Quatuor ÆSTHESIS

Abel Zamora, Celeste Lejeune, Jonas Mordzinski and Camille Chopin each offer a highly personal and expressive journey that opens minds and hearts.

From Monteverdi to John Cage to contemporary composers, they work by associations and correspondences to compose a programme that stems from their sensibilities and resonates with those of today's audiences. There are no limits of genre, style or period: the decompartmentalisation of repertoires is at the heart of this four-voice project.

Camille, Céleste, Abel and Jonas took their first steps together: they met for some⋅es in the Sotto Voce children's choir, but also at the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs of the CRR de Paris. Strengthened⋅es by these experiences, they will perform as a quartet for the first time at the Format Raisins festival in 2019 : ÆSTHESIS was born, and immediately broke away from the tradition of the vocal quartet, changing the spatial arrangement for certain pieces for example, arranging pieces originally intended for choir or offering spoken passages only. In particular, he created the piece ‘Allô j'm'entends’ by composer Jacques Rebotier, written for four voices and mobile phone ring tones.

These atypical mixtures give rise to two questions that continue to fuel his research: How can we keep a repertoire dating back several centuries alive and contemporary while participating in current creation? How can we offer audiences a sensory experience of calm and balance? The four voices of Æsthesis blend into a song that is by turns playful and serious, with an intimate repertoire that emancipates itself from the usual expectations associated with the classical quartet.