Les Métaboles
vocal ensemble

Created in 2010 under the impetus of Léo Warynski, the ensemble Les Métaboles brings together professional singers who are committed to the a cappella repertoire.
While a large part of Les Métaboles' activity is devoted to the a cappella repertoire, collaborations with orchestras and instrumental ensembles are 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 the commissioning of works, the creation and dissemination 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) is released, the ensemble's fourth album after Jardin féérique (NoMadMusic - 2020), Une nuit américaine (NoMadMusic - 2016) and Mysterious Nativity (Brilliant Classic - 2014). Unanimously acclaimed by the critics, these recordings have established Les Métaboles as one of the best French choirs, as much for its vocal excellence (accuracy, sound color, homogeneity of timbre...) as for the originality of the repertoires chosen.
Les Métaboles receive the support of the DRAC Grand Est as a subsidized ensemble, of the Grand Est region, of the Haut-Rhin department, and of the Caisse des Dépôts, a major sponsor. The Société Générale Foundation C'est vous l'avenir 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. - lesmetaboles.fr 

Multilateral
musical ensemble

For the past 15 years, the Ensemble has been fully imposing this "multilaterality" which characterizes it, dear to its artistic director Yann Robin: dissemination of the ensemble repertoire, defense of varied aesthetics, collaboration with other artistic fields such as musical theater, dance, digital arts, cinema.... The presence of Léo Warynski as musical director offers yet another dimension by allowing regular collaborations with the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles.
This artistic openness coupled with a team of excellent, curious and committed musicians offers an ideal space of expression and experimentation for creators, giving rise to innovative projects, with partners such as Ircam, Le Fresnoy Centre national des arts contemporains, the GMEM, the Muse en Circuit or the Experimental Studio SWR Freiburg Thus Multilatérale has progressively established itself as a major player in French musical creation, performing in festivals such as Manifeste, Présences, Musica as well as internationally: Controtempo (Rome), the Venice Biennale, Archipel (Geneva), X-Tract (Berlin), Sinkro (Spain)...
Concerned with accompanying the emergence of young composers, Multilatérale has always paid particular attention to the transmission. The Ensemble has collaborated with numerous composition classes, including those of the CNSMDP and the Conservatoire de Gennevilliers, as well as with composition academies (Sermoneta, Barga, Royaumont). In 2022, for the second consecutive season, the Ensemble will also be associated with the Philharmonie de Paris for the Tremplin de la création concert which honors the young generation of European composers. - multilaterale.fr 

Yann Robin
composer

French composer, Yann Robin began his musical studies in Aix-en-Provence. He then entered the jazz class of the CNR of Marseille and at the same time joined the composition class of Georges Boeuf. At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he obtained his composition prizes in the class of Frédéric Durieux and analysis in that of Michaël Levinas. He received a scholarship from the Meyer Foundation, a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and from the Salabert Foundation. In 2011, the Sacem awarded him the Grand Prix de la Musique Symphonique. From 2006 to 2008, he attended the two-year computer science course at Ircam.
From 2004 onwards, he began a long collaboration with Alain Billard, clarinettist and soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, for whom he wrote his Art of Metal cycle, composed of three pieces based on the metal contrabass clarinet. From this collaboration is born in 2012 a monographic disc Vulcano / Art of Metal - Label Kairos collection Sirènes - with Ircam and the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Susanna Mälkki (Diapason d'Or, " Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik ", Coup de Coeur de l'Académie Charles Cros).
His music has been performed in France as well as abroad in venues such as the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), the KKL (Lucerne), the Lincoln Center or the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Konzerthaus (Vienna), La Casa da Musica (Porto), the Wigmore Hall (London) as well as in festivals such as Manifeste, Donaueschingen, Musica, Venice Biennale, Présences, Gaudeamus, Lucern Festival, Darmstadt... He collaborates with numerous ensembles and orchestras such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Klangforum of Vienna, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Seattle Symphony... He works with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Alan Gilbert, François-Xavier Roth, Laurence Équilbey, Pierre-André Valade... In 2005, he founds the Ensemble Multilatérale with other composers and becomes its artistic director. From 2009 to 2010, he was a resident at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, where he initiated a new festival of contemporary music, the Festival Controtempo, which he still programs.
His music is published by Éditions Jobert. 

