The pedagogical team, gathered around the soprano Patricia Petibon and the musician Héloïse Gaillard, is made up of internationally renowned artists, members of the Amarillis ensemble or loyal accomplices, all sharing a great experience of the stage as well as a passion for the transmission. The sponsor of this Academy is the director, poet, writer Olivier Py.
The founders of the Fest’Académie surround themselves with exceptional teachers
Patricia Petibon
Singing class and staging
Soprano colorature, student of Rachel Yakar at the CNSM in Paris and discovered by William Christie, Today, Patricia Petibon masters a repertoire that ranges from French baroque to modern music., which she discusses with Francis Poulenc and Alban Berg. Since his debut at the Paris Opera in 1996 in Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau, she appeared in a wide variety of operas, from Mozart to Offenbach, via Donizetti and Verdi, which she performs on all the major stages of the planet. She performed the major roles of the baroque repertoire such as Ginevra/Ariodante in Geneva and at the Aix-en-Provence festival or Euridice in Orfeo et Euridice at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. In addition, highlights of recent years include Giunia in Lucio Silla in Vienna under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom she worked regularly, then the title role of Lulu de Berg in Geneva, in Barcelona and Salzburg as well as Blanche/Les Dialogues des Carmelites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Alcina by Händel at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Manon at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 2017 she achieved great success as Mélisande in a new production of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Patricia Petibon cooperates closely with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, la Staatskapelle Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Les Munich Philharmonic, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, the National Orchestra of France, the Paris Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Lyon, The Lyric Talens, the Circle of Harmony, The Astrée Concert, the Amarillis Ensemble, The Zither, le Venice Baroque Orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico and the Freiburger Barock Orchestra. She works regularly with chefs like Alain Altinoglu, Giovanni Antonini, Marco Armiliato, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Frédéric Chaslin, Gustavo Gimeno, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi, SpongeBob Lake, Louis Langre, Andrea Marcon, Joseph Pons,François-Xavier Roth, Christophe Rousset and Jérémie Rhorer. Spring 2021 marks its remarkable debut in “La Voix Humaine” by Francis Poulenc and in “Point d’Orgue” by Thierry Escaich at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. In addition to numerous recitals with pianist Susan Manoff, Patricia Petibon performs with her new program "La Traversée" with Cetra and Andrea Marcon at the Philharmonie de Paris, au festival de l'Epau, at the Musikfestspiele in Dresden and in Lisbon. With the French baroque ensemble Amarillis, directed by Héloïse Gaillard, It presents the "Magician Flames" program and occurs in Froville, Bordeaux, Ghent and Massy. The season's commitments 2022-2023 include a new production of La Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc at the Opéra National du Rhin in a production by Katie Mitchell, as well as numerous concerts – notably the Shéhérazade Ravel at the Ravel Festival as well as with the Leon y Castillia Orchestra under the direction of Josep Pons in Valladolid, and with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jérémy Rohrer, and Berg’s “Sieben frühe Lieder” with Les Siècles and FX Roth. For the New Year Patricia Petibon reunites with the Orchester National de France together with Cyrille Dubois and Enrique Mazzola to present a bouquet of vocal pages from the king of French operetta, Jacques Offenbach. In June and September 2023 she will again be Mélisande in a concert version of Pelléas et Mélisande with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Iván Fischer in Spoleto, Budapest and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Patricia Petibon devotes herself more and more to young singers.Patricia Petibon created with the flautist and oboist Héloïse Gaillard, artistic director of the Amarillis Ensemble, an Academy, Songs of Ulysses, within the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and the Théâtre Le Dôme de Saumur, which is aimed at students, singers and musicians, future professionals and emerging artists. In May/June 2023 Patricia Petibon was for the first time a member of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth competition.
2009 – BBC Music Magazine Awards: Amoureuses named best opera album.
2012 –
• Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters.
• Nomination aux Grammy Awards (best opera recording, Lulu, Berg).
• Orphée d'Or for best performer : Patricia Petibon in Lulu by Alban Berg, conducted by Michael Boder-DVD Deutsche Grammophon.
2015 – Mado Robin-Orphée Prize of Merit for the recording La Belle Excentric with Susan Manoff- CD Deutsche Grammophon.
2016 – In his honour, the asteroid 348383 is named Petibon.
2020 – The Music Conservatory, of theater and dance of the city of Montargis bears his name.
2021 – Appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Heloïse Gaillard
Baroque recorder and oboe class
Flutist and oboist, winner of three first international prizes, Héloïse Gaillard performs as a soloist on the biggest international stages and in some of the best French baroque orchestras.
