PROGRAMME

RITA STROHL (1865-1941)
10 poésies : Chanson d’automne

NADIA BOULANGER (1887-1979)
Soleil Couchant

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
En sourdine

GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)
En sourdine

REYNALDO HAHN (1874-1947)
L’Heure exquise

ARTISTS

ADÈLE CHARVET, mezzo-soprano

FLORIAN CAROUBI, piano

ADÈLE CHARVET

Adèle Charvet has established herself in a few years as one of the most talented French mezzo-sopranos of her generation. Since 2015, she has formed a duo with pianist Florian Caroubi (born from their shared passion for lied and melody), with whom she won the Melody prize at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition the same year. She made her operatic debut in 2018, performing Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Opera House in London. Recently she has been heard in Benvenuto Cellini (Ascanio) with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner in La Côte-Saint-André, Berlin, at the Prom’s in London and Versailles, in Carmen at the Opéra de Bordeaux, in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra de Rouen. In 2019, she recorded with pianist Susan Manoff a program of American music and English melodies for her first CD entitled Long Time Ago (Alpha Classics). Since then, her eclecticism is reflected in her recording projects: Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (title role) with Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre for Versailles Concerts, Zingarelli’s Giulietta e Romeo (title role) with L’Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal for Versailles Concerts, Haydn’s Stabat Mater with the Concert de la Loge and Julien Chauvin for the Aparte label, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the same ensemble for Alpha Classics. For her next solo recording, she will record a program of Venetian opera with the Consort for Alpha Classics. Her future projects include Stéphano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra Comique, Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Massy Opera, and Rosina in Rossini’s Le Barbier de Séville at the Capitole de Toulouse.

FLORIAN CAROUBI

Florian Caroubi is an eclectic and passionate musician who enthusiastically tackles the solo piano repertoire as well as chamber music, accompaniment of singers and conducting. As a pianist, he performs in recital in prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Auditorium in Lyon and soon the Lille Opera. He has been invited to play as a soloist with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra and the Chisinau Chamber Orchestra. He recently recorded a CD Images for the Hortus label, putting the visual arts and music into perspective through works by Debussy, Liszt and Mussorgsky. He performs with renowned interpreters such as clarinetist Nicolas Baldeyrou, soprani Elsa Dreisig and Nadine Koutcher, or baritone Hans Pieter Herman. Passionate in particular about vocal art, he created a duo with the talented mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet with whom he performs regularly in France and abroad. With her, he won the Melody Prize at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition. He was also named the 2016 HSBC laureate of the prestigious Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Holder of two master’s degrees in piano and accompaniment at the CNSMD of Lyon, Florian Caroubi has been working since 2017 in this institution, and has been teaching as well at the CNSMD of Paris.
His activities as a conductor lead him to take the permanent direction of the ensemble Amacordes. Strongly concerned by the promotion of classical music to new audiences, Florian Caroubi is the musical director of the Carillon de Papageno, an association whose aim is to promote opera and lyric art. Florian Caroubi is also since 2020 artistic delegate of the Festival “Les Pianissimes”.

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