The Ensemble Aleph is a French musical ensemble composed of performing musicians and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

s created in 1983. The members of this collective are currently: Dominique Clément -

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

, Sylvie Drouin -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, Jean-Charles François -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

, Monica Jordan - voice, Christophe Roy -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

, Noëmi Schindler -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

and Michel Pozmanter - conductor.

History

Since its creation, the Ensemble Aleph has been developing collective projects and sharing musical techniques and practices with young and varied audiences, notably within the framework of the International Forum of Young Composers (project selected in 2000 by the European Commission "Culture 2000 Programme", with 61 composers from 26 countries - 7th Forum in 2014). In 2008, the Ensemble created the LIEU, Laboratoire Instrumental Européen, which brings together international musicians, ensembles and composers around musical creation. This programme was named "Live In Lieu" in 2013.

Selected discography

Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer. Biography Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...

: ''La Rose des vents'' (2015/2016, 2CDs EVCD030).When it was released, this record was distinguished as "5 keys" by

Gérard Condé Gérard Condé (born 26 January 1947) is a French composer and music critic. Life Born in Nancy, Condé was first self-taught until 1965 then studied harmony at the before following the teaching of Max Deutsch (composition) in Paris between ...

in the magazine '' Diapason'' , January 2017, .

References

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* * French classical music groups Contemporary classical music ensembles Musical groups established in 1983 {{France-band-stub