Musicatreize

Roland Hayrabedian has created Musicatreize in Marseille in 1987, in order to respond to the most diverse instrumental and vocal necessities. Since then, this uncommon tool in the French musical landscape has wended its way through the centuries and the aesthetics, linking up the past and the most immediate present, interlacing the works that became classical and the compositions resolutely contemporary. Musicatreize is adapting to the needs of the score, moving along in the solo voice or the big choir, a cappella or accompanied by instrumental formations, and that way is going from the concert stage to the opera stage, from the chamber music to the musical theatre. Agitator and aesthete, Roland Hayrabedian could not place his ensemble anywhere else than under the sign of the creation. To this day, Musicatreize has performed around fifty commissions, which some of them come within the scope of thematic cycles: « Music, year 13 », « The temptations », « The miniatures », and from 2006: « The 7 tales of Musicatreize ». Musicatreize is often sailing to « the open sea », appearing in the most prestigious audiences and festivals, covering the north and the south of Europe, Africa and Brazil. The ensemble is also concerned about keeping the musical works long-lasting; its discography is greeted by the musical critic and crowned by many distinctions. The wealth of this repertoire needs a professionalism quality and demand which is now spread and well know all over the world. In February 2007, Musicatreize will receive the French classical music Award “Victoire de la Musique” in the category “Ensemble of the Year”.


Roland Hayrabedian

Since the creation of the Contemporary choir in 1978, and next Musicatreize en 1987, Roland Hayrabedian has never stopped approaching the musical creation. He engages with the composers a dialogue and a connivance which push him to create bonds, under the form of cycles, between the several creations. He approaches, in the concerts, a repertoire which mixes the contemporary creation to the key-works from the 20th century or to some more classical works. His interpretations and his recordings of Maurice Ohana’s works obtain many discography prizes. Trained to the orchestra direction, he devotes most of his energy to the voice. He was invited as a conductor to the festival of Spoleto in Italy, the Capella in Saint-Petersburg, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France, the Philharmonies de Loire et de Lorraine, the Avignon Orchestra, the Ensemble Musica Viva in Moscow... From 2002 to 2005, he is the musical director of the Orchestra of the Young of the Mediterranean. He collaborates with the ensembles of the Percussions of Strasbourg, ensemble 2e2m, TM+ and is invited many times by the Nederland Kamerkoor and regularly works with soloists such as Jay Gottlieb, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Alain Planès, Georges Pludermacher. His interest for the stage music, the musical theatre and the ballet leads him to work with Ariel Garcia Valdès, Pierre Barrat, Eric Ruf et Angelin Preljocaj. P edagogue, he teaches the choir conducting at the Conservatoire National de Région de Marseille.