Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

Chant de la terre

Monday, May 19th 2025 - 8:00pm

Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano
Raphaëlle Moreau, Manon Galy, violins
Violaine Despeyroux, viola
Héloïse Luzzati, cello
Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux, flute
Constance Luzzati, harp
Célia Oneto Bensaid, Anne de Fornel, David Kadouch, pianos

As a preview to the fifth edition of the Festival Un Temps pour Elles, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord is hosting an exceptional anniversary concert, bringing together the Festival’s most loyal pioneer musicians to perform little-known works. An ode to the Earth, a hymn to the elements and to nature’s rhythm of the seasons…

This evening’s program includes Jeanne Leleu, Marguerite Canal, Rita Strohl, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Hedwige Chretien, Ethel Smyth and Liza Lehmann, all names that will be echoing in the Val d’Oise’s most beautiful heritage sites throughout the month of June. Five weekends of concerts at Abbaye de Maubuisson, Domaine de Villarceaux and Château de Vigny, including a transdisciplinary project combining contemporary music and archaeology, a commission for composer Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, two major educational concerts featuring students from conservatories and music schools in the Val d’Oise…

The promise of an unprecedented musical voyage to be previewed in Paris!

PROGRAM

Montages artistes 24-25 (1)

CHANT DE LA TERRE

Works by J.Leleu, M.Canal, R.Strohl, L.Héritte-Viardot, H.Chrétien, E.Smyth, L.Lehmann…

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DISTRIBUTION

Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano
Raphaëlle Moreau, violin
Manon Galy, violin
Violaine Despeyroux, viola
Héloïse Luzzati, cello
Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux, flute
Constance Luzzati, harp
Célia Oneto Bensaid, piano
Anne de Fornel, piano
David Kadouch, piano

Lucile Richardot

LUCILE RICHARDOT

As much a madrigalist as a soloist, this baroque singer of conviction discovered singing as a child in her home town of Epinal, and led her first life as a journalist. Trained at the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame, then at the CRR de Paris in early music, she embraces all musical periods and styles, both in concert and on stage. She has sung with Il Seminario musicale, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Paladins, Solistes XXI, l’Ensemble Intercontemporain, Collegium 1704, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Accents, l’Orchestre National de France, and regularly with Correspondances, Pygmalion, les Arts Florissants, Pulcinella, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien… She has also given sparkling recitals with harpsichordists Jean-Luc Ho and Philippe Grisvard, and pianists Anne de Fornel and Adam Laloum. Invited from Rotterdam to Toronto by way of Liverpool, Amsterdam, Prague, Hamburg, Madrid and Boston, she is a regular at the Opéra de Rouen, the Théâtre de Caen, the Opéra Comique, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Festival d’Aix, and has been applauded at La Fenice in Venice, Carnegie Hall in New York and La Scala in Milan. Her first solo disc, Perpetual Night, released in 2018 with Correspondances on Harmonia Mundi, has received a flurry of international awards, and was the inspiration for the show ‘Songs’ directed by Samuel Achache. Also for Harmonia Mundi, in 2021 she recorded the album ‘Berio To Sing’ with Geoffroy Jourdain’s Les Cris de Paris, and in early 2023, with Anne de Fornel, she offered the first complete collection of songs by Nadia and Lili Boulanger in a triple album, ‘Les heures claires’, which is already a reference.

Marielou Jacquard

MARIELOU JACQUARD

Playing the acrobat between Baroque music and contemporary creation, Marielou Jacquard cultivates her taste for eclecticism in the diversity of her repertoire.
She began her vocal training at a very early age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, then at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and attended numerous masterclasses at the Fondation Royaumont. She collaborates regularly with Vincent Dumestre’s Poème Harmonique (Coronis), Sébastien Daucé’s Correspondances and Raphaël Pichon’s Pygmalion ensemble.
On stage, she recently appeared in Duron’s Coronis, Delibes’s Lakmé at the Opéra Comique and is currently playing Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, a joyful and delirious show by Eric Perez on tour in France. Very much involved on stage, musical theater plays an important role in her artistic career, and she has created numerous shows combining music and pure theater. Next autumn, she’ll be back in a revival of Samuel Achache’s new show, Sans Tambour. She also gives numerous chamber music concerts and recitals, and is the creator of several new works.

