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At once a training studio and a professional integration structure, Génération Baroque constitutes a centre for identifying, bringing together and promoting young talents starting out on their career. An annual session assembles singers and instrumentalists wishing to specialise in the Baroque or Classical repertoire and selected for their talent and their eagerness for new experiences. Under the direction of Martin Gester and the supervision of soloists from Le Parlement de Musique and experienced teachers and practitioners of singing and stage production, the trainees tackle mainstream works from the Baroque and Classical repertoire or explore previously neglected music from the period. The work of interpretation covers all the varied aspects of opera, for both instrumentalists and singers: acting and movement, advanced vocal and instrumental technique, orchestral playing, performance of recitative, etc. In the course of the seasons following this session, a production of Le Parlement de Musique provides an echo, wherever possible, of the period of training and offers an opportunity for selected young talents to participate in a fully professional production for which Génération Baroque has been the testing-ground. Thus Le Parlement de Musique, as reference ensemble, has performed and sometimes recorded such works as Charpentier’s Pastorale, Scarlatti’s La Giuditta, Bassani’s Vespers for Christmas Eve, and Porpora’s Venetian Vespers, all of which were initially tried out within the framework of Génération Baroque (or Le Studio Vocal, the previous name for the programme). Génération Baroque has thereby offered an enviable platform to a number of vocal or instrumental personalities starting out on their careers, among them Stéphanie Pfister (Fr), Salomé Haller (Fr), Anna Simboli (It), Mercedes Hernández (Sp), Martín Oro (Arg), Céline Ricci (Fr), Ariane Wohlhuter (F), Robert Getchell (Fr), Matthieu Heim (Fr), Eugénie Warnier (Fr), Ivana Lazar (Croatia), Iwona Sakowicz (Austria), Marian Krejcik (Czech Rep), Loriana Castellano (It), Anna Carbonera (It), Fernando Guimarães (Port), Lidia Vinyes-Curtis (Sp), and Michiko Takahashi (Jap) – to name but a few of those who have at one time or another appeared in productions by Le Parlement de Musique. Le Parlement de Musique has a firm commitment to promote as actively as possible the artists it has introduced to the public in this way. |
