A message to lovers of today’s music: four world premieres are programmed at this year’s Festival! François Meïmoun tackles the myth of Antigone in a grand work showcasing Laurent Stocker’s voice with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Philippe Schoeller creates a new string quartet between fury and mystery (Extasis); Christophe Maudot’s cycle for harpsichord, Désordres passagers, is performed for the first time in public; and Fabrice Jünger has prepared a multiform score for the younger generation that renews our view of the world around us (Remember).
Wednesday 22 march
7:00 PM – Rainier III Auditorium
Remember, educational pieces for non-musical children, quartet and electronics
by the students of the Collège de l’Institution FANB, of École des Révoires and École Saint-Charles
Saturday 25 march
15H – One Monte-Carlo
Christophe Maudot
Friday 31 march
8:00 PM – Rainier III Auditorium
François Meïmoun, Antigone, melodrama for reciter and orchestra on a text by Géraldine Aïdan (world premiere – festival commission)
Saturday 1 april
3:00 PM – Tunnel Riva
Philippe Schoeller
Extasis, for string quartet
(world premiere – commissioned by the festival)
