2024

September

Saturday, September 28 2024 - 8/00 pmNicolò Castiglioni, Roland de Lassus, Luigi NonoPauluskirche, Freiburg im Breisgau - Allemagne

This concert invites you on a captivating sound journey with exceptional works. Luigi Nono, in Das Atmende Klarsein for choir, flute and electronics, explores the limits of breathing and sound clarity, creating an immersive and meditative atmosphere. In contrast, Les Prophéties des Sybilles by Roland de Lassus, a work for choir, transports us to the Renaissance with its rich harmonies and prophetic texts, offering a deeply moving and spiritual musical experience.

With the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation


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Friday, September 20 2024 - 8:00Nicolò Castiglioni, Roland de Lassus, Luigi NonoÉglise Saint-Eustache - Festival d'Automne à Paris

This concert invites you on a captivating sound journey with exceptional works. Luigi Nono, in Das Atmende Klarsein for choir, flute and electronics, explores the limits of breathing and sound clarity, creating an immersive and meditative atmosphere. In contrast, Les Prophéties des Sybilles by Roland de Lassus, a work for choir, transports us to the Renaissance with its rich harmonies and prophetic texts, offering a deeply moving and spiritual musical experience


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Tuesday, september 2024 - 8:30 pmRomance du soirMédiathèque Aveline, Alençon

Les Métaboles, in small numbers, present Romance du Soir, a series of concerts to showcase the gems of a cappella vocal music, from the Renaissance to the 20th century.


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Sunday, September 15 2024 - 5:00 pmCori AllegriÉglise Saint Grégoire - Festival de Ribeauvillé

Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski shine the spotlight on the repertoire for multiple choirs. The principle of writing separate choirs experienced its Baroque golden age under the vaults of the Sistine Chapel – witness Allegri’s Miserere for two choirs, the sacred works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who admired these polyphonies during his trip to Italy, or Orazio Benevolo’s Missa tu es petrus, for four choirs, recently resurrected by Les Métaboles. Composed on the same principle of spatialization, Love by Juta Pranulyte will echo them.


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August

Saturday, August 24 2024 - 09:00 pmSymphonie de PsaumesRencontres musicales de Vézelay

Created in 1930, the Symphony of Psalms testifies to Stravinsky's fervent return to religion. Unclassifiable, “this prayer that bites, this prayer of steel” as Leonard Bernstein described it, completes a fresco of piety of great evocative force, like a wall of icons sculpted in the harmony of an alliance with summit between Les Métaboles and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.


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July

Saturday, July 13 2024 - 6:00 pmConcert of restitutionMozarteum - Salzbourg

Concert of restitution of the compositions of the students of the Academy


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Tuesday, July 12 2024 - 7:00Concert of restitutionMozarteum - Salzbourg

Concert of restitution of the compositions of the students of the Academy


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Tuesday, July 9 2024 - 4:30 pmConcert at Modern Art MuseumModern Art Museum - Salzbourg

Concert at Modern Art Museum

Les Métaboles - Luciano Berio, Sequenza 3 - for solo voice Émilie Husson
Multilatérale - Anne Castex, Automate III - for solo harp Aurélie Saraf
Les Métaboles - Tom Johnson, Counting duets - for two voices Laura Muller & Paul-Alexandre Dubois
Multilatérale - Bernhard Gander, Soaring souls - pour cello and bass
Les Métaboles - Marc-André Dalbavie, Ligne de fuite -for solo voice Marco Van Baaren
Multilatérale - Johannes Maria Staud, Sydenham Music - for harp, alto, flute
Les Métaboles - Murray Schafer, Magic songs - for six voices


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Monday, July 8 2024 - 7.00Opening concertMozarteum - Salzbourg

Opening concert
Multilatérale - Agustin Castellon Molina, Creation
Les Métaboles - Haas, 3 liebes gedichte
Multilatérale - Sarah Nemtsov, Verlassene Orte / Berlin 
Les Métaboles - Pascal Dusapin, Semino
Multilatérale - Bruno Mantovani, Chamber concerto n°2
Mozarteum - Henry Fourès, Sommerbericht - pour 6 percussionnistes


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June

Sunday, June 30 - 3:30 pmNightfallÉglise Notre-Dame - Talant

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs for a cappella choir ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre


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Saturday, June 29 2024 - 4:00 pmCinq continentsCité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin - Dijon

32 chanteurs, l'Orchestre d'harmonie de Tonnerre, le choeur du Tonnerrois et la Maîtrise de Dijon pour un concert réunissant des oeuvres d'Offenbach, Sibelius, Grieg, Verdi, Bregovic, Gimenez....


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Friday, June 28 2024 - 8:00 pmNightfallMédiathèque de l'Hôtel Dieu - Dôle

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs pour choeur a cappella ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre


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Sunday, June 23 2024 - 03:00 pmCinq continentsCité de la Voix - Tonnerre

32 singers, the Tonnerre Harmony Orchestra and Choeur du Tonnerrois for a “concert of nations” with, among others, Finlandia (Sibelius), Jérusalem (Hubert Parry), America (Bernstein), Va pensiero (Verdi)


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Friday, June 21 2024 - 07:00 pmOlympiades culturellesParvis de l'Hôtel de Ville - Paris

Grand concert avec l'Orchestre de chambre de Paris à l'occasion de la Fête de la musique 


May

Friday, May 31 2024 - 20hOpening concert of Festival ManiFeste - IRCAMThéâtre du Châtelet - Paris

The opening night of the ManiFeste festival constitutes an immense montage, a whirlwind that spreads from the image to the music. The young Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen has designed an ultra-virtuoso collage where the orchestra, the jazz band and the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles present in the room play with a series of living archives – a deep and hilarious journey into our own musical memory. The Summer Playlist includes and wide-ranging, up to Ravel’s La Valse, danced on the rooftops of Brussels by Thomas Hauert’s company. Aerobatics and whirling, a summer playlist, where the eye listens.


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May 30 & 31 2024100% choraleAuxerre

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

  • collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
  • open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
  • tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

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May 17 2024100% choraleGray - Arc-lès-Gray - Espace Festi'Val

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

  • collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
  • open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
  • tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

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April

Wenesday, April 10 2024 - 08:00 pmCori AllegriCité musicale - Metz, l'Arsenal

Les Métaboles and Léo Warynski shine the spotlight on the repertoire for multiple choirs. The principle of writing separate choirs experienced its Baroque golden age under the vaults of the Sistine Chapel – witness Allegri’s Miserere for two choirs, the sacred works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who admired these polyphonies during his trip to Italy, or Orazio Benevolo’s Missa tu es petrus, for four choirs, recently resurrected by Les Métaboles. Composed on the same principle of spatialization, Love by Juta Pranulyte will echo them.


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Monday, April 1 2024 - 05:00 pmMétamorphose(s)Les Musicales de Colmar - Église Saint Matthieu

 

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis.
Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.


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March

Thursday, March 14 2024 - 107:30 pmPortrait Luigi NonoElbphilharmonie - Hamburg

A portrait of Luigi Nono with two great works by the Italian composer:
Quando stanno morendo / Diario polacco Nr. 2  pour voix de femmes, flûte, violoncelle et électronique live
Hay que caminar soñando pour deux violons


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Wednesday, March 13 2024 - 02:30 pmConcert to mark the 70th anniversary of Emmaüs SolidaritéLe Carreau du Temple - Paris

Excerpts from works by Bizet, Beethoven, Rossini et Verdi

Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Les Métaboles, Chœur de la Maîtrise de Paris 
Alfonso Todisco, conductor
Iris Thion-Poncet, choir conductor


February

Friday, February 16 2024 - 08:00 pmLe Requiem de FauréCité musicale - Metz, l'Arsenal

Is there any prayer sweeter and more sublime than Fauré's Requiem, is there any melody more sweet than Jean Racine's Cantique? In Les Djinns, based on Victor Hugo’s virtuoso poem, the composer on the contrary unleashes the most frightening hordes. But it is indeed the most tender Fauré that we find in the two other pieces: the melancholy Pavane, to which the dandy Robert de Montesquiou, cousin of the dedicatee, offered delicately old-fashioned verses, and the concert suite taken from the incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande, the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, with the famous “Sicilienne”.


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2023

December

Sunday, December 17 2023 - 03h00 pmChristmas concertCité de la Voix - Théâtre de Gray

 

The Christmas concert with La Cité de la Voix, this year at the Halle de Gray (Haute-Saône)


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Tuesday, December 12 2023 - 8:00 pmSinging RavelThéâtre de Privas

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.


