19 décembre 20h00
A great journey to understand a changing world
It all begins on the ice floe, a white and silent expanse we believe to be unchanging. Yet beneath the feet of our three friends, the ice is already cracking. A curious and attentive little Inuit girl, a polar bear as tender as he is timid, and a far-travelling albatross with vast, all-seeing eyes are about to discover that their world is changing.
When the bear notices that the ice is melting faster than usual, that fish are growing scarce and that familiar landmarks are vanishing, a question arises: why is the ice floe melting? The albatross, who has already flown over seas and continents, then proposes a journey around the world — not an adventure to flee, but a quest to understand.
From the ice floe to distant lands: a coming-of-age journey
Along their travels, the three friends discover very different landscapes: warming oceans, weakened forests, cities where smoke sometimes hides the sky, regions where water is lacking or becomes too abundant.
At each stage they observe, question and learn. Little by little they understand that global warming is not a distant or abstract phenomenon, but the result of many human actions: the massive use of polluting energies, deforestation, over-consumption, and sometimes a simple lack of care for nature.
The little girl asks the questions all children ask: Why do we let the Earth grow weary? Can we repair what has been damaged? The bear, often anxious, embodies our fears for the future. The albatross, for his part, brings perspective, connecting the continents and the causes to one another.
Understanding in order to act
The journey also shows that scientists everywhere are observing, measuring and trying to sound the alarm. But conveying the urgency is not simple: climate change is sometimes slow, sometimes invisible, and often lost amid the habits of daily life.
This is where the fable takes on its full meaning. Through emotion, identification with the characters and storytelling, children can grasp complex ideas:
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the rise in temperatures,
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the melting of the ice,
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the growing vulnerability of the animals and peoples who live in close bond with nature,
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and the idea that every gesture counts.
A message of hope
This journey is not only an anxious diagnosis. It also carries hope. The three friends meet women and men who protect, invent and repair. They come to understand that the future is not written in advance.
Returning to the ice floe, the little girl, the bear and the albatross are no longer quite the same. They have grown, learned, and above all understood that caring for the Earth also means caring for one another.
A fable to awaken consciences
This story offers children a first encounter with the stakes of global warming — without needless fear, but without falsehood. Through the coming-of-age journey, it invites curiosity, empathy and responsibility, recalling one essential idea: to understand the world is the first step towards protecting it.
Lola descours
Bassoniste
Lola Descours est nommée professeur de basson à l'IESM Europe et Méditerranée dans le cadre de la mise en place du cursus DNSPM, à compter du 1er septembre 2017 !
Bassoniste précoce, Lola Descours intègre à l’âge de 19 ans la célèbre phalange parisienne qu’est l’Orchestre de Paris, sous les baguettes successives de Christophe Eschenbach, Paavo Jaarvi et Daniel Harding .
En parallèle de son activité au sein de l’Orchestre de Paris, Lola se produit en tant que basson solo au sein du London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest, la Tonhalle de Zürich ou l’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Intéressée par des formations plus innovantes et singulières, elle collabore avec le Mahler Chamber Orchestra, les Dissonances, Spira Mirabilis, l’European Camerata et Arties Chamber Orchestra. Diplômée du CNSM de Paris en 2010 dans la classe de Marc Trénel, elle a également étudié en Allemagne auprès du bassoniste norvégien Dag Jensen. Et a été récompensé à plusieurs reprises dans les concours internationaux de l’IDRS (1er prix en 2009), de Lodz (3ème prix en 2011-Pologne), Crusell (2ème prix 2011- Finlande) et Muri (Lauréate 2016-Suisse).
