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When the Australian duo’s indie pop, folk, captivating retro and bohemian music meet the historic heart of the City of Carcassonne, it’s a magical evening tinged with exquisite emotion.

Ten years after their worldwide success first album, Angus and Julia Stone reunites again on stage for their latest album « Snow » European tour.
 
 

In the closed world of highly rigorous classical pianists, strict and impressive, Lucas Debargue comes as a breath of fresh air.

He only started playing the piano seriously in his twenties, and mainly performs classical pieces, but with a new touch of talent and out of the common techniques.  
 
 

Anouar Brahem’s beautiful and captivating oud sound brings weightlessness to the human soul.

He pursues his universalist quest with a new project  « Blue Maqam » firmly tuned towards jazz and its values of openness, alongside Jazz legends Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Django Bates (piano) at the Philharmonie de Paris.
 
 

Pianist born in Kingston, Monty Alexander is a virtuoso with multiple secrets. Playing solo or in groups, he impresses audiences. He explores the world of Jazz, swing, bebop, blues, calypso and reggae, and has created a style of his own.

For him, music is a heart beat. He plays with emotion, intelligence, humor and sensibility. During this unique moment, we are transported with his joyful swing and fizzing grooves, influenced by Afro-american Jazz of Harlem and reggae from Jamaica.
This concert at the Seine Musical is exceptional. It is extremely rare for Monty Alexander to do a solo performance. We are in for an evening full of surprises.

New Orleans’s gifted man celebrates 100 years of jazz through a heavenly and transgressive trilogy «The Centennial Trilogy».
 

The young trumpet player has become in a few years the emblematic figure of a jazzmen’s generation capable of shaking up the genre’s conventions, of challenging it to new horizons and a new audience. No doubt, at 33 years old, Christian Scott sees beyond the normal scope. One record after the other, he even seems more and more determined to rewrite the rules of jazz with hybridization, avant-garde and explorations. In this year celebrating Jazz centennial, history has provided Scott with an ideal counterpoint to tradition.
 
 

Filmed during the Saint-Germain-des-Prés festival at the « Maison des Océans » in the heart of the « quartier latin » Paris, France on the 19th of may 2017.
 

“Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.”
Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
In 2016 alone, Cohen was named “Best Foreign Artist” by Jazz Magazine France, while Into the Silence was awarded “Best Album of the Year” by TSF Jazz and Academie du Jazz, and in the top 20 albums of the year by JazzTimes. For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the Down Beat Critics Poll. 
 
 

For the 250th death anniversary of the famous german baroque composer George Philipp Telemann, The Films de la Decouverte decided to film the complete 12 « Quatuors Parisiens » performance.

Lead by Alexis Kossenko’s Les Ambassadeurs, without any audience, in locations in Paris where the masterpiece could have been played at the time in the 18th century. This will be the first ever filmed performance of the masterpiece in its entirety.

Winner 1st prize of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, Dmitry Masleev is solicited by the biggest orchestras in the world. The « Piano à Lyon » Festival in Lyon, France had the priviledge to invite the pianist at the beginning of a very promising career and for a recital that highlights the greatest scores of the repertoire.
 

This hybrid film project mixing Dmitry’s live performance footage and fiction is a poetic illustration of his performance, a pure narrative inspired by his music. Masleev’s subtle touch carries us away in his musical universe ... in his dreams ...
 
 

A suprising performance shared by Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, great carnatic violin player, and Ballaké Sissoko, kora player from Mali.

Creating a unique concert bringing together two musical traditions that will leave the audience fascinated and dazzled by the techniques and emotions. 
 
 

Lee Ranaldo, one of the former pillars of Sonic Youth, released a new solo album, Electric Trim in September 2017 on Mute. The album was recorded in New York and Barcelona in collaboration with producer Raul Refree Fernandez.

Other collaborators include Sharon Van Etten, who sings six of the songs in this latest album, Kid Millions (aka Man Forever), as well as his longtime friend and collaborator Nels Cline (Wilco). Ranaldo collaborated with New York author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn / The Fortress of Solitude) for the lyrics of six of his songs. Filmed at the Epicerie Moderne, Lyon France in March 2018, Lee’s stage performance takes us at the crossroads of Neil Young and Wilco where we find a Lee Ranaldo sometimes psychedelic, folk rock, but always free-minded.
 
 

She is a musician with many talents… classical singer and pianist by career, daughter of a guitar player with gypsy influences, Macha Gharibian says is loud and clear « I have never been scared of coming up with improbable mixtures ! »

Rather good news for the audience : an opportunity to dream, touched by a crystal tune and a warm voice, this unique cocktail of Jazz, folk, pop music and traditional Armenian tunes is savored with immeasurable musical pleasure.

 

With an arrangement of guitar and percussion players and Macha, the charismatic leader with the velvet voice...

...El Bloque Depresivo brings to you an intensive tribute to South-American traditional music. This concert is brought to you by the « Opéra Underground » with the Opera de Lyon.