This year, I had the pleasure of being welcomed as artist in residence at the 4th edition of the Royan-Orgues Festival, whose crowning moment will be the world premiere of my piece Post Tenebras Lux for organ, SATB choir, brass quintet, percussion and quadraphonic electronics, at the closing concert on October 21 at 8:30 pm at Notre-Dame Church in Royan.
Commissioned by ADOR, Post Tenebras Lux will be performed by Masaki Shiozawa (organ), the Ars Nova ensemble (brass and percussion), the Ensemble vocal Coup de Chœur de La Rochelle, the Ensemble vocal du conservatoire de Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Thierry Delacour (keyboard) and myself (electronics), under the direction of conductor Jérôme Pillement.
It is an immense privilege to be performed by such prestigious musicians in a church whose Boisseau organ is renowned worldwide, even if I must admit that the six-second reverberation of this imposing brutalist architectural work is a real challenge, both for the composition and for the quadraphonic diffusion.
Before this grand finale, six other events will also close my residency:
Tickets for the closing concert can be booked here: https://royan-orgues.fr/billetterie.
I would like to thank Emmanuelle Piaud and Sylvain Kuntzmann warmly for their trust, as well as ADOR and the Royan Atlantique Tourist Office for funding this residency and the associated commissions, with the support of SACEM and CNM.
Commissioned by ADOR, Post Tenebras Lux will be performed by Masaki Shiozawa (organ), the Ars Nova ensemble (brass and percussion), the Ensemble vocal Coup de Chœur de La Rochelle, the Ensemble vocal du conservatoire de Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Thierry Delacour (keyboard) and myself (electronics), under the direction of conductor Jérôme Pillement.
It is an immense privilege to be performed by such prestigious musicians in a church whose Boisseau organ is renowned worldwide, even if I must admit that the six-second reverberation of this imposing brutalist architectural work is a real challenge, both for the composition and for the quadraphonic diffusion.
Before this grand finale, six other events will also close my residency:
- On October 13 at 6:30 pm at Église de Saujon, October 15 at 6:30 pm at the Temple de La Tremblade, and October 17 at 3 pm at Église Notre-Dame de Royan, my electroacoustic piece Cara will be given its world premiere. It is composed solely from sounds collected across the Royan area by myself and by local residents.
- On Monday, October 19 at 2:30 pm at the Palais des Congrès, Saintonge room, my piece Sídhe will be performed again in its arrangement for organ and violin.
- On Monday, October 19 at 6:00 pm at the Palais des Congrès, Saintonge room, I will give a talk (in French) titled Electronic Instruments, an Art of Illusion
- On Wednesday, October 21 at 3:30 pm at the Palais des Congrès, I will take part in Paroles d’artistes, which features public interviews (in French) with festival artists.
Tickets for the closing concert can be booked here: https://royan-orgues.fr/billetterie.
I would like to thank Emmanuelle Piaud and Sylvain Kuntzmann warmly for their trust, as well as ADOR and the Royan Atlantique Tourist Office for funding this residency and the associated commissions, with the support of SACEM and CNM.