A piece for jazzband and orchestra commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Faubourg 23 premiered at Cardiff’s Hoddinot Hall and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on October 18, 2023, it will tour in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Portugal for the 2024-2025 season.
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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.
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“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
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The opera Elsewhere, by Irish composer Michael Gallen, premieres at the Abbey Theatre in November 2021. 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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