Tisser des Braises

Pianist Nina Maghsoodloo and composer Sébastien Béranger join forces for “Tisser des braises,” a new stage work at the intersection of piano, electronics and electroacoustic composition. The program features works by Farzia Fallah, Mark Applebaum, Farnaz Modarresifar and Sébastien Béranger, shaped by improvisation.

Organized by: ENSEMBLE TELEMAQUE

Since its founding in Marseille in 1994, the Télémaque ensemble has been devoted to creating and presenting the music of our time. Composers from the south such as Georges Boeuf, Régis Campo and Pierre-Adrien Charpy, 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, Lynn Plowman… have received commissions from the ensemble, which champions the broadest possible aesthetic openness.

In the 2000s, under the impetus of Raoul Lay, the Télémaque music company developed an original approach to 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 in the service of 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 events in France and abroad: Festival d’Ile de France, Festival Présences at Radio-France, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Auditorium National de Madrid, Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, Enescu Festival 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 its commitment to new works, Télémaque is dedicated to sparking curiosity and bringing every contemporary musical style to audiences everywhere. To this end, it has developed work specifically for young audiences, with performances for child spectators (Nokto, La mort Marraine, La revue de Cuisine), involving young 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 in the ECO (European Contemporary Orchestra) project, an acoustic and electric ensemble of 33 musicians devoted to new music, Télémaque joined the Pôle Instrumental Contemporain (PIC) in 2013 and embarked on a local project that earned it the Atelier de Fabrique artistique label, awarded in 2016 by the Ministry of Culture.

In 2016, in co-production with around fifteen regional organizations, the company organized a special event entitled Grandes musiques pour petites oreilles. The success of the first two editions gave rise in 2019 to Tous en sons, the first national festival of music for young audiences, now independent, with Télémaque remaining a supporter and close partner.

Since 2018, Télémaque and Raoul Lay have led the October Lab project, an international platform for musical creation and exchange. From 2019, the ensemble has travelled to perform in Shanghai, Nanning, and soon Montreal, 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 במסגרת this program that “Trois Corolles,” a work by Pierre-Adrien Charpy, was created for students at eight conservatories in the Sud region across three departments, involving more than two hundred and fifty participants, including students, teachers and Télémaque professionals.

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