Listening to the Living World – Fête de la Musique & Summer Solstice with ALIVE!

Romina Romay

Romina Romay is a conductor, composer and pianist, originally from Buenos Aires and based in Paris.

For the Fête de la Musique at the Château de La Napoule, she will present an excerpt from her project Romee – Her Voices, which revisits the legacy of women composers in classical music through electronic rhythms, contemporary sounds and inspirations drawn from nature.

Emmanuel Fillot

Emmanuel Fillot was born in 1957 in Tours, France. His work is represented by Galerie Lelia Mordoch in Paris and Miami.

He studied art in Grenoble and Paris, but his true education came through his encounters with poets and his interest in many non-Western cultures. He met Kenneth White, with whom he collaborated within the framework of geopoetics.

Since the late 1980s, geopoetics has sought to reshape our relationship with the biosphere — a reflection that strongly resonates today with contemporary environmental issues.

In 2008, Emmanuel Fillot met the poet F. J. Temple, who would remain a travelling companion, notably through a collaboration on an installation at the Bambouseraie d’Anduze and the publication of the artist’s book Migrations.

His work has always been rooted in the question of our relationship with the living world and nature, and could be summed up by the phrase: “To take part in the passage of poetry.”

Larenka Hoareau

A graduate of both the Institut d’Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, where she obtained a master’s degree, and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany, where she trained in lyric singing, soprano Larenka Hoareau has a singular profile.

Her training allowed her to work with teachers such as Jean-Christophe Benoît and Rachel Yakar. She has performed a wide range of roles, including the Young Woman in La Voix humaine, Serpina in La Servante maîtresse, Woglinde in Rheingold, Adele in Die Fledermaus, the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, and Musetta in La Bohème.

She has been conducted by Yakov Kreizberg, Roland Boer, Markus Bosch, Theodor Guschlbauer, Andreas Stoer and Peter Marx. In concert, she has performed with Matthias Lademann and Lida Zournatsi. Today, she is most often accompanied by Pierre Laïk, Nathalie Lanoë or Anne Guidi.