Purpose of residency: recording of works for children's choir and school orchestra.
This project, piloted since 2021 by the Ensemble C Barré and in collaboration with the Busserine elementary school and the Pythéas middle school, involves developing instrumental and vocal practice in Marseille's 14th arrondissement through musical creation. Les Pupitres du Grand Saint Barthélémy is an orchestra made up of 18 mandolinists, 10 cellists and 8 percussionists from Busserine elementary school. For the past 3 years, they have been taking part in weekly instrumental training through a demanding artistic project.
The Grand Saint Barthélémy choir is made up of students from Busserine and Saint Barthélémy les Flamants elementary schools and Pythéas middle school.
Each year, the students are offered a musical creation specially designed for solo orchestra and for choir and orchestra.
In 2024, composer Caroline Marçot will be in residence with these two young groups, composing a new work lasting around 12 minutes.
Partnership
Association Orchestre à l'École; Busserine elementary school; Espace Culturel Busserine; Lieux Publics, national center and European creative hub; Saint Barthélémy les Flamants school; Pythéas secondary school and LE ZEF - scène nationale de Marseille.
Support
Ville de Marseille; Mécénat Musical Société Général; Fondation Orange; Fondation Logirem; Fondation BNP Paribas; Cité éducative M14 and association OAE.
C Barré, ensemble associated with GMEM - Centre national de création musicale, partner of the Orchestre à l'école association.
The ensemble is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture DRAC-PACA, the Conseil Régional Sud - PACA, the Département des Bouches-du-Rhône and the Ville de Marseille, and receives support from Sacem, the Institut Français, Impuls Neue Musik, the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation, the Politique de la Ville, the label des Cités éducatives, the Fondation Logirem and BNP Paribas.
Fondation d'entreprise Société Générale C'est vous l'avenir and Fondation Orange are the main sponsors of Ensemble C Barré.
Member of FEVIS, PROFEDIM, Futurs Composés and Temp'óra.
Sébastien Boin
Artistic director, conductor
He is one of a new generation of conductors with a passion for musical creation, who have vigorously forged their own ensemble in their own image. The result is the instrumental ensemble C Barré, dedicated to musical creation, with which he experiments with the dual responsibilities of artistic and musical direction.
An enthusiast of both instrumental and vocal music, whose practices he believes are naturally complementary, he has a dual career as a conductor and choral director.
In 2015, at the request of the University of Aix-Marseille, he created OSAMU & Co, the symphony orchestra of Aix-Marseille University and the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille, of which he is artistic and musical director.
In 2016, he was invited by the Festival d'Aix to conduct Ana Sokolovic's opera Svadba during a three-year international tour.
He currently teaches choral conducting at the CFMI in Aix-en-Provence and orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire de Marseille.
Ensemblé C Barré, direction Sébastien Boin
artistic direction
Jean Marc Seignobos
conductor
Isabelle Lorenzino
school music teacher
Raphaël Gillet and Nina Grimaud
mandolins
Marine Rodallec
cello
Mathieu Schaeffer
percussion
Busserine elementary school orchestra.
Choirs from Busserine and Saint Barthélémy Les Flamants elementary schools and Pythéas middle school.