… It would be nice, in any case, to remember that there were a hundred concerts a year at the Queen's, the Dauphine or Ladies. Much more than literature, music was the true passion of these ladies. They practiced it, they loved him, sometimes they helped him. One would be tempted to say of all, without exception, that they gave the music the best of, oui, let's say the word : from their heart.
12/08/2023
The Little Festival of Autheuil
Court Drafts
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (2 musicians)
The ladies, at Court and in the City, sometimes maintain a relationship of intimacy and charm with music, of which the gentlemen, so gifted they are, do not always have the secret. And as for the Court, that of the 18th century had a special gift… It would be nice, in any case, to remember that there were a hundred concerts a year at the Queen's, the Dauphine or Ladies. Much more than literature, music was the true passion of these ladies. They practiced it, they loved him, sometimes they helped him. One would be tempted to say of all, without exception, that they gave the music the best of, oui, let's say the word : from their heart.
28&29/07/2023
Chateau Louise de Lavalliere, Relay & Château
Two concerts in the castle gardens
28 July : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& soprano Marthe Davost
A vocal program that honors composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque era known to date as a composer..
29 July : Court Drafts
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (2 musicians)
The ladies, at Court and in the City, sometimes maintain a relationship of intimacy and charm with music, of which the gentlemen, so gifted they are, do not always have the secret. And as for the Court, that of the 18th century had a special gift… It would be nice, in any case, to remember that there were a hundred concerts a year at the Queen's, the Dauphine or Ladies. Much more than literature, music was the true passion of these ladies. They practiced it, they loved him, sometimes they helped him. One would be tempted to say of all, without exception, that they gave the music the best of, oui, let's say the word : from their heart.
09/07/2023
Chapel of the castle of Mortiercrolles
Court Drafts
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (2 musicians)
The ladies, at Court and in the City, sometimes maintain a relationship of intimacy and charm with music, of which the gentlemen, so gifted they are, do not always have the secret. And as for the Court, that of the 18th century had a special gift… It would be nice, in any case, to remember that there were a hundred concerts a year at the Queen's, the Dauphine or Ladies. Much more than literature, music was the true passion of these ladies. They practiced it, they loved him, sometimes she dented it. One would be tempted to say of all, without exception, that they gave the music the best of, oui, let's say the word : from their heart
24/06/2023
The Mint – The Mint
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
03/05/2023
Salle Bourgie, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Melodies in Mind
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
A concert like a journey in the life of Georg Friedrich Handel. Sonatas in trio, are compared with two imaginary suites in the spirit of the dance suite. Give to hear a melody without words in its most intimate expression, this is Handel's challenge to us, this man with a universal mind, passionate about painting and who knew how to translate into music the whole range of human feelings. These melodies, so suggestive, enter into us, enchant us and leave us no respite. He will be associated with composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann or Marin Marais.
14/04/2023
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud
CREATION QUEEN'S DESTINIES
Amarillis (7 musicians) and Patricia Petibon (soprano)
This program echoes the other projects imagined by Amarillis for Patricia Petibon for several years around emblematic female figures. This recital proposes to imagine in music the portraits of three heroine personalities who have marked our universal history. : Eleanor of Aquitaine, Agrippina the Younger and Queen of Carthage, Dido. These three sovereign women, confronted with power, are sometimes manipulative. They experience abandonment and betrayal, but are first of all human and deeply touching.
14 avril 2023 : Destiny of Queens Opening concert Fontevraud Abbey 8:30 p.m.
14 avril 2023 at 8:30 p.m. : Opening concert Fontevraud Abbey 8:30 p.m.
& 22 avril 2023 at 17 o'clock : Closing concert of the Academy at the Dome of Saumur
Information and reservations
28/02/2023
Bazin Amphitheater – Western Catholic University (UCO), Angers
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
REPORT CONCERT
We have done everything we can to postpone this concert which was particularly close to our hearts.. The schedule remains unchanged and the tickets remain valid..
Announcement Issue “A life, musics” hosted by Jean-Jo Roux on RCF Anjou
03/02/2023
The Mad Day of Nantes, Congress Palace
Rainer Maria Rilke Hall
Nocturnal dreams in the heart of the Serenissima
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (7 musicians)
From nocturnal dreams to poetic daydreams, all in dynamic and rhythmic contrasts, in singing virtuosity and sensuality, this program is a journey to the heart of the Serenissima.
