FESTIVAL AUTREMENT CLASSIQUE
du 18 au 23 juillet 2026
Direction Artistique Patrick Langot & Jean Manifacier
Catherine Arnoux
Violon
Born in 1965 into a family of musicians and trained at the two Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique — Paris for the violin and Lyon for the viola da gamba — Catherine Arnoux has broadened her palette as a musician with singing and the viola.
She embraces a wide repertoire, from Renaissance music to contemporary creation, in highly varied ensembles. She has taken part in concerts and recordings with Philippe Herreweghe, Marianne Muller and Jérôme Hantaï, as well as the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and the Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble.
She performs in France and abroad, from intimate venues to international halls: the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Royal Albert Hall in London…
Holder of the Certificat d’Aptitude and passionate about teaching, she is professor of violin and chamber music at the CRR of Lyon.
Caroline Donin
Alto
After a scientific baccalauréat, Caroline chose to devote herself to the viola. She entered the regional conservatoires of Boulogne-Billancourt and Paris, where she won unanimous First Prizes in viola and chamber music in 2001 and 2003, then the Paris CNSM, from which she graduated in 2006 with the highest distinction awarded unanimously — repeating the feat in 2008 with the same distinction in chamber music (string quartet speciality) in the class of Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
A passionate chamber musician, she was a member of the Ardeo Quartet from 2005 to 2011, winning Third Prizes at the international string quartet competitions of Melbourne (2007) and Reggio Emilia, the “Premio Paolo Borciani” (2008).
In 2007 she joined the Schneeweiss Trio; she is a founding member of the Giardini Quartet and principal viola of the chamber ensemble Le Concert Idéal, founded by M. Piketty, E. Bertrand and P. Amoyel. Since 2005 her career as a chamber musician has taken her to France’s national stages, sharing the platform with E. Bertrand, R. Capuçon, H. Demarquette, M. Portal, J. Pernoo, J. Ducros and D. Kadouch.
She has been a member of the Syntonia Quintet since 2017, recording with them several critically acclaimed albums of the piano-quintet repertoire (Diapason Découverte, Chocs Classica…).
Caroline plays a viola of the Austrian Tecchler school, dated 1760.
Sophie Marilley
Mezzo-soprano
Born in Fribourg, Sophie Marilley studied singing there in the class of Antoinette Faes and continued her training at the Flanders Opera Studio. She made her debut at the Fribourg Opera in La Périchole (title role) and L’Étoile (Lazuli).
A laureate of the Belvedere International Competition in Vienna, she joined the Vienna Staatsoper, where she sang roles such as Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Meg Page (Falstaff), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Siebel (Faust). A member of the Stuttgart Staatsoper company from 2011 to 2018, she sang Ruggiero (Alcina), Junon (Platée), Alise (Edison Denisov’s L’Écume des jours), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier); she also distinguished herself in the title role of Niccolò Jommelli’s Il Vologeso, a recording of which was released on Naxos in 2018.
She is invited to many European opera houses for the key roles of her range: the Wexford Festival (Hänsel), St Gallen (title role of La Cenerentola), Graz (Nicklausse), Lausanne (Dorabella), Nantes (Lazuli and Cherubino), the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon (Sesto in La clemenza di Tito), the Vienna Volksoper (Valencienne), and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels — where she met with great critical success as Cherubino and the Prince in Massenet’s Cendrillon. At the Opéra du Rhin she sang the Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Donna Elvira, and at the Monte-Carlo Opera, Nicklausse. She returned to La Monnaie for Lady Macbeth in the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld, and to the Nouvel Opéra de Fribourg for the Duchess in Adès’s Powder Her Face, “Elle” in Poulenc’s La Voix humaine and Concepción in L’Heure espagnole.
On disc she has recorded, among others, the mélodies of Ravel and Jolivet for the Brilliant label, and the leading role of “Elle” in André Messager’s L’Amour masqué with the Avignon orchestra for Actes Sud — a recording chosen as a “coup de cœur” on France Musique and awarded the “Révérence” distinction by L’Avant-Scène Opéra. She has sung under conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Adam Fischer, Marco Armiliato, Franz Welser-Möst, Christian Thielemann, Christophe Rousset, Hervé Niquet, Jérémie Rhorer, Sylvain Cambreling, Marc Soustrot, Michael Schønwandt, Antony Hermus and Alain Altinoglu.
