The vocal sextet Les Aléas was formed in the spring of 2022 under the impetus of long-standing friends and colleagues. It was the desire to tackle a varied and popular repertoire through the delicacy and rigour of a cappella music that brought these 6 young singers together.
Offering a fresh take on both the classical concert format and the repertoire covered was a major motivation behind the creation of the ensemble. Through arrangements selected or created for the occasion, the repertoire covers a wide range of periods and genres, revisiting the great opera arias and French chanson, as well as traditional music and popular films. This versatility was widely appreciated during their first tour of Gironde in August 2022, by seasoned music lovers and novices alike. A successful venture, in short, for this ensemble, which is seeking to break away from the sometimes austere and elitist vision of classical music and reach out to a new audience, while at the same time asserting its lyrical essence.
Graduate of the Paris Pôle Supérieur with a Bachelor in singing and a teaching degree, soprano Amélie Raison also obtained a master's degree in Art-Therapy at the Sorbonne.
Prize-winner of several competitions as well as the Philippe Jaroussky academy, she works with a number of prestigious ensembles as a soloist.
She was recently Amour (Orphée et Eurydice by Gluck), soprano solo in contemporary works by young composers, Farnaz Modaressifar, Tom Bierton, soloist and duet recitalist with Ensemble Contraste, and soprano solo in The Wedding, Stravinsky with Ensemble Aedes.
She is also a member and soloist of many major French vocal ensembles, including Sequenza 9.3, La Tempête, Aedes, La Grande Garabagne, Correspondances, le Poème Harmonique, les Siècles and les Éléments.
Alexia Macbeth is a French-British Mezzo-Soprano born in Paris. She holds a BA in classical singing from the Royal Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and an acting diploma from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Young Artist at Opera Fuoco, founded by conductor David Stern, with whom performances include Cherubino Nozze di Figaro, title role Lady in the Dark (K.Weill), cover Serse Serse (Handel), Soprano II solo B minor Mass at the Paris Philharmonic and Gelasius Richardus Löwenherz (Telemann) at Theater Magdeburg. Her recent operatic roles include : title role in le Garçon et le Poisson magique (Leonard Evers) at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, title role Liza Elliott Lady in the Dark (Kurt Weill) for Opera Zuid (Netherlands), La Cigogne Le rêveur de la Lune (Howard Moody) at Avignon Opera House, Echo in a creation Truth is a four letter word (Fred Frith) at the Lieu Unique, Nantes, Soeur Mathilde Le dialogue des Carmélites at Massy Opera House and Giuglia la Scala di Seta with Opera Zuid.
Lauriane Le Prev discovered her contralto voice in 2017, thanks to Myriam De Aranjo, and graduated in 2020 from the IXth Conservatoire, Paris. She is a Young Talent at Philippe Jaroussky's Academy during the 2019/2020 season. Passionate about polyphony and choral work, she is a permanent member of the vocal ensemble Aedes conducted by Mathieu Romano and regular member of the Radio France choir, Les Métaboles, the Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet and EOS XXI. In 2023 she collaborated for the first time with the Capella Nacional de Catalunya conducted by Jordi Savall, with whom she recorded Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. As a soloist, she enjoys performing all styles and aesthetics : with Euterpia (a string trio and two female singers ensemble that she founded) and the Irini ensemble, directed by Lila Hajosi where she explores Syriac, Byzantine and Greek music. Particularly drawn to oratorio, she also sings the alto solo in Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, Mozart's Requiem and Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Étienne grew up in the choral music world and started singing at the age of 5 and completed his musical training with 10 years of piano. Passionate about ensemble music, he joins the French National Youth Choir, then Seguido. Alongside his full-time job as a Financial Controller, he performs with numerous professional ensembles such as Les Gentilshommes, Êkhô, Les Candides, Les Discours, the vocal quartet A Bocca Chiusa... Throughout his career, he worked with accomplished conductors such as Régine Théodoresco, Valérie Fayet and Filippo Maria Bressan. He first started singing with Anne Constantin (CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt), and furthered his training as a soloist with Myriam de Aranjo and Blandine de Saint-Sauveur.
Born in Gironde, and exposed to the music world from a young age, Jérôme began his classical singing training in Bordeaux.
Passionate about choral and polyphonic singing, he joined the Chœur National des Jeunes in 2013, before joining the professional ensembles Soli-Tutti in 2014, Les Gentilshommes in 2015, and more recently Êkhô, Spirito and the Radio France choir. Finally, in 2022 he founded the ensemble Les Aléas.
He also sings as a soloist in various opera, operetta and oratorio productions.
As a big Broadway fan, he also trained in musical theatre in Paris.
The bass, Milan Faure discovers polyphony at a very early age, singing in various children's and youth choirs such as Sotto Voce and the CNJ. He trained in classical singing at the CMA 15, Paris and then at the CRR in Saint Maur and Mâcon, where he graduated in 2017. Fascinated by early music and the contemporary repertoire, he quickly specialised in a cappella vocal music. He has performed in many new works by Thierry Machuel, Enrique Muñoz and Zad Moultaka, and has worked with Soli-Tutti, Chœur en Scène and the Sebastian Wesley ensemble. Member of Êkhô since its creation in 2018, he also sings with Massy, Montpellier and Avignon opera choirs, the men's vocal ensemble Les Gentilshommes, and the Spirito ensemble.
17 novembre 2024 - 15h - Salle des Fêtes - 33350 Doulezon