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 Mireille Podeur

 

 

          Mireille Podeur is a graduate of the CNSMD in Paris in harpsichord, analysis and chamber music. She has also worked with Kenneth Gilbert at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Mireille Lagacé in Montreal. She holds a degree in musicology from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

She received a scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture after graduating from the CNSMD in Paris, and spent a year studying in Canada and the United States. During this time she wrote several programmes on keyboard repertoire for Radio Canada. On her return, she taught at the University of Rouen and founded the Arts Baroques ensemble, which performed at a number of festivals (Sablé, Ambronnay, Dieppe, Printemps des Arts de Nantes, Péniche Opéra) for several shows and concerts (Les Vanitez, le Soleil du Nord, les Miroirs du Soleil, Une journée chez Louis). Commissioned by the DRAC of Haute Normandie, the ensemble worked for three years with the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen, Opéra de Normandie for a series of Master classes on 17th-century Italian opera with Howard Crook and Isabelle Poulenard. On this occasion, she produced J.Peri's opera Euridice and its recording for the Maguelone label, which won an award from Opéra International.

 

          She specialises in the operatic repertoire and has been invited by the ensemble ‘Les Menus Plaisirs du Roy’, directed by J.L. Impe, to work on research into baroque operas and their parody (Atys, Persée, La Fille mal gardée, Alceste) in Ambronnay, Sablé, Brussels, Paris, La Chabotterie, the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles and for three Musica recordings on Arte. In her teaching posts and as head of the early music departments at the Nice and Limoges CRRs, she has developed a sustained operatic activity with students, staging several operas including Lully's Roland, Michel Delabarre's Triomphe des Arts, and L. Rossi's Orfeo in collaboration with choreographer Gilles Poirier, linguist Paolo Zedda, and CMBV researcher Thomas Leconte.

 

          She recorded for Musica Ficta J.B de Boismortier's ‘Divertissements de campagne’ with Les Menus Plaisirs du Roy for release in 2014. She is currently working with Orlando Bass on a series of concerts and recordings for Maguelone under the artistic direction of Didier Henry, focusing on transcriptions for two harpsichords: Pièces de clavecin en Concerts by J.PH.Rameau, Piazzolla's Four Seasons, Handel's Concerti Grossi Opus 6, in collaboration with Laurent Soumagnac's ‘Atelier du Clavecin’.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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