ELODIE VIGNON - piano

On November 2, 2021, Elodie Vignon released her third album "Dans l'air du soir" to mark the 30th anniversary of Cypres. Mirroring an intimate and infinitely delicate Franz Liszt (Trois sonnets de Pétrarque, Trois études de concert), with Isaac Albeniz's Suite Espagnole, she won over listeners and music lovers alike. Jean-Yves Clément awarded her 5 Diapasons and wrote, among other things: "The pianist embodies Petrarch's Sonnets with the eloquent blend of abandon and tenderness that characterizes the triptych...". She also receives a Joker absolu from Crescendo magazine, and her disc is chosen as Disque du jour on En Pistes- France Musique- on November 26, 2021.

It's thanks to a collaboration with Belgian independent label Cypres that Elodie will have the opportunity to make her recording debut. In 2018, she released her first album dedicated to Claude Debussy, which met with great success with audiences and critics alike (4 Classica stars, "Debussy Best Performers" in Pianist Magazine Germany...).
She continues in 2020 with D'ombres, an album featuring the three preludes and the sonata by Henri Dutilleux, combined with "Surgir", a piece commissioned from Claude Ledoux. For the release, Vignon was invited to the Flagey Piano Days Festival, having been on stage in Studio 1 of the same prestigious venue 15 days earlier. Indeed, her collaborative work with dancer/choreographer Nono Battesti, "Entre Temps", had been selected for the Propulse festival. Noted by Classica and Resmusica, she was also invited by Générations France Musique, and nominated for the Octaves de la musique contemporaine. Vignon receives the Octave Point Culture for "D'ombres".

After studying at the Lyon Conservatory, Élodie moved to Belgium 17 years ago, where she studied with Daniel Blumenthal at the Brussels Royal Conservatory. In 2010, she crossed paths with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, a peerless artist of rare generosity who has inherited from his masters Claudio Arrau and Georges Cziffra a profound knowledge of the repertoire and the instrument. She then became artist-in-residence at the Bell'arte Foundation, founded by Delle-Vigne Fabbri.

She then began to perform extensively in Europe (Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Lithuania...) and the USA, notably under the baton of world-renowned conductors such as Philippe Entremont.
A recent guest at Flagey, the Palais de Beaux-arts de Charleroi, the Festivals de Wallonie, and the Rencontres Inattendues de Tournai, Elodie's main aim is to ensure consistency in her artistic approach through her choice of repertoire and collaborations.
In autumn 2022, she will release a duo album with French contralto Sarah Laulan.
Centered around composers who assert their roots, the program retraces a world tour of well-known masterpieces (Manuel De Falla's Chansons populaires espagnoles) with a number of pieces yet to be discovered (Darius Milhaud's Chansons de négresse, JohnCage's A flower).

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SARAH LAULAN - Contralto

Winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and endowed with a rare magnetism, contralto Sarah Laulan searches for new paths." Oliver Bellamy

Passionate about words and sounds, Sarah Laulan first trained in dramatic art at the Tours Conservatory, then at the Atelier Volant at the National Theater in Toulouse. From musical theater to opera there is only one step, which she took by perfecting her singing skills with Marianne Pousseur in the contemporary repertoire at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, then at the Queen Elisabeth Chapel under the aegis of by Jose Van Dam. She tastes all styles in various masterclasses (Waltraud Meier, Ewa Podles, Bernarda Fink, Larissa Gerguieva, Nadine Denize, Georges Lavaudant, Alain Garichot...), and continues to receive advice from Jocelyne Dienst, Janina Baechle and Brigitte Fassbaender

She won 3rd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 2014, and the Paul Streit Prize for best contralto in Geneva in 2016.

Sarah is above all a versatile artist who believes in the complementarity of languages and styles - and above all wishes to appeal to everyone. She collaborates with artistic personalities committed to awareness-raising, pedagogy and creation, and herself teaches theater to young singers.

