The Cathedral Songs (collective work)
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15 Motets for choir and organ 45 pages
Inherited from a rich musical tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, music at Rennes Cathedral is today a team of professional and amateur musicians (choirmasters, organists, singers) driven by the desire to transmit beauty and joy.
This desire is concretized by the musical animation of the Sunday masses and the alternation of the implementations (choir of adult, choir of men. Center of Choral Art, cantor).
A cultural season "A cathedral in the city" echoes the main events of the liturgical year.
Since a heritage is only really alive if it is reinvented, the idea of creating music and texts for the liturgy or the spiritual concert naturally came to mind. If all the motets of this collection are conceived for a choir, some, according to their specific liturgical destination or the choice of writing of the authors require a participation (sometimes obligatory, sometimes optional) of the assembly.
The notion of choir itself being very fluctuating from one place to another, this collection Les chants de la cathédrale will endeavor to diversify the levels of difficulty and the aesthetics while taking care to remain within realistic proposals of implementation. In order to do so, recognized talents (authors, composers) will be regularly invited to enrich the catalog.
Jean-René ANDRE
Jean-René André is titular organist and music coordinator at Rennes Cathedral. Within the framework of the Centre d'Art Choral de Rennes, he works as an accompanist and organ teacher. The liturgy and sacred texts as well as his native Brittany (in particular thanks to a fruitful collaboration with Jean-Pierre Boulic) are the main sources of inspiration for his composing activity.
Jean-Pierre Boulic lives in the Pays d'Iroise in North Finistère. His work has been distinguished on several occasions, notably in 2010 by the Grand Prix de poésie Louis Montalte of the Société des Gens de lettres and in 2014 by the Yves Cosson poetry prize of the literary academy of Brittany and Pays de la Loire. He is also the author of several cantata librettos composed in recent years in Brittany.
Ronan Chouinard has a degree in musicology and has won five prizes from the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He is titular organist of the choir organ of the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris and music teacher in the Paris region. Concerned with the quality of the music performed during services, he writes pieces for choir and organ of various styles and levels.
Bertrand Dumas holds a doctorate in Catholic theology. He is now a teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Strasbourg.
He is the author of : Mystique et théologie d'après Henri de Lubac (Cerf) ; Chemins vers le silence intérieur avec Henri de Lubac, spirituel et théologien (Parole et silence) ; Le désir en question. Regards bouddhistes et chrétiens (Profac); La mort. Regards croisés bouddhistes et chrétiens (Cerf). Recently, thanks to the help of Fabrice Bravard (Monthabord éditions) and Fric Lebrun, he has been trying his hand at writing texts for liturgical chant.
Eric Lebrun is titular organist of the church of Saint Antoine des Quinze-vingts in Paris where he founded and directs the Saint-Antoine choir. He is a professor at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and regularly gives lectures at various institutions such as the Royal Aeademy of Music in London. As a composer, he is the author of about fifty works ranging from solo violin to oratorio.
Guillaume Le Dréau was born in Quimper in 1982. He shares his various activities between composition, research and teaching. Pianist, organist at the Cathedral of Rennes, laureate of the CNSMD of Paris in analysis, musical aesthetics, history of music, direction of Gregorian choir, he is professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire of Rennes. His catalog as a composer explores many fields, from solo music to orchestral music.
Jean Legoupil is a former student of André Isoir and Louis Thiry. He is the titular organist of the cathedral of Le Havre and has been professor of organ at the conservatory of the same city. He has given numerous concerts in France and abroad. He is musical director of the Arthur Honneger vocal group and of the André Caplet choir and orchestra, which have performed with the greatest soloists. As a composer, he has produced more than 90 opus numbers, in all genres and widely published.
Hervé Lesvenan, after his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, founded in 2001 ars'ys bretagne, an ensemble with variable geometry that has set itself the objectives of disseminating and creating contemporary and improvised music. It is with this ensemble that he performs in many festivals in France and abroad. The composition allows him to create numerous musics for the stage but also for various ensembles and interpreters of all hori/.ons: impassioned by the improvisation in general and free particularly, he creates recently the collective "Libre Max". As a certified teacher, he teaches musical training, writing and improvisation at the conservatory of Quimper, but also in higher education structures.
