Valentin Tournet (25 years old)
This son of a guitarist concedes it: his musical vocation owes everything to the film
Tous les matins du monde
, with which his mother had fallen in love to the point of rocking little Valentin with old music.
At 16, the latter admitted to owning half of the – plethoric – discography of his idol Jordi Savall.
And it was to follow in his footsteps that he founded, still a teenager, his own ensemble: La Chapelle Harmonique.
If the latter takes him from oratorios by Bach to operas by Rameau,
“Tournet remains a gambist at heart
, says Laurent Brunner, of Château de Versailles Spectacles (which has supported him since his beginnings).
And his musical discourse suffers from it.
We perceive in him a desire to be less in rhetoric than in a characteristic fluidity of the viol.
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Robin Pharo (31 years old)
The founder of the ensemble Near your ear has made a specialty of the English repertoire for viols, which he defended in his first album
(Come, Sorrow),
and will continue to serve by celebrating, next year, the 400 years…
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