She is an officer of the National Order of Merit.
Besides the 24 albums made with Amarillis, and a solo album dedicated to the twelve fantasies of Telemann (Classic Choc), she participates in numerous recordings with Le Concert Spirituel, The Astrée Concert, The Lyric Talens, The Flourishing Arts…
France Music, the BBC, Arte Concert and Radio Classique regularly broadcast his concerts as well as Mezzo and France 2 who also dedicated a portrait to him.
Passionate about teaching from an early age, she notably created the baroque oboe class within the early music department of the CRR of Aix en Provence and taught there until 2015. Degree in musicology from the Sorbonne, she gets in 2005 the Certificate of Aptitude for Ancient Music. She is regularly invited to give Master classes in France, in England, in South America, in Asia…
She is, September 2019 to december 2020, Baroque oboe teacher at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris.
In 2023, She creates, With the lyric artist Patricia Petibon, The International Academy Songs of Ulysses at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and the theater Le Dôme de Saumur.
She was the artistic director of the Cunault Musical Hours festival in Maine et Loire between 2019 and 2021.
She is, since September 2021 Artistic director of cultural affairs of the community of agglomeration Saumur Val de Loire in charge of programming for the theater Le Dôme de Saumur and its agglomeration.
David Levi
Singing class
David Levi, conductor and former conductor of the Paris Opera Choirs, lend his keen and caring ear, his attention to the deep meaning of the words sung, his love for the theater and his vast experience of the lyrical repertoire so that the singer resonates with this voice which naturally exists within him.
American conductor David Levi conducted opera, from the operetta, musical theater, ballet and orchestral works with leading companies across Europe, as well as in North and South America. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Manhattan School of Music. Resident at the Oper Köln in 1993 at 1997 as assistant to musical director James Conlon, he directs : The Damnation of Faust, Elektra, Eugene Onegin, Hansel and Gretel , The nose, Otello , Sweeney Todd and La Traviata .
He was choir director of the Paris Opera from 1997 at 2002.
He was a regular guest conductor at the Wiener Volksoper, where his commitments included : A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hello, Dolly ! My Fair Lady , the Sound of Music et South Pacific .
In 1989, he founded Opera Spanga with the director Corina van Eijk. Their productions include : Aida , Ariadne on Naxos, Elektra, The Rake’s Progress and Il Trittico and the films Rigoletto and Samson and Delilah. In 2015, he founded TerrOpera in the South-West of France. He stages: History of the Soldier (2016), The Human Voice (2017) and The Fantastic (The Fantasticks) (2019).
Alice Pierot
Baroque violin class
Graduated from the National Conservatory of Music of Lyon, winner of international chamber music competitions, Alice Piérot turned to baroque music in 1988, becomes a member of the Musicians of the Louvre (Marc Minkowski) and will be their solo violin for many years. She is since 2004 the First Violin of the Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet).
Privileged partner of the Amarillis Ensemble, she devotes a large part of her activity to chamber music with in particular Les Veilleurs de nuit, the Anpapié string trio and in duet with the piano-fortist Aline Zylberajch.
Alice Piérot teaches at the conservatory of Aix-en-Provence, animating the orchestra and baroque violin classes, records for many French and European radios, and has a rich discography of more than forty recordings, among which that ofRosary Sonatas de Pepper (label Alpha), awarded in 2003 a Diapason d’or of the year.
Country girl and builder, she invests in 2002 an old factory near Avignon and transforms it into a vast musical vessel, The belt, which today hosts concerts, residential homes, creations and recordings, experimenting with new forms of dissemination and practices of music, from the oldest to the most contemporary.
She has participated in several CD recordings of the Ensemble Amarillis: Ferveur et Extase (Ambronay Editions, 2011), Rameau - Cantatas and harpsichord parts in concert (Naïve, 2014), Antoine Dauvergne / Gérard Pesson: Les Troqueursand La Double Coquette (NoMadMusic, 2015), - Stabat Mater (Sony classical, 2016) , Effervescence concertante (Evidence classics, 2017) andHandel – Melodies in Mind (Evidence classics, 2018), Florilège Baroque (Evidence Classcis, 2019), Facets of Folly (Harmony of the World, 2020), Jubilation Vénitienne (Wonder, 2022), Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Reservations at the Grand Théâtre d'Angers (Evidence Classics).
Etienne Mangot
Baroque cello and viola da gamba class
After classic cello studies in Nice and Paris, Étienne Mangot turns to interpretation on old instruments. He studies baroque cello and viola da gamba, and perfected his skills at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Lyon.