Raphaëlle Moreau

RAPHAËLLE MOREAU

Nominated in the Revelations category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards in 2020, Raphaëlle Moreau won the First Grand Prize at the XVIth Postacchini Competition and is a laureate of the Nicati-de-Luze, Or du Rhin and Banque Populaire foundations, as well as the Marcel Bleuestein-Blanchet Foundation for Vocation. After studying with Rodica Bogdanas and Suzanne Gessner, she was unanimously admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. In 2018, she obtained a Master’s degree as a soloist in Renaud Capuçon’s class in Switzerland. Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at the age of twenty-one, she has worked with Herbert Blomstedt, Jonathan Nott, Vladimir Jurowski and Lorenzo Viotti, and has performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. As a soloist, she has appeared with many orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung and Simone Young, among others.
Raphaëlle performs a wide repertoire, from the great classics to forgotten women composers and contemporary works. She has premiered works by Camille Pépin, Clara Olivares, Thierry Hersant and Grégoire Rolland. She plays a Carlo Tononi violin from Bologna, generously loaned by Michael Guttman.

Raphaëlle Moreau

MANON GALY

Named ‘Revelation Instrumental Soloist’ at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique awards, Manon Galy trained at the Toulouse and Paris CRRs before going on to the CNSMDP, the Munich Hochschule with Julia Fischer, the Philippe Jaroussky Academy and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, where she is currently in residence with the Zeliha trio. She is a prizewinner in numerous international competitions, including the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2021, where she won 1st prize as well as all the special prizes in sonata with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, and the Banque Populaire, Safran and Charles Oulmont foundations, as well as AMOPA. Manon performs regularly as a soloist with various international orchestras, collaborating with such great conductors as Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Takáks-Nagy, Bertrand De Billy, David Molard-Soriano and Simone Menezes, among others.
A chamber musician at heart, Manon Galy founded the Trio Zeliha in 2018 with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan and Maxime Quennesson. Their first disc, released in 2020 on the Mirare label, was acclaimed by the critics (5 diapason, 5 stars from Classica, Editor’s choice from Gramophone magazine…), as was their last disc, released in May 2024, which also received 5 stars from Classica, 4T from Télérama and ‘Choix de Laure Mézan’ from Pianiste magazine. ‘Nuits Parisiennes’, released in February 2023 on the Aparté label and the result of the duo formed with pianist Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, won a Diapason d’Or de l’année, 5 stars from Classica and 4T Télérama. As a soloist and with the Zeliha trio, Manon has joined the production company ‘Beau Soir productions’, run by Renaud Capuçon.

Raphaëlle Moreau

VIOLAINE DESPEYROUX

Violaine Despeyroux sees musical interpretation as a singular, immersive experience. Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, the Munich Hochschule and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, this French violist stands out on stage for her precise, electrifying personality and energy. A spirit and tenacity that she has displayed in prestigious European and international concert halls, alongside such renowned partners as Renaud Capuçon, Gary Hoffman, Claire Désert, Suyoen Kim, Alexandra Soumm and the Smoking Josephine Ensemble. Violaine Despeyroux has won numerous awards for her talent as a performer, including unanimous 1st prize at the Concours National des Jeunes Altistes and 2nd prize and the prize for best Bach interpretation at the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition in Birmingham. A multi-faceted artist, Violaine Despeyroux is equally at home in chamber music and as a soloist. She has performed in France, Italy and Belgium, notably under the baton of Vahan Mardirossian and Ian Fountain.

