This is a great first on the national scene. Three years after the creation of his project The Ellipse at Théâtre 71 in Malakoff, the composer Régis Huby presents his new concert. The premiere of Metamorphoses will take place this Friday, March 25 in the evening at the Théâtre du Trident in Cherbourg then at the Théâtre de Caen on April 28.
For a long time, Régis Huby, a renowned violinist, has had the desire to create a piece bringing together a full classical orchestra and the 15 musicians of his group Large Ensemble.. All classically trained, they then opened up to other musical worlds including jazz. A personal metamorphosis which today integrates these Metamorphoses musical.
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For the occasion, the Orchester Régional de Normandie – placed under the baton of the French conductor Jean Deloyer – responded to Régis Huby’s aspiration. On stage, we will therefore find 32 musicians, from jazz and classical, electric and acoustic guitars that coexist with saxophone, clarinets and trombone, vibraphone and marimba, electronic percussion, piano and electric piano. Two universes that the composer has brought together so that they can be tamed and dialogue in a musical back and forth, between improvisation and classical.
“What interested me was to say OK, we are different, we have different ways of working, we have different identities, but we will try to find a common place” specifies the head of Wide Set.
This path to Metamorphosesit is the one that he was able to borrow and that the note of intent summarizes as follows: ” Régis Huby tells us about‘a man who, throughout his life, as events evolve, progresses and changes. His certainties are called into question, his gaze changes. The impermanence of things and of the world then imposes itself as a palpable evidence.“
For Régis Huby it is a continuity with The Ellipse, released in 2018. The goal: to complexify a more “timbral” and rhythmic musical language, composed of a superposition of melodies, rhythms, with a construction that articulates and spares wide ranges of improvisation.
“Metamorphoses”: March 25, 2022 in Cherbourg, April 28 in Caen
- Régis Huby on violin
- William Roy : viola
- Atsushi Sakai : cello
- Olivier Benoit : electric guitar
- Pierrick Hardy : acoustic guitar
- Joce Mienniel : flute
- Jean-Marc Larché : soprano saxophone
- Catherine Delaunay : clarinet
- Pierre-Francois Roussillon : bass clarinet
- Matthias Mahler : trombone
- Illya Amar : vibraphone and marimba
- Bruno Angelini : piano, fender rhodes, little phatty
- Claude Tchamitchian : double bass
- Guillaume Seguron : double bass
- Michele Rabbia : percussion, electronics
- John Deroyer : musical direction
- Normandy Regional Orchestra