festival organisé par l'association des Petites Cités de Caractère de la Vendée est membre de la Fédération des Festivals Internationaux de Musique
MUSICAL EVENINGS IN ROMAN VENDEE
2011 PROGRAMME
13th year. This festival is organized by the association known as « Petites Cités de Caractère de la Vendee », a member of the French Federation for International Music Festivals. On each of the evenings, the artistes perform in the wonderful settings of the 6 villages « communes » hosting the concerts, and where local heritage has been particularly brought to the fore.

6 concerts at 9 p.m.
  • Thursday 21 / 07
  • Xanton-Chassenon - Church square.


    Stefano Di Battista, alto and soprano saxophones
    Julian Oliver, piano
    Jeff Ballard, drums
    Jonathan Kreisberg, guitar
    Francesco Puglisi, double bass
    Jazz- " Woman's land "

    Warm in its harmonies, bewitching in its melodies, the hard bop of Stefano Di Battista is a delight of virtuosity. If there is magic, it's also there in the ability to summon up the old players or to revive the most famous. It is this mastery of jazz heritage that enables him to breathe life into his personal touch, his own music. His new project, "Woman's Land" was born from his deep desire to put into music the feminine figure of our millennium.

  • Wednesday 27 / 07
  • Faymoreau - Miners' Chapel.


    Ensemble Les Paladins
    Jérôme Correas
    , harpsicord, organ and musical director
    Isabelle Poulenard, soprano
    Jean-François Lombard, contralto
    Juliette Roumaihac, baroque violin
    Marion Korkmaz, baroque violin
    Nicolas Crnjanski, baroque cello
    Baroque - " Lumières des Ténèbres "

     

    Nocturnal music, the Lessons of darkness had a great success in France in the 18th century. Les Paladins explore with grace and refinement all the colours of the voice, from the deplorable to the joyful where voice and instruments talk together brilliantly, so rendering the Darkness more luminous. The artistes glorify the splendour of this music.


  • Tuesday 02 / 08
  • St Hilaire des Loges - Square by the water fountain.
    Thierry Eliez Trio
    Thierry Eliez
    , piano, organ
    Daniel Ouvrard, bass
    Philippe Eliez, drums
    Jazz
    At the beginning of the 90's, his friend André Ceccarelli introduced Thierry Eliez to Dee Dee Bridgewater with whom he would record 4 albums and give numerous concerts. The group Thierry Eliez Trio was created in 2004 after a reunion of Thierry Eliez and Daniel Ouvrard on bass and his brother Philippe Eliez on drums. With its album "Intermezzo" the group reveals to us a mix of latin Jazz and symphonic Rock.

  • Friday 05 / 08
  • Foussais-Payré - Church.
    Marielle Nordmann, harp
    Nemanja Radulovic, violin
    Chopin, Mendelssohn, Tchaïkovski, Fauré, Bartok

    Crédit Photo Eric Manas

     

    An exceptional couple : one of the greatest harp players in the world and a violinist of breathtaking talent offer us an evening of great joy : each measure sings, vibrates with a timid energy; a splendour ! This magic moment is to be enjoyed like a bewitching delicacy.


  • Tuesday 09 / 08
  • Vouvant - In front of the Church.
    Diva Opera
    Bryan Evans, Musical director and piano
    Rigoletto, opera in 3 acts by Giuseppe Verdi

     

    " Maledizione ! " The curse of Monterone resounds above Rigoletto, the hunch back, the mischief, at the same time malicious and pitiable, tender and grotesque, buffoon of the Duke of Mantoue who gets caught up in many amorous adventures. This opera is magnificently interpreted by Diva opera, whose members are talented singers and irresistible actors. A rare Verdi.

  • Thursday 11 / 08
  • Nieul-sur-l'Autise - Courtyard of the Château du Vignaud.
    Didier Lockwood & the Jazz Angels
    Didier Lockwood
    , violin
    David Enhco, trumpet
    Thomas Enhco, piano
    Nicolas Charlier, drums
    Simon Tailleu, double bass
    Jazz

     

    During his career, Didier Lockwood has crossed paths with a number of great jazz players. A jazzman's inventiveness, the lyricism of his symphonic writing, furious energy of rock: it's at the fusion of all these worlds that he has created today his new group: "The Jazz Angels". Drawing from the generation of future great jazz musicians, the polyglot violinist draws in this original background the contours of a new musical Eden.


    Normal tariff : 19 €, tariff for 3 concerts : 51 €, tariff for 6 concerts : 90 €
    Reduced tariff : 15 €, tariff for 3 concerts : 39 €, tariff for 6 concerts : 66 €
    « Pass-culture » Région des Pays de la Loire : 11 €.

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