Rémi Jousselme and Tristan Manoukian: an encounter with classical guitar

For one afternoon, classical guitar duo Rémi Jousselme and Tristan Manoukian will perform in the Psalette cloister bookshop.

They'll give twenty-minute performances and share excerpts from their program In a Landscape.

The program revolves around four fascinating figures.

The American Meredith Monk. Dancer, choreographer, musician and screenwriter, she wrote minimalist, joyful works, echoed here by the superb, stripped-down "In a Landscape" by the revolutionary John Cage, philosopher and musician, another avant-garde figure and pioneer of experimental music.

Hungary's Béla Bartók. Took refuge in New York during the Second World War. A true giant of 20^th century music, he tirelessly collected the traditional repertoires of Central Europe.

Cuban Leo Brouwer's "Micropiezas", the program's only original composition for two guitars. With his humor, his evocations of French and Cuban songs, his collages and his polytonality, he completes this musical ballad through that extraordinary moment of artistic fertility that was the 20^th century.

Rémi Jousselme teaches guitar at the Francis Poulenc Conservatoire. His partner Tristan Manoukian teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

For more than 20 years, as soloists and with other musicians, they have performed on many stages around the world: Russia, Japan, Spain, the United States, etc. Drawing on all these experiences, in 2020 they decided to form a guitar duo.

The joy of combining their sensibilities and experiences around the practice and teaching of music led them to collaborate more and more regularly. So they couldn't resist the chance to sample together the subtle interplay of the guitar duo: this two-headed grande dame with its multiplied possibilities can, thanks to the magic of arrangement, tackle hitherto inaccessible repertoires.

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