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Sunday, December 10 2023 - 04h00 pmSami Yusuf - When Paths MeetPhilharmonie de Paris

 

When Paths Meet is a rare musical dialogue across the boundaries of cultures and time. Sami Yusuf presents new works written especially for this unique project with the Philharmonie de Paris. His ensemble of musicians from the Middle East, Central Asia and China, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and the Orchester Scoring de Paris accompany him on this odyssey.


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Saturday, December 9 2023 - 8:00 pmSami Yusuf - When Paths MeetPhilharmonie de Paris

When Paths Meet is a rare musical dialogue across the boundaries of cultures and time. Sami Yusuf presents new works written especially for this unique project with the Philharmonie de Paris. His ensemble of musicians from the Middle East, Central Asia and China, the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles and the Orchester Scoring de Paris accompany him on this odyssey.


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October

Thuesday, October 24 2023 - 8:00 pmPierre-Yves Macé - Concert PalimpsesteFestival d'Automne à Paris - Théâtre de la Ville – Les Abbesses

 

Dear Pierre-Yves Macé,
the writing is willingly a palimpsest, the rewriting, incessantly, of what is already written, for the pleasure of it, to go through the forms again and disturb the lines, to arrange their sequences differently. This concert thus invites us to a few miniatures, a tribute to brevity even in the genres of tradition, opera and cantata.


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September

Tuesday, September 26 2023 - 12:30 amThe AngelsMusée d'Orsay - Auditorium

 

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. The program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.


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Friday, September 22 2023 - 8:00 pmGérard Pesson Festival d'Automne - Église Saint-Eustache, Paris

"To be awake still while the master sleeps." With these words, Gérard Pesson defines transcription. Chiselling irony and distance from the original, he brings life back, not without melancholy, to the imaginary lands of Ravel, Scriabin or Mahler. Listening is modified, illusorily suspended by a memory that is both forgetful and creative.


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Sunday, september 10 2023 - 06:00 pmConcert Acte JLes Dominicains, Guebwiller (France)

Directed by Frank Markowitsch, Catherine Fender and Maija Gschwind, Acte J brings together 24 young amateur singers from France, Germany and Switzerland and 12 professionals from the ensembles: Les Métaboles, Basler Madrigalisten and Vokalakademie Freiburg. Beyond an ambitious musical experience, ACTE J is part of an educational approach aimed at participating in the training of amateurs and allowing them to progress in their musical practice.


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Saturday, September 9 2023 - 06:00 pmConcert Acte JFribourg (Germany)

Directed by Frank Markowitsch,, Catherine Fender and Maija Gschwind, Acte J brings together 24 young amateur singers from France, Germany and Switzerland and 12 professionals from the ensembles: Les Métaboles, Basler Madrigalisten and Vokalakademie Freiburg. Beyond an ambitious musical experience, ACTE J is part of an educational approach aimed at participating in the training of amateurs and allowing them to progress in their musical practice.


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August

Saturday, August 26 2023 - 09 pmSplendeurs choralessFestival de La Chaise Dieu

From Tallis to Filidei, from Mahler's Adagietto Symphony 5 (transcription by Gérard Pesson) to the impressive Concerto for choir by Schnttke, the ensemble conducted by Léo Warynski reveals the virtuosity, freshness and energy of four major works who rub shoulders, confront each other, inspire each other, all linked by the sublime utopia of a form of excess.


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Friday, August 25 2023 - 9:00 pmSymphonie choraleCité de la Voix - Vezelay

From Tallis to Filidei, from Mahler's Adagietto Symphony 5 (transcription by Gérard Pesson) to the impressive Concerto for choir by Schnttke, the ensemble conducted by Léo Warynski reveals the virtuosity, freshness and energy of four major works who rub shoulders, confront each other, inspire each other, all linked by the sublime utopia of a form of excess.


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Monday, August 7 2023 - 09:00 pmSinging RavelRencontres musique et patrimoine du Mont Blanc

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.


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July

Thursday, July 27 2023 - 8:00 pmSinging RavelLes Promenades musicales du Pays d'Auge - Abbatiale de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Singing Ravel tour is supported by Adami and Private Copying.


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Saturday, July 22 2023 - 9:15 pmEuropaFestival Les Flâneries de Reims - Parc de Champagne

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes


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July, until 9 to 16 2023ARCO - opus 23GMEM - Marseille

ARCO is a binational composition academy, association between the gmem - Marseille (one of the French national centers of musical creation) and the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg. This fourth edition will take place in Marseille, from July 9 to 16, and will welcome twelve composers from all over the world, young quartets and young singers. Conferences, workshops and concerts will be organized throughout the week. The student pieces will be created during the closing concerts.

With Multilatérale, les Métaboles and Tana quartet


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Saturday, July 8 2023 - 09:00 pmSinging RavelFestival Les Traversées - Abbaye de Noirlac

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.


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July, 4 - 7 juillet 2023International Academy of Choral ConductingCité de la Voix - Basilique de Vézelay

La Cité de la Voix, a national center for the vocal arts located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, has been offering professional training programs for young singers and choir directors for several years. In 2023 and for the third edition, a choir conducting academy is offered in collaboration with the ensemble les Métaboles. The academy will be led by Léo Warynski and Daniel Reuss.

A restitution concert will take place on July 7 at 8:30 p.m. in the Basilica of Vézelay


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June

Wednesday, June 28 2023 - 8:00 pmCori AllegriFestival Les Flâneries musicales de Reims

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.


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Sunday, June 25 2023 - 04:00 pmusine à rêves Chants libres - La Compagnie Dumas à Tonnerre

 

32 singers conducted by Léo Warynski with a program that will bring together many composers: Veljo Tormis, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Eric Whitacre and Jacques Offenbach...


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Saturday, June 24 2023 - 09:30 pmVox NaturaeChants libres - Esplanade de la Basilique de Vézelay

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire. Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.


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Thursday, June 22 2023 - 08:30 pmMétamorphose(s)Chants libres - Église Notre-Dame de Noyers

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.


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Thuesday, June 8 2023 - 8:00 pmMétamorphose(s)Cité musicale - Metz

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.


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Saturday, June 3 2023 - 8:00 pmEuropaPhilharmonie de Paris

A tour of Europe in 90 minutes

This participatory concert is part of the "Week-end amateur, you say?" at the Philharmonie de Paris Rehearsals are planned for the public who wants to participate on Saturdays May 20 and June 3, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Participants will celebrate the Europe of yesterday and today by practicing Beethoven's Ode to Joy and a traditional Afghan song entitled Biya ke berim ba Mazar.


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June, 1 & 2 2023100% choraleThéâtre d'Auxerre

100 % Chorale Auxerre - restitution in June 2023

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

  • collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training
  • open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
  • tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

With Naomi Conquet (alto) and Jean-François Chiama (tenor)


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Thursday, June 1 2023 - 20hConcert for the Gala Evening of the PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris - Grande salle Pierre Boulez

Les Métaboles have the honor of participating in the gala evening of the Philharmonie de Paris, which this year aims to be of a new genre: festive, committed and united, by allowing, among other things, to welcome more than 200 young people. under 28 who have never been to the Philharmonie.

Knee Play 4, Philip Glass (extracts of Einstein on the Beach)
Benjamin Millepied & Caroline Osmont

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, direction


May

Thuesday, May 18, 2023100% choraleThéâtre de Gray

100% chorale à Gray - restitution in May 2023

Transmitting the passion for choral singing in primary schools over a long period of time with:

  • collective practice in class each week accompanied by guest musicians and/or singers from the Ensemble Métaboles training,
  • open to teachers, in order to find the self-confidence to implement their artistic desires and share effective tools of transmission,
  • tutoring, for tailor-made support in the autonomy of teachers.

With Cécile Pierrot (soprano) and Cyrille Lerouge 


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Sunday, May 14 2023 - 11:00 amDéparts de feuOpéra de Marseille

As part of the "Modulations", the GMEM concert season, Départ sde feu brings together the Multilaterale ensemble and a singer from Les Métaboles - Laura Muller - in a program directed by Léo Warynski.

Franck Bedrossian - Départs de Feu (2022) ; Edges (2010)
Rebecca Saunders - Bite (2016)
Michael Seltenreich - Ornamentation 2 (2022)
Philippe Leroux - Ma Belle si tu voulais (1997)
Yann Maresz - Entrelacs (1998)


Monday, May 1 2023 - 5:30 pmVox NaturaeFestival Classique au large - Saint-Malo

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire.

Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.


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April

Monday, April 10 2023 - 4:00 pmThe AngelsFestival de Pâques de Colmar

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. the program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.


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February

February 13, 14 and 15, 2023Recording for CDACCité de la Voix - Site of Dijon

Ensemble associated with the Cité de la Voix, les Métaboles record for the CDAC, Documentation Center for Choral Art


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January

Thuesday, January 12 2023 - 08 pmVox NaturaeCité musicale - Metz

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire.

Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.

Informations and reservations here


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2022

December

Saturday, December 17 2022 - 04 pmNoël a Cap(p)elaCité de la Voix - Abbaye de Reigny, Vermenton

It is by playing on a double reference – a cappella, without instrumental accompaniment and the star Capella, the brightest star in the constellation of the Coachman – that the Métaboles illuminate this end of the year with carols from Europe, South America, the Caribbean or Africa

Informations and reservations here


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Friday, December 9 2022 - 8:00 pmLe Gloria de PoulencCite musicale - Metz, l'Arsenal

Two composers, two shattered dreams: by the rigidity of social conventions in the case of Mel Bonis, by illness in that of Lili Boulanger, who died at 24 after a life of suffering. No one today questions their talent. The sensuality and refinement of their scores place them on a par with their contemporary Debussy, the tutelary figure to whom they are so often compared. All this before the jubilation of Gloria by Poulenc, composed "thinking of those frescoes by Gozzoli where the angels stick out their tongues and also of those grave Benedictines that I once saw playing football". An entire program !

Distribution
soprano, Marie Perbost
harp,  Manon Louis
Les Métaboles
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
direction, Christian Arming

Programme
Claude Debussy - Danses sacrées et profanes, Première suite d'orchestre
Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Mel Bonis - Femmes de légende : Ophélie, Le Songe de Cléopâtre
Francis Poulenc - Gloria

 

 


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Thuesday, December 6 2022 - 8:00 pmPlaying for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

 

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.


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Monday, December 5 2022 - 8:30 pmPlaying for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

 

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.


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Sunday, December 4 2022 - 6:00 pmPlaying for PhillharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

 

Playing for Philharmonie project brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and the ensemble Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.


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November

Saturday, November 12 2022 - 8:00 pmThe 6th commandmentKunstquartier Bethanien - Berlin

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.


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October

Friday, October 21 2022 - 8:00 pmL'Italie au Festival d'AutomneFestival d'Automne - Église Saint-Eustache

 

Les Métaboles and the Multilateral Ensemble in an Italian program for the Festival d'Automne:

Luigi Nono - Quando stanno morendo
Salvatore Sciarrino - Addio case del vento, Canzona di ringraziamento, Cresce veloce un cristallo
Luzzasco Luzzaschi - Non sa che sia dolore, Aura soave di segreti accenti, Io mi son Giovinetta, O dolcezze amarissime d’amore, Diario Polacco


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September

Saturday, September 17 2022 - 6:00 and 9:00 pmLe Portugal au Festival d'AutomneFestival d'Automne - Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière

Les Métaboleset l'Ensemble Multilatérale in a Portuguese program:

Emmanuel Nunes - Versus III, Omens II, Minnesang
Vicente Lusitano - Heu me domine
Manuel Cardoso - Introit de la Missa pro defunctis


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August

Saturday, august 27 2022Workshop "À vous de jouer" - Festival de sabléSablé-sur-Sarthe

 

Everyone sing along with Léo Warynski and Louis Castelain!


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Friday, August 26 2022 - 4:00 pmCori AllegriFestival de Sablé - Sablé-sur-Sarthe

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.

Reservation here


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Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 8:30 pmCori AllegriLes musicales de Normandie

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.


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Sunday, August 21 2022 - 8 pmSinging RavelFestival Ravel - Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to 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 is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.


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Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 9:00 pmCori AllegriFestival de musique sacrée de Saint-Malo

During a trip to Italy, Marc-Antoine Charpentier observed what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church. In this program he works alongside Gregori Allegri and Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer.


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July

Saturday, July 16 2022 - 7h30 pmARCO - opus 22 - Creation of young composersMozarteum University Salzburg

 

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.


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Thuesday, July 12 2022 - 7:30 pmARCO - Hiking to the MuseumMuseum of Modern Art, Salzburg

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.


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Monday, July 11 2022 - 8:00 pmARCO - Master of PuppetsPuppet museum, Salzburg

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2022 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2022 will be hosted by Mozarteum University Salzburg.


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Saturday, July 9 2022 - 7:30 pmARCO - opus 22Mozarteum University Salzburg

ARCO - art, research and creation, opus 2022 - is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, an association between the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French national centers for musical creation) and French ensembles: Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and the Tana String Quartet.


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Saturday, July 2 2022Grand Est'ivalAlsace

 

Les Métaboles, as a vocal quartet, present Romance du soir, a series of concerts to hear the jewels of a cappella vocal music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.


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Friday, July 1 2022Grand Est'ivalAlsace

 

Les Métaboles, as a vocal quartet, present Romance du soir, a series of concerts to hear the jewels of a cappella vocal music from the Renaissance to the 20th century.


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June

Thuesday, June 28 juin - 8:00 pmCancelled - Madame White SnakeOpéra Comique

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.


Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 4 pmCancelled - Madame White SnakeOpéra Comique

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.


Friday, June 24, 2022 - 8 pmCancelled - Madame White SnakeOpéra Comique

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.


Wenesday, June 22, 2022 - 8 pmCancelled - Madame White SnakeOpéra Comique

Opera in four acts by Zhou Long, libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs.
Created in 2010 by Opera Boston.

Opéra Comique presents this spectacular and visually powerful production as part of an exceptional partnership with the Beijing Music Festival.


Mardi 14 juin 2022 - 10hJardin extraordinaireOpéra Comique

Awaken your students to the poetry of choral singing with this educational program offered by the choir Les Métaboles around nature and sound ecology. Spring rendezvous in an extraordinary garden, crossed by the tunes of George Gershwin, Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel...


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Monday, June 13 juin 2022 - 2 pmJardin extraordinaireOpéra Comique

Awaken your students to the poetry of choral singing with this educational program offered by the choir Les Métaboles around nature and sound ecology. Spring rendezvous in an extraordinary garden, crossed by the tunes of George Gershwin, Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel...


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May

Saturday, May 28 2022 - 8 pmMesse un jour ordinaireCité musicale - Metz

 

In 1994, Messe un jour ordinaire crossed the vehement and shattering words of mass with that, individual and derisory, of Laurence, a young drug addict who appeared in a documentary by Jean-Michel Carré. 20 years later, Bernard Cavanna rewrites it to reinforce the presence of voice and choir.


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Wenesday, May 18, 2022 - 8:30 pmSinging RavelFloréal d'Épinal

Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to 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 is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.


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April

Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 8:30 pmThe AngelsFestival de musique sacrée de Perpignan

 

The Angels immerses the listener in the twists and turns of spiritual music. The works of Purcell, Byrd and Palestrina, masters of 17th century polyphonic music, resonate with those of Harvey, a major figure in contemporary music


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Sunday, April 10 2022 - 2:00 pmAl gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater Mainz - Germany

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini


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Friday, April 8 2022 - 7:3O pmAl gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater Mainz - Germany

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini


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Friday, April 1 2022 - 7:30 pmAl gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater Mainz - Germany

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini


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March

Sunday, March 27 2022The sixth CommandmentSzczecin Philharmonic - Poland

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.


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Thuesday, March 22 2022 - 7h30 pmAl gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater Mainz - Germany

 

A lyrical work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a Teatro alla Scala commission and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini


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Saturday, March 19, 2022 - 3:00 pmChœurs d'orguePhilharmonie de Paris

The organ and the voice are poor relatives in the catalog of Iannis Xenakis, but they are not absent, and have been the subject of the same radical questioning instigated by the Greek composer in other fields.

Les Metaboles
With the participation of amateur choirs
Léo Warynski, conductor

More d'information and réservation here


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Saturday, March 12 2022 - 7:30Al gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater Mainz - Germany

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.


