Created on the initiative and under the artistic direction of the French composer and flutist François Daudin Clavaud, the Ensemble Européen Legato is a chamber music ensemble of variable geometry composed of musicians from different countries of the European Union.
The Ensemble Européen Legato wishes to present atypical musical programs, where classical and contemporary music coexist and which can open the field to other artistic disciplines (literature, graphic arts, cinema, dance...). Creation is at the heart of its activity and the ensemble may commission works from composers.
The will of this new ensemble, by integrating musicians from different European countries, is to allow them to share their specific musical cultures, and to create a network of exchanges, notably in terms of diffusion.
Each year, the musicians are brought together for a residency in host structures willing to participate in this European cultural project. They work on a program that is offered to different festivals or concert halls during the current season.
Joseph Haydn
Trio in D major for flute, cello and piano
François Daudin Clavaud
Suite Coyoacan for piano
Mi Nature for flute, cello and piano
High Way for flute, cello and piano
Bohuslav Martinu
Trio for flute, cello and piano
François Daudin Clavaud - Composer, flutist
After starting to play the flute at the Lille Conservatory, François Daudin Clavaud continued his musical studies at the Conservatory of the 10th arrondissement and at the École Normale de Musique in the classes of Ida Ribera, Sophie Cherrier, Patrice Bocquillon and Patrick Gallois.
In 1984, he founded the Trio d'Argent with Michel Boizot and Xavier Saint-Bonnet. The trio quickly became part of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and the JMF, before leading an international career that has now lasted for over thirty-five years. The Trio d'Argent, resolutely turned towards contemporary creation, has commissioned about a hundred pieces from different composers of very varied aesthetics : Luc Ferrari, Ton That Tiet, Gualtiero Dazzi, Thierry Pécou, Mario Lavista, José Manuel Lopez Lopez, Bruno Letort…
At the same time, he has given several recitals with the pianist Jeff Cohen and conceived several reading concerts in collaboration with the actress Marie-Christine Barrault.
A complete musician, he leads a career as a composer with a catalog of numerous pieces written for small ensembles or orchestral groups (harmony, symphony orchestra). He is published by Universal and Robert Martin.
His interest in digital arts and improvisation led him to develop a real-time sound processing system that he uses in several of his concerts. This system allows him to create interactions between the instrumental playing, the movement and synthetic images.
In 2021, he created the Ensemble Européen Legato of which he is the artistic director.
Silvia Lenzi, cellist
After her studies in Italy, in Salzburg and Moscow, the Italian cellist and gambist Silvia Lenzi joined various Italian orchestras such as the Rai in Rome, the Toscanini orchestra in Parma and the Bologna opera.
Since 2000, she has been living in Paris, where she divides her time between the modern cello, the baroque cello and the viola da gamba, performing repertoires from all periods as an ensemble and as a soloist.
A permanent member of the Ensemble Zellig, she has also collaborated with the Ensemble 2e2m, Ars Nova, TM+ and plays regularly with "La grande écurie et la chambre du roi".
She has performed in creations and as a soloist with the philharmonic orchestras of Radio-France, Ile de france, Poitou-Charente, Bayonne, the Ensemble of Modern Music of Moscow, The Philharmonic Orchestras of Chicinau (Moldavia) and Tomsk (Russia) as well as in festivals of contemporary music. She has performed in prestigious festivals and venues such as the festival Presences at Radio-France, Musica in Strasbourg, the GMEM in Marseille, the Theatre du Chatelet, the 104 in Paris, the Philharmonie de Paris...
She has made numerous recordings, the last two of which with the Ensemble Zellig, Jivaro'works, and Song Lines by Philippe Hersant, were released in April 2017.
Emmy Wils - pianist
Emmy Wils is a young Belgian pianist. After her first piano lessons with Johan Bossers at the Music Academy of Tongeren, she continued her studies at the Brussels Conservatory in the classes of Piet Kuycken and Hans Ryckelicnk before completing her Master's degree in the class of Boyan Vodenitcharov.
During her studies she also had the privilege of studying with Peter Waas at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, and of playing in masterclasses with Pavel Eliashevic, Wolfgang Manz, Massimiliano Mainolfi, Rasa Biveiniene Yakutite, Christian Wilm Müller, Lukas Vondraçek, Yury Martynov, Boris Giltburg.
From the age of sixteen she played as a soloist in front of an orchestra and won numerous awards and prizes in national and international competitions: Cantabile, Belfius Classics, the Stephan de Jonghe Competition, the Liège Piano Competition, the André Charlier Competition, the VriendenCultuurprijs Tilburg, the Triomphe de l'Art, the Chiais Prize.
After her studies, Emmy Wils was involved as a passionate chamber musician in several projects. In 2016 she led the Sonos Ensemble, a young and flexible classical ensemble based in Brussels. She also worked with Polish flutist Natalia Jarzabek as part of the Infinity Duo, with whom she recorded her first CD. In 2019 she also performed in a duo with French flutist François Daudin Clavaud.
Attracted by contemporary creation, in 2020 she created the Koi Collective with saxophonist Maarten Vergauwen. In November of the same year, they were in residence at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, where they recorded pieces by composers such as Wim Henderick, Frederik Neyrinck and Michael Nyman.
Artistic director :
François Daudin Clavaud
ensemble.legato@gmail.com
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