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CONCERTS / AGENDA: The spring concert program is online!
France, Mexico, Italy: from April to June 2024, Félicien’s accordion travels the world!
In duo with Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Thibaut Garcia or Édouard Macarez, as soloist with orchestra, in solo recital or in various chamber music formations, Félicien is preparing to tour France, Italy and Mexico in spring 2024!
He will be appearing at the “Sœurs Jumelles” festival in Rochefort-sur-Mer, the “PAAX” festival in Cancun and the “Nadia et Lili Boulanger” festival in Trouville-sur-Mer, as well as at the Festival de l’Epau, the Festival l’Eure Poétique et Musicale, the Festival Musique aux Mirabelles and a host of other events!
A NEW DIGITAL SINGLE RELEASE FOR ERATO / WARNER CLASSICS
Lucienne et Félicien pay tribute to Édith Piaf with the release of “L’Hymne en Rose” on June 14, 2024!
French icon Édith Piaf has always had the accordion as her travelling companion. Her unfailing accordionist Marc Bonnel, along with the legendary Gus Viseur and Marcel Azzola, carried Piaf a few meters behind her.
As a tribute, Domi Emorine has composed L’Hymne en Rose, mixing two mythical melodies in a kind of musical and poetic evocation of the Piaf phenomenon. Playing on the art of counterpoint, syncopated rhythms and orchestral accents, Félicien Brut’s accordion supports Lucienne Renaudin Vary’s lyrical trumpet in this recording, in this ode to love.
RADIO / FRANCE MUSIQUE: this season’s 3rd series of “Brut d’accordéon” podcasts is now available on all platforms!
“Accordion, four weddings rather than one funeral”: 4 new episodes of BRUT d’ACCORDÉON produced by France Musique are now available!
In a dictionary published at the very beginning of the 20th century, we read “accordion: an instrument unsuitable for making music, incapable of marrying with other instruments”. Some predicted that the accordion would be duly buried… undeniably, history has proven them wrong!
For some years now, the strapless piano has appealed to all repertoires, in all its forms and within a wide range of instrumental formations. Over the years, it has become a popular stage companion for many instrumentalists. This third series of podcasts highlights this phenomenon through four encounters, four duets: four weddings rather than one funeral!
TV / VICTOIRES DE LA MUSIQUE: Accordion in the spotlight on this night!
Félicien Brut guest at the 31st Cérémonie des Victoires de la Musique Classique, February 29 on TV France 3 and Radio France Musique!
This year’s Victoires de la Musique Classique ceremony was held at the Corum, Montpellier’s Opera House. Félicien Brut was one of the guests at this prestigious event. He played the Finale from Fabien Waksman’s Concerto for Accordion, himself winner of the Victoire du Compositeur in 2023 for this work.
Surrounded by the musicians of the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie and under the direction of young conductor Swann Van Rechem, nominated in the category “Révélation chef d’orchestre”, Félicien played this music, composed for him in 2022 by Fabien Waksman.
The show is available for replay on the France Télévisions website.