Fiona Monbet and her ensemble Miroirs Etendus perform Steve Reich’s “City Life” et Christophe Chassol’s “Paris Noir”
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GRAAL THEATRE, Ensemble Miroirs Etendus
Fiona Monbet and her ensemble Miroirs Étendus pay tribute to the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho with a programme based around one of her key works: Graal théâtre
Continue readingAN INDEX OF METALS – Miroirs Etendus feat. Linda Oláh
Rave party, mass of the senses, limits of perception, trance, initiation rite, capture, immersion, assassination. Fiona Monbet and the Miroirs Étendus ensemble invite you to rediscover Fausto Romitelli’s unclassifiable, hallucinatory work, An Index of Metals, in a new record from b•records at La Soufflerie de Rézé.
Continue readingMAELSTRÖM – JAZZ IN MARCIAC 2022
“Fiona Monbet, ‘Celtic and gypsy fairy’, violinist and conductor, takes us on a dreamlike ride of technique and vitality. […] She is accompanied here by a top-flight jazz trio and a small chamber orchestra that she conducts while she plays. […] A sublime poetic and lyrical journey in which the violin becomes song and the music, emotion.” Jazz in Marciac
Continue readingOpera ELSEWHERE 2021-2024
The opera Elsewhere, by Irish composer Michael Gallen, premieres at the Abbey Theatre in November 2021 and tours in 2022/2024. Conducted by Fiona, it brings together French musicians and Irish singers to tell the true story of an asylum on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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