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January

Sunday, January 30 2022 - 4 pmSinging RavelCité musicale - Metz

Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir 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 is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte

Reservation here


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2021

December

Sunday, December 19 2021 - 5 pmChants libresHalle Verrière - Meisenthal

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Halle Verrière of the Meisenthal International Center for Glass Art

More information here


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Saturday, December 18 2021 - 5 pmChants libresÉglise Saint-Matthieu - Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation.

The concert will take place at the Saint-Matthieu church in Colmar with the Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar


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Friday, December 17 2021Chants libresÉpiceries solidaires et Ephad de Mulhouse et Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. Musical "surges" will take place in solidarity grocery stores and EPHADs in Mulhouse and Colmar


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Thursday, December 16 2021 - 7 pmChants libresCentre Pompidou - Metz

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Centre Pompidou-Metz


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Friday, december 10 2021The Sixth CommandmentLublin - Poland

The Sixth Commandment is the name of the new piece by Elzbieta Sikora, a composer born in Poland and living in Paris. This work refers to that of Luigi Nono, Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2, the two coins commemorating the victims of violence and political injustice.


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November

Sunday, November 21 2021 - 12 pmConcert Acte JPaulus Kulturkirche, Basel (Swiss)

The singers of Métaboles, of the Vokalakademie of Berlin, of Basler Madrigalisten join the 20 young singers recruited specifically for the first edition of Acte J. Close to the rhythm of a professional project, ACTE J is a musical challenge for these young German singers , Swiss and French in search of ambitious choral experience. A program of French and German choral music will be honored during this first edition coordinated by Cadence.

Frank Markowitsch (Germany), conductor
Catherine Fender (France) & Abélia Nordmann (Switzerland), Associate Chiefs


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Saturday, November 20 2021 - 6 pmConcert Acte JFriedenskirche, Freiburg (Germany)

The singers of Métaboles, of the Vokalakademie of Berlin, of Basler Madrigalisten join the 20 young singers recruited specifically for the first edition of Acte J. Close to the rhythm of a professional project, ACTE J is a musical challenge for these young German singers , Swiss and French in search of ambitious choral experience. A program of French and German choral music will be honored during this first edition coordinated by Cadence.

Frank Markowitsch (Germany), conductor
Catherine Fender (France) & Abélia Nordmann (Switzerland), Associate Chiefs


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Friday, November 19 2021 - 8:30 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre d'Arras

 

Une femme rentre chez elle. Elle se met à l’aise, se sert un verre à boire, se prépare à manger. Bientôt, son discours, comme un flux de pensée, révèle des failles d’où jaillissent des images, des souvenirs. Elle se rend compte, et le public avec elle, qu’elle est sous le choc : elle vient d’avoir un accident de voiture... 


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Thursday, November 11 2021 - 5 pmLiebeslieder WalzerWürth museum - Erstein

Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, direction musicale


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October

Sunday, October 31 2021La Chine à portée de voixMusée Guimet - Paris

La Chine à portée de voix is an event weekend dedicated to the discovery of Chinese culture: for two days, visitors to the MNAAG will be able to discover or rediscover the spaces of the museum to the sound of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles.


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Saturday, October 30 2021La Chine à portée de voixMusée Guimet - Paris

La Chine à portée de voix is an event weekend dedicated to the discovery of Chinese culture : for two days, visitors to the MNAAG will be able to discover or rediscover the spaces of the museum to the sound of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles.


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Saturday, October 23 2021 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...


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Thurday, October 2021 - 8 pmOratoriosÉglise-Notre-Dame-de-la-Gloriette - Caen

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski, direction


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Saturday, October 16 2021 - 8 pmLiebeslieder WalzerLa Cité musicale - Metz

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Friday, october 8 2021 - 9h pmLe Papillon noirLa Scala - Paris

 

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...


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Sunday, October 3 2021 - 3 pmOratoriosFestival de Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski,
 direction


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September

Saturday, September 25 2021 - 11 AMVox Naturae - petites frimoussesFestival Musica - Strasbourg

Les Métaboles return to the Strasbourg Musica Festival with a program around the Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer


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Friday, September 24 2021 - 8:30 pmVox NaturaeFestival Musica - Strasbourg

Les Métaboles return to the Strasbourg Musica Festival with a program around the Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer


Friday, September 17 2021 - 8 pmApocalypsisLa Cité musicale - Metz

The opening concert for the 2021-2022 season highlights the masterpieces of great French artists, Camille Saint-Saens, Reynaldo Hahn and Claude Debussy. To these composers is added Édith Canat de Chizy with Apocalypsis, a world creation for choir and orchestra.

This powerful work, commissioned to mark the 800th anniversary of Metz Cathedral, will resonate with force in the Great Hall of the Arsenal.


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Saturday, September 11 2021 - 8:30 pmOratoriosFestival Septembre musicale de l'Orne - Bellême

At the initiative of the Royaumont Foundation, les Métaboles and l'Orchestre régional de Normandie will perform an original musical program that brings together Camille Saint-Saëns and the young French composer Basile Chassaing, winner in 2019 of the Académie Voix Nouvelles de la Royaumont Foundation. Entitled “Oratorios”, this project combines a contemporary creation and a major work from the repertoire according to the same theme.

Les Métaboles
L'Orchestre régional de Normandie
Léo Waryski,
direction


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August

Sunday, August 22 2021 - 3 pmThe AngelsFestival de La Chaise Dieu

The Angels is the 4th album of the Métaboles. the program combines Jonathan Harvey, a great contemporary English composer, with other illustrious vocal composers.

Reservation here


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Friday, March 20 août 2021 - 9 pmSinging RavelFestival Les Rencontres musicales de Vezelay

De grandes pages de la musique vocale de Maurice Ravel ainsi que des transcriptions dont celles, spécifiquement faites par Thibault Perrine pour les Métaboles, Le Boléro et La Pavane pour une Infante défunte.

Reservation here


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Friday, August 6 2021 - 9 pmMysterious NativityLes semaines musicales de Quimper

From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Reservation here


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Thursday, August 5 2021 - 9 pmAu chœur de la musiqueLes Rencontres musicales du Malzieu

A program of great arias for choir and orchestra: Requiem, Mozart ; Magnificat, Bach; Pavane, Fauré; Nabucco, Verdi ...

Reservation here


July

Saturday, July 17 2021ARCO opus 21 - Young composers creationPetit plateau de la Friche La Belle de Mai - Marseille

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.


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Wenesday, July 16 2021ARCO opus 21 - Young composers creationPetit plateau de la Friche La Belle de Mai - Marseille

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.


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Thursday, July 15 2021ARCO opus 21 - Concert à la Vieille CharitéeMusée de la Vieille Charitée - Marseille

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.


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Tuesday, July 13 2021ARCO opus 21 - Magic cornerFriche La Belle de Mai - Marseille

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2021 – is a binational university dedicated to musical creation, association between the Mozarteum University Salzbourg, Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and French ensembles Multilaterale, Les Métaboles and Tana string quartet.

ARCO 2021 will be hosted by Gmem-CNCM-Marseille.


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From July 5 to 10, 2021Vocal polyphoniesRoyaumont

June

Thursday, June 22 2021Cancelled - Playing for philharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

Le projet Playing for Philharmonie réunit, aux côtés de l’Orchestre Les Siècles et de l'ensemble les Métaboles, des instrumentistes et choristes amateurs de la Société générale, qui prépare le programme tout au long de l'année.


Monday, June 21 2021Cancelled - Playing for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

 

Playing for Philharmonie is a project who brings together, alongside the Orchester Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, amateur instrumentalists and choristers from the Société Générale, which prepares the program throughout the year.


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Saturday, June 12 2021 - 5 pmMysterious NativityCollège des Bernardins - Paris

From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Saturday, June 5, 2021Cancelled - EuropaPhilharmonie de Paris

Beethoven had already wanted his Hymn to Joy as a call to universal brotherhood. Europe has adopted this hymn, embodied here by association and corporate choirs uniting for a vast tour of Europe including the refugees, who are also part of the community.

Léo Warynski, conductor
Sophie Boucheron, choir director


May

Monday, May 31, 2021Quid sit MusicusFestival ManiFeste - Centre Pompidou, Paris

Festival ManiFeste-2021de l'IRCAM

Avec

Fanny Vicens, accordion
Remi Jousselme, guitar
Frédéric Baldassare, cello
Guilhem Terrail, countertenor

Les Métaboles
Anne-Claire Baconnais, soprano ; Aurélie Bouglé, mezzo ; Laura Muller, alto ; Steve Zheng, ténor ; Vincent Bouchot, baryton ; René Ramos-Premier, basse

Léo Warynski ,direction

Oren Boneh, Augustin Muller, Gilbert Nouno, Roque Rivas informatic musical realisation musicale Ircam

Information and reservation here


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Friday, May, 21 2021Cancelled - Liebeslieder WalzerFloréal musical d'Epinal

Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Tuesday, May 4, 2021Jardin extraordinaireGonesse, France

A program around nature and sound ecology with classes from the city of Gonesse.
Murray Schafer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, des musique populaire arrangée par Brice Léger, Charles Trenet...