Among contemporary music projects, she took part in the premiere of Martin Matalon's L'Ombre de Venceslao as Mechita, directed by Jorge Lavelli, as well as the premieres of Alice au Pays des Merveilles and Poucette by the duo Matteo Franceschini / Edouard Signolet at the Philharmonie de Paris and Théâtre royal de Compiègne. She is the Mother in Euphonia by Michaël Levinas at the Festival Berlioz 2019, Mara in L'annonce faite à Marie by Marc Bleuse in Toulouse, and finally the Mother in Fujikura's Le scarabée d'or in 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris.

In Germany and Belgium, she toured the creation Silent Song into the Wild with the experimental company 'Nico and the Navigators', with whom she revisited Suor Angelica in 2019 at the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Kirill Petrenko. Engaged for roles such as Maddalena (Rigoletto at Opéra de Liège, Toulon, Metz, Massy), Olga (Eugène Onéguine at Opéra de Massy), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos at Capitole de Toulouse), La Maestra delle Novizie and La Suor Zelatrice (Suor Angelica at the Berlin Phiilarmonie and Opéra royal de Wallonie), Suor Pazienza (Giordano's Mese Mariano at Opéra royal de Wallonie), Nancy (Flotow's Martha directed by B. Fassbaender in Austria), La voix de la mère (Les contes d'Hoffmann at Opéra Royal de Wallonie), Cléone (Pénélope by Fauré at Opéra National du Rhin), Hermia (Les Caprices de Marianne by Henri Sauguet on tour in France), La Mère (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges at Barhain), La Marchande de Journaux (Les Mamelles de Tirésias at La Monnaie), l'Opinion publique (Opéra d'Avignon), Totoche (Les chevaliers de la table ronde by Hervé), Mme Grivot (Le diable à Paris by Lattès), Mrs Quickly (Falstaff), la Périchole, Carmen, etc. ..

She has been directed by John Turturro, Michel Fau, Olivier Py, Laurent Fréchuret, Ted Huffman, Georges Lavaudant,Alain Garichot, Yann Dacosta, Jacques Nichet...

In oratorio, she has appeared in works such as Brahms's Alto Rhapsody, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Kindertotenlieder, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Beethoven's IX Symphony, Berlioz's Summer Nights and Romeo and Juliet, Mozart's Requiem, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.... with Orchestre de la Monnaie, Orchestre National de Belgique, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique Royal du Maroc, Orchestre Philarmonique de Bruxelles, Royal Flemish Philarmonic, Orchestre Philarmonique Royal de Liège, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, under such conductors as Patrick Fournillier, Stéphane Denève, Dmitri Jurowski, Jean Deroyer, Giampaolo Bisanti, Olivier Holt, Arvo Volmer, Roland Boër, Paolo Arrivabeni, Christopher Warren-Green, Patrick Davin, Evan Rogister, David Reiland, Ludovic Morlot, Eivind Aadland, Samuel Jean, Claude Schnitzler. .

From the Capitole to the Concertgebouw de Brugge, Sarah also defends chamber music and the art of recital in committed, well-documented programs.

She brought to fruition her first recording, Les Blasphèmes, mélodies de fin-de-siècle, with Maciej Pikulski and the Quatuor Hermès, released on the Fuga Libera label in 2017, recorded Brahms' Zwei Gesänge with Lise Berthaud and Eric Lesage on Label B records in 2019, as well as Le Diable à Paris with the Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes in 2020, and will be releasing a disc entitled SANGS, with Elodie Vignon, on the Cyprès label in spring 2021.

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From the Capitole to the Concertgebouw de Brugge, Sarah also defends chamber music and the art of recital in committed, documented programs.

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She brought to fruition her first recording, Les Blasphèmes, mélodies de fin-de-siècle, with Maciej Pikulski and the Quatuor Hermès, released on the Fuga Libera label in 2017, recorded Brahms' Zwei Gesänge with Lise Berthaud and Eric Lesage on Label B records in 2019, as well as Le Diable à Paris with the Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes in 2020, and will be releasing a disc entitled SANGS, with Elodie Vignon, on the Cyprès label in spring 2021.