News

February 21, 2012

Music Cordiale 8th year

Musique Cordiale 2012 is now in its 8th year!   2012 offers new repertoire, lovely singers and lots of great players, with lunchtime and evening orchestral concerts, chamber music, recitals and Jazz, with the choir joining in the second week to perform the sublime Mozart C minor Mass and the Poulenc Gloria, conducted by Tom [...]

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Posted in: Press
February 21, 2012

Scenes from Musique Cordiale 2011

The “Musique Cordiale” Festival in Seillans enters its seventh year undaunted A black saloon car paves its way through the suburbs of Saint-Raphaёl on the Côte d’Azur. It is hot, the clothing of the passengers sticks to their bodies like flies to a carcass, the roundabouts – a French invention which have taken over Europe [...]

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March 29, 2011

The Academy Musique Cordiale

The Academy Musique Cordiale is developing into an integral part of the festival, with students from the Nice Conservatoire returning to play alongside professional musicians in a concert in Seillans church on 10th of August.  Students will have the possibility to stay for a week working with the conductor Tom Seligman, and the music pedagogue, [...]

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March 29, 2011

Lunchtime Concerts

Lunchtime concerts will be held twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays at the beautiful Chapelle de Notre Dame de L’Ormeau at 12.30.  They will be free of charge and will represent  different musical activities taking place during the festival.

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Posted in: Concert
March 29, 2011

Jazz

This year we will be presenting 2 jazz concerts during the festival. On August 3rd, the Remi Harris Trio will perform for the first time at Musique Cordiale with Tristan Fry, Jean Marie Reboul and friends, in a late night concert in the Place du Valat.  In the same venue a week later on August [...]

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Posted in: Jazz
March 29, 2011

Opera

Vignette Productions returns, this time to perform Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’, a passionate tale of love, tragedy and indulgence.  It will be directed as ever by Andrew Staples, and conducted by Steven Moore, who is making his debut at Musique Cordiale.  It will be performed twice in Seillans on August 6/8 and at the Menton Festival [...]

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Posted in: Opera