The École municipale de musique of Chambray-lès-Tours marks Sainte-Cécile, patron saint of musicians, with a concert in the Salle Marcadet. Its second- and third-cycle guitar ensembles open, on pieces from traditional music and the classical repertoire. The Pizzicat’ string orchestra then travels from the popular feasts of Central Europe to the rhythms of South America, with flute, clarinet and percussion. Admission costs nothing, on reservation.
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Christmas Session : le Big Band du conservatoire
The jazz and musiques actuelles department of the Chartres conservatoire ends its year with the Christmas Session, heir to its older Christmas jam. The Big Band takes the stage beside the workshops of the different classes. The programme is left deliberately loose: standards, new finds and improvisation. The pupils and their teachers play together in the Salle Doussineau, and entry is free on reservation.
Concert Ô Marché : l’Escadron Volant de la Reine
The Escadron Volant de la Reine brings its Concert Ô Marché series into the salle des Colonnes of the Nogent-le-Rotrou town hall. The players set out a short baroque programme on viole, violon, contrebasse and guitare, announced under the title La Tarte à Timbre. Entry costs nothing and the set runs about thirty minutes, so it can be caught between errands on the market forecourt. Each date of the season digs into another corner of baroque music.
Anaïs Cassiers à la collégiale Saint-Sylvain de Levroux
Before the Lisztomanias open at Châteauroux, the collégiale Saint-Sylvain in Levroux hosts a recital by Anaïs Cassiers. She plays without an interval, on the themes of water and contemplation. The programme sets Jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este by Franz Liszt beside Une barque sur l’océan by Maurice Ravel and a Polonaise-Fantaisie by Frédéric Chopin. Cassiers trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, in Olivier Gardon’s class.
The Regional Symphony Orchestra at Ferrières
The Orchestre Région Centre-Val de Loire/Tours brings symphonic music to Ferrières-en-Gâtinais for the close of its heritage programme. Associated with the Opéra de Tours–Grand Théâtre, the ensemble represents the region’s orchestral life. Its performance brings the sound of a full orchestra into dialogue with the historic religious setting of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul abbey church.
Microfolie Vesoul: Art and Origines Symphonic
Digital collections in Vesoul trace the crafts of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle-Aquitaine’s art and landscapes. “Tales and Fantasy” pairs paintings, sculptures and books, while National Collection #1 draws on the Louvre, Versailles and Centre Pompidou. A screening of “Origines Symphonic” features accordionist Stéphane Farge, his quartet and the Limoges Opera Symphony Orchestra.
Concert de Noël: Orgue et biniou in Pont-l’Abbé
Per Vari Kervarec, Tony Dudognon and Brieuc Colleter are named on the bill for this Christmas concert in Pont-l’Abbé. The instrumental pairing places the biniou, a Breton bagpipe, alongside the organ. Organized by the Friends of the Organ, the concert welcomes voluntary contributions from listeners.
Le Camber Traditional Music Concert in Sérent
A bombarde and three saxophones share the ensemble at Le Camber’s traditional music concert in Sérent. Guitar, bass and drums complete the line-up, bringing contrasting instrumental colours to the performance. The group comes from the Questembert School of Traditional Music and plays as part of Sérent’s Journées Européennes du Patrimoine programme.
La Grange aux Pianos Festival
La Grange aux Pianos hosts Musique en Berry within the artist’s house of pianist Cyril Huvé in Chassignolles. The setting gives the festival an unusually direct relationship between performers, instruments and listeners, far from the distance of a large conventional hall. Its guiding ideas of music in freedom and at natural scale emphasise concentration, presence and the character of the place itself. Situated in George Sand’s country, the house also belongs to a wider landscape shaped by literary and musical exchange. The festival’s identity therefore rests as much on how music is encountered as on repertoire: close listening, an artist-led venue and a rural Berry environment brought into the same experience.
Airs et Songes de la Traversière
Gabrielle Rubio brings the baroque transverse flute to Airs et Songes de la Traversière at Beaune’s Hôtel-Dieu. Hiéryne Lassale joins her on viola da gamba, Thibaut Roussel on theorbo and baroque guitar, and Cécile Chartrain on harpsichord. Rubio’s dual practice as flautist and guitarist reflects her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.