Concert-meeting around Iberian music

* 2015 : The Art of singing Bach’s cantatas with Raphaël Pichon and Sébastien Daucé. 2017 : Incubator Rinaldo by Haendelwith the Ensemble Le Caravansérail – Bertrand Cuiller. 2020 : training at the Orsay-Royaumont Academy with Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff. 2020 : Festival de Royaumont, concert O Solitude, with the Ensemble Le Consort. 2021 : Festival de Royaumont, Night of the melody and the lied, with the laureates of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy, duet with Lucie Sansen

Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian gave his first stage performances at the age of 10. He continued his vocal training in the Master of Singers of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, and was then unanimously admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Throughout his musical training, he worked with many artists from different backgrounds (C. Rousset, H. Niquet, M. Piquemal, F. Malgoire, J-P Drouet). Malgoire, J-P Drouet) and to perform in places such as the Theater an der Wien, the Opéra Royal and the Chapelle Royale de Versailles, the Arsenal de Metz, the Opéra d’Avignon, the Opéra de Montpellier, the Opéra de Massy, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Universities of Lafayette and Baton Rouge (USA).
During his studies at the Paris Conservatory, he performed as a soloist under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, Emmanuelle Haïm, Benoit Haller, Christophe Coin, Philippe Pierlot. He began the operatic repertoire by playing the role of Athamas in Handel’s Semele . He also collaborates with ensembles such as Les Cris de Paris, Les Lunaisiens, Les Musiciens du Paradis, La Tempesta, Les Cyclopes. Sensitive to the diversity of repertoires, he joined the academies of ancient music of Sablé-sur-Sarthe and Royaumont respectively; he also defended the contemporary repertoire by creating the piece Visage by Philippe Raynaud, and finally a creation for male voice trio by Isabelle Fraisse within the framework of the program “Alla Breve” broadcasted on Radio-France
More recently, he sang Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Unulfo in Rodelinda at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée, Nireno in Giulio Cesare for Opera North in England and St John Passion with La Chapelle Rhénane.

Sarah Ristorcelli

*2016 : Florentine tragedy training by Zemlinsky with Arthur Nauzyciel and Jean-Paul Pruna. training Wagner, Strauss and Mahler with Waltraud Meier. 2017: English Melodies training with Ian Bostridge. training French melodies with Felicity Lott; 2019: laureate of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy, in duo with Victoire Bunel.

Recognized for her great musical and artistic qualities, Sarah Ristorcelli specializes particularly in the repertoire of Lieder and Melody and works regularly with pianists Julius Drake and Susan Manoff. She recorded her first CD, Prima Verba, with the mezzo-soprano Victoire Bunel for the INITIALE label. After studying with Françoise Thinat, she obtained her piano prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Nicolas Angelich. Passionate about voice and poetry, she then joined the vocal accompaniment class of Anne le Bozec and Emmanuel Olivier at the CNSMDP. Sarah Ristorcelli is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation, with whom she attends masterclasses with Ian Bostridge, Felicity Lott or Arthur Nauzyciel. Sarah Ristorcelli receives the support of ADAMI, the Safran Foundation and the Société Général patronage.