10/01/2023
The Celestial Vaults
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
11/12/2022
The Celestial Vaults
Methatmorphoses
Amarillis (4 musicians), Jean Baptiste Dumora (baritone) and Jean-Paul Mura (actor). Héloïse Gaillard and Tami Troman : conception. Tami Troman (texts, staging), Nathalie Perrier (light creation), Delphine Sainte-Marie (sculpture), Alain Blanchot (costume creation), Bruno Benne (choreographer)
MéChatmorphoses showcases the states of souls of three heroes : Don Quixote, famous knight errant of Cervantes, the libertine gentleman Don Juan and the Greek sculptor Pygmalion in love with his statue.
Creation of the Amarillis ensemble in co-production with Scènes de Pays in the Mauges, the City of the Voice of Vézelay, the Grand Avignon Opera, Dijon Opera, the Rennes Opera House and the Caen Theater. MéChatmorphoses received the support of SPEDIDAM and the Export Office.
26/11/2022
Massy's Opera
FLAMMES DE MAGICIENNES
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back to life the time of a program of heroines who are deeply endearing but also guilty in their actions. Crimes and hexes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, are often associated in the dramaturgy. So, Medea, mythical and complex character, multifaceted, loving and passionate, is also cruel and vengeful when human beings, and first of all her lover Jason, turn away from her and betray her.
We find Circe, another figure of magician and lover rejected in theMetamorphosisby the Latin poet Ovide set to music by Jean-Marie Leclair and his librettist, un certain Albaret, who take hold of the subject by 1746 and compose a masterpiece.
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Without forgetting that some dances, such as chaconne, demons tunes, gavotte and other rigaudons, will stir up the fiery spirits of these magicians with tender and passionate hearts.
24/11/2022
Music Center De Bijloke Ghent
FLAMMES DE MAGICIENNES
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back to life the time of a program of heroines who are deeply endearing but also guilty in their actions. Crimes and hexes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, are often associated in the dramaturgy. So, Medea, mythical and complex character, multifaceted, loving and passionate, is also cruel and vengeful when human beings, and first of all her lover Jason, turn away from her and betray her.
We find Circe, another figure of magician and lover rejected in theMetamorphosisby the Latin poet Ovide set to music by Jean-Marie Leclair and his librettist, un certain Albaret, who take hold of the subject by 1746 and compose a masterpiece.
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Without forgetting that some dances, such as chaconne, demons tunes, gavotte and other rigaudons, will stir up the fiery spirits of these magicians with tender and passionate hearts.
18/09/2022
European Heritage Days
Attics Saint-Jean, Angers- Free admission
Yellows in trio
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (3 musicians)
Distribution :
Heloïse Gaillard, baroque recorders and oboe,
Eleanor Lewis-Cloué, viola da gamba,
Marie Van Rhijn, harpsichord.
The Ensemble is delighted to inform you of its participation in theprogramming of the European Heritage Days in Angers on 18 next September at the Greniers Saint-Jean at 2 p.m.. For this occasion, Héloïse Gaillard imagined a participation of Amarillis in a trio mixing Dance Suites by Charles Dieupart and Jean-Sébastien Bach.
23/08/2022
The Celestial Vaults
Melodies in Mind
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
A concert like a journey in the life of Georg Friedrich Handel. Sonatas in trio, are compared with two imaginary suites in the spirit of the dance suite. Give to hear a melody without words in its most intimate expression, this is Handel's challenge to us, this man with a universal mind, passionate about painting and who knew how to translate into music the whole range of human feelings. These melodies, so suggestive, enter into us, enchant us and leave us no respite. He will be associated with composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann or Marin Marais.
05/08/2022
Heures Musicales de l’Abbaye de Lessay
FLAMMES DE MAGICIENNES
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
Exceptionally replaced by the sopranos Véronique Gens and Marie Perbost
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back to life the time of a program of heroines who are deeply endearing but also guilty in their actions. Crimes and hexes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, are often associated in the dramaturgy. So, Medea, mythical and complex character, multifaceted, loving and passionate, is also cruel and vengeful when human beings, and first of all her lover Jason, turn away from her and betray her.
We find Circe, another figure of magician and lover rejected in theMetamorphosisby the Latin poet Ovide set to music by Jean-Marie Leclair and his librettist, un certain Albaret, who take hold of the subject by 1746 and compose a masterpiece.
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Without forgetting that some dances, such as chaconne, demons tunes, gavotte and other rigaudons, will stir up the fiery spirits of these magicians with tender and passionate hearts.
