Trio SR9 joins singer Kyrie Kristmanson for a concert with the Venus Rising program as part of the Présences Compositrices festival this Friday, April 25th at Abbaye de la Celle (FR) at 8pm!

“Women must write themselves: women must write of women, and bring women to writing, from which they have been as violently estranged as they have been from their bodies.” It was with these words by Hélène Cixous in mind that Trio SR9 and Kyrie Kristmanson built this new “Venus Rising” repertoire. How have women composers set their sacred and/or profane bodies and desires to music over the centuries? Together, they aim to bring to the fore a repertoire made up exclusively of works by women, spanning eight hundred years of musical writing, from Baroque, Classical and Romantic melodies to the music of today. Venus Rising criss-crosses the ages through original arrangements carried by Kyrie Kristmanson's voice and the various percussion instruments of Trio SR9: marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel and prepared piano.

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This week, Nicolas Simon conducts the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence in Zaïde for two performances, with composition/orchestration by Robin Melchior and staging by Louise Vignaud.

Come and applaud them on Friday April 25th at 8pm and Sunday April 27th at 2:30 pm.

Uplifted by Mozart's sovereign music, this initiatory fable transports us to a supernatural, timeless world, and tells the story of three isolated orphans who are soon confronted with an unexpected encounter. Through the adventures of Zaide and her companions, she will soon confirm that only the test of the stranger is truly emancipating, and that we cannot dream of freedom without shedding our prejudices...
A rare and privileged opportunity to hear a new Mozart for the first time, reminding us that theater is always a moment of openness to others and to differences, and in this sense a true experience of shared humanity.

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The creation of Chanteurs d'Oiseaux and Ardeo Quartet: Quand les oiseaux nous font rêver (When birds make us dream), the unusual association of bird singers (Jean Boucault & Johnny Rasse) and the Ardeo string quartet for a highly original musical project.

Join us this Sunday, April 27th at 11am. at Tournai's Maison de la Culture (BELG) for this unique experience!

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With the complicity of bandéonist Jean-Baptiste Henry, the Quatuor Voce takes to the high seas!

Together, they will be performing the program from their forthcoming CD “Figures argentines” as part of the Festival Classique au large, next to the sea, this Saturday, April 26th at the Palais du Grand Large in Saint-Malo (FR) at 5:30pm.

Karine Deshayes & l'Ensemble Contraste are in recital at La Monnaie in Brussels this evening at 8pm!

Together, they take us on a journey through the Central Europe of yesteryear: they will be mixing tunes such as Maurice Ravel's Kaddish, Kurt Weill's Youkali and Antonín Dvořák's Gypsy Melodies with the instrumental dances of Béla Bartók, the chamber music of Gustav Mahler, and the moving soundtrack composed by John Williams for Schindler's List.

‘Europe - A Prayer' is a vigorous plea for diversity as a source of richness and for art as a means of bringing people together.

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Gabriel Rignol is in recital at the Palais du Grand Large in Saint-Malo (FR) this Saturday, April 26th at 4pm as part of the Classique au Large festival with a program of French music entitled “La grotte de Versailles”, Robert de Visée is in the spotlight!

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The Quatuor Hermès is once again the guest of the Easter Festival in Deauville (FR) this weekend, with a program of Beethoven - Franck!

Join them at the Salle Elie de Brignac at 8pm this Friday, April 25th.

This week, Juliette Hurel & Isabelle Moretti record a duo for Harmonia Mundi. Scheduled for release in May 2026.

The flute and the harp, the very first instruments of our Humanity, with their spellbinding sonorities. Juliette Hurel & Isabelle Moretti, two emblematic figures of their instruments on the international music scene and long-time accomplices, have chosen to take you on a journey through their preferred repertoire, French music of the 20th century. Following in the footsteps of such composers as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy (including a previously unpublished transcription of the Suite Bergamasque), this is an enchanted voyage, full of color, silence, delicacy, smiles and lightness. Other little-played composers (whom Juliette and Isabelle want to bring to light!) will enhance this journey: Clémence de Grandval, Eugène Bozza and naval officer Jean Cras. 

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