Frédéric Aurier
composer, musician

Frédéric Aurier was born in 1976 in Auvergne. At a very young age, he began playing the violin at the Conservatoire de Clermont-Ferrand. His career path led him to Roland Daugareil's class at the CNSM in Lyon. But very quickly, the instrument also attracts him to all "other" music and it is at the age of fourteen that his decisive meeting with Jean-François VROD pushes him to explore both traditions, scholarly and popular... His experience as a performer and improviser, his constant encounters with projects in multiple forms, pushes him to composition. Frédéric AURIER writes for different projects, such as Le Nouveau Spectacle Extraordinaire of the Compagnie des Rémouleurs, Impressions d'Afrique for the cello quartet Alexander, Histoire en forme d'infini with the group Martin et ses Antécédents, or Retour sur le Coissard Balbutant with J-F. VROD. In July 2009, his string trio "Musique à Danser" was premiered at the Montpellier Festival. In April 2011, a state commission for the GMEA of Albi is born: QUAOAR, a piece for string quartet and electro-acoustic device that he will have the pleasure to perform within the Béla quartet. After writing three pieces, for quartet, oud and oriental percussion, for the Jadayel project with the Béla Quartet, Ahmad al Khatib and Youssef Hbeisch, he wrote a work for six women's voices, chorus and string quartet, entitled Le Mur d'Hadrien, a state commission that was premiered at the Festival Les Voix du Prieuré at the Scène Nationale de Chambéry on May 28, 2013. He is now devoting himself to writing an opera for children's choir, Borg et Théa, premiered in spring 2017 at the Détours de Babel festival in Grenoble and then in Lyon, with the Maitrise de l'Opéra de Lyon. Finally, he writes for the duo Myssil, composed of Sylvaine Hélary and Noémi Boutin.

Arthur Lestrange
composer, musician

Arthur Lestrange, born on April 19, 1976 in Tonnerre in Burgundy, Welsh by his mother and French by his father. From childhood he feels at the same time the stranger and the familiar of all. At the age of fifteen, without warning, the words "to say will be my undoing" become his motto and he begins to write, mute and obstinate, things and others that appear and disappear along the way. Student, teacher, linguist, he travels the world through jobs and encounters, happiness and misfortune. An inveterate factotum, he joined an international touring theater company, then a then to a gypsy horse circus. Actor, playwright, producer, he founded Translumination and created with and for Shaji Karyat and Mawuli Semevo a show entitled Black Box based on the works of Ghanaian Efo Kodjo Mawugbe (1954-2011). In incubation: Je m'appelle Parolès or Shakespeare Autolycus (creation based on the 38 plays of William Shakespeare), and Translumination by Arthur Rimbaud.

Elise Caron
composer, singer

Elise Caron is a contemporary singer, as comfortable in improvisation as in comedy. Elise Caron studied dramatic art at the CNR of Rouen and singing at the CNSM of Paris. Soloist and improviser with the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Denis Badault, Elise Caron also collaborates in numerous creations of great names in contemporary music, jazz and song (Jacques Rebotier, Fred Frith, Luc Ferrari, Claude Barthélémy, Aldo Romano, Albert Marcoeur...). Very attracted by the theater, she interprets Shakespeare, Sophocles, Ramuz, Brecht... under the direction of François Marthouret, Bruno Bayen, Antoine Campo, Jérôme Savary (for the role of La Perichole d'Offenbach) and Jean-Louis Martinelli for the Opéra de quat'sous. In the cinema, she played the lead role in "Cocktail Molotov" (1980) under the direction of Diane Kurys, doubled the singing part of Virginie Ledoyen in Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998), while participating in a few TV films. In 2009, she crossed again the path of the stage for the female lead in "Un soir au club" by Jean Achache and then for the film "Des filles en noir". Her albums: Le Rapatirole (1996), Chansons pour les petites oreilles (2003) and Eurydice Bis.

The Béla Quartet
string quartet

Founded in 2006 by four musicians from the CNSM of Lyon and Paris -Julien Dieudegard and Frédéric Aurier, violins, Julian Boutin, viola, Luc Dedreuil, cello-, the Quatuor Béla was formed with the desire to defend the fabulous repertoire of the 20th century as well as the creation. The ensemble performs in France on eclectic stages: Arsenal The ensemble performs in France on eclectic stages: Arsenal de Metz, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Flâneries de Reims, Folles Journées de Nantes, Biennale Musique en Scène de Lyon, Les Suds à Arles, as well as abroad (Italy, Ireland, Colombia, South Africa, Lebanon, Galilee...). The Quatuor Béla is distinguished by its willingness to initiate new compositions and to foster dialogue between performers and composers. It has premiered works by Philippe Leroux, Daniel D'Adamo, Thierry Blondeau, Benjamin de la Fuente, Jean-Pierre Drouet, François Sarhan, Jérôme Combier, Karl Naegelen, Frédéric Pattar... Curious and enthusiastic about the diversity of currents that make up contemporary creation, the members of the Quatuor Béla often join forces with emblematic artistic figures: the improviser Jean-François Vrod, the rocker Albert Marcoeur, the griot Moriba Koïta, the master of the oud Ahmad Al Khatib, the jazz trio Jean Louis, and the Grenade dance company. He published in 2013 two discs: one, dedicated to a work co-written by Thierry Blondeau and Daniel D'Adamo, "Plier / Unfold", the other, "Métamorphoses nocturnes", dedicated to the music of Ligeti, whose release was enthusiastically received by the press (ffff Télérama, Luister 10 award, Gramophone Cristics' Choice award ...). These two discs were awarded the Académie Charles Cros prize. In 2015, the Béla Quartet received the International Music Press Award (Antoine Livio Award). The Quatuor Béla is subsidized by the Conseil Départemental de la Savoie, and receives support from the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the SACEM, the ADAMI, the SPEDIDAM, the Musique Nouvelle en Liberté and the ONDA. He is a member of the Export Office and Futurs Composés.