Marc Monnet has been orchestrating this Monaco festival since 2003, for each edition compiling a veritable manifesto in favour of all kinds of music, for all kinds of audiences.
Because he’s capable of going from classical instrumental writing to exploiting the possibilities of electronic sounds, composer Marc Monnet has turned the Printemps des Arts into a festival totally unlike any other, fundamentally focused on showcasing the entire gamut of musical creativity, from the 10th to the 21st century! Born in Paris in 1947, Monnet is both author and artist. His knowledge of the subject and the diversity of his skills set and fields of activity confer on his role as artistic director (since 2003) an added-value perceptible in his programme choices. “I can’t divide myself. I make my selection with a listener’s ear, and that’s a composer’s vision too. The vast majority of festival organisers can’t even read music, so I imagine having a composer heading an institution gives the programming a new lease of life.” (1) Specifically here by “reassuring audiences with familiar music and valorising the music of today” by means of less traditional channels, rethinking forms of presentation, venues and didactic approaches. The 34th festival stays true to form. It includes rarely performed works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, the French première of Denisov’s opera after Picasso (concert version), plus the repertoires of Charles Ives and composer-in-residence Yan Maresz along with Luciano Berio’s 14 Sequenze in their entirety. Don’t forget, either, the apartment concerts, the Voyage Surprise and the spotlight on an instrument, this year the clarinet. Unmissable too are the American Music section, with the opening concert by the Orchestre National de France conducted by Yutaka Sado (16 March), and virtuoso pianist Bertrand Chamayou playing some of the Charles Ives pieces (31 March).
Par Mireille Sartore
Du 16 mars au 8 avril à Monaco
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