 

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski
, musical direction


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April

Monday, April 12, 2021 - 9 pmLe Papillon noirChaîne youtube de Multilatérale

On line broadcast here 

Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with the help of Arthur Nauzyciel, imagined a unique monodrama, an unidentified operatic object with 27 artists on stage. Embodying the young woman, Élise Chauvin is an actress-singer, her voice is a throbbing and panting breath. Singing is the realm of the Choir which, completed by ensemble and electronics, acts as a guide to death, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo THöd (r) ol which means "the great guide by listening in intermediate states ”.


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March

Thursday, March 25 2021 - 8h30 pmThe AngelsNotre-Dame-du-Liban - Paris

The Angels, immerses the listener in the twists and turns of spiritual music. The works of Purcell, Byrd and Palestrina resonate with those of Harvey, a major figure in contemporary music. Under the leadership of Léo Warynski, les Métaboles revive the splendid tradition of English choirs: from Winchester to the refectory of the monks of Royaumont, where the album was recorded, the Gothic walls of the abbeys welcome sumptuous music, magnified by the acoustics. .


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Saturday, March 6 2021 - 8 pmCancelled - Le Papillon NoirThéâtre de la Renaissance - Oullins

An opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski
, musical direction


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Friday March 5, 2021 - 8:30 pmLiebeslieder WalzerSalle Cortot - Paris

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, direction musicale

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January

Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 8:30 pmCummingsLive on Philharmonie de Paris website

A key player in today's repertoire, the Ensemble Intercontemporain shares the poster with the Métaboles on this program. This is not the first time that Léo Warynski has taken the helm of the Ensemble intercontemporain: their collaboration began in 2016. Faithful to the eclecticism which is one of his trademarks, Léo Warynski slips the Stabat Mater of Palestrina in an evening clearly oriented towards contemporary music, which completes Boulez's Cummings ist der Dichter with two creations by François Meïmoun and Francesco Filidei

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Wenesday, January 13, 2021Le Papillon noirThéâtre national de Bretagne

Un opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski,
musical direction


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2020

December

Sunday, december 6, 2020 - 8 pmCancelled - Playing for philharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

With the Les Siècles et les Métaboles orchestra, 380 amateur instrumentalists and choristers - all employees of the Société Générale Group in France and other countries - meet under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, one of the most talented conductors of his generation.

Information et réservation on Philharmonie website

 


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Friday, december 4 2020 - 8:30 pmCancelled - Jardin féériqueSalle des catherinettes - Colmar

Le jardin féérique is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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November

Sunday, November 15 2020 - 4 pmCancelled - Liebeslieder WalzerLa Cité musicale de Metz

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Metaboles
Yoan Héreau and Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Information and reservation on the Cite musicale de Metz website

 


Friday, November 14 2020Cancelled - Mysterious NativityCollège des Bernardins - Paris

From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Wenesday, November 11, 2020 - 8 pmCancelled - Liebeslieder WalzerMusée Würth - Erstein, Alsace

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Metaboles
Yoan Héreau and Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Information and reservation on Musée Würth website


October

Sunday, october 25, 2020 - 3:30 pmCori Spezzati, l'art des chœurs spatialisésAbbaye de Royaumont - Asnières-sur-Oise

Through the centuries, Léo Warynski unearths relatives, emphasizes family tunes, in a long line of composers touched by grace. Rameau, offers an address to heaven, a five-part motet rarely given because cleverly concealed in his Treaty of Harmony. Marc-Antoine Charpentier - who was able to observe during a trip to Italy what in Venice was called the "cori spezzati": the dialogue of vocal groups installed on either side of a church - delivers a sumptuous Salve Regina with three choirs. But the centerpiece of this new program is signed Orazio Benevolo, a little-known musician, chapel master at the Vatican from 1646 to 1672. Thanks to the conductor and musicologist Louis Castelain, who patiently copied the score in a Roman library, the Metaboles sing for the first time since the 17th century this four-choir Mass by the Italian composer. A novel, in a way, which parallels the one written by the very young Lithuanian composer Juta Pranulyte.

Information and reservation on Royaumont website


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From October 21 to 25 2020choirmaster trainingRoyaumont

September

Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 3:30 pmLiebeslieder WalzerAbbaye de Royaumont - Asnières-sur-Oise

Liebeslieder Walzer - Johannes Brahms

Behind Brahms the Titan, ambitious heir to Beethoven and Schumann, stands the lover of the voice, the complicit observer of Viennese customs. This is the one who composes waltzes for four hands piano and vocal ensemble, intended for amateurs. Love songs to the rhythm of dance, these Liebeslieder Walzer alternately express desire, nostalgia, sorrow, and fun in the dialogue of hearts. To this emblematic collection, Léo Warynski joins several gems of Brahmsian vocal art, in which the colors of his Metaboles shine.

Les Métaboles
Yoan Héreau et Edoardo Torbianelli, piano
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Friday, September 18, 2020 - 8:30 pmStimmung - StockhausenFestival Musica - Strasbourg

The 38th edition of Musica opens with a large concert in the monumental setting of the Rhine Hall of the Palais de la musique et des congrès - a 3,000 m2 space to make distancing unnecessary and reinstate the necessary sharing of listening. One watchword: deconstruct the ritual of the concert to nurture new listening experiences.

First part
Ryoji Ikeda, Anna Korsum, Simon Steen-Andersen

Second part
Stimmung - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Les Métaboles
Raphaëlle Kennedy, soprano et Amandine Trenc, mezzo-soprano
Pauline Leroy, alto
Steve Zheng et Randol Rodriguez, tenor
Geoffroy Buffière, bass
SWR EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Freiburg, electronic
Léo Warynski, musical direction


August

Tuesday, August, 11 2020Postponed - Mysterious NativityLes musicales de Quimper

A bewitching program on the theme of the nativity, where meditation and spirituality inhabit Russian and Baltic composers in their sensitive approach to sacred texts. A moment of striking choral music.

Website Les Musicales de Quimper


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Friday, August , 2020Cancelled - Grands airsLes Rencontres musicales du Malzieu

Program

Vivaldi, Gloria (RV 589)
Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine
Mozart, Ave Verum

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction


Sunday, August 2 2020 - 11 am, 3, 4 and 6 pmLe jardin extraordinaireGrand Est'ival, Baerenthal, Bitche and Sturzelbronn

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...


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Saturday, august 1 2020 - 3, 5 and 7 pmLe jardin extraordinaireGrand Est'ival - Creutzwald and Bouzonville

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...


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July

Friday, July 31 2020 - 2:30, 5 et 7 pmLe Jardin extraordinaireGrand Est'ival - Uckange, Lorry-les-Metz and Lessy

 

A vocal quartet program inspired by the Metaboles's latest album, Jardin féérique ...


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From july 12 to july 18 2020Cancelled - ARCO - opus 2020Salzbourg

In 2020, the Franco-Austrian university of composition will take place in Salzburg.


Friday, July, 10 2020 - 6 pmCancelled - Création-Recréation, de Rameau à HersantAbbaye de Royaumont - Asnière-sur-Oise

Fenêtre sur cour(s)

 

From July 6 to 10, under the leadership of Léo Warynski, young choir conductors will have had the chance to conduct one of the best current vocal ensembles : les Métaboles, ensemble in residence at Royaumont (2019-2021).
The session will have allowed to approach the technique of choir direction, the specificities of interpretation of each of the repertories worked, as well as the challenges of the artistic direction of a choir. Sessions of musicological analysis have been planned with Louis Castelain (CMBV).

The young conductors will also have benefited from the advice of Philippe Hersant during an exceptional rehearsal in his presence.

On July 10, Fenêtre sur cour(s)] will be an opportunity for the laureates to direct several works worked during the session.


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May

Friday, May 29 2020Cancelled - Jardin féériqueColmar

After Mysterious Nativity "A very beautiful disc to recommend to our listeners" (France Musique) and Une nuit americaine "One of the best French choirs", (Resmusica) the new Metaboles Jardin féérique disc is out in March. The release concert will take place on March 28 in Notre-Dame-du-Liban. The Fairy Garden is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.

Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Wenesday, May 20 2020 - 7:30Cancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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Thuesday, May 12 2020 - 7:30 pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

Œuvre lyrique en deux parties du compositeur italien Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d’amore a été composé en 1974 sur une commande Teatro alla Scala et dédiée au chef d'orchestre Claudio Abbado ainsi qu'au pianiste Maurizio Pollini

Voir le site du Staatstheater Mainz 


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April

Friday, April 24 2020 - 7:30 pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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Sunday, April 5 2020 - 2 pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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March

Thuesday, March 31 2020 - 7:30 pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater de Mainz - Allemagne

 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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Saturday, March 28, 2020 - 20:30 pmCancelled - Le Jardin féerique - CD release concertNotre-Dame-du-Liban - Paris

Léo Warynski and the Métaboles take you to their magical garden !

After Mysterious Nativity "A very beautiful disc to recommend to our listeners" (France Musique)
and Une nuit americaine "One of the best French choirs", (Resmusica)
the new disc Jardin féérique disc is out in March.

The release party will take place on March 28 at the Cathedrale Notre-Dame du Liban. le Jardin féérique is an a cappella program - Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Schafer - in which nature is alternately harmonic or fantastic garden, place of contemplation or reflection, or simply a soundscape.
The a cappella vocal writing of the composers recorded on this disc reveals, by their precision and their attention to detail, that they were also great orchestrators.
The Métaboles and their conductor, Léo Warynski, paid particular attention to the intelligibility and expressiveness of the voices, but also to the restitution of this orchestral dimension by means of all the dynamic palette that a choir can offer: the almost whispered piano at the strongest the widest and most intense.

Les métaboles
Leo Warynski, musical direction

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Sunday, March 22 2020 - 6 pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d'amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

A lyric work in two parts by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 on a commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to the conductor Claudio Abbado and the pianist Maurizio Pollini

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 8:30 pmCancelled - Le Papillon noirThéatre de la Renaissance - Oullins

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

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Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Saturday, March 14 2020 - 7:30pmCancelled - Al gran sole carico d’amoreStaatstheater - Mainz, Germany

 

A lyrical two-part work by Italian composer Luigi Nono, Al gran sole carico d´amore was composed in 1974 by commission Teatro alla Scala and dedicated to conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini.

Website Staatstheater Mainz 


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January

2020Les Métaboles vous souhaite une année enchanteresse !
2019

December

Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 5 pmUn Noël allemandÉglise Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, Scherwiller

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der SchneeStille NachtO Tannenbaum

Entry without reservation

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Saturday, December 14 2019 - 4 pmUn Noël allemand Protestant church, Niederbronn-les-Bains

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der SchneeStille Nacht, O Tannenbaum

Entry without reservation

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Friday, December 13, 2019 - 8:30 pmUn Noël allemandÉglise Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux catholique à Strasbourg

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der SchneeStille Nacht, O Tannenbaum

 

Entry without reservation

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Sunday, December 1, 2019 - 4 pmBach le nordique, with Orchestre régional de NormandieLa Sall'in - Cabourg

BACH THE NORDIC !

The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'Orchestre régional de Normandie

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November

Friday, November 29, 2019 - 8 pmBach le nordique, with Orchestre régional de NormandieGrande chapelle - Mesnière-en-Bray (Normandie)

BACH THE NORDIC !

The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Denis COMTET, conductor (for the Mesnière en Bray concert)

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'Orchestre régional de Normandie

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Sunday, November 24, 2019 - 5 PMBach le nordique, with Orchestre régional de NormandieEglise Notre-Dame La Gloriette - Caen

BACH THE NORDIC! The Bach family is the most prolific family of musicians in history, with the most famous personality of all being Johann Sebastian Bach, undisputed genius with universal recognition. Twelve singers from the ensemble Les Métaboles join the twelve string musicians of the Orchester de Normandie on stage to form twelve "voice-instrument pairs". They give a tribute to Bach's composers who followed him, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt.

Jean-Sebastien BACH (1685-1750) Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 / Opening Choral

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Cantate Jesu meine Freude
Cantate Wer nur den Liebengott lässt wahlten

Johann-Michael BACH (1648-1694) Halt, was du hast

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite op.40
Ave maris Stella

Linda LEIMANE (born in 1989) 56 Days 

Knut NYSTEDT (1915-2014) Immortal Bach op. 153b

Léo WARYNSKI, conductor

Denis COMTET, conductor (for the Mesnière en Bray concert)

Les Métaboles and the musicians of l'orchestre régional de Normandie


September

Saturday, September 28 2019De profundisFestival de musique ancienne - Ribeauvillé

Concert Hersant - Charpentier

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Organ : Denis Comtet
Viola da gamba : Juliette Guignard

More information here


Saturday, September 14 2019 - 3:30 and 8:30 pmAlice in wonderlandPhilharmonie de Paris

Concert film
Tim Burton : movie and Danny Elfman : music

Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France
Vocal ensemble Metaboles
John Mauceri, musical direction

More than thirty years ago, Tim Burton offered composer Danny Elfman the first opportunity to write a score: it was the time of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Both lovers of independent rock and horror films, the two creators have forged a common aesthetic. Since then, Elfman and Burton have worked together on more than a dozen feature films. Alice in Wonderland is without a doubt one of their most successful projects: the orchestration, at once luminous, strange and frightening, serves the characters imagined by Tim Burton.

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September 7 & 8, 2019Académie Voix nouvellesAbbaye de Royaumont - Asnières-sur-Oise

 

The Metaboles, Mivos Quatuor, Florentin Ginot, double bass
Leo Warynski, musical direction

Fourteen composers constitute the international group of young composers trained at Royaumont each year under the direction of two professors, then joined by professional interpreters. Edition 2019: Franck Bedrossian and Simon Steen-Andersen (composers), Les Métaboles, the Mivos quartet and Florentin Ginot on bass.

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August

August, 30 2019 - 9 pmUne nuit américaineFestival de La Chaise-Dieu

A program that celebrates American vocal music of the XX and XXI century, through emblematic composers of the great choral tradition of the Atlantic. Barber - his famous Agnus Dei, but also The Reincarnations, song cycle on Irish poems - Copland - major representative of his generation, and author of an important choral work - or more recently Eric Whitacre, young composer whose reputation has long since crossed the borders of the United States.


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August 27, 2019 - 8:30 pmUne nuit américaineLes Musicales de Normandie

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.


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August 24, 2019 - 9 pmMysterious nativityCité de la Voix à Vezelay

Olfactory concert

The program of the record Mysterious Nativity was born from the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with the composer Dimitri Tchesnokov. Released in 2014 with Brilliant Classics it’s at the origin of this concert.


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July

July 20, 2019Une nuit américaineAbbaye de Noirlac

A program that honours American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.


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July 8 to 13ARCO opus 2019 - Académie de compositionMarseille - Friche de la Belle de Mai

ARCO – Art, Research and Creation Opus 2019 – is a binational university of composition, association between the Gmem-Marseille (one of the French National Center of Musical Creation) and the Mozarteum University Salzbourg.

Hosted by the Gmem, this first edition will welcome in Marseille, from July 5th to 14th, twelve composers from all over the world. Throughout the week seminars, workshops and concerts will be given. Written for the occasion, the students’ pieces will be rehearsed, performed and professionnaly recorded during two closing concerts.

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Avec les Métaboles, le Quatuor Tana et l'Ensemble Multilatérale


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June

June 8 & 9, 2019Atelier des 200Théâtre de Sénart

After the success of the first edition, here is finally at the Theater, the second opus of the Atelier des 200.
For this edition, four renowned artists: directors Caroline Binder and Frédéric Sonntag, choreographer Pierre Rigal and singers from Ensemble Les Métaboles will host the various workshops offered during the two days. This one-of-a-kind event creates an ideal energy for trying out the game, experiencing collective expression and experiencing an incredible artistic and human adventure. From 15 years old.


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May

May 4 & 5, 2019 - 4 pmGuerre et paixEglise Saint Mathieu - Colmar

Guerre et paix
Les Métaboles
Musical direction : Léo Warynski
Marc Coppey, cello
With a college class - Victor Hugo de Colmar (25 college students)

 

At 16h, workshop open to the public : come and prepare for your participation in the concert !

