THE COMPANY’S ARTISTS

Composition, guitars, saz, singing

Participates to the following projects : Chants populaires de Méditerranée, Il Sole non si muove.

Member of the Compagnie Rassegna since 2011, Sylvie draws inspiration from her Spanish and Oranese origins. Her voice is shaped by Mediterranean traditions. She created and composed in the band Barrio Chino.

Participates to the following projects : Chants populaires de Méditerranée, Il Sole non si muove.

Native from Sicily, Carine joined the Compagnie Rassegna in 2009. She brings to it her very personal interpretation of Mediterranean blues. Besides, she is the founder of the Folk World Music L’anima lotta (literally : “Soul is struggling”).

Member of the following projects : Chants populaires de Méditerranée, Il Sole non si muove

Born in Tlemcen, the Algerian capital of the Arabo-Andalusian music, Fouad is one of the historical members of the Compagnie. He joined it in 2001. He is not only a specialist of scholarly music and popular folk sounds, he also attaches great importance to the transmission of his cultural inheritance.

Member of the following project : Chants populaires de Méditerranée

Musicien native of the Réunion island, Julian is a long-standing travelling companion of Bruno Allary. He plays the bass and percussions in the Compagnie Rassegna. He brings to it a stimulating rythmic acuteness.

Participates to the following project : Chants populaires de Méditerranée.

Hassan is a percussionnist from Kabylie, specialist of the derbuka. He followed the Compagnie Rassegna since his creation. His adaptability and skillfullness make him very valuable in the Compagnie Rassegna.

Member of the following projects : Il Sole non si muove

As her childhood was basked in the portuguese language, Carina built a musical career which involves fado singing as well as electronic influences. She joined the Compagnie Rassegna in 2012, intensifying it with her subtle singing and her precision in the way she plays percussions.

Participates to the following : Il Sole non si muove

Thomas Bramerie is an internationally renowned bass player. He played with some famous bass players like Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chet Baker, Brad Mehldau... Since 2017, he has been feeding the programme “Il Sole non si Muove” with a singular energy and a fine-tuned sense of melody.

Participates to the following project : Il Sole non si muove

Mireille is a musician, a reseacher and a lecturer at the Conservatory of Valencia. In addition to her musical skills, she brought her expertise and her knowledge of early music to the Compagnie.

Participates to the following project : Contretemps #2

As a historian and professor at the Collège de France, Patrick is the author of several books, such as the Histoire Mondiale de la France (2017, Le Seuil). In Contretemps #2, for the first time, he uses his language of historian in an artistic work.

Participates to the following projects : Il Sole non si muove, Contretemps #2

Isabelle opted for kaval flutes very early and progressively became one of the most iconic representatives of this instrument – a slanting ancestral end-blown flute mainly played in Anatolia and the Balkans. As a key-partner of Compagnie’s creations, she breathes life and a great musicality into them.

Author, producer, set designer and project director, Laurent Gachet has worked for 30 years in theatre, dance, circus and music. Since Contretemps #2, he has been providing his set designer vision to the creations of the Compagnie.