La Nébuleuse / Gabriel Rignol

Founded in 2021 under the leadership of lutenist Gabriel Rignol, the ensemble La Nébuleuse brings together singers and instrumentalists, most of them graduates of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon. The watchword of this young ensemble is innovation: La Nébuleuse offers the public the chance to hear little-known and often unpublished works, using unusual instrumental forces, and proposes to diversify and reinvent, on the basis of informed historical research, the ways of interpreting the musical narrative forms of seventeenth-century Europe (operas, Italian dialoghi, madrigals, oratorios, etc.).
The complicity that reigns between the members of the ensemble (winners of prestigious international prizes) testifies to their desire to renew the links between musicians, whether singers or instrumentalists, and to their questioning of the role of a conductor. 

The ensemble La Nébuleuse is deeply convinced that baroque music is profoundly universal. Thanks to the genius of the composers of that era, the ensemble wishes to show that it is accessible to all, and invites the public to embark with its musicians on stories and narratives that still captivate, move and transport. 
The ensemble has collaborated with a number of French and European institutions and structures on creation residencies, including Les Grands Concerts in 2021, the CNSMDL in 2021, Le Phare Cité Musicale in 2021, Harmonia Sacra Tremplin in 2022-2023, the Cité de la Voix as part of Les Quotidiennes in 2023, and the Muzyka w Raju festival (PL), for which the ensemble is in residence until 2026. 

In 2024, the ensemble recorded its first album for the Musica Ficta label. Mirroring the ensemble's philosophy, it is devoted to little-known motets composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, dedicated to a singular ensemble, at the crossroads between the grand and the petit motet.