Sophie Marilley teaches singing at the Fribourg conservatoire and performs regularly in concert and recital.
Fabienne Lubrano
Flûte
A sought-after teacher and chamber music partner, Fabienne Lubrano is regularly invited to play with various flexible ensembles (the Octuor de France, the Ensemble Carpe Diem) and prestigious orchestras (the Concerts Lamoureux, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra).
Holder of the Certificat d’Aptitude, she currently teaches in Paris at the CMA 16, having also taught at the CRR of Aubervilliers-La Courneuve, the CMA 20 and the conservatoires of Auxerre and Cachan. In 2021 she joined the teaching staff of the Euromusica International Academy.
In 1996 she obtained the Higher Training Diploma of the Paris CNSMD in flute (class of P.-Y. Artaud) and chamber music (class of Itamar Golan). The holder of a scholarship from Mécénat Musical Société Générale, she took part in the Siena Academy with Aurèle Nicolet and in the International Chamber Music Meetings with Walter Boeykens, Marie-Claire Jamet and Jean Sulem, furthering her studies with Philippe Bernold and Michel Moraguès. She has performed as a soloist at the Academy of Twentieth-Century Music under Pierre Boulez and David Robertson.
Patrick Langot
Violoncelle
Patrick Langot has for twenty years pursued a dual career on baroque and modern cello. He performs frequently in recital (Festival International de Beauvais, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Le Quartz de Brest, Salle Cortot in Paris, Abbaye de Royaumont, the Grand Auditorium of Radio France…) and as a soloist (concertos by Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, Vivaldi and Porpora, Piazzolla’s Grand Tango, premieres by Gabriel Sivak and Gerardo di Giusto…).
His extensive discography of more than thirty recordings ranges from the Baroque to the twenty-first century (France Musique’s Choix, Diapason Découverte, the Tribune des Critiques’ Version de Référence, Chocs Classica…). Recorded on three cellos, his solo album Præludio was praised by critics.
In 1999 he founded the Syntonia Quintet, with which he won the Tina Moroni Prize at the International Competition of Florence, performs in numerous festivals, films for Arte and was in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac (2012–2017).
He is and has been principal cello of many period-instrument ensembles: Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Orfeo 55 (Nathalie Stutzmann), Il Caravaggio (Camille Delaforge), Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien (François Lazarevitch)…
A graduate of the Paris CNSM (First Prizes in cello and chamber music) and of the Paris CRR (First Prize in early music), he is a laureate of the Fondation de France and the Fondation Royaumont.
Patrick Langot has been co-artistic director of the Festival Autrement Classique since 2023.
Florent Lattuga
Piano
Florent Lattuga studied with Bernard Job at the CRD of Blois while also studying jazz piano at the CIM. In 2010 he entered the class of Ricardo Castro at the Haute École de Musique of Lausanne, earning a Bachelor of Music in 2012 and then a Master’s in performance, for which he received the highest mark and the prize for the best Master’s recital.
Devoting himself to vocal art, in 2016 he obtained a Master’s in accompaniment, for which he received a prize for the excellence of his results, and took part in the masterclasses of Helmut Deutsch, Roger Vignoles and Martin Katz. He also trained as a vocal coach with Vérène Rimlinger at the Pôle Supérieur de Musique of Strasbourg.
In recital he collaborates with artists such as Eugénie Joneau, Sophie Marilley and Marlène Assayag, and with many choirs, including the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and Pro Arte.
As a vocal coach he works regularly with the NOF, the Nancy Opera and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, as well as various private organisations, and accompanies regularly at the Lausanne Opera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Engaged by the Haute École de Musique of Lausanne, he coaches and accompanies various classes there, taught accompaniment in 2019–2020, and accompanied the masterclasses of Rolando Villazón, John Fiore, Patrick Messina and Luisa Castellani, as well as the opera-workshop sessions of Thierry Pillon and then Renaud Berger.
