Art Direction
ANTHEA PICHANICK
French contralto Anthea Pichanick burst onto the musical scene by winning the First Prize and Special Prize at the Antonia Cesti International Baroque Opera Competition in Innsbruck in 2015. A fixture on the French and international classical scene, she performs with Les Accents – Thibault Noally, Le Concert Spirituel – Hervé niquet, Le Poème Harmonique – Vincent Dumestre, La Capella Mediterranea – Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and many others. Her discography includes Handel’s Messiah, Neapolitan Motets, Il Martirio de Santa Teodosia by Scarlatti, Dido and Aeneas, Coronis by Duròn…
HEATHER NEWHOUSE
A long-standing associate of Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, with whom she regularly shares the stage in Mourad Merzouki’s Folia, Canadian soprano Heather Newhouse lends her voice to Mozartian roles, Handel oratorios and Britten. Much in demand in the Baroque repertoire, she performs with Ensemble Ausonia, Ensemble Correspondances and Arion Baroque (Montreal). At the Opéra de Lyon and Strasbourg, her sensual timbre has already seduced Kazushi Ono, Stefano Montanari and the late Patrick Davin, among others.