Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Léonor De Récondo
© Philippe Matsas / Opale / éditions Sabine Wespieser
VIOLONIST - WRITER
France
Léonor de Récondo is a violinist. Born in 1976, she started studying music very early. During her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, she became the solo violon for the N.E.C. Symphony Orchestra. She returned to France and formed the Arezzo string quartet. Her curiosity then pushed her to study the baroque repertoire with Sigiswald Kuijken at the Conservatoire de Bruxelles for three years. From 2005 to 2009, she was one of the permanent musicians of the Folies Françoises, an ensemble with which she explored the classic string quartet repertoire, among other things. In Februrary 2009, she directed Purcell’s opera Didon et Enée, directed by Jean-Paul Scarpitta, at the Opéra national in Montpellier. In April 2010, in collaboration with the singer Emily Loizeau, she created a show blending baroque and contemporary music. She won the Van Wassenaer (Netherlands) international baroque music competition in 2004, and in 2005 she and Cyril Auvity (tenor) formed L’Yriade, a baroque chamber music ensemble that specializes in the forgotten repertoire of cantatas. Léonor de Récondo has recorded fifteen albums and played on several DVDs. Her novel La Grâce du cyprès blanc was published by Le temps qu'il fait puis in October 2010, followed by Rêves oubliés in January 2012 and Pietra Viva in August 2013, both published by Sabine Wespieser éditeur.
