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Damien Poisblaud (born 13 April 1961 in Maillé in
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Damien Poisblaud (born 13 April 1961 in Maillé in Vendée
Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.
) is a French cantor
A cantor or chanter is a person who leads people in singing or sometimes in prayer. In formal Jewish worship, a cantor is a person who sings solo verses or passages to which the choir or congregation responds.
In Judaism, a cantor sings and lead ...
specializing in Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, plainchant, a form of monophony, monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek (language), Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed ma ...
. 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 achoir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...
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 Requiem 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 Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès w ...
and the Ensemble Organum. He subsequently followed the teachings of Marie-Noël Colette at the École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...
and that of Jean-Yves Hameline on the anthropology of the ritual gesture.
Since 1999, he has been studying the Byzantine Rite following the Greek and Syrian traditions of Aleppo. 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 ''Codex Calixtinus
The (also ''Compostellus'') is the main witness for the 12th-century , or the Book of Saint James. It is a pseudepigraph attributed to Pope Callixtus II; its principal author or compilator is referred to as "Pseudo-Callixtus", often identified wi ...
'' in several cultural capitals of Europe – Reykjavík, Santiago de Compostela, Kraków, Prague, Helsinki and Bologna – on the occasion of the Festival of the European Capital of Culture, Nine European cities of culture 2000.
Since 2008, he has been singing the Sunday Gregorian Mass at the Thoronet Abbey, at the request of Monsignor, Mgr Dominique Rey, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon., 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''. * ''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 2016References
Further reading
* Jacques Viret, ''Le chant médiéval retrouvé : Marcel Pérès et Damien Poisblaud'' ', June 2011.External links
Official website
Damien Poisblaud
on Psalmus
Damien Poisblaud
on ''Les chantres du Thoronet'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Poisblaud, Damien 1961 births People from Vendée Living people École pratique des hautes études alumni French choral conductors French male conductors (music) 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists 21st-century French conductors (music) 21st-century French male musicians