Dimitri Tchesnokov : Cantate de la paix (creation)
Ludwig van Beethoven : Hymne à la joie, extrait de la symphonie n°9 (adaptation)*
By the waters of Babylon (canon)*
Maurice Ravel : Trois chansons pour chœur à quatre voix
Chants militaires : Dans les tranchées de Lagny et La Strasbourgeoise (arrangements Brice Légée)
Anton Bruckner : Locus iste
Felix Mendelssohn : Herr, nun lassest du deinen Diener pour choeur et solistes
John Tavener : Svyati pour violoncelle et choeur
Philippe Hersant : Métamorphoses pour violoncelle et choeur

(*) participatory works


April

Tuesday, April 2, 2019Concert Obliques organised by Fondation Bettencourt SchuellerOpéra Comique à Paris

At this concert, the Metaboles will share the stage with Aedès (vocal ensemble) and la Maîtrise de l'Opéra comique.

Raymond Murray Schaffer, Miniwanka 
Johannes Brahms, Waldesnacht
Ēriks Ešenvalds, Stars
Georges Bizet, Habanera

Les Métaboles : 

Camille Saint Saëns : Calme des Nuits, Des pas dans l’allée
Maurice Ravel/Machuel : Le Jardin Féérique
Raymond Murray Schaffer : Magic songs 1, 3 et 9


February

February 1, 2, 3 2019L'envers du décor - Voix in situMusée de l'immigration à Paris

Music : Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Morton Feldman, Phil Glass, Clément Janequin, Oliver Knussen, Vytautas Miskinis, Zad Moultaka, Maurice Ravel, Rebecca Saunders, Murray Schafer, Eric Whitacre…
Performances, participatory choir

Coordination and staging : Antoine Gindt, assist by d'Élodie Brémaud

With :
Les Métaboles, direction Léo Warynski
Les Ballets confidentiels (Richard Dubelski, Johanne Saunier, Eléonore Lemaire)
Eric Houzelot, actor
Students of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs

coproduction : T&M-Paris, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Métaboles, ENSA


2018

December

Saturday, December 22 2018 - 7 pmMesse un jour ordinaireGennevilliers - Salle des Fêtes

Messe un jour ordinaire (Mass an ordinary day) revolves mainly around two texts: the ritual of Mass and the insignificant words of Laurence, a young woman adrift, an ordinary addict, who has now passed away, from a filmed document by Jean-Michel Carré, « Galère de femmes ». The two are confronted: the emphatic, dramatic, self-assured collective speech and the individual, modest, minimal, human and insignificant speech.


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Monday December 10th 2018 - 20:30Playing for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.


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Sunday December 9th 2018 - 17 pmPlaying for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.


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Saturday December 8th 2018 - 8:30 pmPlaying for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

Alongside the orchestra Les Siècles and Les Métaboles, and under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, 300 amateur instrumentalists and choir singers, including around fifty from Casablanca and Douala, all employees of Société Générale, have been preparing a unique concert at the Philarmonie de Paris, for over a year.


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October

Sunday October 28th 2018 - 7 pmYaël Naïm et Les MétabolesChapelle de la Trinité à Lyon

During her most recent concerts in Lyon, in particular at the Chapelle de la Trinité, Yaël Naïm celebrated the subtle melding of her songs with the strings of the Quatuor Debussy. This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.

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September

Sunday September 30th 2018 - 4:30 pm200 Motels - The suitesPhilharmonie de Paris

Transposition for the stage of 200 Motels, a hallucinatory film by Frank Zappa recording the life of a rock band on tour, 200 Motels - The Suites is an impressive musical/theatrical fresco, premiered in France.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The Headshakers
Léo Warynski, musical direction

 


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Thursday, September 27th, 2018 - 8:30 pmIo, frammento dal PrometeoFestival Musica - Eglise Saint-Paul, Strasbourg

Léo Warynski’s Les Métaboles decide to work, for the first time, with the score of the Italian Master.

If Aeschylus is to be believed, Io met Prometheus, in chains, while she was wandering aimlessly to escape from Hera’s vengeful jealousy. To craft the libretto of Io, frammento da Prometeo, Massimo Cacciari uses fragments of this drama, which he intertwines with excerpts from Hölderlin’s Song of destiny.
But when Luigi Nono seizes upon the textual matter, he rids it of all narrative intention and exploits its acoustic potential, considering that “in music, only sounds can speak”.

Les Métaboles
Solists of Multilatérale
Experimentalstudio des SWR
Léo Warynski, musical direction

 

 

 


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Saturday, September 22 2018choir conductor training
Friday September 21st 2018 - 8:30 pm 200 Motels - The suitesFestival Musica - Zénith de Strasbourg

Transposition for the stage of 200 Motels, a hallucinatory film by Frank Zappa recording the life of a rock band on tour, 200 Motels - The Suites is an impressive musical/theatrical fresco, premiered in France.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The Headshakers
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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August

Sunday August 26th 2018 - 12 amNature of thingsFestival de Royaumont - Abbaye de Royaumont

This show for 8 singers and electronic devices immerses us in the unique soundscape of the garden of Royaumont and questions the way we move, understand, communicate and exchange there. Inspired by the poem in Latin by the epicurean Titus Lucretius Carus, Se Rerum Natura, the work surrounds the audience with a whirlwind of sounds for an immersive concert experience, an experience of expression and understanding for the performers, of listening for the audience.


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Saturday August 25th 2018 - 4:30 pmNature of Things (world creation)Festival de Royaumont - Abbaye de Royaumont

This show for 8 singers and electronic devices immerses us in the unique soundscape of the garden of Royaumont and questions the way we move, understand, communicate and exchange there. Inspired by the poem in Latin by the epicurean Titus Lucretius Carus, Se Rerum Natura, the work surrounds the audience with a whirlwind of sounds for an immersive concert experience, an experience of expression and understanding for the performers, of listening for the audience.

 


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Tuesday August 14th 2018 - 8:30 pmJardin féériqueSemaines musicales de Quimper - Cathédrale St-Corentin, Quimper

This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten). The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of an soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.

Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Thursday August 9th 2018 - 9 pmLes grands airs d'opéra du mondeAbbaye de Nieul-sur-l'Autise

60 choir members will perform well-known opera works, including excerpts from West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein), Carmen (Georges Bizet), The Tales of Hofmann, (Jacques Offenbach), Nabucco, La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) or Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini).

Les Métaboles
The choir Polymnie


July

June 2018 Prix Bettencourt for choral singing

The 2018 Prix Liliane Bettencourt for choral singing (bestowed in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts) was awarded to the choir Les Métaboles, created in 2010 by Léo Warynski, dedicated to the repertoire for a capella choirs of the 20th and 21st centuries.


June 2018 Prix Bettencourt for choral singing

The 2018 Prix Liliane Bettencourt for choral singing (bestowed in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts) was awarded to the choir Les Métaboles, created in 2010 by Léo Warynski, dedicated to the repertoire for a capella choirs of the 20th and 21st centuries.


June

Friday June 29th 2018 - 8 pmLe Jour juste avant l'océanEglise Sainte Marie-Madeleine de Gennevilliers

This original project was born from a shared desire of the Ensemble Multilatérale and the Orchestre National de Jazz to come together for a singular creation, at the crossroads, with one unique and ambitious goal: the quest for the extraordinary. Long-time fellow traveller of Multilatérale, upholder of the concept of saturation, which also resonates strongly with the musical orientations of the ONF, Raphaël Cendo is the driving force behind this collaboration.


Saturday June 16th 2018 - 9 pmMysterious NativityAbbaye Saint-Vincent de Nieul-sur-l'Autise

Olfactory concert

The program of the record Mysterious Nativity was born from the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with the composer Dimitri Tchesnokov. Released in 2014 with Brilliant Classics it’s at the origin of this concert.


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Tuesday June 12th 2018 - 8:30pmEST/OUEST d'un continent à l'autreÉglise Saints-Pierre-et-Paul d'Eguisheim

Works by Nystedt, Poulenc, Tchesnokov, Schnittke, Britten, Copland...

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Chœur de chambre du Conservatoire de Colmar, direction Catherine Fender and the students of the choir direction class
Léo Warynski, musical direction


May

Friday May 18th 2018 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirAuditorium du Conservatoire de Gennevilliers

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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Saturday May 12th 2018 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre de la Criée (Marseille)

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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April

Wednesday April 6th 2018 Édition du prix Saint-Christophe du jeune compositeurCollège des Bernardins - Paris

Creations for choir and orchestra of the works of the six finalists of the competition for the Prix Saint Christophe du Jeune Compositeur

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Ensemble Multilatérale
Léo Warynski, direction


March

Sunday March 25th 2018 - 3 pmLa Sirène d'AuberThéâtre de Saint Dizier

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.


