ARCO is a binational composition academy, an association between GMEM-Marseille and the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg.

Under the direction of Léo Warynski, the ensembles Multilatérale and Les Métaboles are joined by soprano Valérie Philippin, a major figure in vocal creation, for an eclectic and daring program blending contemporary repertoire with world premieres commissioned for the occasion.

This program, reflecting the spirit of the academy, spans generations, aesthetics, and vocal and instrumental practices. It will showcase diverse personalities and sensibilities: from the iconic works of Georges Aperghis, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Rebotier, and Johannes Schöllhorn to new works by Lanqing Ding, Valérie Philippin, and Ikumi Yamauchi.

A walking concert in the Friche Belle de Mai by Multilatérale and Les Métaboles soloists.

Five of the eleven works written by the student composers and worked on during the academy will be performed during this first premiere concert by the ensembles Multilatérale and Les Métaboles, directed by Léo Warynski and Sohye Jung, a student conductor.

Six of the eleven works written by the student composers and worked on during the academy will be performed during this first premiere concert by the ensembles Multilatérale and Les Métaboles, directed by Léo Warynski and Sohye Jung, a student conductor.

A hypnotic work, Another Look at Harmony is an extraordinary experience of time and listening, both rooted in its multiple references to the music of the past and enhanced by the intact modernity of Philip Glass's repetitive style. Following a recording at the Cité de la Voix, Léo Warynski extends his passionate exploration of the American composer's work through a uniquely staged concert, in homage to the dialogue between the arts.

Visit the sublime Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine during the Rencontres musicales de Vézelay to discover a new version of Mozart's Requiem and Philippe Hersant's contemporary piece, À Mnémosyne, created in 2024

Après un rêve gives pride of place to imagination, dreams, beauty and emotions. From Josquin Desprez and Nicolas Gombert, masters of polyphony, to the romantic sensibility of Brahms and Fauré, through the impressionist harmonies of Debussy and Ravel, and the contemporary music of Élise Bertrand and Ondrej Adamek, Après un rêve offers a panorama of vocal music where each work invites us on a sensitive journey.

In the bustling New York of the 1970s, the young Philip Glass, then in search of an innovative style, would find in the choral music of the Italian Renaissance the source of a polyphony rich in astonishing modernism. From there would be born an emblematic, minimalist and repetitive style, in which the listener dives, gets lost, finds himself and ends up transformed. And who better than Léo Warynski and his magnificent choir Les Métaboles to immerse us in this music, making it resonate with a new work by Andrea Basily?

The Métaboles with an eclectic program, are participating in the Via Aeterna Festival at Mont Saint-Michel and its bay.

Everything sings in Ravel: the strings of Daphnis et Chloé, the piano of Jeux d’eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. Yet his work for choral a cappella is reduced to the twirling but very short Three Songs. Never mind! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here are Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Shéhérazade offered to the virtuosity and mischievousness of the singers of Métaboles – and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante défunte by Thibault Perrine.

A new version of Mozart's famous Requiem and Philippe Hersant's contemporary piece, Mnémosyne, premiered in 2024

A new version of Mozart's famous Requiem and Philippe Hersant's contemporary piece, Mnémosyne, premiered in 2024

Fifty years ago, Another Look at Harmony placed American composer Philip Glass at the forefront of the minimalist movement. Following an album released in March, Les Métaboles present a staged concert version of his final evening.

Composed one year before Einstein on the Beach and eight years before Akhnaton—two operas previously conducted by Léo Warynski—Another Look offers a heady experience: repetitive writing and references to medieval Gregorian chant intertwine in a hypnotic dialogue, both minimalist and profusely rich.

Singular by nature, the American composer's score is also unique in the rarity of its concert performance. Léo Warynski and Les Métaboles do it double justice by bringing it to the stage and in the scenography of Céline Diez and Clément Debailleul, in the spirit of this porosity between the arts specific to the 1970s. An interior journey where the circle is matrix and law, a journey through time ultimately outside of time.

Fifty years ago, Another Look at Harmony placed American composer Philip Glass at the forefront of the minimalist movement. Following an album released in March, Les Métaboles present a staged concert version of his final evening.

Composed one year before Einstein on the Beach and eight years before Akhnaton—two operas previously conducted by Léo Warynski—Another Look offers a heady experience: repetitive writing and references to medieval Gregorian chant intertwine in a hypnotic dialogue, both minimalist and profusely rich.

Singular by nature, the American composer's score is also unique in the rarity of its concert performance. Léo Warynski and Les Métaboles do it double justice by bringing it to the stage and in the scenography of Céline Diez and Clément Debailleul, in the spirit of this porosity between the arts specific to the 1970s. An interior journey where the circle is matrix and law, a journey through time ultimately outside of time.

Les Métaboles light up this end of the year with Christmases from Europe, South America, the Caribbean and even Africa... Celestial light and lights of the world ignite a sparkling and traveling program. Ideal for getting together before the traditional confectioners' break