03/08/2022
Vix Arts by Nature Festival
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
20/07/2022
Marson Castle, Rou Marson
BAL BAROQUE
Amarillis offers a grand baroque ball, hosted by choreographer and dancer Bruno Benne in the company of 5 musicians and invites spectators to dance and rediscover the world of baroque music.
02/07/2022
Froville Festival
FLAMMES DE MAGICIENNES
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back to life the time of a program of heroines who are deeply endearing but also guilty in their actions. Crimes and hexes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, are often associated in the dramaturgy. So, Medea, mythical and complex character, multifaceted, loving and passionate, is also cruel and vengeful when human beings, and first of all her lover Jason, turn away from her and betray her.
We find Circe, another figure of magician and lover rejected in theMetamorphosisby the Latin poet Ovide set to music by Jean-Marie Leclair and his librettist, un certain Albaret, who take hold of the subject by 1746 and compose a masterpiece.
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Without forgetting that some dances, such as chaconne, demons tunes, gavotte and other rigaudons, will stir up the fiery spirits of these magicians with tender and passionate hearts.
16/06/2022
The Celestial Vaults
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
04/06/2022
The Dominicans of Upper Alsace
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
03/06/2022
Metz Arsenal
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
01/06/2022
Grand Avignon Opera House
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
28/05/2022
Menhirs of Monteneuf – Legendary Forest Festival
Musical and dance encounter around the Four Elements, adapted from the show “The Whims of the Universe”
With Héloïse Gaillard (flutes, baroque oboe), Keiko Gomi (Baroque cello and voice), Sabine Novel (choreography, song and voice)
An invitation to a musical and poetic visual journey by celebrating the four elements in the middle of the menhirs of Monteneuf which will resonate with the baroque aesthetic proposed by Amarillis.
30/04/2022
Festival Musica Antigua, Madrid
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers : Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer. Informations
Read in the Madrid press : ” […] The four protagonists were magnificent, Gaillard, expressive, in tune and with beautiful sound, and the magnificent Alice Piérot, elegant and restrained at all times. The basso continuo deserves a special mention because the complicity between Marie van Rhijn and Eleanor Lewis-Cloué could be appreciated at its fair value throughout the concert. […] A concert made of commitment that has become absolutely unique and unprecedented. Bravo!” Javier Sarria Pueyo pour Scherzo.es
03/04/2022
Nantes Congress Center | 17h00
TAFELMUSIK CANCELLATION BY THE ORGANIZER
Amarillis (9 musicians), Heloïse Gaillard (artistic direction, conception), Eric Soyer (scenography), Heloïse Gaillard & Tami Troman (staging), Sabine Novel (choreographic look), Jean-Pierre Michel (light creation), Elisabeth Cerqueira (costume creation and production).
Tafelmusik, the new creation of the Amarillis ensemble imagined by Héloïse Gaillard, offers us listening to the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Michel-Richard Delalande played by 9 musicians no longer as part of a concert but in the form of tableaux vivants.
26/03/2022
Magdeburg Festival – Telemann festive days, Germany | 19h30
TAFELMUSIK
Amarillis (9 musicians), Heloïse Gaillard (artistic direction, conception), Eric Soyer (scenography), Heloïse Gaillard & Tami Troman (staging), Sabine Novel (choreographic look), Jean-Pierre Michel (light creation), Elisabeth Cerqueira (costume creation and production).
Tafelmusik, the new creation of the Amarillis ensemble imagined by Héloïse Gaillard, offers us listening to the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Michel-Richard Delalande played by 9 musicians no longer as part of a concert but in the form of tableaux vivants.
09/03/2022
Chanzy Theater, Angers | 19h00
LES CAPRICES DE L’UNIVERS
Flutes, baroque oboe: Heloïse Gaillard
Choreography, song and voice: Sabine Novel
Baroque cello and voice : Keiko Gomi
Plastic artist: Delphine Sainte-Marie
Lighting designer: Nathalie Perrier
An original creation imagined in 2020 by Héloïse Gaillard and dancer and choreographer Sabine Novel. They invite the Air, Earth, Water and Fire to dialogue with, for inspiration, a baroque poetry that resonates today, in the present of our lives. Through the evocative power of music, dance speaks to us, in a space filled with accessories designed by Delphine Sainte Marie and highlighted by Nathalie Perrier.
Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers
03/03/2022
Angers Municipal Institute | Conference 6.30 p.m.
Earth, the air, the water, Fire in baroque aesthetics.
