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 def ...

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

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

, Sylvie Drouin -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, Jean-Charles François -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, Monica Jordan - voice, Christophe Roy -

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

, Noëmi Schindler -

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

and Michel Pozmanter -

conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Biology and medicine * Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear * Conduction aphasia, a language disorder Mathematics * Conductor (ring theory) * Conductor of an abelian variety * Cond ...

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 and academic teacher. Life and career Early life and education Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24 December 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an ...

: ''La Rose des vents'' (2015/2016, 2CDs EVCD030).When it was released, this record was distinguished as "5 keys" by Gérard Condé in the magazine '' Diapason'' No. 653, January 2017, .

References

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