Sunday March 11th 2018 - 4 pmLa Sirène d'AuberScène nationale d'Albi

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.


Tuesday March 6th 2018 - 8:30 pm Les ombres qui passent - Ondřej Adámek (creation)Auditorium du CRD d'Aulnay-sous-Bois

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)


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Monday March 5th 2018 - 7 pmLes ombres qui passent - Ondřej Adámek (creation)Amphithéâtre de l'université Paris 8

Les Ombres qui passent, Ondrej Adamek

Les Métaboles
Orchestre du Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Seine-Saint-Denis Ile-de-France (Pôle Sup' 93)


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February

Sunday February 25th 2018 - 8 pmYaël NaïmPhilharmonie de Paris

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.


Saturday February 10th 2018 - 8:30 pmYaël NaïmThéâtre Sénart

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.


Friday February 9th 2018 - 8:30 pmYaël NaïmThéâtre Sénart

This time the singer focuses on the voice, the central element of her writing.

Over time, in her albums, Yaël Naïm has orchestrated many choirs: gospel style, children’s choirs, or the trio 3somesisters. This time, in keeping with this approach, it’s with the a capella vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, whose performances range from Puccini to Pink Floyd, from Bach to Debussy, that she will deliver a superb selection of original songs spiced up with some classics.


January

Friday 26 January - 8:30 pmLa Sirène d'AuberThéâtre Impérial de Compiègne

In partnership with les Frivolités Parisiennes.

La Sirène d’Auber is a screwball comedy that, in the manner of traditional Italian comedies, is filled with surprises and revelations. Ruses, loves and betrayals take place at a frenzied pace and then unravel. Desire, passion and power are at the heart of this sensual and transgressive fable that finds resolution only in the overthrowing of the established order. Though joy and comedy appear to be the major themes of the work, La Sirène is nevertheless a criticism of power and its abuses, finding a strong echo in today’s world.


2017

December

Monday 18th, Tuesday 19th, Wednesday 20th of December 2017 Un Noël allemandCollège des Bernardins - Paris

The ancient melody composed at the beginning of the 17th century by Michael Praetorius, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, finds an echo in the recent version by Jan Sandström with a double choir. This show is also an opportunity to reconnect with major works of the German choral tradition for Christmas, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Max Reger, and Christmas folk songs, Leise rieselt der SchneeStille NachtO Tannenbaum


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September

Sunday September 10th 2017 Rothko ChapelFestival Voix nouvelles de Royaumont - Abbaye de Royaumont

The Rothko Chapel is a “spiritual environment, a place for contemplation” (Feldman), located in Houston, commissioned by the collectors John and Dominique de Ménil and created by the painter Mark Rothko.

After years of work, in 1970, the unthinkable happens: the painter commits suicide. After the inauguration, the collectors commission a musical creation from Morton Feldman, a friend of Rothko’s, to resonate with the walls of the Rothko Chapel, but also to symbolize its spiritual elevation. Feldman delivers a very personal score, incorporating quite a few events from his life: a melody written on the day of Stravinsky’s funeral in New York; or the final movement of the alto, a Hebraic song he composed when he was fifteen.


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August

Thursday August 16th 2017 Une nuit américaineLes Semaines musicales de Quimper - Cathédrale Saint-Corentin

A program honoring American vocal music from the 20th and 21st centuries with emblematic composers from that country’s great choral tradition. Whether it’s Barber – and his famous Agnus Dei, but also his The Reincarnations, a cycle of songs based on Irish poems – Copland – a major figure of his generation, and author of an important body of choral works – or more recently Eric Whitacre, a young composer whose reputation has long spread beyond the borders of the United States.

To accompany this musical program, Quentin Bisch has imagined a cycle of four fragrances that lead the audience from dusk to dawn.


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July

Thursday July 20th 2017 700 ans de l'évêché de MaillezaisAbbaye de Maillezais

Anton Dvorak, New World Symphony,
Jacques Loussier, Messe

Les Métaboles (60 singers)
Orchestre des Pays de la Loire
Amateur choirs from the Pays de la Loire
Léo Warynski, direction


June

Wednesday June 21st 2017 Fête de la musique 2017La Défense

Works by Ravel, Haendel and Janequin

Les Métaboles
In collaboration with la Tempête and the Jean-Philippe Rameau children’s choir

Simon-Pierre Bestion, Christophe Junivart and Léo Warynski, direction


Saturday June 17th 2017 Jardin féériqueFestival des Voûtes célestes - Abbaye de Nieul-sur-l'Autise (Vendée)

This program is conceived like a walk in nature, forests, and gardens. The works sometimes evoke an enchanted forest (La Ronde or Le Jardin Féerique by Ravel), then animals (le Chant des Oiseaux by Janequin), or flowers (Flower Songs by Britten).

The music of Murray Schafer (A Garden of Bells, The Spirit Garden) and Diana Soh (Nature of Things, a commission for Les Métaboles), develops the idea of a soundscape: a fascinating combination of vocal movements, percussions, onomatopoeia, evocations of rituals that reveal the metaphysical dimension of the relationship between man and nature.

Les Métaboles (16 to 24 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction

 


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April

Saturday April 22nd 2017 Playing for LondonLondres, Angleterre

Works for choir and orchestra by Berlioz, Haendel, Verdi and Fauré

Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
Vocal ensemble Les Métaboles
François-Xavier Roth, direction


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Friday April 14th 2017 O sacrum conviviumCouvent des Dominicains de Guebwiller

Works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Lotti, Purcell, Hersant, Mendelssohn, Schütz, Hersant, etc.

Les Métaboles
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola de gamba
Denis Comtet, organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction


January

Thursday January 19th 2017 Concordance des temps, de Schütz à HersantLycée Saint-Louis - Paris

Concordance des Temps, de Schütz à Hersant is an olfactory concert.
The program: works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Bach, Monteverdi, Hersant, Mendelssohn.

Les Métaboles (18 singers)
Viola de gamba and organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction


2016

December

Friday December 2nd 2016 Une nuit américaineÉglise des Billettes

Concert for the release of the record « Une Nuit Américaine »

Works for a capella choir by Barber, Lauridsen, Copland, Whitacre, Stucky...

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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November

Sunday 6th and Monday 7th of November 2016 Playing for PhilharmoniePhilharmonie de Paris

Varied program for orchestra and choir

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestra and choir Société Générale
Orchestra Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth, direction


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October

Tuesday October 4th 2016 Mysterious NativityFestival Musica - Église Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune de Strasbourg

Works for choir and organ by Pärt, Sviridov, Miskinis, Tchesnokov...
Les Métaboles
Organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction


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September

Thursday September 22nd 2016 2001, L’odyssée de l'espace - ciné-concertFestival Musica - Palais de la musique de Strasbourg

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Adrian Prabava; direction


June

Monday June 6th 2016 Concordance des temps, de Schütz à HersantFestival des Voûtes célestes - Abbaye de Nieul-sur-Autise

Concordance des Temps, de Schütz à Hersant is an olfactory concert.
The program: works for choir, organ, viola de gamba and basso continuo by Bach, Monteverdi, Hersant, Mendelssohn.

Les Métaboles (18 singers)
Viola de gamba and organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction


May

Monday May 30th 2016 Polyphonies sacrées des XXe et XXIe sièclesInstitut français de Bulgarie, Sofia

2nd edition of the festival of sacred music of Sofia .
Works for a capella choir by Poulenc, Tchesnokov, Britten, Parry, Duruflé.

Les Métaboles (16 singers)
Léo Warynski, musical direction


March

Wednesday March 30th 2016 Concert anniversaire NomadmusicMains d'œuvre - Saint-Ouen

Excerpts from the program: « Une Nuit Américaine »
Works for a capella choir by Barber and Whitacre

Les Métaboles (24 singers)
Léo Warynski, direction


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Tuesday March 22nd 2016 Ambassador's dayEspace Grande Arche - la Défense

Varied works for a capella choir: folk songs from Cameroun, Hymn by Jean Racine, etc.

Les Métaboles (20 singers)
Chœur de la Société Générale Cameroun
Léo Warynski, musical direction