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.
Les fondatrices de la Fest’Académie s’entourent d’enseignants d’exception
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
Flûtiste et hautboïste, lauréate de trois premiers prix internationaux, Héloïse Gaillard se produit comme soliste sur les plus grandes scènes internationales et au sein de quelques-uns des meilleurs orchestres baroques français.
Elle est officier de l’Ordre national du Mérite.
Besides the 24 albums réalisés avec Amarillis, et un album solo consacré aux douze fantaisies de Telemann (Choc Classica), elle participe à de nombreux enregistrements avec Le Concert Spirituel, The Astrée Concert, The Lyric Talens, The Flourishing Arts…
France Music, the BBC, Arte Concert et Radio classique retransmettent régulièrement ses concerts ainsi que Mezzo et France 2 qui lui ont aussi consacré un portrait.
Passionate about teaching from an early age, elle crée notamment la classe de hautbois baroque au sein du département de musique ancienne du CRR d’Aix en Provence et y enseigne jusqu’en 2015. Licenciée en en musicologie de la Sorbonne, elle obtient en 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
Classe de violoncelle baroque et viole de gambe
Après de classiques études de violoncelle à Nice et Paris, Étienne Mangot se tourne vers l’interprétation sur instruments anciens. Il étudie le violoncelle baroque et la viole de gambe, et se perfectionne au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon.
Passionné par tous les instruments « da gamba », en continuelle recherche, il collabore avec luthiers et archetiers pour reconstruire des modèles rares aux timbres particuliers, notamment un baryton à cordes de Pierre Jaquier.
Après l’Académie de Monaco et les CRR de Toulon et de Nice, il enseigne actuellement au Conservatoire de Limoges, se produit et enregistre avec Café Zimmermann (Céline Frisch & Pablo Valletti), Les Passions (Jean-Marc Andrieu), Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre) et La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller). En musique de chambre, il joue aux côtés d’Aline Zylberajch, Pierre Hantaï, Hugo Reyne, Flavio Losco, Alice Piérot et Freddy Eichelberger.
In 2008, il fonde l’ensemble Filigrane qui rassemble des musiciens complices, jouant chacun plusieurs instruments, amoureux du grain du son et du tissage des voix.
Laurent Le Chenadec
Classe de basson baroque
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
Classe de clavecin
Marouan MANKAR-BENNIS, débute ses études musicales à Limoges puis se perfectionne auprès d’Elisabeth Joyé qui sera pour lui une rencontre déterminante. Il intègre le CNSM de Paris où il obtient les prix de clavecin et de basse-continue dans les classes d’Olivier Baumont et de Blandine Rannou. Il s’initie au clavicorde et au pianoforte et complète sa formation au sein d’académies d’été où il suit l’enseignement de 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. Il grave également à l’orgue et au clavecin un second opus autour du compositeur sicilien Bernardo Storace ( milieu XVII°s.)
In 2018, il fonde le collectif la Lyre d’Orphée qui bénéficie du soutien de la fondation Singer-Polignac. Among his recent collaborations include the recording of the 1st cycle of Les Leçons de Tenebres by Michel Lambert (1610-1696) avec le baryton Marc Mauillon pour Harmonia Mundi ou encore celui des Suites pour Viole de François Couperin (1668-1733)avec la gambiste Claire Gautrot. Il s’associe parallèlement avec la choregraphe Chrystelle Arcelin et sa compagnie Fêtes Baroques sur de nombreux projets alliant musique et danses anciennes.
Passionate about research and teaching, he holds a Certificate of Aptitude as a teacher and is a musical patronage grant holder from Société Générale. Il enseigne actuellement au Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional d’Angers et encadre régulièrement stages et projets artistiques en France mais aussi à l’étranger comme à l’Université de Santander en Espagne, à l’Académie de Musique de Vilnius ou au Conservate Tchaïkovski de Moscou.