Passionate about all “da gamba” instruments, continually searching, he collaborates with luthiers and bow makers to reconstruct rare models with particular timbres, notably a string baritone by Pierre Jaquier.
After the Monaco Academy and the CRRs of Toulon and Nice, he currently teaches at the Limoges Conservatory, performs and records with Café Zimmermann (Celine Frisch & Pablo Valletti), The Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), Academy (Françoise Lasserre) and La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller). In chamber music, he plays alongside Aline Zylberajch, Pierre Hantaï, Hugo Reyne, Flavio Losco, Alice Piérot et Freddy Eichelberger.
In 2008, he founded the Filigrane ensemble which brought together accomplice musicians, each playing several instruments, lover of the grain of sound and the weaving of voices.
Laurent Le Chenadec
Baroque bassoon class
After starting at the Lorient Conservatory (56), Laurent Le Chenadec obtains the 1st bassoon prize from the Tours and Rueil-Malmaison Conservatories, The 1st price unanimously of a beak flute from the rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, and finally the 1st bassoon prize of the National Conservatory of Paris in 1991. Holder of the certificate of aptitude for teaching the bassoon since 1990, He is currently a bassoon teacher at the CRR in Toulouse, and since September 2005, Baroque bassoon teacher at the National Conservatory of Music of Lyon.
Passionate about the evolution of the instrumental invoice, He plays the different directories on period instruments : thedulcianeWithin the Boutoutiers, of the Sagittarius ensemble (Direction Michel Laplénie), from the royal chapel (Jordi Savall) ; thebasson baroque with the spiritual concert (Hervé Niquet), The marsh symphony (Hugo Reyne) and set XVIII-21 (Jean-Christophos Fry) and passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu); The modern bassoon with the Instrumental Group of Paris (Annick Minck), l’Ensemble Court-Circuit (Pierre-André Vallade) and the intercontemporainic whole (Pierre Boulez).
Marouan Mankar-Bennis
Harpsichord class
Marouan Mankar Bennis, began his musical studies in Limoges then perfected his skills with Elisabeth Joyé who would be a decisive meeting for him. He joined the CNSM in Paris where he won prizes for harpsichord and basso continuo in the classes of Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou.. He learned about the clavichord and the pianoforte and completed his training in summer academies where he followed the teaching of Bob van Asperen., Nicolau de Figueredo or Pierre Hantaï.
His dual activity as concert performer and vocal leader leads him to work regularly with Vincent Dumestre, director of Poème Harmonique with whom he performs in London, New York, The Mint, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Tokyo.
As a soloist, he records a first disc around the harpsichord work of Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738) at the critically acclaimed Enceladus. He also recorded a second opus on the organ and harpsichord around the Sicilian composer Bernardo Storace. ( milieu XVII°s.)
In 2018, he founded the Lyre d’Orphée collective which benefits from the support of the Singer-Polignac foundation. Among his recent collaborations include the recording of the 1st cycle of Les Leçons de Tenebres by Michel Lambert (1610-1696) with the baritone Marc Mauillon for Harmonia Mundi or even that of the Suites pour Viole by François Couperin (1668-1733)with the gambist Claire Gautrot. At the same time, he partners with the choreographer Chrystelle Arcelin and her company Fêtes Baroques on numerous projects combining music and ancient dances..
Passionate about research and teaching, he holds a Certificate of Aptitude as a teacher and is a musical patronage grant holder from Société Générale. He currently teaches at the Regional Conservatory of Angers and regularly supervises internships and artistic projects in France but also abroad such as at the University of Santander in Spain., at the Vilnius Academy of Music or the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
Guilherme de Almeida
Improvisation class
The work focuses on real-time creation as a practice grounded in listening, instant decision-making and collective interaction. Throughout the week, students explore how musical form can emerge in the moment, by attention, reaction and shared responsibility. Stage presence, the movement, action and voice, as well as spatial relationships, are treated as compositional materials, shaping both what is heard and what is seen. The workshop also explores different ways of translating these processes into notation, ranging from practical instructions for performance to open and hybrid score formats, using vocabulary specific to the sound world, ranging from listening to Schaeffer to Alain Savouret.
Erika Guiomar
Head of vocals
After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieur de Musique de Paris (teaching and concert license) and at the CNSM in Paris (First prize for piano, chamber music, vocal accompaniment and choir direction), Erika Guiomar obtains the SACEM and Ministry of Culture prizes in chamber music at the FNAPEC competition as well as a first prize and the Audience prize at the Guérande International Competition.
