28 MAY

18h00 / BENKADI (1h) CONCERT
Bathed in the rhythm of Burkina Faso since their childhood, Mélissa, Belli and Ophélia Hié mix traditional instruments (djembé, balafon) with influences from the global african diaspora: a singularly euphoric cocktail !

19h30 LAURENT CERCIAT (15-20 min) CONCERT
Plastic artist and singer (alto), Laurent Cerciat demontrates the full extent of his solo talents with the baroque melodies of Purcell.

19h45 / BEÑAT ACHIARY & DIDIER LASSERRE (1h) CONCERT
A top-level meeting between Beñat Achiary, the Basque with an extraterrestrial voice, and Didier Lasserre, polymorphous percussionnist. Starting from Euskarian traditions, a journey into amazing sounds.

29 MAY

8h00 / MELAINE DALIBERT, MUSIC FOR THE SUNRISE (1h)
On the terraces of the Fondation Martell, to accompany the rising sun (fingers crossed), the composer and pianist Melaine Dalibert immerses us in his meditative Music for the sunrise.

9h00 / STUDENTS OF THE CONSERVATOIRE (1h0) DOWNTOWN PARADE
The Students of the Musical formation of the  Grand Cognac School of music and dramatic art take us through  a musical stroll in the streets of Cognac.

11h00 / ISABELLE LOUBÈRE (1h) CONCERT
In her native Landes, Isabelle Loubère collects stories, unusual places and forgotten legends, and in turn transmits these immemorial stories to us.

14h30 / DIDIER LASSERRE, SILENCE WAS PLEASED (1h) CONCERT
Didier Lasserre, surrounded by six equally adventurous  musicians, draws a soundscape to  which the ears gradually get used to «like the eyes get used to the dark». A journey to the borders of  silence and swing…

16h00 / SÖNÖNÄMË (1h) CONCERT
Viola de gamba (Eric Camara), percussion (Johann Loiseau), harmonium and voice (Stéphane Torré Trueba):  Sönönämë’s music invites you to a motionless trance where ages and geographies jostle.

17h30 / ENSEMBLE O & EKLEKTO, TRISTAN PERICH and OPEN SYMMETRY  (50min) CONCERT
New-York born composer Tristan Perich  has specialised in pieces combining acoustic instruments and «1-bit» (read : rudimentary) electronics. Dazzling face-to-face between 3 vibraphonists and 20 loudspeakers, coposed specially for tonight’s musicians, Open Symmetry takes us through a perpetual movement in the form of sound spirals.

17h30 / KEVIN MALFAIT, RETABLE – SOUVENIRS D’UNE CREATION (40 min) SHOW
In the gardens of the Martell Foundation, Kevin Malfait probes the mysteries of  emotion through art and a three-part show combining projections, testimonies and live music.

19h30 / CHLOÉ & VASSILENA SERAFIMOVA, SEQUENZA
(1h) CONCERT
Started in 2017, the collaboration between the French composer and electronic music producer and Bulgarian virtuoso percussionnist is being continued both live and in the studio. Decompartmentalizing the electro club and that of the classical universe, an unprecedented and  organic duo between machines and percussions, électronic and acoustic, that combines with the future.

30 MAY

8h00 / MELAINE DALIBERT, MUSIC FOR THE SUNRISE (1h) CONCERT

9h30 / PARADE AROUND DIDIER LASSERRE (1h)
The musicians Christine Wodrascka, Beñat Achiary, Eric Camara, Jean-Luc Capozzo and the danser Laure Terrier improvise a journey through the Fondation Martell.

10h30 / ISABELLE LOUBÈRE (1h) CONCERT

11h30 / IL CONVITO (1h) CONCERT
Harpsichordist, pianofortist and organist, founder member of  il Convito ensemble and of the MM Festival in La Rochelle, the Charentaise Maude Gratton is first and foremost a  sensitive and adventurous musician. On the harpsichord and in trio (violin, viola de gamba), she takes us on a journey around popular traditions all the way from the  Renaissance to the 20th century.

14h00 / ROMAIN BAUDOIN, ARREHAR  (45 min) CONCERT
On a 1930’s vielle – stringed instrument –  Romain Baudouin interacts with voices collected several decades ago. Treating these sources like  poetic objects, he marries their timbres and their accents to weave a  sort of timeless blues.

15h00 / ANTOINE SOUCHAV’, YELLOW MAGIC HARPSICHORD (1h) CONCERT
Haprsichordist, composer, arranger, Antoine Souchav’ is also  passionnate about the electro-pop hits of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, a pioneering  japonese group who inspired Daft Punk or David Bowie, to the point of transcribing them for his instrument. An exhilarating culture shock !

16h30 / IVA BITTOVA  (1h) CONCERT
From the Prague Philharmonic to the most avant-garde improvised music halls, for more than three decades, Iva Bittova has never ceased to enchant stages around the world with the charisma of her presence (she is also an actress) and of a magnetic voice and violin, marked by the folklore of his country and elsewhere.

17h30 / KEVIN MALFAIT, RETABLE – SOUVENIRS D’UNE CREATION (40 min) SHOW
In the gardens of the Martell Foundation, Kevin Malfait probes the mysteries of  artistic emotion, through a three-part show combining projections, testimonies and live music.

18h00 / SAN SALVADOR (1h) CONCERT
Their album, released in early 2021, confirmed what their overheated concerts foreshadowed: San Salvador – that is, 6 young musicians mixing the rhythmic power of the Occitan language with the energy of percussions, it is “La Grande Folie” (the great madness)!