Tana Quartet
quartet

Since 2010, the TANA Quartet has enjoyed combining their scores in all tenses. Driven by the desire to create, TANA combines aesthetics, decompartmentalizes them, confronts them, compares them, reinventing the link between past and future, forging its own tradition. The quartet honors several commissions per season, performs in the most famous concert halls - from the Philharmonie de Paris to the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, as well as the Villa Medici in Rome and the Konzerthaus in Vienna - and has won many prestigious prizes: 1st HSBC Laureate of the Academy of the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Coup de Coeur of the Académie Charles Cros, Fuga Prize, Octaves de la musique. The TANA Quartet is a recognized player in contemporary music, working in close collaboration with composers from all over the world, having premiered more than 250 works, including those of Ivan Fedele, Philippe Hurel, Hèctor Parra, and many others. His discography includes twelve albums, including Shadows, which contributed to the rise of the saturation movement; the complete string quartets of Philip Glass (CHOC Classica 2018); and most recently Bleu Ébène, featuring the complete string quartets of composer David Achenberg. The TANA Quartet has also turned to musical research, becoming the privileged partner of several national creation centers such as IRCAM, GMEM, GRAME, Art Zoyd, and the Centre Henri Pousseur. In 2015 the quartet created its own electroacoustic instruments, the TanaInstruments. TANA then signed with composer Juan Gonzalo Arroyo the first piece for TanaInstruments, Smaqra, a composition that called for others gathered on the VOLTS disc, marking "a milestone in the history of the quartet genre" (classiquenews.com).

Ensemble Multilatérale
instrumental ensemble

After nearly 15 years of existence, the Ensemble fully imposes this "multilaterality" which characterizes it, dear to its artistic director Yann Robin. Very attached to the diffusion of the ensemble repertoire and to the defense of varied aesthetics, Multilateral is also keen to embrace other artistic fields (musical theater, dance, digital arts, literature, cinema...). The arrival in 2013 of Léo Warynski as musical director offers a new and original dimension to the project by allowing regular collaborations with the Ensemble vocal les Métaboles of which he is also the musical director. Thus Multilatérale has progressively established itself as a major player in French musical creation, performing at festivals such as Manifeste, Présences, Musica, Les musiques as well as at the Operas of Nîmes and Nancy, the Théâtre de Caen, the T2G, the national stage of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Multilateral has also developed its international presence by being invited to the Cervantino Festival (Mexico), Controtempo (Rome), the Venice Biennale, Archipelago (Geneva), Sound ways (Saint Petersburg) and has established a privileged relationship with South East Asia through 3 tours in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Anxious to accompany the emergence of young composers, Multilateral has always paid particular attention to transmission and this year has initiated a new University of composition with an international dimension ARCO (Art, Research and Creation Opus 2019), in partnership with Les Métaboles, the Tana Quartet, the GMEM and the Mozarteum, University of Music of Salzburg. The 2020-21 season will be marked, among other things, by the revival of Le Papillon Noir, an opera by Yann Robin (libretto: Yannick Haenel, staging: Arthur Nauzyciel) at the Théâtre de la Renaissance as part of the Grame season and at the Théâtre national de Bretagne, the creations of Scarecrow, a film-concert by Martin Matalon based on three short films by Buster Keaton, andEnfances by Karl Naegelen, based on a text by Elise Caron, as well as the first edition of the Festival Ensemble(s) initiated and co-organized with the ensembles Cairn, Court-circuit, 2e2M and Sillages, and the first collaboration with the Philharmonie de Paris for a Nouvelle Vague concert that will honor the young generation of European composers. The Multilateral Ensemble is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Île-de-France. Multilatérale is also supported by the SPEDIDAM and the SACEM for all its activities. It is a member of the Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés (FEVIS) and the Futurs Composés network.

Les Métaboles
vocal ensemble

Created in 2010 under the impetus of Léo Warynski, Les Métaboles brings together professional singers committed to the a cappella choir repertoire. Its name, inspired by a piece by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), written around the idea of metamorphosis, evokes the choir's ability to transform itself according to the repertory, while emphasizing its anchorage in the era of time. The ensemble is dedicated to the full range of the choral repertoire and performs it for a varied audience. While a large part of the ensemble's activity is devoted to the a cappella repertoire, collaborations with orchestras and instrumental ensembles are also part of its musical season. Thus the ensemble is occasionally associated with the orchestra Les Siècles, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Orchestre de Normandie, the Ensemble intercontemporain or the ensemble Multilatérale. Les Métaboles are regularly invited to prestigious festivals and concert halls in France and Europe (Philharmonie de Paris, Musica festival in Strasbourg, Ribeauvillé festival, Musicales de Normandie in Rouen, Festival Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont, Mainz Opera in Germany, Mozarteum in Salzburg). Olfactory concerts, combining music with the work of the perfumer Quentin Bisch, are also part of the productions offered by the ensemble. Les Métaboles reserve an important place for today's composers through commissioned works, the creation and diffusion of the repertoire of living composers. They also invest in the training of professionals through the ARCO composition academy and through training courses for young choral conductors. In 2021, The Angels (NoMadMusic) will be released, the ensemble's fourth album after Jardin féérique (NoMadMusic - 2020), Une nuit américaine (NoMadMusic - 2016) and Mysterious Nativity (BrilliantClassic - 2014). Unanimously acclaimed by the critics, these recordings impose the Métaboles among the best French choirs, as much by its vocal excellence (accuracy, sound color, homogeneity of timbre...) as by the originality of the chosen repertoires. In 2018, the ensemble Les Métaboles was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt prize for choral singing, in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts.Les Métaboles are in residence at the Royaumont Abbey and will be in residence at the Cité Musicale-Metz from September 2021. Les Métaboles receive the support of the Drac Grand Est as a subsidized ensemble, the Grand Est region, the Haut-Rhin department, the Spedidam and the Caisse des Dépôts, Grand mécène. Mécénat Musical Société Générale is the main sponsor of the ensemble. Les Métaboles, winner of the 2018 Liliane Bettencourt Prize for choral singing, is supported by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. Les Métaboles is a member of the Fevis, the Futurs Composés network and Profedim.