She perfected her skills with Masters and artists such as Nadine Denize, Regine Crespin, Christa Ludwig, Gundula Janowitz, Irene Aitoff, Waltraud Meier, Jules Bastin, Walter Moore, Christopher Underwood, Charles Spencer, Jean Koerner,Walter Berry, Paul Schilhavski, Jean-Christophe Benoit, Robert Dumé…
She is currently a full professor of the singing direction class at the CNSM in Paris.. She is a jury at the international competition for the interpretation of French melodies 2007 from Toulouse. She recorded a disc of melodies by Fauré with Thierry Félix, another of French melodies under the Maguelone label (music world).
She has participated in multiple productions and performed in recitals both in France and abroad.: Paris, Geneva, Salzbourg, Prague, Bayreuth, Hanover, Athens…
Raphaël Cottin
Staging
Dancer, choreographer, teacher and notator of movement in cinetography Laban, Raphaël Cottin is as interested in choreographic creation as in the study of movement.
Trained at the Paris Conservatory in the years 1990, he received lessons there from big names in classical and contemporary dance, like Wilfride Piollet and Jean Guizerix, Peter Goss, Odile Rouquet or André Lafonta, then Labanian studies, with Noëlle Simonet and Angela Loureiro. He danced for Stéphanie Aubin, Christine Gerard, Odile Duboc and Daniel Dobbels, before joining 2008 the company of Thomas Lebrun (now director of the National Choreographic Center of Tours) in which he dances in France and around the world.
Also director of his company, The Poetics of Signs, he designs choreographic projects where the analysis of movement and Labanian disciplines hold a privileged place, leading to numerous collaborations with musicians over the past fifteen years, dancers or notators, around a loyal team. Author of around ten pieces over the last ten years, he is notably invited by the Avignon Festival and the SACD in 2014 pourLive buffet, co-written with Pierre
Meunier and Marguerite Bordat.It's a legend, play intended for young audiences, is also premiered at the Avignon Festival in 2017. He designs in 2018Parallels, a duo where he shares the stage with star dancer Jean Guizerix and created in 2019Temporary paths, variable geometry piece intended for museums, gardens and other heritage places, in homage tothe fan dance, iconic piece by Andy de Groat from 1978. His last piece, In Praise of Possibilities, is a quartet celebrating choreographic composition based on material of 2001 by choreographer Christine Gérard.
He also works regularly as a choreographer or assistant in several musical productions, alongside director Jean Lacornerie (notablyBells are ringingin 2013,Romeo and Juliet in 2015,The Threepenny Opera in 2016,The Pajama Gamein 2019,The Batin 2021,Woman of the Yearin 2023 and The Cliff of Tomorrowin 2024), or with Thomas Lebrun (The Feasts of Hebefor the Academy of the Paris National Opera in 2017 andThe Pearl Fishersin 2023 at the Capitole de Toulouse).
As a movement notator, he is an expert member of the Laban International Council of Cinematography (ICCL), whose research committee he coordinated for six years. He is also the author of articles (among others : « Dancing, writing – on the writing of movement », inContemporary Dance and Literature, between fiction and written performances, by M. Nachtergael and L. Toth, National Dance Center, 2015) and scores (among others : the fan danced’Andy de Groat, the 3rd act ofLied BalletandAnother Look at Memoryby Thomas Lebrun) and is strongly involved in the dissemination of movement analysis tools. From 2019, he is President of the National Center for Writing of the Movement in Cinematography Laban.
Emma Delahaye
Pilates
Expert in the Pilates method, yoga teacher and physical trainer since 20 years, Emma Delahaye is certified by several international schools. She has developed an intelligent pedagogy, benevolent, and manages in a few sessions to bring people to be in harmony with their body and their breathing.
Author of several continuing education manuals, Emma Delahaye was during 15 years responsible for vocational training in STAPS at UPEC. She has trained many sports educators, served as an examination board, and writes for fitness journals.
Emma Delahaye worked in Parisian studios, and works today in close collaboration with physiotherapists, osteopaths, doctors, midwives… because she has oriented her career towards supporting non-athletes. Today his approach is based on the Pilates method revisited with current knowledge. She uses several types of yoga (hatha, Ashtanga, vinyasa…) and physical preparation techniques that she seeks to best adapt to the people she is addressing.
Zélia
Costumes
Patricia Petibon tells us about it“She talks to her dresses, she has a spiritual and organic relationship with them. His creativity, his generosity, his kindness: everything she deploys lands on the fabric. A Montmartre, it's a character. When she arrives at the Saint-Pierre market in,singing, she's like a queen!» (Palacescope.com February 2024).
Discover the website by Zelia.