The singers

Claire Trouilloud

Soprano

Claire Trouilloud traverses the aesthetics of live performance and explores voice, sound, meaning, and gesture. As a soprano, she performs in France and internationally both as a soloist and with numerous ensembles spanning classical, medieval, baroque, jazz, improvised music, opera, and contemporary creations. She holds a degree in jazz and improvised music singing as well as contemporary singing from the Strasbourg Conservatory. She is a laureate of the Académie Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont and the Soroptimist Prize for the creativity and versatility of her career. She has initiated several shows and musical projects where she showcases her creativity and multifaceted vocal talents.

Clara Pertuy

Alto

Clara Pertuy began developing her mezzo-soprano voice in traditional music, which she continues to explore today with masters from various cultures (Balkans, Turkey, Iran, India). Concurrently, she received solid classical training, notably at PESMD Bordeaux and HEM Geneva.

An eclectic artist (storytelling, theater, dance, improvisation), she participates in numerous multidisciplinary projects. Sometimes accompanying herself on her medieval organetto, she later chose to devote herself to singing, her preferred means to invoke the essence and vibration of the world. In this spirit, she is currently studying Naad Yoga and MLA Psychophony.

Ancient and polyphonic music are cornerstones of her artistic journey (Concert Spirituel, Vox Cantoris ensemble, Corsican trio A Funtana). However, she also lends her versatile voice to contemporary composers inspired by traditional music, such as A. Markéas (Icare-Sampati) and J-C. Feldhandler (Opéra Jungle), often keeping a foot in the classical world (Passion according to St. John by F. Ledroit recorded with Skarbo with the Rhineland-Palatinate Symphony Orchestra, Xin Peng Wang’s ballet The Divine Comedy by Dante at the Dortmund Opera). In 2022, she founded the eco-conscious duo “d’Or et de Paille,” which recorded the album Āyu-Louanges sacrées et profanes du monde with Psalmus.

Eugénie DE MEY

Mezzo-soprano

Eugénie De Mey has been singing since she was a child. From Brussels to Paris, Liege, Lyon and Geneva, she studied singing, choir conducting and musicology. As a singer among diverse ensembles (Diabolus in Musica, De Caelis, Les Cris de Paris, Le Concert de l’Hostel­Dieu, Les Voix de Stras’, Le Jardin des Délices, Le Choeur Britten, la Maîtrise de Notre Dame de Paris, etc.), she has also been a choir singer under William Christie, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Louis Langrée,… As a soloist, she performed the roles of Dido at the Theater of La Roche­-sur-­Yon, The Plaint in Purcell’s Fairy Queen in Le Lavoir Moderne, Paris, and also as a Grace in Belli’s Orfeo Dolente with Le Poème Harmonique.
Being a light mezzo soprano, she stands out with her original use of different registers of voices, and she enjoys singing some tenor parts with her chest voice as much as interpreting the very light lines of higher­pitched or more lyrical voices, thereby adapting her vocal style according to the music.
Eugénie De Mey also works as a singing teacher and musical consultant, particularly with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

Estelle NADAU

Soprano

Estelle Nadau obtains her singing Premier Prix de la Ville de Paris as well as a Paris CNR Gold Medal.
She goes on studying Middle Age music, taking part in courses in Abbaye de Royaumont and learning renaissance and baroque singing in Tours CRR.

In 2004, she joins Diabolus in Musica Ensemble, conducted by Antoine Guerber, with whom she sings and records Troubadours and Trouvereís repertory. She also records, in the meantime, the entire sacred works by Johannes Ciconia with Ricercar, obtaining a “Diapason díOr” as a reward.

She sings with Beatus Ensemble (Jean-Paul Rigaud) and then, joins Soli-Tutti Ensemble (Denis Gautheyrie), specialized in contemporary repertory.

She’s been a regular member of De Caelis Ensemble since 1999.

Hélène RICHER

Soprano

After devoting herself from an early age to the study of music and singing in Lorraine (CNR, musicology university in Metz), then in other training establishments (Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Conservatoire du 7ème arr. de Paris, Fondation Royaumont, Académie d’Ambronay), Hélène Richer collaborates as a soloist and in solist ensembles with numerous professional ensembles, curious to evolve from the medieval period to contemporary creation, on stage, in concerts or on recordings.

She currently performs with ensembles such as Musicatreize, Sequenza 9.3, Macadam, La Tempête, Tarentule, De Caelis, L’Albizzia, Gaugalin, and L’Opus Orchestre des Alpes de Haute-Provence.

In a dynamic spirit of transmission, she is developing a wide-ranging teaching activity (professor of lyric and baroque singing at the Conservatoire de Gap) and with various establishments and socio-cultural partners in her area through the ASSOCIATION À SA PORTÉE, which she created in December 2018 in the Alpes de Haute Provence department (www.associationasaportee.com).

She is the co-artistic director of Ensemble GAUGALIN, founded in March 2020.

Caroline MARÇOT

Mezzo-soprano

Caroline Marçot trained as a pianist, then acquired a wealth of experience in vocal music with the Maîtrise de Radio-France and the Jeune Chœur, while winning several prizes at the Paris Conservatoire in disciplines such as analysis and orchestration. Laureate of the Fondation Natexis in 2003, she has composed works commissioned by various institutions and performed by renowned artists.
As a singer, she regularly performs as part of the season of several chamber choirs with eclectic repertoires: medieval, baroque, romantic and creation.

Alia SELLAMI

Oriental song

A versatile artist, Alia Sellami is equally at home singing opera, jazz and Arabic. A passionate performer, she has made contemporary music and improvisation her speciality, appearing in experimental and multidisciplinary productions alongside artists such as Silvain Kassap, Médéric Collignon, Ibrahim Maalouf and Israel Galván. The creator and performer of her own concert-performances, Alia Sellami has been teaching vocal technique at the University of Tunis since 2006. She has been awarded the National Order of Tunisian Cultural Merit and in 2017 received the Aloès d’Or honorary prize from the Association for the Support of Tunisian Arts.

Jean-Lou DESCAMPS

Bowed vielle, gittern, flutes

With a classical background in violin, he has recorded and performed on stage with highly eclectic artists:

Baroque music (Aromates / Michèle Claude), French chanson (Francis Cabrel, William Sheller, Jane Birkin), jazz (Chico Freeman, Richard Galliano, David Murray), traditional music (Chieftains – Ireland, Sarrochi – Corsican chants, Abed Azrié – Middle East)…

He is also active in medieval music, performing with ensembles such as De Caelis, EIA (formerly Ultreia, Musée National du Moyen Âge), Obsidienne, Millenarium, Galata, Amadis, Ligeriana, and Perceval. Additionally, he is a co-founder of Decameron, an ensemble specializing in Italian Trecento music.

He is also an arranger and composer and has contributed to a large number of recordings.