Obsession | La Tempête

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About the project:

Is it possible to create, in concert, a ‘safe space’ that allows us to surrender to the exhilaration of sound, to experience a positive state in which total abandonment is possible? This is where the ambition of this programme lies. Through the idea of obsession and that of the more musical ‘leitmotif’, Bestion brings together and articulates three great contemporary figures in an attempt to find the keys to a physical and immediate experience of sound: Arvo Pärt, Jehan Alain and Philipp Glass.

Programme:

Arvo Pärt - Miserere
Philipp Glass - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
Arvo Pärt - Triodion
Jehan Alain - Trois danses

Instrumentation: 17 instrumentalists, 16 singers

La Tempête, a vocal and instrumental company, was founded in 2015 by Simon-Pierre Bestion, as he was driven by a deep desire to explore musical works with a very personal and embodied commitment.

La Tempête finds its source in the expression of links and influences between artists, cultures and eras. It explores points of contact and heritages with an approach of great freedom. The company has thus developed a very intuitive and sensory relationship with the works, whose reinterpretations are regularly praised by national and international critics. Simon-Pierre Bestion visits the intimacy between human traditions and the diversity of the imprints left by artistic and societal movements.

The very essence of the project leads the repertoire of the ensemble to touch several aesthetics, nourishing itself mainly on early and even traditional music, as well as modern and contemporary repertoires.

By working with early as well as traditional instruments and exploring vast forms of vocal expression, La Tempête builds its proposals around the experience of timbre and acoustics. Its projects were therefore born of the idea of a sensory immersion for the spectator, of the quest for a moment that is specific to each encounter between a place, artists, and an audience. Simon-Pierre Bestion's creations are the result of a deep interest for collective experience and exploration.

The company is therefore open to many disciplines and collaborates with artists from a wide range of backgrounds.

La Tempête won the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for choral singing from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. It is in residence at the Théâtre Impérial - Opéra de Compiègne, at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and in territorial residence at Brive-la-Gaillarde. It is associated to la Scène Nationale d'Orléans and MC:2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble.

Simon-Pierre Bestion is a french musician, conductor and keyboardist, key figure of a new generation of artists fascinated by “total art”. Trained at Nantes CRR in Michel Bourcier and Valérie Fayet classes, at Boulogne-Billancourt CRR and at Lyon CNSMD under Nicole Corti, his musical studies led him to receive invaluable advice from a number of leading figures, and, in 2015, to create the company with which he would deploy his unique vision : La Tempête.

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