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The French soprano, Cécile Dalmon, began choral singing and dancing very early on, then devoted herself to piano and chamber music for 15 years. She received her singing award in 2004 and a further development cycle the following year. In 2005, she joined the Choeur de la Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris (Director: Nicole Corti, then Lionel Sow), trained in the choral repertoire and refined her repertoire as a soloist with the masters Paul Esswood, Dominique Visse, Margreet Hönig (2006), Martin Isepp, Michel Laplénie, Rinaldo Alessandrini (2007), François LeRoux, Noëlle Barker and Howard Crook (2008).
Cécile Dalmon has since participated in major productions: world premiere Vêpres de la Vierge Marie by Philippe Hersant 2013, Le Dernier Evangile by Thierry Escaich 2015, Création de Paradiso by Philippe Hersant (Clairvaux Abbey June 2015).
She is part of the Ensemble Vocal de Notre-Dame de Paris (Director: Sylvain Dieudonné), an ensemble of soloists with which she performs in Paris (Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle), at the Collégiale de Poissy, at the Abbaye de Pontigny, in Moscow. (Recording of the CD "Mater Salvatoris"). As well as at the Abbaye de Ligugé and at the Collège des Bernardins (2016). With the Choeur de Chambre de Namur (since 2015), she sings under the direction of great conductors such as Leonardo García-Alarcón, Peter Phillips. She is regularly invited as a soloist by the Jeune Philharmonie de Seine-Saint-Denis (Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc, Mass in G major by Schubert, role of Panima in Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart). And she participated in the last edition of the Académie Lyrique de Vendôme under the direction of Amaury du Closel and Alexandre Myrat for the role of Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (July 2017).
Cécile Dalmon took part in the creation of the program “1515? Marignan!"(2015) with the ensemble Les Meslanges (Directors: Thomas Van Essen and Volny Hostiou) and participates in the rediscovery of Missa Cantate sex vocum by Jehann Titelouze (April 2017). She is also involved with young ensembles: recording with the Choeur de Grenelle (Director: Alix Debaecker), concerts with Les Fous Divertissants as part of the Mois Molière à Versailles (2016), Mass in C by W.A. Mozart, with the Ensemble Rhapsodia (Director: Laurent Grégoire) and the Orchestre Imaginaire de Lyon, concert in ensemble of soloists with Le Songe du Roi (Director: Patrick Heilmann). The production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Dijon Opera for the 2016-2017 season) marked a first collaboration with Les Traversées Baroques (Directors: Etienne Meyer and Judith Pacquier). She performs regularly with the Ensemble Aedes (Director: Mathieu Romano; since 2017) in the most prestigious venues and festivals: Chapelle Royale de Versailles, Chapelle Corneille de Rouen, Cité de la Voix de Vézelay, Festival de la Chaise Dieu.
Alongside her activities, Cécile Dalmon founded the ensemble 4 têt 'a cappella (whose first program "Requiem to a poet" is devoted to the English-speaking repertoire of the 20th century with works by Finzi, Copland, MacMilan, Benjamin Britten), and created the young audience show "Pom 'Tapis" for two singers and a storyteller.
She is interested in the pedagogy of singing (vocal technique teacher for an amateur choir) and in the transmission of music through educational actions carried out with the support of Le Concert d'Astrée: creation of a two-voice program for school concerts, a “Parcours” at the Opéra de Lille in 2016 and a "musique et maternité" project with the Tandem stage of the theaters of Douai and Arras for the 2017-2018 season.
Projects: Coro by Berio with the Ensemble Aedes and the Ensemble Intercontemporain; "Sanctus" with the Ensemble Vocal de Notre Dame de Paris; educational project "music and motherhood" and Pygmalion by Rameau with Le Concert d'Astrée (Director: Emmanuelle Haïm), 2018.
Cécile Dalmon joined Le Concert d'Astrée (Director: Emmanuelle Haïm) in 2007, a renowned ensemble with which she plays major works in the choir: Thésée (doubling of the roles of Venus / Dorine), Hippolyte and Aricie, Médée, Castor and Pollux and, in 2015, W.A. Mozart's Idomeneo (a Crêtoise); and as a group of soloists: motets by J.S. Bach, Actaeon by Charpentier (Daphné). She is also a member of Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon; since January 2018). |