Leo Warynski
composer 

Open-minded and versatile, Léo Warynski trained as a conductor with François-Xavier Roth (CNSMD de Paris) and has since conducted a large number of orchestras in France and throughout the world. He is regularly invited by the Orchestre National d'Ile de France, the Orchestre de Normandie, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Orchestra of Colombia. His taste for voice and opera has led him to conduct lyrical productions, notably at the Nice Opera(Akhnaten, Orpheus in the Underworld), the Avignon Opera(Carmen, Three Lunar Seas) and the Paris Opera Academy, with whom he performed Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia in May 2021. Among his engagements this season are concerts with the Strasbourg Orchestra, the Orchestra of Colombia, the Regional Orchestra of Normandy, the CNSM of Paris, as well as opera productions with the Opera of Nice and the Opera of Avignon. Léo Warynski is the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles which he founded in 2010. In 2014, he was appointed musical director of the ensemble Multilatérale, an instrumental ensemble dedicated to creation.
In 2020, he was named Musical Personality of the Year by the Syndicat de la Critique. 

Matteo Cesari
flutist

Artist-performer and researcher fond of contemporary music, Matteo Cesari (Bologna, 1985) performs as a soloist all over the world, from Europe to Asia, from Australia to the Americas. His alreadỳ rich musical path leads him from Italy to Strasbourg (Mario Caroli) and up to the Paris Conservatory (Sophie Cherrier) and the University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne), where he obtained in April 2015 his Doctorate in Interpretation - Research and Practice, with the congratulations of the jury for his thesis on the interpretation of time in Salvatore Sciarrino's L'orologio di Bergson and Brian Ferneyhough's Carceri d'Invenzione IIb. Winner of several international competitions, he won the prestigious Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in Darmstadt.
His passion for the music of today leads him to collaborate with many composers and artists of today such as Salvatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough, Alberto Posadas, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Hugues Dufourt, Stefano Gervasoni, Ivan Fedele, Péter Eötvös, Michael Finnissy, Marco Momi, Pierluigi Billone, Barbara Hannigan, Stéphane Degout, Otto Katzameier, Christian Dierstein, Carolin Widmann, Cédric Tiberghien and Maurizio Pollini.
He has performed in major concert halls and festivals in Europe (Philharmonie de Paris, Köln Philharmonie, Festival d'Automne, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musica in Strasbourg, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musikverein Wien, Wien Modern, Luxembourg Philharmonic), China (Shanghai New Music Week), Japan (Toppan Hall for Maurizio Pollini Project), Australia and the Americas (Italian Academy in New York, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires). As a soloist, he has performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, BBC Scottish Orchestra (Matthias Pintscher dir.) and Guanajuato Symphony. He has also collaborated with several orchestras and ensembles such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Pappano dir.), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Multilatérale, Ensemble Court-Circuit, Ensemble Sillages, Contrechamps, and Nieuw Ensemble.
He has held master classes and seminars organized by the Shanghai Conservatory (China), Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo), Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and the University of London (UK). He teaches electroacoustic music performance at Pôle Sup '93 and IRCAM as well as being an assistant in Salvatore Sciarrino's composition class at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy each summer.
He has recently recorded the complete three-CD set of Salvatore Sciarrino's solo flute works for the KAIROS label. - www.matteocesari.eu

Laura Muller
mezzo

After a master's degree and literary studies, Laura Muller studied opera singing in Paris where she obtained a DEM in 2018 with unanimous congratulations of the jury. The following year she perfected her skills in the repertoire of Lied and melody in the class of Françoise Tillard. She is a laureate of the Académie des Paris Frivoles in 2019.
She performs regularly with vocal ensembles such as Les Métaboles (conducted by Léo Warynski) and Sequenza 9.3 (conducted by Catherine Simonpietri), in which she explores contemporary repertoire and new works, as a choir member or as a soloist.
She is often invited as a solo viola player by the Centre de musique de chambre de Paris (conducted by Jerôme Pernoo) for the cycle of cantatas entitled "Bach and breakfast". In 2022, she played the solo viola part in the St. John Passion with the Concert d'Astrée and the Hemiolia Ensemble. She regularly participates in the productions and concerts of Parole et Musique (direction Françoise Tillard). She has notably sung the role of Gontran in Une Éducation manquée by Chabrier, or the role of Mazet in La Colombe by Gounod. She will soon be invited to perform a recital program around Ravel's Chansons Madécasses.
In 2023, she will create Franck Bedrossian's piece for solo mezzosoprano Départs de feu, for France Musique's Creation mondiale program, and then at the Zagreb Biennale.