Les Ombres

The project of Les Ombres emerged from the close rapport between Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Two timbres, two personalities, the same curiosity for forgotten repertories. The joint direction of the ensemble reflects its quest for diversity, renewal and modernity. Mindful of its relationship with audiences, the ensemble Les Ombres places emotion at the heart of its artistic propositions: the poetry of the performance shapes a programme whose harmony and architecture must move the spectator. Nevertheless, its ‘historically informed’ practice is unquestionably in the musical tradition of the pioneers of the Baroque. Les Ombres carries out research projects into the influence of French music throughout Europe and participates in the rediscovery of masterpieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.