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From 1981 to 1988 she directed, in Issy-les- Moulineaux, the Atelier Musical (Musical Workshop), a training centre for working adults that provided training for teachers and programmes for employees’ committees. It was in this context that the Ensemble Aleph produced its first multidisciplinary events in collaboration with the museum, the centre for plastic expression, technological and communications firms and the music conservatory of that city: ‘Musique et Graphisme’, ‘Musique et Jeu’, ‘Musique et Arts plastiques’, etc. Sylvie Drouin is a musician open to all forms of artistic expression and it is as such that she actively takes part in first performances of musical spectacles that integrate dance, drama, jazz, electronics, accordion and improvisation. With the Ensemble Aleph, a collectivity of musicians, she prepares concert programmes linked to teaching activities that have been acknowledged for their high artistic and pedagogical quality. Sylvie Drouin seeks to combine her artistic work with an interest in social and political life. She has been a municipal councillor of a small village in Burgundy since 1989 and was its deputy mayor from 1996 to 2002. She was able to inspire the inhabitants with an interest for artistic creativity and live spectacle owing to her locally based cultural activities and her sense of conviviality. The ideas formed during her training as a music organiser have convinced her that Art and the City are inseparable. The Ensemble Aleph’s work in developing concerts that appeal to as broad a public as possible are directly linked to what is a crucial activity for Sylvie Drouin.
Christophe Roy studied the cello with Paul Boufil, Pierre Penassou and Maurice Gendron, as well as with the composer Dan Lustgarten. In 1994 he won the special cello prize at the International Gaudeamus Competition in Rotterdam (presided over by Siegfried Palm). As a performer of the solo repertory and chamber music he he has frequently collaborated with the Ensemble intercontemporain, The Ensemble Modern Frankfort and The Newt Hinton Ensemble. He taught the cello at the national music school of Évry, where in 2002 he founded the Centre for the practice of the contemporary cello. In this context, he made a CD in 2006 of music for cello ensemble and it was at once hailed by the press (Le Monde, Le Monde de la Musique). Since 1995 has formed a duet with the violonist Noëmi Schindler. His passion for the contemporary repertory led him to prepare various recital programmes, and he became the preferred performer of composers such as Xenakis, Kagel, Globokar. As a soloist he has been invited by festivals both in France (Musicavoix, Musiques en scène, Musica Strasbourg, Présences, Musique Action, etc.) and abroad (USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Hungary, etc.). He has made several records, notably with the Ensemble Aleph (awarded a ‘Choc’ by Le Monde de la Musique). His CD of solo works released in March 2000 by Grave-Disques Concord (works by Xenakis, Ballif, Aperghis, Kagel) was acclaimed by the press (‘10’ de Répertoire, ‘Diapason d’Or’, Le Monde, etc.).
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Dominique Clément
A clarinetist, composer and teacher, he co-founded the Ensemble Aleph in 1983. Dominique Clément has composed mainly chamber and stage music, though he also regularly works on pedagogical projects. His musical language developed from reading poets and novelists such as Claude Simon, Georges Perec, Jean-Jacques Viton and Jacques Roubaud. His works have been performed at the festivals Musica, Présences, Musiques en scène, Musique action, 38e Rugissants, as well as in Finland, Brazil, USA, Germany, UK, etc. He has received several state commissions (Triptyque pour une corrida, Temps bleu, Tresette) in addition to commissions from the festivals of Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Évreux, Musicades de Lyon and Cluny. He taught at the National music school of Chalon-sur-Saône from 1979 to 2000, and currently teaches at the CEFEDEM (Training programme for future teachers in music schools) and the Lyons Conservatory.
A composer, percussionist and pianist, Jean-Charles François was involved with the Domaine musical and Musique vivante from 1962 to 1969; he also directed the Centre de musique in Paris, together with Keith Humble and Giuseppe Englert. François went on to teach in the Music Department of the University of California at San Diego, where he became Director. In 1975, he founded the experimental music group, Kiva. In 1990, he was appointed director of the music department of the Centre de formation pour l’enseignement de la musique (CEFEDEM) in Lyons. Since 1994 François has performed frequently with the Aleph Ensemble as a percussionist. The author of numerous articles on music theory, he published Percussion and Contemporary Music in 1991 (Klincksieck, Paris).
After piano and musicology studies at the Bucharest Conservatory, Monica Jordan obtained a master’s degree in ethnomusicology, and she won the prize for excellence in musical analysis and aesthetics at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique of Paris. As a singer, she trained with Rita Streich, Sena Jurinac and Cathy Berberian. A laureate of the Gaudeamus International Competition in Rotterdam, Jordan performs 20th century classics, including Berio, Scelsi, Cage, Kurtág, Xenakis, Aperghis and Stockhausen. She continues, in relation with composers, to research vocal techniques linked to electroacoustics and music theatre. Monica Jordan teaches musical analysis at the École nationale de musique in Créteil.
Born in Zurich in 1969, Noëmi Schndler began playing the cello before taking up the violin, which she studied in Paris, Lausanne and Winterthur with Ami Flammer, Pierre Amoyal and Aïda Stucki- Piraccini ; meeting the latter proved to be determinant. In 1993, she was awarded a First Prize in virtuosity from the Lausanne Conservatory. Two years later, she earned the Solistendiplom from the Winterthur Conservatory. The same year, she won the UBS Young Musicians First Prize grant and, in 1996, the Anerkennungspreis from Zollikon (Switzerland). Since then, she has played the classical and contemporary repertoires with numerous European orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with whom she gave the first performance of violin concertos by Dominique Lemaître and Bernard Cavanna. Noëmi Schindler has premiered works by a number of other composers including Globokar, Leroux, Dazzi, Campo, Stroë, Roy and Xenakis (Dhipli zyia for violin and cello). In addition, she gave the French and Italian premieres of Lutoslawski’s Partita for violin, piano and orchestra, the French premiere of Régis Campo’s Violin Concerto and the Augusta Read-Thomas’s Violin Concerto. She has made several records (Harmonia Mundi, Abeille Musique) which were acclaimed by the press. With cellist Christophe Roy and accordionist Pascal Contet, she founded the Allers-Retours trio, which concentrates primarily on contemporary music. She performs with the TM+ ensemble and Aleph ensemble. As a soloist she has been invited in Europe, Central Asia, Japon, Canada and U.S.A. She is teaching the violin at the national music school of Gennevilliers.