Conference proposed by Héloïse Gaillard & Sabine Novel, dancer choreographer
The four elements that make up the Universe will be revisited thanks to the baroque aesthetic. The air, Earth, Water and Fire are invited to dialogue with, for inspiration, a baroque poetry that resonates today, in the present of our lives.
Earth, men's living place, sown with trials but also a symbol of fertility, is compared with Air, volatile, playful and bringing the necessary breath to life. Gods of the winds, Zephyr and Boreas, appear at the bend of a line and bring back stories from mythology, revisited by poets and baroque composers, thus continuing to challenge us.
The water, rejuvenating, fluctuating and elusive, invites loving sweetness crossed by complaints and tears while flaming love makes us fall into the fire of passion or even madness.
In connection with the show Les Caprices de l’Univers
27/02/2022
Cultural season of Doué-en-Anjou at the Philippe Noiret Theater| 15h30
Melodies in Mind
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
A concert like a journey in the life of Georg Friedrich Handel. Sonatas in trio, are compared with two imaginary suites in the spirit of the dance suite. Give to hear a melody without words in its most intimate expression, this is Handel's challenge to us, this man with a universal mind, passionate about painting and who knew how to translate into music the whole range of human feelings. These melodies, so suggestive, enter into us, enchant us and leave us no respite. He will be associated with composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann or Marin Marais.
18/02/2022
Jean-Lurçat and contemporary tapestry museum | 20h00
Musical and dance walk to celebrate the song of the world
Amarillis, direct Flutes, baroque oboe: Heloïse Gaillard
Choreography, song and voice: Sabine Novel
Baroque cello and voice : Keiko Gomi
Plastic artist: Delphine Sainte-Marie
Lighting designer: Nathalie Perrier
An original creation imagined in 2020 by Héloïse Gaillard and dancer and choreographer Sabine Novel. They invite the Air, Earth, Water and Fire to dialogue with, for inspiration, a baroque poetry that resonates today, in the present of our lives. Through the evocative power of music, dance speaks to us, in a space filled with accessories designed by Delphine Sainte Marie and highlighted by Nathalie Perrier.
14/01/2022
Auditorium of the Angers Conservatory | 20h00
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, an exceptional artist
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
06/01/2022
Angers Municipal Institute | Conference | 18h30
A crossed look between an exceptional woman artist and creator of the Baroque period and a musician of the 21st century.
Conference proposed by Héloïse Gaillard
Discover the baroque aesthetic thanks to the very moving music of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer. She was very famous during her lifetime and admired by Louis XIV.
The evocation of this exceptional artist will make it possible to draw a portrait of the court of Versailles at the time of the Sun King, when all the arts came together for the influence of France and the sovereign.
Two female figures will be mirrored, the biblical heroine Judith and the mythological character Sémélé through the work of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and a few painters such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Elisabeth Sirani.
In connection with the concert at the Auditorium of the CRR in Angers
17/12/2021
Saint Serge Church, Angers | 20h30
JUBILATION VÉNITIENNE
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (9 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, guest choir director, Mariana delgadillo (22 masters)
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi.
10/12/2021
Moisdon-la-Rivière | 20h00
Wars and Peace in the time of the Musketeers
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (6 musicians)
Dive back, the time of a concert, in this late 17th century and early 18th century with D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Relive through music the heroic actions and the unfolding of a battle with the sense of ceremonial that was attached to them and then regained peace.
05/12/2021
Scènes de Pays en Mauges
JUBILATION VÉNITIENNE
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (9 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, guest choir director, Mariana delgadillo (22 masters)
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi.
04/11/2021
La Courroie d’Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue | 20h21
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, an exceptional artist
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (4 musicians)
& the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys
A vocal program with the soprano Maïlys de Villoutreys which honors the composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, one of the few French women of the Baroque period known to this day as a composer.
28/08/2021
Cunault Musical Hours Festival
JUBILATION VÉNITIENNE
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (8 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, guest choir director, Mariana delgadillo (22 masters)
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi.
22/07/2021
Garden of the Jean Lurçat Museum, Angers | 18h30
BOIS SONNANTS ET MOUVANTS
The proposal from the city of Angers to bring together the musician Héloïse Gaillard and the dancer Amala Dianor, echoes an unprecedented and hailed meeting at the Grand Théâtre d´Angers during an honorary distinction received by the artists in November 2019. A new meeting scheduled in the Collegiate Church of Saint Martin took place in Spring 2021. It was the perfect opportunity to invent a journey into the heart of the emotions inspired by baroque music.
