On this 23 June, one week before the start of a new session, we shall be having a succession of reports, round tables and musical illustrations, in the presence of major composers and performers who have « made » the history of Acanthes since 1977, but we shall also be having partners – public and private – without whom Acanthes could not have invented the new modes of transmission of contemporary creation for over thirty years.
We shall be dealing with composition and conducting, but also with the various æsthetic evolutions that have driven this period, together with an opening-out to the world, beyond long-standing boundaries that the students of Acanthes now merrily transgress. They came first to Aix-en-Provence then to the Chartreuse of Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. For the past seven years they have been meeting in Metz, housed in the Arsenal building and in the Conservatory areas.
Apart from the official teaching that most of them have naturally practised, this is a moment for questions and for confrontation – the entry, gentle but still effervescent, into a professional career. And a much broader horizon thanks to passageways set up for the benefit of a public that is enquiring, if at times sceptical, and to which, in Metz, the doors of the Arsenal are wide open.
Claude Samuel

Laurent Feneyrou, coordination

. 9h30 : Welcome
Laure Marcel-Berlioz, director of the Cdmc

. 9h45 : Betting on the future
Laurent Feneyrou interviews Claude Samuel, founder and director of Acanthes

. 10h15 : In the days of the maestros
Round table with Gilbert Amy, Betsy Jolas, Philippe Manoury, Marco Stroppa

. 11h15 : The composer/performer relationship
by Georges Aperghis and Donatienne Michel-Dansac

. 12h : The teaching of conducting
A dialogue between Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös

. 15h : A militant marginalism
Round table with Laurent Bayle, Olivier Bernard, Marc-Olivier Dupin, Laurent Le Bon and Frank Madlener

. 15h45 : The composer/performer relationship
by Ivan Fedele and Mario Caroli

. 16h30 : Rediscovered voices
Seven hundred archive hours !
by Laure Marcel-Berlioz and Eric de Gélis, with sound and film illustrations…

. 17h : A speciality of Acanthes : the composition workshops
The reports of an experiment with Michèle Reverdy, Ivan Fedele, Yan Maresz, Jacques Mercier

. 18h : « Le Magazine » by Lionel Esparza live on France Musique
with the participation of Yan Maresz, Hector Parra, Marco Stroppa

. 19h30 : Concert | Cité de la Musique | amphitheatre

Giorgio Battistelli Dédalus Le livre célibataire
Jean-Pierre Drouet, percussion

Ivan Fedele Apostrofe et Dedica
Mario Caroli, flute

Vincent Bouchot Recettes cannibales
Texts by Roland Topor
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
Vincent Leterme, piano

Olivier Messiaen « Regard de l'Esprit de joie », from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jésus
Marie Vermeulin, piano

Paul Hindemith Overture to the « Flying Dutchman » sight-read by a bad spa orchestra by the fountain at seven in the morning

Quartet Diotima

Free entry, reservation necessary for day sessions, and for the concert :
0147154986 or cdmc@cdmc. asso.fr

Co-production Cdmc – ACDA
In partnership with the Cité de la Musique and France Musique
with the support of Madame Joëlle Bellon and Éditions Salabert.