For the first edition of its Academy, The Ideal Concert offers the opportunity to ten young European artists – 4 violinists, 2 violists, 2 cellists, 1 double bassist and 1 composer – to meet for five days of work at theNoirlac Abbey and four days of public concerts on two programs in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, as well as awareness-raising actions alongside Marianne Piketty.
The young composer was commissioned. This Academy was a place of transmission but also a springboard for these young artists. The Academy of the Ideal Concert will perform in Luynes with the program "Dances and modernity":

• Stravinsky, Concerto in D major for string orchestra
• Georges Enesco, Octet in C major Op. 7
• Benoît Menut, Libertango
  Stravinsky liked to revisit old models to better heckle them. In this Concerto, he uses a neo-classical language inherited from the 18th century and turns it into a work in a wig, the three movements of which are twisted by the parody spirit he so loved.
  "It’s horribly beautiful… it’s even more horrible than beautiful!", denounce the musicians in 1909, when the Octet op.7 was created. Enesco here synthesizes tradition with the heritage of Romanian folklore and deploys its own language in a bubbling modernity. The spirit leads the first two movements, calms down in the third before winding up in the three beats of a final waltz.
  The Libertango of Benoît Menut is a re-creation: enriched orchestration, addition of an initial cadence, it is the whole language of the composer that unfolds around the flagship piece of the Argentine Piazzolla.