What if we took a step back in time… in the Baroque era?
L'Ensemble Faenza - Marco Horvat, singer and musician, Clélia Horvat, singer and Paul Germanaz, tenor - offers musical interludes among the masterpieces of Natoire, Boucher, Desportes and Hubert Robert.
Faenza and Marco Horvat
Marco Horvat approaches ancient music in a singular way, which led him to go off the beaten track : gone to study four years the music of South India with the singer Aruna Sairam, he studied Middle Ages and Renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with Dominique Vellard and Bob Crawford Young and then joined ensembles such as Gilles Binchois, Alla Francesca, La Simphonie du Marais, xviii-21, Akademia, La Grande Ecurie and the Chambre du Roy, William Byrd, Huelgas Ensemble, The Harmonic Poem, Artaserse.
Marco Horvat is one of the few pioneers of self-accompanied singing. Convinced that this historical practice – almost forgotten today – is essential to address some 17th century music, he brings together in the Faenza ensemble, which he created in 1996, performers who master this practice.
Clélia Horvat
Born in 2005, Clelia Horvat was a page from 2013 to 2019 at the Maîtrise du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, where she practiced French and Italian baroque repertoires. She has performed very regularly as a soloist in the concerts and recordings of this Master, notably at the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. After studying cello at the CRR de Versailles, she joined the Department of Young Singers at the Conservatoire de Paris in 2019, where she participated in numerous musical and stage productions. In March 2021, she played one of the main roles in B. Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw in a production of the Philharmonie de Paris. In parallel, she entered the cello class of Pauline Bartissol, then David Louwerse at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris.
Paul Germanaz
This young tenor of 19 years begins the music with the horn of harmony at the CRR of Reims. After completing a course with schedules arranged at the college, he began singing at the conservatory at the age of 14. Passionate about lyric art and having played many times in the productions of the Conservatoire de Reims, he joined the prestigious Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs at the CRR de Paris at the age of 16. Recently, he participated in the Concours du Grand Opéra d'Avignon and was a finalist.