Guilherme de Almeida
Classe d’improvisation
Le travail se concentre sur la création en temps réel comme pratique fondée sur l’écoute, la prise de décision instantanée et l’interaction collective. Tout au long de la semaine, les étudiant·e·s explorent comment la forme musicale peut émerger dans l’instant, par l’attention, la réaction et la responsabilité partagée. La présence scénique, le mouvement, l’action et la voix, ainsi que les relations spatiales, sont traités comme des matériaux compositionnels, façonnant à la fois ce qui est entendu et ce qui est vu. L’atelier explore également différentes manières de traduire ces processus en notation, allant d’instructions pratiques pour l’interprétation à des formats de partition ouverts et hybrides, en utilisant un vocabulaire propre à l’univers sonore, allant de l’écoute de Schaeffer à Alain Savouret.
Erika Guiomar
Cheffe de chant
Après des études à l’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.
Elle se perfectionne auprès de Maîtres et d’artistes tels que 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.. Elle est jury au concours international d’interprétation de mélodies françaises 2007 de Toulouse. She recorded a disc of melodies by Fauré with Thierry Félix, un autre de mélodies française sous le label Maguelone (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
Danseur, choreographer, pédagogue et notateur du mouvement en cinétographie Laban, Raphaël Cottin is as interested in choreographic creation as in the study of movement.
Formé au Conservatoire de Paris dans les années 1990, il y reçoit l’enseignement de grands noms de la danse classique et contemporaine, comme Wilfride Piollet et Jean Guizerix, Peter Goss, Odile Rouquet ou André Lafonta, puis des études labaniennes, avec Noëlle Simonet et Angela Loureiro. Il a dansé pour Stéphanie Aubin, Christine Gérard, Odile Duboc et Daniel Dobbels, avant de rejoindre en 2008 la compagnie de Thomas Lebrun (aujourd’hui directeur du Centre chorégraphique national de Tours) au sein de laquelle il danse en France et dans le monde entier.
Également directeur de sa compagnie, La Poétique des Signes, il conçoit des projets chorégraphiques où l’analyse du mouvement et les disciplines labaniennes tiennent une place privilégiée, occasionnant depuis une quinzaine d’années de nombreuses collaborations avec des musiciens, danseurs ou notateurs, autour d’une équipe fidèle. Auteur d’une dizaine de pièces ces dix dernières années, il est notamment invité par le Festival d’Avignon et la SACD en 2014 pourLive buffet, coécrit avec Pierre
Meunier et Marguerite Bordat.It's a legend, pièce destinée au jeune public, est aussi créée au Festival d’Avignon en 2017. Il conçoit en 2018Parallels, un duo où il partage la scène avec le danseur étoile Jean Guizerix et crée en 2019Chemins provisoires, pièce à géométrie variable destinée aux musées, jardins et autres lieux patrimoniaux, en hommage àla danse des éventails, pièce emblématique d’Andy de Groat de 1978. Sa dernière pièce, In Praise of Possibilities, est un quatuor célébrant la composition chorégraphique à partir d’un matériau de 2001 de la chorégraphe Christine Gérard.
Il travaille aussi régulièrement comme chorégraphe ou assistant dans plusieurs productions musicales, aux côtés du metteur en scène Jean Lacornerie (notammentBells are ringingen 2013,Roméo et Juliette en 2015,L’Opéra de quat’sous en 2016,The Pajama Gameen 2019,The Baten 2021,Woman of the Yearin 2023 and The Cliff of Tomorrowin 2024), ou avec Thomas Lebrun (Les Fêtes d’Hébépour l’Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris en 2017 andThe Pearl Fishersin 2023 au Capitole de Toulouse).
En tant que notateur du mouvement, il est membre expert du Conseil international de cinétographie Laban (ICCL), dont il coordonne pendant six ans le comité de recherche. Il est également auteur d’articles (entre autres : « Danser, écrire – sur l’écriture du mouvement », inDanse Contemporaine et littérature, entre fictions et performances écrites, de M. Nachtergael et L. Toth, Centre national de la danse, 2015) et de partitions (entre autres : la danse des éventailsd’Andy de Groat, le 3e acte deLied BalletandAnother Look at Memoryde Thomas Lebrun) et s’implique fortement pour la diffusion des outils d’analyse du mouvement. From 2019, il est Président du Centre national d’écriture du mouvement en Cinétographie 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.