Indeed, this aesthetic that favors the unusual, the fantastic, the tormented, thus generates a dramatic tension amplified by various contrasts linked to movements and instrumental colors.
In the courtyard of the Jean Lurçat Museum, go on a journey of the senses ! A moving and virtuoso music, performed on woodwind instruments from the Woods family, baroque flutes, played by soloist Héloïse Gaillard, will resonate with the body and movements of dancer and choreographer Amala Dianor.
This inspiring place, which houses the tapestries of the painter Jean Lurçat and the courtyard of the magnolias, populated by dreams and imagination, with its mystery, his grace will inspire this unusual and daring duo.
As part of the Angers Tempo2Rives summer season – Reservations
01/08/2021
Romainmôtier Concerts – SUISSE | 17h00
BAROQUE WINDS
Heloïse Gaillard, baroque oboe
Christophe Guide, organ
Alessandro Marcello, Johann Ludwig Krebs & Johann Sebastian Bach
We know how much Bach developed vocal contact
Italian art so let’s get carried away
meeting between these three composers and musics
particularly moving.
20/07/2021
POSTPONED – Marson Castle, Rou Marson
BAL BAROQUE
Amarillis offers a grand baroque ball, hosted by choreographer and dancer Bruno Benne in the company of 5 musicians and invites spectators to dance and rediscover the world of baroque music.
Castle website : http://chateau-de-marson.com/
17/07/2021
Saint Victor Festival, Marseille | 20h30
BAROQUE WINDS
Heloïse Gaillard, baroque oboe
Christophe Guide, organ
Alessandro Marcello, Johann Ludwig Krebs & Johann Sebastian Bach
We know how much Bach developed vocality in contact with Italian art, so let us be carried away by the meeting between these three composers and particularly moving music.
22/06/2021
Dome Theater, Saumur | 20h00
TAFELMUSIK
Amarillis (9 musicians), Heloïse Gaillard (artistic direction, conception), Eric Soyer (scenography), Heloïse Gaillard & Tami Troman (staging), Sabine Novel (choreographic look), Jean-Pierre Michel (light creation), Elisabeth Cerqueira (costume creation and production).
Tafelmusik, the new creation of the Amarillis ensemble imagined by Héloïse Gaillard, offers us listening to the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Michel-Richard Delalande played by 9 musicians no longer as part of a concert but in the form of tableaux vivants.
19/06/2021
Church of Trier | from 2:30 p.m.
Concert with the Saumurois music schools & Musical walk on the banks of the Loire
Amarillis Ensemble (artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard) :
Heloïse Gaillardrecorder
Alice piérotviolin
Brice Saillyharpsichord
Professors :
Pascale Poirault transverse flute
Catherine Duchêne saxophone and bassoon
Geneviève Mottas violin
Guillemette Hueber cello
and about fifteen students from music schools
A 14 h 30, concert in the Romanesque church of Trier
Between 15 h 45 and 16 h 30 - Musical walk on the banks of the Loire (From the church of Trier to the Prieurale de Cunault.)
18/06/2021
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud | 20h00
JUBILATION VÉNITIENNE
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (8 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, guest choir director, Mariana delgadillo (22 masters)
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara and Antonio Vivaldi.
25/05/2021
Chanzy Theater – Dissemination for schools
Movie MéChatmorphoses
to confirm
Amarillis (4 musicians), Jean Baptiste Dumora (baritone) and Jean-Paul Mura (actor). Héloïse Gaillard and Tami Troman : conception. Tami Troman (texts, staging), Nathalie Perrier (light creation), Delphine Sainte-Marie (sculpture), Alain Blanchot (costume creation), Bruno Benne (choreographer)
MéChatmorphoses showcases the states of souls of three heroes : Don Quixote, famous knight errant of Cervantes, the libertine gentleman Don Juan and the Greek sculptor Pygmalion in love with his statue.
Creation of the Amarillis ensemble in co-production with Scènes de Pays in the Mauges, the City of the Voice of Vézelay, the Grand Avignon Opera, Dijon Opera, the Rennes Opera House and the Caen Theater. MéChatmorphoses received the support of SPEDIDAM and the Export Office.
