International conference
First International Symposium of Orchestras on Period Instruments
From 22 to 24 of June 2023 at La Seine Musicale (Le Club)
Founded by five orchestras from different countries, the movement will hold its first conference on 23 and 24 June 2023 at La Seine Musicale. This international conference will also be the occasion to launch the digital platform LaDocumenta.eu.
Discover LaDocumenta.eu
Founded by five orchestras from different countries, the movement will hold its first conference on 23 and 24 June 2023 at La Seine Musicale. This international conference will also be the occasion to launch the digital platform LaDocumenta.eu.
LaDocumenta.eu is a resource-sharing platform whose founding members are Concentus Musicus Wien (Stefan Gottfried), Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), Insula orchestra (Laurence Equilbey), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie, Paul Agnew), the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock) and Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks).
This platform hosts the resources of these international orchestras. Those activated during their productions, in order to enlighten the works, or to transmit interpretation secrets. LaDocumenta.eu platform will be linked to the most important European resource centres and will meet the challenges of education, transmission and interpretation for professionals, students and amateurs.
We look forward to seeing you at the official launch of LaDocumenta.eu, during the international conference of orchestras playing on period instruments, at La Seine Musicale.
With the support of the Centre national de la musique, the Département des Hauts-de-Seine, Paris Aéroport, SNCF Immobilier, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, FEVIS and the REMA network.
22 of June 2023
Conferences and concerts : the program
20h30 / Opening concert : “Mozart’s three conductors”
Nothing less than three conductors for Mozart! Insula orchestra will perform his last three Salzburger symphonies with three different conductors. Although they all have different backgrounds, styles and nationalities (Laurence Equilbey is French, Stefan Gottfried is Austrian and Ottavio Dantone is Italian), they all share a unique passion for Mozart’s music and for period instruments.
Informations & reservation
23 of June 2023
9:30 am / Coffee time
10>11 am / Conference: Legacy and perspectives 1/3
The main stages of playing on period instruments; practice on period instruments: the founding principles, the development of orchestras.
- Pierre François, Director of Research (CNRS), Dean of the École de la recherche de Sciences Po
- Delphine Blanc, Professional Viola Player, Researcher at the Georg Simmel Centre for Franco-German Research in Social Sciences (EHESS).
- Nicolas Bucher, animator
- Laurent Bayle, General Director of the Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris from 2001 to 2021
- Christian Merlin, animator
- Elsa Rahmoun, Musicologist, Co-Responsible for LaDocumenta.eu
- Nathan Magrecki, Musicologist, Co-Responsible for LaDocumenta.eu
- Laurence Equilbey, Musical Director of Insula orchestra
- Yann Breton, Musicologist, Former Research Officer at Insula orchestra
- Ottavio Dantone, Music Director of the Accademia Bizantina
- Stefan Gottfried, Music Director of Concentus Musicus Wien
- Jacqui Howard, animator
- Pierre François, Director of Research (CNRS), Dean of the École de la recherche de Sciences Po
- Delphine Blanc, Profesionnal Viola Player, Researcher at the Georg Simmel Centre for Franco-German Research in Social Sciences (EHESS).
- Ivan Alexandre, animator
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11 am / Coffee break
11:30>12:30 am / Conference: Legacy and perspectives 2/3
The reasons for the enthusiasm for early music; the impact on programming and on audiences; the controversies; the relationship with modern orchestras.
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12:30 am / Lunch
Restaurants available at La Seine Musicale : Octave & O 2 Scènes.
2:30>3:30 pm / Presentation of LaDocumenta.eu
Launch of the international platform; the importance of sharing resources to transmit knowledge and know-how.
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3:30>4:30 pm / Communication: The nugget resources 1/2
Contextualisation of the resources shared by the founding members on LaDocumenta.eu; the reasons for sharing their resources
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4:30 pm / Coffee break
5>6 pm / Conference: Legacy and perspectives 3/3
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Where are today’s period-instrument orchestras in Europe and internationally; their distribution, repertoire and artistic strategies; funding methods.
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8:30 pm / Concert “Mozart, the 40’s”
With the Concentus Musicus Wien & Stefan Gottfried.
Informations & reservation
Feverish, intense and tragic, Mozart’s 40th Symphony is one of the only symphonies he wrote on a minor scale. “A piece from which every note is pure gold, each part a treasure”, wrote Robert Schumann, in awe of this score which prefigures Romanticism. Once again, we are happy to welcome the Concentus Musicus Wien, legendary orchestra founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, at the Seine Musicale. They will also perform Mozart’s Second violin concerto alongside Erich Hobarth.
24 of June 2023
09:30 am / Coffee time
10>11 am / Conference: Historical orchestral practice
Birth of the orchestra, performance secrets
- Kai Köpp, Professor of Musicology and Performance Practice at the Bern University of the Arts BUA
- Fabien Roussel, animator
- Thomas Hengelbrock, Musical Director of the Balthasar Neumann Chor and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (in videoconference)
- Pascal Duc, Musical Advisor of Les Arts Florissants
- Václav Luks, Musical Director of Collegium 1704 (in videoconference)
- Video introduction by William Christie and Paul Agnew, co-directors of Les Arts Florissants
- Jacqui Howard, animator
- Claudia Stobrawa, Director of the Nikolaus-Harnoncourt-Zentrum in Linz (Austria)
- Bruno Forment, Principal Investigator, Resounding libraries (Ton Koopman Archive) – Orpheus Instituut Gent (Belgium), Head of Department: Performing Arts – COST ACTION 21161 EARLYMUSE (Rethinking the role of libraries in performance practice: Ton Koopman’s library) – Orpheus Instituut Gent (Belgium)
- Sophie Guénébaut, Director of LE LABA, a centre of expertise specialising in the creative sector in Europe.
- Claire de Castellane, animator
- Caroline Barbier de Reulle, Responsible for new artistic forms for Insula orchestra
- Muriel Prouet, Head of cultural action for Insula orchestra
- Marie Onofrio, education projects manager at Les Talens Lyriques
- Partner ensembles
[Kai Kopp will speak in English, no live translation available]
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11 am / Coffee break
11:30>12:30 am / Communication: The nugget resources 2/2
Contextualisation of the resources shared by the founding members on LaDocumenta.eu; the reasons for sharing their resources.
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12:30>2 pm / Lunch
Restaurants available at La Seine Musicale : Octave & O 2 Scènes.
2>3 pm / Communication: Resource centers and Europe
Focus on two new centres : Orpheus Instituut de Gent (Belgium) et Nikolaus Harnoncourt-Zentrum de Linz (Austria); The HIP (Historical Informed Performances) movement: a European cultural force
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3>4 pm / Round table: New challenges for transmission
Pedagogy and transmission of practice on period instruments: new forms
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2>5 pm / Workshop : virtual reallity and multimedias
from 13 years old
Free réservation
8h30 pm / Concert “Mozart, clarinet Concerto”
With Pierre Génisson, Insula orchestra & Laurence Equilbey.
Informations & reservation
Although he only wrote one concerto for the clarinet, Mozart was particularly fond of this instrument. Leading Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey will conduct this lyrical and inspired score in partnership with the virtuosic Pierre Génisson, who plays a period clarinet. Written almost ten years prior, the impetuous “Haffner” Symphony entices us with its Viennese charms and impresses us with its great vitality.
How to come to La Seine Musicale
Place
La Seine Musicale (Le Club)
1 île Seguin
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Reservation
The access to the conferences is free, reservation is requiere.
For the concerts, you need to buy a ticket.
Contact
You have a question about the event ? Writte to us at : public[at]insulaorchestra.fr