He was engaged as accompanist for the singing classes at the Haute École de Musique of Geneva for the 2022–2023 season. His experience in improvised music has, since 2018, led to regular collaboration with the company Comiqu’Opéra, which promotes opera in new and original forms.
Pénélope Poincheval
Contrebasse
A graduate of the Paris CNSMD in the class of Vincent Pasquier — double bass and chamber music in the piano/double-bass sonata — Pénélope Poincheval refined her chamber music training for four years with Daniel Marillier.
She frequently deputises in major orchestras such as the Opéra Bastille orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Auvergne Orchestra, under prestigious conductors including Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Shlomo Mintz, David Robertson and Tugan Sokhiev.
A guest of La Folle Journée de Nantes in 2008, she took part — alongside the Chausson Trio — in a Schubert recording for Mirare including the “Trout” Quintet. Regular collaborations followed with eminent artists such as Brigitte Engerer, Henri Demarquette, Anne Queffélec, Boris Berezovsky, Juliette Hurel, Luis Fernando Pérez, Deborah Nemtanu, Adrien La Marca and Jean-François Heisser, the Trio Les Esprits and the Pražák and Ardeo quartets.
In 2017 she founded the Quatuor Improbable. After teaching for many years at the CRD of Pantin, she has been, since 2023, director of the Olivier Messiaen Conservatoire in Saint-Maurice.
Romain David
Piano
“Romain David can create an atmosphere in an instant without straying from the musical text, to which he submits with a modesty that in no way renounces his own personality… the great pianist that he is.” - Le Monde
Romain David is a laureate of several international competitions: Honens in Calgary (2003), Villa-Lobos in São Paulo (2006, jury chaired by Nelson Freire) and Bremen (2007, where he won three prizes).
He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, earning three First Prizes (piano, chamber music and harmony), before entering the advanced cycle in the classes of Georges Pludermacher and Henri Barda for piano, and of Christian Ivaldi, Amy Flammer and Alain Meunier for chamber music.
His discography includes solo, sonata, trio and quintet albums, which have earned the highest distinctions in the specialist press (Choc de Classica, Diapason Découverte…).
In duo with the violinist Stéphanie Moraly, he has recorded the complete works of Louis Aubert and Olivier Greif, as well as the sonatas of Debussy and Koechlin; their latest album, “Incandescence”, devoted to Brahms, Dohnányi, Respighi and Szymanowski, was released in May 2021 on Aparté.
A passionate chamber musician, Romain David took part in founding the Syntonia Quintet in 1998, with which he explores in particular the piano-quintet repertoire.
Romain David was artistic director of the “Tempo Piano Classique” piano festival in Le Croisic from 2009 to 2023.
Pascal Mayer
Chef de Choeur
The Swiss tenor and choral conductor Pascal Mayer trained as a choir conductor and music teacher at the Fribourg and Zurich conservatoires (1978–1986). During his studies in singing and choral conducting, from 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (under Michel Corboz), the Choir of Swiss-Romande Radio (André Charlet) and the Stuttgart Kammerchor (Frieder Bernius).
He was engaged by Paul Sacher to conduct the Basel Kammerchor (1982–1987), and for ten years directed the Chor da Camera in Neuchâtel. Alongside André Charlet, he was co-director of the Chœur de Chambre Romand from 1987 to 1997.
He directed the University Choir and the Jeunesses Musicales of Fribourg until 2000, and in 1987 founded the Kammerchor der Universität Freiburg. In 1995, with the Valais conductor Hansruedi Kämpfen, he founded the Schweizer Jugendchor within the Europa Cantat association. Since 1997 he has directed the Maîtrise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens in Bulle; in Lausanne he directs the Chœur Faller and, since 1999, the Chœur Pro Arte; and since 1997 he has prepared the chorus of the Avenches Opera for its productions.
Pascal Mayer also teaches music at the Sainte-Croix school in Fribourg, where he directs the choir, and has been invited to conduct professional radio choirs in Munich and Leipzig.
A keen communicator, he is distinguished above all by his vivid musical sensibility, combining formal and technical precision with lyrical quality and expressiveness, in repertoire ranging from past centuries to the present day.