Past events - 2024
Paris, Paris region, province, Spain... Summer Academy, concerts, Festivals, app ...
09/03/24 in Corbeil-Essonnes (91)
Programme Forbidden Fruits at the Cathedral of Saint-Spire in Corbeil-Essonnes (91) as part of the first festival of the ensemble Sine-Cum (artist director Valérie Le Page). Saint Spire is other than Saint Exupère (deformation of name), the first bishop of Bayeux. Count Haymon de Corbeil founded the first collegiate in 957- to house his relics, soon joined by the relics of Saint Loup (Saint Leu), the third bishop of Bayeux. Count Haymon, whose death occurred on 23 May 957 during a pilgrimage to Rome, was buried in the collegiate church where a lying man honors his memory. Later, the college became a cathedral and was classified as a historical monument.
06/05/24 Third part of the PHEND project
We remember Brian Katz and his team's previous two parts:
– an online radio program broadcasting a concert recorded in Notre-Dame simulating several listening points,
– a series of four episodes of a radio fiction entitled Looking for Notre-Dame who took the point of view of Victor Hugo visited by a muse who embodied Notre-Dame de Paris, and from the first episode we could already hear the whole Rue des Chantres, sing on Viderunt Omnes of Pérotin …
... On 6 May 2024, the third part, entitled Our Lady Whispers (Our Lady whispers). It is an audio-immersive experience allowing visitors walking around Notre Dame to discover the history of the cathedral through her own sound story: the old lady (still young) whispers her thousand-year history to their ears. The course consists of 6 stages. Just download Application « Ekko of Notre-Dame de Paris » on his phone and put on his headphones. So all visitors and tourists from all over the world can now hear the Viderunt Omnes interpreted by Rue des Chantres while walking around the cathedral. Thanks to PHEND's scientific research and Talkartive cultural mediation agency, the listener of the present can hear the sound of the past.
02/08/24 to Avène (34)
Programme Forbidden Fruits in Church of St. Martin d'Avène in Herault. Avène is located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Haut Languedoc, more precisely in the mountains of Orb covered with forests (chênes, chestnut trees, beech trees...). The spa of Avena has been known since the horse of the Marquis of Rocozel was healed in 1736: it is reached by a tenacious pruritus, it is relieved by a few swimming in the water of Avena. The source was already known in the Middle Ages. Avène is currently one of the 3 thermal resorts in L'Hérault (including Lamalou-les-Bains where Rue des Chantres sang on 11/08/22 for the Festival Voix d'Orgues – Bédarieux – Grand Orb). The church of Saint Martin was mentioned in 1135, the bell tower dates from the 18th century but most of it dates from the 19th century.
The two concerts on 02/08 and 03/08 were organized by the CEPO (Centre d'études polyphoniques et organistiques) of Bédarieux (President Paul Rodier).
03/08/24 in Magalas (34)
Programme Forbidden Fruits in The St. Lawrence Church of Magalas in Herault. This commune is part of the Grand Biterrois. The first church (late XIIth) was part of Magalas Castle and became parish church in 1270, depending on the chapter of Saint-Nazaire Cathedral in Béziers. In 1967, Robert Dhéry, looking for an old church, shot the cult scene of his film The Little Bather where Abbé Castagnier (Jacques Legras) preached before Louis de Funès from the dilapidated chair of « Notre-Dame-des-Courants-d'air », enviing his happy colleague of Notre-Dame de Paris who « can say his mass without a wool ». Work followed in the 1970s.
MIRABILIA HIVER
27/01/24 in Cuenca (Spain)
Programme Sorores in Cuenca, Spain (Castilla – La Mancha) on the occasion of the Mirabilia Festival (Winter). The city, born of a fortress built by the Moors in the 9th century and conquered by Castilians in the 12th century, retains many buildings of great value, such as the first Gothic cathedral of Spain and the casas colgadas (houses suspended on cliffs overlooking the Huecar). It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The concert took place in Church of St Peter, on the octagonal exterior because this church was built on an old mosque. The set also interpreted a bis and Rex obiit, a song in honor of King Alphonse VIII, accompanied to the organtto by Cristina Alís Raurich.
MIRABILIA WAS
10-15/08/24 Mirabilia Summer Academy in Cuenca (Spain)
Erwan Picquet (chant) and Christian Ploix (chant and improvisation) trainers at the International Summer Academy led by Cristina Alis Raurich from 10 to 15 August 2024 on the theme of Codex Las Huelgas. This Codex is still preserved in the place where it was developed, namely the Royal Monastery of Las Huelgas, near Burgos, on the road to Santiago de Compostela, founded in 1187 by Alphonse VIII and his wife Alienor Plantagenet (daughter of Henry II Plantagenet and Alienor d'Aquitaine) and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Prepared in the 14th century, this manuscript contains works covering all periods of Antiqua Ars 12th to 14th centuries. It therefore includes parts of The Ecole de Notre-Dame de Paris. Total Rue des Chantres So he was called to teach this specific art of which he is a specialist.
16/08/24 Mirabilia Festival in Cuenca, Spain
New programme ordered by Le Mirabilia Festival In Mary's Footsteps as part of the study of the manuscript Las Huelgas made and preserved at the monastery of the same name dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This concert was given as part of the Medieval Week summer of the cathedral of Cuenca. The Cathedral of Sainte-Marie-et-Saint-Julien de Cuenca was one of the first Gothic cathedrals in Castilla, founded by Alphonse VIII. The king had taken over the city from the Muslims in 1177, had made it an episcopal seat, and had started building the cathedral there as early as 1186, about the same period as the monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos. The Franco-Norman influence (following his marriage with Alienor Plantagenet) made it feel, and with it the style of the first French Gothic cathedrals.
SAINT-DENIS 2024
14/09/24 Opening concert in Saint-Denis
Programme Sorores, songs from the Cathedral of Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame de Paris in the 12th and 13th centuries. This time, the whole Rue des Chantres opened the season of medieval music on the feast day of Saint-Denis. The festival, organized by the city, takes place every year in autumn, around the feast of the saint, celebrated on 9 October. The doors of the basilica are wide open and the population of Dyonis can leave the community village to walk through the bedside or join the well-informed music lovers who listen to the sitting concert. One trembles when the axe falls on Denis' neck, one vibrates when the organum sounds under the vault of Suger.
Medieval music concerts in Saint-Denis
For the fourth consecutive year, Erwan Picquet is the artistic director of this musical season entirely dedicated to the musics of the Middle Ages which is still growing thanks to a official partnership between the Association Rue des Chantres and the National Monuments Centre. In addition to 4 concerts on Saturday at 5pm including one by the ensemble Rue des Chantres, become traditional, notice an exceptional concert of the ensemble Sequentia in the evening.
- 28/09-5 p.m. Programme Vidimus stellam (Looking for the star through manuscripts of the Middle Ages) by the total The Finders (Mathias Lunghi, voice, and Camile Macinenti, voice)
– 05/10 to 17h : Programme Hildegard, the living, songs by Hildegard von Bingen by the ensemble Oriscus, with Anne Bertin-Hugault (voice), Colin Heller (string instruments), and Marc Vervisch (wind instruments)
– 19/10-17:00 Programme Songwriter of kings by the total Obsidian, with Emmanuel Bonnardot (direction, vie à arche, rebec, crwth), Camille Bonnardot (guiterne voice, vihuela, book cone), and Colin Bonnardot (voice and percussion)
– 16/10 to 20h : Programme The Traveler by the total Sequentia, with Benjamin Bagby (voice, medieval harps), and Norbert Rodenkirchen (medieval crosswinds)