Héloïse Luzzati

HÉLOÏSE LUZZATI

A committed figure, Héloïse Luzzati has been involved for several years in the discovery and recognition of musical heritage. In 2020, she founded the Cité des Compositrices. The project is based on research into manuscripts and scores, which are the subject of daily readings. She is also the founder of the Festival Un Temps pour Elles and La Boîte à Pépites, for which she works closely with designer Lorène Gaydon, director Alexis Lardilleux and sound engineer Mireille Faure. She is also the author of most of the documentaries produced for Boîte à Pépites. With the Cité des Compositrices, Héloïse Luzzati works with a number of cultural organisations, including the Orchestre National Avignon Provence, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Abbaye de Royaumont, the Abbaye de Maubuisson and the Palazzeto BruZane, and hopes to disseminate the collective’s research and readings as widely as possible. A keen chamber music player, Héloïse Luzzati graduated from the CNSMDP in the class of Roland Pidoux and Xavier Phillips. During her studies, she also benefited from the advice of Philippe Muller, Marc Coppey, Hatto Beyerle, Alain Planès and members of the Quatuor Ysaÿe. She has performed alongside such artists as Xavier Phillips, Célia Oneto Bensaid, Dana Ciocarlie, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Léa Hennino and Alexandre Pascal…

Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux

ANASTASIE LEFEBVRE DE RIEUX

Trained on the flute with Jean-Claude Marin and Georges Alirol, Anastasie Lefebvre de Rieux perfected her piccolo skills at the CNSMD de Paris, in Pierre Dumail’s class.
A member of the Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes, she is also a regular guest with the great orchestral phalanges: the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Les Dissonances.
A multi-faceted artist, she performs in a variety of chamber music ensembles.
Her enthusiasm for teaching and her passion for music were rewarded when she obtained a Certificat d’Aptitude from the CNSMD de Paris and passed the competitive examination for Professor of the City of Paris. She teaches flute and piccolo at the Conservatoire du 8ème arrondissement de Paris.

Héloïse Luzzati

CONSTANCE LUZZATI

Continuing the work begun as part of her doctorate in harp transcription of the 18th-century French harpsichord repertoire, Constance Luzzati has adapted works for harp by Rameau, Couperin, Royer, Forqueray, Duphly, Scarlatti and Bach. Enharmonique (2023), a solo album devoted to Rameau, and Jupiter (2024) were hailed by critics from Classica to Télérama and Médiapart. Dedicated to works for solo harp by Bruno Mantovani and Édith Lejet, in 2023-24 she premieres works by Vincent Trollet and Josephine Stephenson, with the Regards ensemble and the Trio Haydée. She recently recorded La montagne magique (Cascavelle, 2023) with the Lontano quartet and Charlotte Sohy, compositrice de la Belle-Époque (La boîte à pépites, 2022) with flutist Mathilde Calderini and the Hermès quartet. Winner of six international competitions, she has been honored in France by Avant-scènes (CNSMDP), Cultures France, the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation and the Tissier-Grandpierre Prize.
She has been teaching music history at the CNSMDP since 2021. An alumnus of the Florent drama school, she has directed plays by Emmanuel Demarcy-Motta and Jacques Vincey, and created shows combining music, text and circus arts, including La Volière magique (2023), for harp and corde lisse.

