Étoile
Sun, 11 Apr 2027Afternoon
About this event
Étoile is a project of original compositions for voice and jazz septet led by composer, arranger and singer Nedjma Bachi. The project takes its name from her first name, Nedjma, which means “star” in Kabyle. This image became the starting point for a first introspective EP about spirituality, light and the search for meaning.
Organization: ENSEMBLE TELEMAQUE
Since its formation in Marseille in 1994, Ensemble Télémaque has been dedicated to creating and performing contemporary works. Georges Boeuf, Régis Campo and Pierre-Adrien Charpy, composers from the south, as well as Thierry Machuel, Jean-Luc Hervé, Tatiana Catanzaro, François Narboni, Kasia Glowicka, Bernard Cavanna, Ivan Fedele, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Bekah Simms, Richard Baker, James Callahan and Lynn Plowman… receive commissions from the ensemble, which champions the broadest possible range of aesthetics.
In the 2000s, under the impetus of Raoul Lay, the Télémaque music company developed original ways of combining music with other performing arts. Olivier Py, Bernard Kudlak (cirque Plume), Catherine Marnas, Nathalie Pernette and Frédéric Flamand are among Télémaque’s artistic partners, working with music by Mauricio Kagel, Steve Reich and Raoul Lay himself.
The ensemble has also always performed in concert at the most innovative music venues and festivals in France and abroad: Festival d’Ile de France, Festival Présences at Radio-France, Cité de la Musique de Paris, Auditorium National de Madrid, Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, Festival Enescu in Bucharest, Salle Flagey in Brussels, Venice Biennale, New Music Week in Shanghai, CCK in Buenos Aires, Spring Festival in Malta… Over the past ten years, Télémaque has performed in more than 15 countries.
Alongside creating new works, Télémaque is committed to awakening curiosity and bringing every style of contemporary music to everyone, everywhere. To this end, it has developed a special program for young audiences, aimed at children as spectators (Nokto, La mort Marraine, La revue de Cuisine) or as participating singers (La jeune fille aux mains d’argent, King Kong) and/or percussionists (Nous d’ici-bas).
After serving in 2011 as the lead ensemble for the ECO (European Contemporary Orchestra) project, an acoustic and electric group of 33 musicians dedicated to creating new works, Télémaque joined the Pôle Instrumental Contemporain (PIC) in 2013 and embarked on a local-area project that earned it the Atelier de Fabrique artistique designation, awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 2016.
In 2016, in co-production with around fifteen regional organizations, the company organized a major event titled Grandes musiques pour petites oreilles. The success of the first two editions led to the launch in 2019 of Tous en sons, the first national youth music festival, now independent but with Télémaque remaining a supporter and close partner.
Since 2018, Télémaque and Raoul Lay have been running the October Lab project, an international platform for musical creation and exchange. From 2019, the ensemble has traveled to perform in Shanghai, Nanning, and soon Montréal, Winnipeg, Cardiff…
In 2021 and 2022, during the lockdown period, Télémaque created the Mondes Sonores en Territoire program, supported by the Centre National de la Musique. It was in this context that « Trois Corolles », a work by Pierre-Adrien Charpy, was created for students at eight conservatories in Région Sud across three departments, involving more than two hundred and fifty participants, including students, teachers and Télémaque professionals.
