Little kromatik suite - Arts/Scène Production

Little kromatik suite
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT FOR VERY YOUNG AUDIENCES / AGES 1–5
KARAVAN THÉÂTRE & EMERGENCE EVENEMENTIEL & CULTURE
present
SPECTACLE
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
FOR VERY YOUNG AUDIENCES / AGES 1–5
JEANNE MAISONHAUTE / cello
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / cello suites
THIERRY TIJERAS / director and stage designer
GUILLAUME LAVESVRE / light
ROGER PAYET-LATOUR / costume & decor
On stage, an elegant butterfly princess. Her great
white wings are open. Dawn breaks and the bluish
light suffuses the material. As the butterfly awakes,
the first notes are heard. The colours gradually
change from the cold shades of dawn to the ochre
of evening. A day, a life. Not a word – no narration.
The stage design is very simple and is based on the
variations in colour and the iridescent material of
the great wings.
The main idea of the show is simple: to enable
children to discover a beautiful instrument with
a sonority close to the human voice, as well as
some magnificent works by Bach with which they
may be unfamiliar. At the same time, parents
and accompanying adults have an opportunity
to discover or rediscover this music, which is
demanding and complex but nevertheless has a
wide appeal.
duration: 25 minutes
Jeanne Maisonhaute
Thierry Tijeras
This talented cellist received her first lessons aged six, in
Elisabeth Ley-Chenivesse’s class at the National Regional
Conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison. She continued her studies with Philippe Bary at the Paul Dukas Conservatory in
Paris. In 2000 she was awarded the Gold Medal of the City
of Paris. After a decisive encounter with Marie Hallynck, she
went to study in her class at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, where she obtained a diploma with Highest Distinction
in June 2005. Accepted into Raphael Wallfisch’s class at the
Zurich School of Music and Theatre, she was awarded the
soloist’s diploma in June 2007.
In 1999 she received the first prize in Radio France’s
“Royaume de la Musique” competition; then in 2000 she
won the first prize in the international cello competition at
Woluwe St Pierre, in 2005 the Brussels Royal Conservatory’s
Prix Fely Wasel and in 2006 the Most Promising Participant”
prize in the Aram Khachaturian International Cello Competition (Armenia). She is a laureate of the Belgian Foundation for Young Soloists. In 2008, she joined the Ensemble
Musiques Nouvelles and in 2010 she joined the Tana String
Quartet on a permanent basis.
Over the course of numerous masterclasses, she has benefited from the advice of Edmond Baert, Boris Baraz, Wolfgang Boettcher, Lluis Claret, Frans Helmerson, Oleg Kogan,
Philippe Muller, Martti Roussi, Jiang Wang and Tsuyoshi
Tsutsumi. In the field of chamber music, she has worked
with André Siwy, Thomas Kakuska, Xavier Gagnepain, Olga
Sitkovetsky and the Artemis Quartet.
A man of images and words, photographer, documentary
film director, graphic artist, author and theatre director,
Thierry Tijeras programmes and creates productions for the
Karavan Theatre in Chassieu, France.
This jack-of-all-trades regularly works on musical productions. Two new productions were premiered during the
2012/13 season: in March “De Sangre”, a theatre piece with
flamenco guitar (Juan El Flaco) about the world of the poet
Federico Garcia Lorca, and “Oceano Notes”, a musical burlesque piece with the saxophone quartet Heavy Fingers.
Both as a creative artist and as a programme planner, he
is interested in producing pieces for very young audiences.
A keen traveller, he interviews artists all over the world and
films places that appeal to him – Essaouira (during an artistic residency), Saint-Malo, Tétouan, Quebec, China, Polynesia, Venezuela and numerous towns and cities in France.
He produces displays for historical sites and for businesses.
Thierry Tijeras is also editor-in-chief of the online magazine
Nuances Art & Culture, which works to promote all forms of
culture, arts, heritage, history, crafts and gastronomy.
Delphine Dewald
+32 (0)2 880 50 95
dw@arts-scene.be
www.arts-scene.be
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