Françoise Atlan
About
Invited on major stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Mexico International Festival, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and the World Sacred Music Festival in Fes, singer Françoise Atlan has recorded several CDs awarded by music critics - Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, FFFF Télérama, Coup de cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros...
An artist with a dual culture, endowed with a vocal expression, a style and a unique technique, her Jewish and Berber attachments naturally led her to love the mediterranean vocal heritage, in particular Jewish-Spanish and Jewish-Arabic traditions, at the same time she develops her career as a lyrical singer.
A graduate student in musicology of the Aix-en-Provence University, she received piano and chamber music prizes from the Conservatoire. A student with Andréa Guiot (unforgettable "Micaela" alongside Maria Callas's "Carmen"), laureate of the Prize Villa Médicis Hors-Les-Murs for transcribing oral memory of the musical and poetic tradition in Fes town (Morocco) and of the Prize Fondation Caisse d'Épargne "Meilleure Artiste Musique du Monde", she often leads master classes on the art of singing in Geneva, Montreal, Brussels and Basel.
Concurrently with her career as a singer, she is artistic director of the Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques in Essaouira (Morocco). In 2014 she performed in particular at the Théâtre de La Ville in Paris, at the Festival Radio France Montpellier, at the Aix-en-Provence International Festival and she will sing in 2015 under Kent Nagano's baton accompanied by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
Her new album, Aman! Sefarad will be published in February 2015. After having bringing back to life the sephardic romances of the North of Morocco, this new opus produced with the group En Chordais (Greece) is dedicated to Kantigas Sephardi of the former Ottoman Empire.
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