Ensemble Ouranos QUINTETTES À VENT

From the moment we first created Ensemble Ouranos, we were deeply convinced that we should forge our group's artistic identity through an engaged exploration of repertoire. This remains the predominant goal of our work to this day: that each member's language join in one breath to form the ensemble. The choice to bring these three pieces together in one album stems from two desires on our part. Firstly, our wish was to offer up the many facets of the wind quintet and the diversity of its musical languages. The wealth of possibilities is inherent to this ensemble makeup and the very nature of wind instruments, at once soloistic in their individual voices and deeply orchestral when one melds their particular sounds. Secondly, we also wanted to highlight the idea of folk material as an essential part of musical discourse. Upon inspection, this omnipresent and protean folklore appears clearly as a linking thread between these three works. It is fascinating to discover at which point each of the three composers transcends his national heritage to transmit, in his own way, his inner life.
(Ensemble Ouranos)

Aurèle Marthan MOZART PROJECT

Aurèle Marthan belongs to the new generation of performers who have a game both virtuoso and simple, without being demonstrative display of dexterity.

Studied piano and chamber music at the Paris Conservatory in particular, at the Istituto Superiore di Cremona in Italy and at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he obtained his Master. He followed mainly the teaching of  Denis Pascal , Maurizio Baglini and Tatiana Sarkissova and, for chamber music, that of Philippe Bernold,  Emmanuelle Bertrand ,  Eric Le Sage ,  Paul Meyer  and currently Itamar Golan sonatas with flutist Mathilde Calderini . He also received master classes from Pascal Devoyon and Imogen Cooper.

Born on 24 December 1986 Aurelius began piano at age 4 in Guéthary where he grew up. After the prize at the conservatory of Bayonne at 16, he joined the class of Denis Pascal in Rueil-Malmaison. This is a defining musical encounter for the young musician. He won first prize for excellence and development, as well as a First Prize unanimously in the chamber music class of Michel Moraguès. The young pianist is then impregnated technique and sensitivity to Russian Elena Rozanova, before joining the Higher Institute of Music in Cremona, in the class of Maurizio Baglini.