Renaissance Great Hall
Baroque music festival BAROQUE EVENINGS
Marc Mauillon (baritone)
Lucas Peres (viol, lirone)
Vincent Dumestre (baroque guitar, theorbo)
Storie d’amore immerses us in seventeenth century baroque Italy, an era Vincent Dumestre has been exploring throughout his whole career. Ranging from passion to despair, from physical desire to the search for the sublime, the entire palette of love is laid out for us by Marc Mauillon’s marvelously expressive voice as he performs the most beautiful compositions of Cavalli, Castaldi and Coya, as well as French composers such as Charpentier and Brossard, themselves head over heels in love with their muse, Italy.
Vincent Dumestre
Vincent Dumestre is the founder and artistic director of Le Poème Harmonique, with which he explores the vocal and instrumental repertoire of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. With this faithful team of artists he also seeks to revive the performing arts of the Baroque period, thereby favoring in many of his projects interaction with other artistic disciplines.
After studying art history at the École du Louvre and classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, Vincent Dumestre (b. May 1968) turned to the lute, Baroque guitar and theorbo. Since then he has taken part in many concerts, in particular with the Ricercar Consort, La Simphonie du Marais and Le Concert des Nations. He has taken part in more than thirty recordings with those ensembles. In 1998 Vincent Dumestre formed Le Poème Harmonique.
From the very first, Le Poème Harmonique productions won both critical acclaim and popularity. Vincent Dumestre’s artistic career is essentially bound up with that of his ensemble. It is interesting furthermore to note his unusual position on the international Baroque scene, as the only musician to lead a company that is directly involved in the production of large-scale stage productions, thus contributing to a new perception of the relationships between music and theatre. Over the past four years the repute of Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique has grown spectacularly and the ensemble’s stage productions and concerts are now presented at many prestigious venues in France and abroad.
Marc Mauillon
Marc Mauillon is a young French baritone whose talent has already been recognized in many countries from Europe to North America. At the moment, he is involved in a lot of new projects from baroque theater to modern French music, from Poème Harmonique (dir. Vincent Dumestre), or Concert Spirituel (dir. Hervé Niquet) to The Balcony by Peter Eötvös or Romeo and Juliet by Pascal Dusapin..
Lucas Peres
Lucas Peres is another talented French musician whose main projects are concerning the music writing for dance performances. After spending a lot of time in Brazil studying and writing music, he moved to France to work with groups such as Poème Harmonique (dir. Vincent Dumestre) and Doulce Mémoire (dir. Denis Raisin-Dadre).
Tickets: Lt20, LT40 / €5.79, €11.58
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Organized by French Institute in Lithuania / Institut français de Lituanie
Co-organizer National Museum Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
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