Elle fonde l’ensemble Paris-Dresde avec des musiciens de l’Opéra de Paris le Trio Parnasse avec David Walter et Alice Caubit ainsi que le jeune trio d'anches Trio Cocteau. Elle joue avec de prestigieux ensembles tels que le quintette Moragues, le Quatuor Zaide, le Quatuor Sine Nomine, le quintette Aquilon, Pasticcio Barocco ou des chambristes comme Philippe Berrod, André Cazalet, Pierre Fouchenerret, Romain Descharmes, Christian Pierre La Marca et ses talentueux collègues de l'Orchestre de Paris. Aux éditions Indesens, elle a enregistré le quintette pour basson et cordes de Jean Françaix Lola enseigne actuellement le basson au CRR de Saint - Maur - les - fossés après avoir été 3 ans professeur au conservatoire Camille Saint Saens (CMA 8 Paris ) .
L'enseignement prend de plus en plus de place dans sa vie de musicienne avec les sessions 2015 et 2017 de l'Orchestre Français des Jeunes où elle forme les jeunes générations à la musique de chambre, son travail de tutrice pour la formation DE (2016) ainsi que les conseils apportés aux jeunes orchestres comme l'OJIF, Ostinato ou le Verbier Junior Festival Orchestra dirigé par D.Harding qu'elle coache en 2016 et 2017. En 2017, elle est nommée Basson Solo à l’Opéra de Francfort.
Élodie Soulard
Accordéoniste
Born in 1986, Élodie Soulard began learning the accordion near Clermont-Ferrand, then at the conservatoire of the 12th arrondissement of Paris in the class of Max Bonnay, before entering the Paris CNSM, where her brilliant studies were crowned with a master’s in accordion in 2010. The following year she was admitted to the third advanced cycle in the class of pianist and conductor Jean-François Heisser.
Alongside this, she has received the enlightened advice of many masters across Europe and worked closely with the Russian concert accordionist Yuri Shishkin. Supported by the Safran Foundation, Élodie is a regular guest soloist on major international stages: Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique, the Folles Journées of Nantes and Tokyo, the Festival de l’Empéri, the Festival Berlioz, the Festival Radio France Montpellier, Toulouse les Orgues, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Rostov-on-Don Philharmonic (Russia) and the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall (South Korea).
Her gifts as an interpreter have been recognised in a repertoire ranging from transcriptions (from Bach to Ligeti) to original contemporary works for her instrument (Kusyakov, Gubaidulina, Berio, Lindberg, Ibarrondo…). She is also the author of many transcriptions — for one, two or three accordions — of piano and orchestral works by Berlioz, Schumann, de Falla, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
Élodie’s chamber music partners include Emmanuel Pahud, Laurent Korcia and Éric-Maria Couturier, as well as the cellist Raphaël Pidoux, with whom she recorded an album on the Intégral label. She is a member of the orchestra Les Siècles and of the Marseille ensemble C Barré, and performs regularly with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes and the ensemble 2e2m.
Ulysse Vigreux
Contrebassiste
Ulysse Vigreux began studying the double bass with Denis Rocher and then Éric Wrobel, and was quickly admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he obtained his Higher Training Diploma in 2010. During these years of study he held a scholarship from the Meyer Foundation.
In 2010 he joined the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (under Tugan Sokhiev) for two seasons, then joined the Orchestre de Paris in 2012, where he now holds the position of principal double bass.
From 2014 to 2016 he furthered his training at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen with Niek de Groot and Olivier Thiery — an opportunity to take part in numerous masterclasses with Matthew McDonald (principal bass of the Berliner Philharmoniker).
His career as an orchestral and chamber musician has taken him to many concerts and festivals (Giverny, Deauville, Auvers-sur-Oise, Aix-en-Provence, Lucerne, La Grange au Lac in Évian, La Vézère…) alongside Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Les Dissonances, the Auvergne Chamber Orchestra, the ensembles TM+, Smoking Joséphine and Le Balcon, the Ébène Quartet, Michel Strauss, Renaud Capuçon, Nicolas Dautricourt and Maria João Pires…
He collaborates regularly with the pianist Olivier Dauriat in the duo Anisan and is a founding member of Page Blanche and the Trio ABC (accordion, bassoon, double bass), both spaces for research and creation offering audiences a repertoire of original transcriptions spanning styles and eras.