Damien Poisblaud par Claude Truong-Ngoc mai 2014

Damien Poisblaud (born 13 April 1961 in Maillé in

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specializing in

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. He is the director of the Gregorian choir "Les Chantres du Thoronet".

Biography

Damien Poisblaud took interest in gregorian singing in 1980 which he practiced in a

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for more than fifteen years. Alongside his studies in philosophy, he studied art and thought of the Middle Ages. In 1989, he made a first recording in Thoronet Abbey. In 1991, he created the "Gregorian Choir of the Mediterranean" with which he recorded a Gregorian

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which obtained a ''

Diapason d'or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

'' in December 1996. From 1996, he has been singing with

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and the

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. He subsequently followed the teachings of Marie-Noël Colette at the

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and that of Jean-Yves Hameline on the anthropology of the ritual gesture. Since 1999, he has been studying the

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following the Greek and Syrian traditions of

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. With the band ''Les Paraphonistes'' which he founded in 1998, he undertook to revisit the repertoire of the church of the 18th and 19th centuries. He recorded a record of these of the North of France, a "Solemn Mass of the Dead", which was rewarded by a ''Diapason d'or'' in July 2000. During the year 2000, Damien Poisblaud directed the ''

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'' in several cultural capitals of Europe –

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, Kraków, Prague, Helsinki and Bologna – on the occasion of the Festival of the Nine European cities of culture 2000. Since 2008, he has been singing the Sunday Gregorian Mass at the Thoronet Abbey, at the request of

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, bishop of the

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.Benjamin Coste ''Musique sacrée - Le grégorien selon Damien Poisblaud''
, famillechretienne.fr, 23 March 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2017. Damien Poisblaud is married and the father of three.

Discography

* ''Chant grégorien'', Abbaye du Thoronet, Pavane Record 1990. * ''Requiem grégorien'', Chœur Grégorien de Méditerranée, Alphée, 1996. ''

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

''. * ''Messe solennelle des morts'', Les Paraphonistes, Abeille musiques/Sisyphe 2000. ''Diapason d'or''. * ''Codex calixtinus'', Les Paraphonistes et la Philharmonie de Cracovie, « Krakow 2000 ». * ''Les grands offertoires grégoriens'' Aux sources du chant sacré, Les Chantres du Thoronet, Psalmus 2010. * ''Les chants de la Passion'' from medieval manuscripts, Les Chantres du Thoronet, Psalmus 2013. * ''Le chant des moines au XIIe siècle'', Les Chantres du Thoronet, Psalmus 2014. * ''Les grands offertoires 2''. Les chantres du Thoronet 2016

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Official website

Damien Poisblaud
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Damien Poisblaud
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