Aedes

A sensuous and unique instrument, the human voice is our life, connexion and unity. For the last twelve years the Ensemble Aedes’ unique timbre has been electrifying its audiences as the ensemble continues to strive towards a vocal ideal of homogeneity, brilliance and power. The vocal timbre of the Ensemble Aedes engages the entire body, whence flows its dramatic and deeply lyrical expressivity. Rigour and fervour are the magic ingredients of the mutual confidence which exists between the Ensemble Aedes’ 17 singers and their founder and director Mathieu Romano. The Ensemble Aedes works regularly with such prestigious groups as the Orchestre de Paris, Les Siècles, or the Latvian Radio Choir... The Ensemble has performed in many prestigious venues - the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra de Paris, Wiener Konzerthaus, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Grenada festivals... Each of our programmes is constructed around a dramatic theme, taking our audiences on a creative journey through five centuries of vocal works rich in different genres. It is the extreme and much-acclaimed clarity and precision of the Ensemble Aedes which makes the texts of the poetry we sing accessible to our audiences. French music naturally has pride of place, the ensemble’s cornerstone being the a cappella repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.