23/05/2021
Postponed – TOUR IN RUSSIA
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE with Stéphanie d´Oustrac
to confirm
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
19 & 20
05/2021
Zug Theater, Suisse | 19h30
ÉCLATS DE FOLIE with Stéphanie d´Oustrac
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
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MAUGES COUNTRY SCENE – CHOLET 12/02/2021
Jubilation Vénitienne
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (8 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, artistic direction Sophie Siegler
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara etAntonio Vivaldi
CITY OF CONGRESSES OF NANTES 17/01/2021
Tafelmusik (table music)
Amarillis (9 musicians), Heloïse Gaillard (artistic direction, conception), Eric Soyer (scenography), Heloïse Gaillard & Tami Troman (staging), Sabine Novel (choreographic look), Jean-Pierre Michel (light creation), Elisabeth Cerqueira (costume creation and production).
Tafelmusik, the new creation of the Amarillis ensemble imagined by Héloïse Gaillard, offers us listening to the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Michel-Richard Delalande played by 9 musicians no longer as part of a concert but in the form of tableaux vivants.
Five paintings, compounds for insturmental training with variable geometry, invite you on a journey where fantasy is in order. Central and no longer simply illustrative, music then becomes the main engine of the action and movements of the musicians, it is the common thread of the scenography and the narration.
Creation of the Amarillis ensemble in co-production with the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, Noirlac Abbey, the Sablé-sur-Sarthe Festival, La Garance - National stage of Cavaillon, The platform – Angers-Pays de la Loire CDN and the Telemann Zentrum in Magdeburg.
With the support of a work residence at the Abbaye de Royaumont, thanks to the patronage of the Carasso Foundation, from Spedidam, of the Unique Place – Nantes national stage, of the Jean Moulin Auditorium – Arts Vivants en Vaucluse -, La Courroie et l’Institut Français Sachsen-Anhalt et le State Chancellery and Ministry for Culture Saxony-Anhalt.
GRAND THEATER D’ANGERS 11/12/2020
Methatmorphoses
School representation – 14h30
General public representation – 19h00
Amarillis (4 musicians), Jean Baptiste Dumora (baritone) and Jean-Paul Mura (actor). Héloïse Gaillard and Tami Troman : conception. Tami Troman (texts, staging), Nathalie Perrier (light creation), Delphine Sainte-Marie (sculpture), Alain Blanchot (costume creation), Bruno Benne (choreographer)
MéChatmorphoses showcases the states of souls of three heroes : Don Quixote, famous knight errant of Cervantes, the libertine gentleman Don Juan and the Greek sculptor Pygmalion in love with his statue.
This lyrical show features French baroque music composed at the time of Louis XIV of rare beauty and combines sculpture, theater, mime and literature.
It is the baroque spirit that is celebrated, the one who takes things beyond the ordinary, which breathes freedom and allows madness.——–Creation of the Amarillis ensemble in co-production with Scènes de Pays in the Mauges, the City of the Voice of Vézelay, the Grand Avignon Opera, Dijon Opera, the Rennes Opera House and the Caen Theater. MéChatmorphoses received the support of SPEDIDAM and the Export Office.
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POSTPONED COLLÉGIALE SAINT MARTIN, ANGERS 18/11/2020
The 18 and 19 November 2020
Ringing and moving woods, the forest, source of emotions
Performance meeting with dancer Amala Dianor
Amarillis, direction artisitique, baroque flute and oboe : Heloïse Gaillard
This new meeting, scheduled in the Collegiate Church of Saint Martin, in connection with the Sylva exhibition proposed by Lucie Lom on the theme of the forest, is the perfect opportunity to invent a journey to the heart of the emotions inspired by baroque music.
POSTPONED PARISIAN CONCERTS – GAVEAU ROOM 09/11/2020
Bursts of madness
Amarillis (11 musicians) and Stéphanie d´Oustrac (mezzo soprano)
The Amarillis ensemble will perform for a few dates in Russia with the Eclats de folie program.
After playing alongside Amarillis, Medea, Dido as well as Mary, Stéphanie metamorphoses this time to become this iconic figure of the Baroque era: la Folie, who is embodied in the guise of a character with a thousand facets, excessive as much as extravagant, crossed by the diversity of human passions.
SAUMUR BLACK FRAME 16/10/2020
Equestrian and musical gala
The 16, 17 and 18 October 2020 (3 representations)
Amarillis Ensemble, 8 musicians and singers Elodie Kimmel and Paul Figuier
MARSON CASTLE 15/10/2020
Musical and commented meeting at the Château de Marson
14h30
Four musicians from the Ensemble AMARILLIS invite you on a journey to the heart of the emotions inspired by baroque music. This aesthetic favors the unusual, instability, mobility, the fantastic, the tormented, the exuberant. It will awaken all your senses !
