Roots4 Clarinets
Sharing, dialoguing, communicating… The relationship with the audience is at the heart of Roots4Clarinets' projects. Developing the audience's curiosity, whetting their appetite, making music a forum for exchange, the concert becomes as much a space for mediation as for performance.
It's a philosophy that's both popular and appealing! In fact, R4C has often distinguished itself in national and international competitions. In Boulogne-Billancourt, the group won the Grand Prix du Jury at the Concours d'Interprétation des Musiques d'Aujourd'hui, then1st prize at the Remiremont Chamber Music Competition, and 3rd prize at the Léopold Bellan Competition.
All teachers, they are keen to share and pass on their knowledge. Alexis Ciesla composed Suite 4 Roots for them, for clarinet quartet and ensemble, enabling them to create unifying moments by reaching out to musicians in teaching and performance venues.
Keen to collaborate, the quartet's musicians like to encourage encounters. Oscar Navarro ‘s Les Mousquetaires concerto for clarinet quartet and wind orchestra is a fantastic opportunity to get together around a brilliant, virtuoso work.
For the duration of a concert, the musicians create a delightful world where all kinds of encounters are possible... From furious, unbridled funk to sensual, swaying merengue, let yourself be guided, disturbed and surprised in a show whose energy and sensitivity will not leave you indifferent, where the boundary between artists and audience becomes blurred. Join this joyous family reunion and, above all, hold on tight, it's tender but it's also... explosive!
With Daisy Dugardin (Eb, Eb and bass clarinets), Juan Sebastian Cortés (Eb clarinets and basset horn), Lorenzo Salvá Peralta (Eb and A clarinets), Justin Frieh (Eb and bass clarinets).
Photo credit: Victor Wilhelm
