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- NEW DIRECTION FROM
1 APRIL 2026:
Full details & information here soon - General information & tickets:
in**@**************le.com
Festival administration & CONTACT : (information, festival & concert organisation)
in**@**************le.com - Pippa Pawlik, association president until 31 March 2026
(artistic director emeritus & co-founder)
tel: +44 7976 301443
pi***@**************le.com - President (& co-founder):
Jacques Leforestier from 1 April 2026 (formerly vice-president) - Finance & administration:
Jonathan Barker until 31 March 2026
(formerly treasurer) & co-founder)
jo******@**************le.com
tel: +44 (0) 797 1234 195
(+associate association Treasurer:
Madou Hillenius) - Venditelli Serge <ve**************@****ge.fr> association treasurer from 1 April 2026
- Association Secretary: Alain Deissard until 31 March 2026
Rupert Watts
<ru****@*****************ns.com> from 1 April 2026 - Choir or orchestra inquiries:
Aidan Coburn, artistic director 2025 & association vice-president from 1 April 2026 (ai***@**************le.com) - Local logistics (Pays de Fayence):
Alix Mason & Frédéric Begedis:
lo*******@**************le.com
The Conseil d’administration and its Bureau (officers) are responsible for events organised by the association in France. In addition, a “New Generation” artistic team helped to design & run the 21st International Musique-Cordiale Festival which took place in the Pays de Fayence in 2025. The team included:
- Graham Ross, principal conductor
- Aidan Coburn (programme)
- Tom Crathorne (music tech)
- Alix Mason (local logistics)
- James Heathcote
- Ruth Harrison & Joe Fisher : orchestra
- Charlotte Saudek (front of house)
- Sean Law
- Rebecca Taylor
- Eileen Allen (lunch-time concerts)
Musique-Cordiale is a small group of organizations with limited resources. It depends heavily not only on voluntary effort, ticket sales and subscriptions but also on limited public subsidies (covering about 13% of our costs in 2019) and generous donations that vary from time to time. So the jobs we can offer involve considerable responsibility, but it is difficult for us to provide competitive long-term employment and career opportunities. We have been fortunate to have the services of a series of short-term but capable and hard-working (and pan-European) festival administrators and volunteers. up until 2024, the festival has been organized by the “old team” (but see New Generation Team 2025 information above), and by the members of the board of directors (the Bureau); in 2025, we are gradually shifting from the old team to the new one. Please contact them for all your questions about participation in the festival choir, orchestra or team of assistants – or regarding your travel, accommodation, expenses, music, concert tickets, schedules of repetition – or just about anything else! We hope to attract new people – or recruit – to provide vital energy and drive during the festival itself each year. (We are grateful to Mona Sautier, Hannah Stodart, Barbara Hooymeyer, Marlene Rudloff, Monica Herrera-Pavia and Jess Lyness for their amazing work as festival administrators and team leaders in recent years).
The international festival is organised by and for
L’Association Musique Cordiale
217 Chemin des Moulins, 83440 Seillans, France
No: W831003950, registered, FR, loi de 1901
Siret: 493 460 745 00018
TVA non-applicable, article 293 B du CGI
Conseil d’Administration (Management Committee) **
of L’Association Musique Cordiale
Members of the Conseil d’Administration served until the 2026 AGM, which took place (on Zoom) on 12 January 2026**. On this occasion, no fresh elections took place and the existing members and officers were re-elected pro tem pending a further general meeting to follow later in the Spring. The committee can at any time also co-opt new members to join it until the next AGM. Any paid-up current member of the Association can vote and propose motions and stand as a member of the committee. (Post Brexit, any EU/AELE members can be eligible to be proposed as officers).
Current Conseil, elected 2020 & 2023 (3-year cycle**) and, with a few additional members and cooptees, in 2026: roles change 1 April 2026 but all the following remain members of the Council
Pippa Pawlik (President)
Jacques Leforestier (Vice-president)
Jonathan Barker (Treasurer ++)
Alain Deïssard (Secretary)
Maggie Donnelly
Owen Hanmer
Ruth Harrison
Sophie Haynes
Madou Hillenius (associate treasurer++)
Sean Law
Rebecca Taylor
Ariane Todes
Paul Allatt (coopted)
Non-voting invited attendees, ex officio:
Serge Liebovitz, Commune de Seillans & Commission pour Culture, Communauté des Communes du Pays de Fayence)
Graham Ross, principal conductor
The management is supported by many other volunteers, supporters and helpers, who work hard throughout the year with the backing of the Ville de Seillans and the Communauté des Communes de Pays de Fayence.
There is also an ad-hoc group, which has managed concerts and festivals in the UK during the pandemic: Pippa Pawlik, Jonathan Barker, Rebecca Taylor, James Swainson, Owen Hanmer, Maggie Donnelly, Sophie Haynes, Ruth Harrison, Sean Law with music director Graham Ross.
The Musique-Cordiale Trust (England)
The Trust is an English charity. It supports the association and the Festival by raising funds to support events, students and musicians and also organises Musique Cordiale concerts in the UK
registered charity number 1167732
separate website: musique-cordiale.org
please contact: in**@***********rg.uk
Trustees:
Jonathan Barker (chairman)
Celia Bangham
Chris Hoyle
David Lowe
Peter Phillips (treasurer)
James Swainson
The staff team that supports the pre-2026 festival and academy and the educational outreach programme, as well as Musique-Cordiale in Kent events, was engaged by MUSIQUE-CORDIALE SERVICES LTD. (company incorporated in England & Wales No 9570966,
registered as a foreign employer in France, Siret: 837 812 577 00018)
Newnham, Kent, ME9 OLL, GB.
The company managed travel, accommodation and food and administrative arrangements, including this web-site, on behalf of the association
Directors: Jonathan Barker & Philippa Pawlik
This UK/GBP role is being taken, from April 2026, by a new UK company (directors Aidan Coburn & Sean Law, directors)
Please consider becoming a member, Friend of the Festival (see below) or sponsoring an event or musician – or making a donation to our English charity or our French non-profit 1901 association, which, together, make the festival and academy and our other concerts happens. We welcome donations of any amount at any time
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