Cité de la Voix - National Vocal Arts Center

From January 1, 2023, Les Métaboles, vocal ensemble directed by Léo Warynski. are all associated with the Cité de la Voix.

On the strength of complicit and demanding work begun several months ago, this new association is perfectly in line with the continuity of the missions of the Center national d'art vocal as much as it represents a new major artistic stage under the sign of a vision audacious about the future of choral music. The multiple collaboration spaces will make it possible to intensify the influence of vocal music - particularly a cappella - in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, of which the Cité de la Voix with the associated ensemble represent the epicenter in terms of creation, distribution, transmission, training and development of the resource

 The ensemble Les Métaboles will thus occupy a central place at the Rencontres musicales de Vézelay and in the public season (2023: Alfred Schnittke, Concerto for choir); will participate in structuring educational projects ("100% choir" Auxerre and Gray) and in the training of young conductors by reinforcing not only the international ambition of the Choral Conducting Academy (co-direction Léo Warynski and Daniel Reuss in 2023) but also through an unprecedented tutoring system from 2024.

Finally, constant attention to sharing the vocal repertoire everywhere and for everyone will guide all the projects initiated between Les Métaboles and La Cité de la Voix – choice of forms, concerts outside the walls, transversality of disciplines, diversity and originality of repertoires, cultural actions and public participation – in a spirit of curiosity, creativity and openness, continually ensuring the involvement of actors from the fields of economic, social and cultural life in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

CITÉ DE LA VOIX - RESIDENCE

2023
Recording for CDAC
"100% chorale" in Gray and Auxerre
“Free Songs” season of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Académie de direction de choeur
Choir Conducting Academy
Rencontres musicales de Vézelay
Christmas concert

2024
"100% chorale" in Gray and Auxerre
“Free Songs” season of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundatio
​​​​​​​Rencontres musicales de Vézelay

2024

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

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....

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

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)

May

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.
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.
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)

August

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.

July

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

June

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...

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.

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.

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)

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 

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

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