Poetry, Passion and Stories
Comets appear and reappear in the course of time thus linking past and present. In the same way, Comet Musicke aims at creating a close connexion between today’s audiences and early music.
The musicians make the musical text their own by working on manuscripts and treatises, they draw on iconography and work with experts on the manufacture of their instruments as well as to find out about the reconstructed pronunciation and the biographical, historical and social context of the works they choose to present.
With this approach, Comet Musicke creates biography-concerts which combine music, pœtry, short historic narratives and playlets with a touch of humour. An opportunity to discover figures such as Claudio Monteverdi, Diego Ortiz, Pomponio Nenna, Gilles Binchois, Johannes Ockeghem…
Concerts, Festivals, On tour
Comet Musicke appears in many festivals such as Radio-France Montpellier-Occitanie, Sinfonia en Périgord, Voix et Route Romane, Laus Polyphoniae (Antwerpen), Oude Muziek Utrecht, Les Musicales de Normandie, Victoria International Arts Festival (Malta), Via Aeterna (Mont-Saint-Michel), Tage Alter Muzik Regensburg (Germany), DeBijloke (Gent), Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes, Festival de Menorca (Spain)…
They took part in Quotidiennes-Jeunes Ensembles of the Cité de la Voix-Vézelay and won the competition Jeunes Talents of the Festival Sinfonia en Périgord. They have also been heard several times on France Musique.
The latest recording, devoted to the First Book of Five-Part Madrigals by Pomponio Nenna, won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the highest distinction in Europe for a recording ! (alongside… Eric Clapton and Anne-Sophie Mutter !)