Celia Oneto Bensaid

CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID

A singular and committed personality, Célia chooses the repertoire she performs with care: American music (including her own transcriptions), French music, contemporary music and works by female composers all feature prominently in her programmes. A YAMAHA artist, she is the winner of numerous international competitions: Piano Campus, Fondation Banque Populaire, Cziffra, etc. She has been a guest at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Grand Théâtre de Harbin (China), Salamanca Hall (Japan), Wigmore Hall (London)… A much sought-after chamber musician, she has performed with Renaud Capuçon, Violaine Despeyroux, Elsa Dreisig, Marie-Laure Garnier, Olivia Gay, the Hanson Quartet, Léa Hennino, Héloïse Luzzati, Fiona McGown, Alexandre Pascal and others: His first solo disc, American Touches (2018), is devoted to Gershwin and Bernstein, and Métamorphosis (2021) to Glass, Pépin and Ravel (5 Classica stars, contemporary disc of the week on France Musique, etc.). She also took part in a monograph on the unpublished works of Charlotte Sohy from La Boîte à Pépites, widely acclaimed by the international press. In January 2023, she released the CD ‘Chants Nostalgiques’ with Marie-Laure Garnier and the Quatuor Hanson, featuring French mélodie, which won TTTT from Télérama.

Anne de Fornel

ANNE DE FORNEL

French-American Anne de Fornel combines a brilliant career as a concert pianist and musicologist. A graduate of the CNSMD de Lyon (Master’s degree in piano), where she studied with Florent Boffard, Sorbonne University (Doctorate in Music and Musicology) and HEC Paris (Master’s degree in “Media, Art and Creation”), she is currently Director of Research at the CNSMD de Lyon. With Mathias Auclair and Héloïse Luzzati, she conceived the Third European Musical Season of BnF and Radio France, “Révélations! Composers of yesterday and today”. In 2019, she publishes the monograph John Cage with Éditions Fayard, recognized as a “major work” (Diapason) and a “permanent dazzler” (Diacritik). Performing all over the world, she was recently invited to perform Pierre Wissmer’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. Her recordings have received unanimous critical acclaim: Les Heures Claires with Lucile Richardot (label harmonia mundi); Cage Meets Satie – Works for Two Pianos with Jay Gottlieb (Paraty); Crossing the Line with Trio Empreinte (Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger, Ida Gotkovsky, Graciane Finzi – Klarthe); Vers la Vie Nouvelle (pieces from the Great War); Nuit Transfigurée (Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Johannes Boris Borowski), Un Long Voyage (Pierre Wissmer) with Trio Steuermann, Tramages (Martin Matalon, Philippe Hurel, Bernard Cavanna) with Ensemble Mesostics (Édition Hortus). Her repertoire also includes the premiere of several works dedicated to her by Andrea Agostini, William Bolcom, Johannes Boris Borowski, Fabrice Grégorutti and Robert Lemay.

David Kadouch

DAVID KADOUCH

Born in 1985, David Kadouch trained with Odile Poisson at the C.N.R. in Nice, with Jacques Rouvier at the CNSM in Paris, with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, and with Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, Maria-Joao Pires, Daniel Barenboim, Vitaly Margulis, Itzhak Perlman, Elisso Virsaladze and Emanuel Krasovsly. At 13, he played at New York’s Metropolitan Hall, and at 14 at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2005, he was a guest at the Salzburg and Verbier Academies (Prix d’Honneur in 2009), then a finalist in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2009. Since 2007, he has been a prizewinner at the ADAMI and Natixis Banques Populaires Foundations, as well as “Révélation Jeune Talent” at the 2010 Victoires de la Musique awards and “Young Artist of the Year” at the 2011 Classical Music Awards. David Kadouch is invited to numerous festivals and regularly performs chamber music with his partners Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Edgar Moreau, Nikolaj Znaider, Antoine Tamestit, Frans Helmerson, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Yuri Revich, Sol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Michel Dalberto, as well as the Ebène, Modigliani, Quiroga and Ardeo Quartets. He is also a guest soloist with the most prestigious international orchestras. David gives numerous solo and duo recitals with Edgar Moreau in Europe and elsewhere. Among his outstanding recordings, his disc “Révolution” (Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Janacek, Dussek, Rzewski), was awarded the Choc Classica of the year 2019 and widely acclaimed by the critics. In 2022, he will record a disc devoted to female composers from the period of Flaubert’s novel “Mme Bovary” for the Mirare label.

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Marie-Josèphe Jude, piano
David Kadouch, piano