MIDI – POETRY AT THE DOME, SAUMUR 25/09/2020
The Whims of the Universe
Amarillis (2 musicians), artistic direction, baroque oboe and voice : Heloïse Gaillard
Choreography, song and voice : Sabine Novel
Scenography and costumes : Delphine Sainte-Marie
Lights : Nathalie Perrier The new creation of the Amarillis ensemble imagined by musician Héloïse Gaillard and dancer and choreographer Sabine Novel, invited the Air, Earth, Water and Fire to dialogue with, for inspiration, a baroque poetry that resonates today, in the present of our lives. Through the evocative power of music, dance speaks to us, in a space filled with accessories designed by Delphine Sainte Marie and highlighted by Nathalie Perrier.
Mécénat Musical Societe Generale is the main sponsor of the show Les Caprices de l'Aivers. (https://www.mecenatmusical.societegenerale.com/)
BLOODS OF ARTS – PLESSIS-MACE CASTLE 25/08/2020
You said baroque?
Musical and dance meeting
with flautist Héloïse Gaillard and dancer Sabine Novel
20H15 at Château du Plessis-Macé
Héloïse Gaillard and Sabine Novel offer as part of this meeting the discovery of the baroque universe through music, dance and body language.
The choice of some emblematic forms of baroque aesthetics such as fantasy, the whim, the theme and variations and the series of dances will make it possible to highlight the characteristics of this sensitivity which favors the unusual, instability, mobility, the fantastic, the tormented even the exuberant.
Some composers will be honored like Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach or Jan Van Eyck.
This meeting will present the work of developing the new show - Les Caprices de l'Oivers- of the Amarillis ensemble premiered at the Dôme theater in Saumur in September 2020. The desire of this show is to celebrate the four elements that make up the universe, by poetic and musical correspondences.
At the heart of a resolutely contemporary choreography in its energy, in his vision of the world and in his aesthetics, the dance will be intrinsically imbued with a vocabulary belonging to the Baroque and Renaissance periods.
Finally, the public will be invited to participate in a very simple way from their seat., to an initiation around the movement of the arms in baroque dance.
HOLY CROSS CHURCH OF MARSON 22/08/202012
Fantasias for solo flute
Heloïse Gaillard
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Contact by email at : saisonculturelleroumarson@gmail.com
or phone : 07 84 52 71 52
More information : https://www.saisonculturelleroumarson.com/aout2020
Rates and Reservations The12 Fantasies by Georg Philipp Telemann, probably composed between 1727 and 1728, manifest the taste of the Baroque period for works dedicated to monodic instruments. It is certainly no coincidence that Telemann chooses, to designate these parts, this term so evocative of "fantasies" which refers to the idea of a creation without formal constraints. It allows him to experience a playful spirit, exceptional virtuosity and to take advantage of a perfect knowledge of the resources and technical possibilities of the instrument. Héloïse Gaillard performs this program on four different flutes – sopranino, soprano, alto and tenor – a choice that allows him to translate the whole range of emotions suggested by Telemann and to underline the extraordinary diversity that these fantasies conceal.
POSTPONED – CUNAULT HOURS MUSICAL FESTIVAL 04/07/2020
Jubilation Vénitienne
Amarillis, artistic direction Héloïse Gaillard (8 musicians) & Mastery of Pays de la Loire, artistic direction Sophie Siegler
The Amarillis ensemble and the Maîtrise des Pays de la Loire have chosen, for their first collaboration, to celebrate joy and jubilation in the company of two illustrious Venetian masters of the Baroque period : Antonio Caldara, Antonio Vivaldi
CANCELED – ROYAL OPERA OF VERSAILLES 02/07/2020
Magician flames
Amarillis (17 musicians) and soprano Patricia Petibon
=> See the organizer's website
Patricia Petibon, the famous French soprano, partner of the Amarillis ensemble for many years, brings back to life the time of a program of heroines who are deeply endearing but also guilty in their actions. Crimes and hexes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, are often associated in the dramaturgy. So, Medea, mythical and complex character, multifaceted, loving and passionate, is also cruel and vengeful when human beings, and first of all her lover Jason, turn away from her and betray her.
We find Circe, another figure of magician and lover rejected in theMetamorphosisby the Latin poet Ovide set to music by Jean-Marie Leclair and his librettist, un certain Albaret, who take hold of the subject by 1746 and compose a masterpiece.
