The artists
Saskia Salembier was trained at the CNSM of Paris, the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva and the Schola Cantorum in Basel. As a soloist, she is solicited regularly by Hugo Reyne, Jean Tubéry, Gabriel Garrido, Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Marco Horvat… She performs in recitals with the Orchestre Baroque of Seville and in duos with harpsichordist Marc Meisel. She directs the group, Ensemble Opalescences, which has built its style around a taste for eloquence, a search for refinement and a care for theatricality.
Francisco Mañalich was born in Chile. Shaped in the rock culture, he discovered the viola da gamba and lyric song at the age of 20. This love at first sight brought him to Paris to study with Christophe Coin at the CNSM of Paris, where he also studied tenor roles in the lyric repertoire. At the Sorbonne, he was introduced to Medieval music in a professional masters program. For several years, he has been playing with numerous early music groups and performs as much on opera stages as alone with his viol.
Emmanuel Vistorky, teased in his soccer club at the age of 9 because of his oversized sneakers, took refuge in a building where “Les petits chanteurs à la croix de Lorraine” rehearsed. He remained there for ten years, before joining the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris and the CNSM of Paris. The first roles came, then recordings, festivals… and that has now lasted for 30 years! Today, he has resumed his activity of soccer player, but just during vacations with his son, to whom he has given his oversized sneakers…
Aude-Marie Piloz studied the viola da gamba with Nima Ben David at the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt, as well as sound engineering at the CNSM of Paris. In 2015, she created, with Marie Favier and Francisco Mañalich, the ensemble Comet Musicke that we find today in festivals such as Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Voix et Route Romane, Sinfonia en Périgord, Petit Festival - Son ar Mein… She also performs with the ensembles, Le Concert des Planètes, Hemiolia, l'Achéron, Il Festino, le Consort de la Belle-Feuille…
Sarah Lefeuvre, with a diploma in recorder from Pôle Sup 93, has had vocal lessons with Patrizia Bovi, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Cécile Achille and Robert Expert. She likes to navigate between epochs and styles, and is regularly solicited to participate in very diverse projects, in Medieval music (La Camera delle lacrime), in contemporary creation with composers Ariadna Alsina and Gonzalo Bustos, and with the companies, Errances et Les Pieds Nus. She is a member of the Stingo Music Club ensemble and the vocal duo, Les Filles Indigo.
Cyrille Métivier plays the cornetto and the violin. He is also a sound engineer and artistic director of recordings. With diplomas from the conservatories of Aulnay-sous-bois, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Aubervilliers-La Courneuve and from the CNSM of Paris, he regularly plays with Comet Musicke, Le Concert des Planètes Consort, Star Pop Orchestra, Paris Scoring, Ensemble Amadevs, Compagnie Manque Pas d'Airs, Hemiolia, Les Folies du Temps, La Bellezza, Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye aux Dames, Les Fata Morgana, the Muses Galantes…
Daniela Maltrain studied music and musicology at the Catholic university in Santiago, where she participated in several research projects on South-American Baroque music, like the musical archives catalogue of the Cathedral of Santiago in Chile and some works on the contents of the archives of the National Library and the Archbishop's residency in Santiago. She has studied the viola da gamba with Nima ben David at the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt and musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
