A pianist. A physicist. And a world that suddenly can no longer stay in place.With Quantum Keys, music encounters one of the greatest upheavals in modern thought: the birth of quantum physics.Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Einstein… their intuitions, their disagreements, their dizzying revelations become the stuff of stories and music.For behind the equations lie questions that…
“The Temptation of the Orchestra” Guilhem Fabre and Laurianne Corneille share a common desire: never to view the piano as a closed-off realm.Their different paths converge in a shared lineage: that of the Russian school. Laurianne Corneille studied under Evgeny Moguilevsky in Brussels; Guilhem Fabre studied under Tatiana Zelikman in Moscow. Both teachers were guided by…
This original production, conceived by Laurianne Corneille, mirrors Tom Volf’s *Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs* and the final writings of Maria Malibran, excerpted from Alain Duault’s *Une femme de feu – Le roman de la Malibran*. These “Sfogato” sopranos—meaning “without limits”—are archetypal and foundational figures of the Diva in the broadest sense, from her art to…
The word “Sirin”—etymologically linked to the Greek siren—evokes a mythological bird. It is a bird of exile and journey—its mythology has crossed borders, languages, and religions. Our trio explores the vast landscapes of exile through a dialogue between classical music and folk traditions.
Laurianne Corneille is dressed by designer Vannina Vesperini; her sensitive and sensual visual style, along with her attention to color, contribute to the synaesthetic approach so dear to the pianist. Vannina Vesperini draws her inspiration from life, women, cinema, and the great fashion designers. For her, a collection is first and foremost a story to be…
While the cinema has always paid tribute to classical music, the reverse has rarely been the case.Music videos could indeed benefit from a cinema-style narrative: time, movement and space deserve to be explored and deployed.Our short film projects will highlight this process, between heritage and unexplored perspectives.Raphaël Wertheimer has a technical mastery of cinematic codes…
It was an encounter with traditional Iranian and Armenian music that brought us together, and the desire to bring peace through the different cultures of the music we explore. Two albums are forthcoming (including one with clarinettist Amin Ebrahimi). © Raphaël Wertheimer Biography Anousha Nazari Born in Sari, near the Caspian Sea, Anousha Nazari began…
© DR Léonore Queffélec’s first book, Roulette russe, is an autobiographical account of her relationship with her mother, the pianist Brigitte Engerer. The little girl juggles touring the world, school and her mother’s anxiety in a fast-paced life. We came up with a show based on the mad, lyrical world of her novel. Léonore Queffélec…
L’HERMAPHRODITE Album released on the Klarthe label in March 2020. Buy Klarthe, 2020 L’Hermaphrodite This recording of Schumann is the result of a wide-ranging, multi-facetted artistic process, imagining different angles of interpretation through, most notably, the symbol of the hermaphrodite, a mythological figure, both masculine and feminine, both broken and unified. It echoes naturally the…