Finally Amarillis honors a composer who is dear to him, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who never ceases to set to music characters in love torn by passion, grappling with the emotions and torments of their hearts.
Without forgetting that some dances, such as chaconne, demons tunes, gavotte and other rigaudons, will stir up the fiery spirits of these magicians with tender and passionate hearts.
CANCELED – FESTIVAL EARLY MUSIC À MADRID 08/05/2020
In the footsteps of Orpheus
Amarillis (4 musicians) & Maïlys de Villoutreys (soprano)
This program features brilliant, as well as moving and surprising music by three composers, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Marie Leclair, died the same year in 1764 and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.Jean-Philippe Rameau, the great harpsichordist, theorist and composer left us a collection of chamber music including five Concerts. You will hear the second Concert, the first two pieces of which are successively dedicated to a young prodigy, the composer Jean-Benjamin Laborde and to a harpsichordist who would become the wife of the composer Mondonville.
Then we will follow in Orpheus' footsteps, the mythical musician, thanks to two French cantatas whose respective librettos stage two different episodes of its history. Published in 1710 in her first book of cantatas, Orphée de Clérambault portrays the magician capable of moving the whole earth thanks to his songs. It's to find his wife Eurydice, death, bitten by a snake, that Orpheus decides to descend into hell. Accompanied by his lyre, he succeeds in bending the will of Pluto, getting permission to bring his beloved back to life.
Clérambault and his librettist, M. de Rochebrune, chose to stop Orpheus' story at that point, while Rameau’s cantata in 1721 opens with a tale in which Orpheus ascends from the empire of shadows accompanied by his Eurydice which he must not watch if he does not want to lose her. Orpheus' fight, his temptation to turn around, and finally the fatal outcome are admirably translated into music by Rameau
ROME (IT.) 23/02/2020
Melodies in Mind
Amarillis (4 musicians)
Ensemble Amarillis will record Melodies in Mind for RAI live from Rome.
Give to hear a melody without words in its most intimate expression, this is Handel's challenge to us, this man with a universal mind, passionate about painting and who knew how to translate into music the whole range of human feelings. These melodies, so suggestive, enter into us, enchant us and leave us no respite.
This program, object of the last Amarillis record, that we have chosen to design around the genre of the trio sonata, was born out of a commission from the Philharmonie de Paris. Sonatas in trio, will be compared with two imaginary Suites in the spirit of the dance suite.
HIS (IT.) 21/02/2020
Melodies in Mind
Amarillis (4 musicians)
Give to hear a melody without words in its most intimate expression, this is Handel's challenge to us, this man with a universal mind, passionate about painting and who knew how to translate into music the whole range of human feelings. These melodies, so suggestive, enter into us, enchant us and leave us no respite.
This program, object of the last Amarillis record, that we have chosen to design around the genre of the trio sonata, was born out of a commission from the Philharmonie de Paris. Sonatas in trio, will be compared with two imaginary Suites in the spirit of the dance suite.
GRAND THEATER D’ANGERS 31/01/2020
In the footsteps of Orpheus
Amarillis (4 musicians) & Maïlys de Villoutreys (soprano)
This program features brilliant, as well as moving and surprising music by three composers, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Marie Leclair, died the same year in 1764 and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.Jean-Philippe Rameau, the great harpsichordist, theorist and composer left us a collection of chamber music including five Concerts. You will hear the second Concert, the first two pieces of which are successively dedicated to a young prodigy, the composer Jean-Benjamin Laborde and to a harpsichordist who would become the wife of the composer Mondonville. Then we will follow in Orpheus' footsteps, the mythical musician, thanks to two French cantatas whose respective librettos stage two different episodes of its history. Published in 1710 in her first book of cantatas, Orphée de Clérambault portrays the magician capable of moving the whole earth thanks to his songs. It's to find his wife Eurydice, death, bitten by a snake, that Orpheus decides to descend into hell. Accompanied by his lyre, he succeeds in bending the will of Pluto, obtaining permission to bring his beloved back to life.Clérambault and his librettist, M. de Rochebrune, chose to stop Orpheus' story at that point, while Rameau’s cantata in 1721 opens with a tale in which Orpheus ascends from the empire of shadows accompanied by his Eurydice which he must not watch if he does not want to lose her. Orpheus' fight, his temptation to turn around, and finally the fatal outcome are admirably translated into music by Rameau.