{"id":8,"date":"2021-01-31T18:51:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:04:44","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our association was created in December, 2005 in La Fontenelle (Val-Couesnon, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany) the birthplace of Jean Langlais to promote his music and his memory and to help to develop music in the area. Since then we have organised 19 international festivals in La Fontenelle and the surrounding region and we are proud to be presenting our 20th festival this year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/home_JL_maison_front.png\" alt=\"Jean Langalis devant la maison\" width=\"480\" height=\"346\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Langlais in 1984 in front of his birthplace in La Fontenelle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Saturday 26th April, 2025 : Opening concert of the 20th Festival<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/concert-26-Avr-2025-Hedone.jpg\" alt=\"Concert Hedone\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Saturday evening, 26th April, saw the grand opening of our 20th festival and the salle multi-activit\u00e9s of Tremblay was completely full to hear Ensemble H\u00e9don\u00e9.<\/p>\r\n<p>An audience of nearly 400 mainly from the Pays de Foug\u00e8res, Dol and Vitr\u00e9 but also from the Baie du Mont Saint Michel and from Maine and Loire were present at this concert.<\/p>\r\n<p>We are normally active with our festival in the month of July, but we really had enormous success with this exceptional out-of-season evening. The young musicians of the Ensemble H\u00e9don\u00e9, five string players, five woodwind, a percussionist, the opera singer No\u00e9mie Bousquet and conductor Godeleine Catalan earned huge applause from a delighted audience for their programme \u201cDansons la Jig\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<p>So now we\u2019re ready for our summer festival which promises many new discoveries and a wide variety of concerts : piano, chamber music, organ and choral music with an Italian choir, a British choir, Liminis B from Vitr\u00e9 and La Chorale Les Amis de Jean Langlais.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>The programme of the 20th summer Festival 2025 is now available.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/festival-flyer-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-688 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Festival2025.jpg\" alt=\"Festival 2025\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>MASTERCLASS : PIANO AND CHAMBER MUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Saturday 5th July<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/masterclass-2025-poster.jpg\" \/>Following the success of last year\u2019s piano masterclass, we are offering a second one this year for piano and also for chamber music, which will take place on Saturday, 5<sup>th<\/sup> July between 10.00 and 18.00 in the church of La Fontenelle (Val-Couesnon) and which will be directed by the concert pianist \u00a0<strong>Agn\u00e8s DUBOIS CHAUVET<\/strong>.\u00a0 The masterclass will culminate in a concert at 20.30 featuring the participating students.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/masterclass-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Master Class application form<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Participants are invited to apply as soon as possible to have the chance to play on Jean Langlais\u2019 Pleyel piano.\u00a0 The cost is 40 euros per hour for an individual lesson\/or per group (duo, trio, quartet, ensemble).<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Deadline for applications : 20th June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Entry is free for those who would like to come to listen to the masterclass.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Tel : 06 08 05 79 54 for further information.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The church of La Fontenelle at 20.30\u00a0<strong>Saturday, 5th July <\/strong><strong>is the venue for a <\/strong><strong>\u00a0Concert of piano and chamber music<\/strong>\u00a0with the participants from the \u00a0Masterclass, the pianist\u00a0<strong>Agn\u00e8s Dubois Chauvet<\/strong>\u00a0and the violinist\u00a0<strong>Olivier Chauvet.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>We are delighted that\u00a0<strong>LIMINIS B<\/strong>\u00a0from Vitr\u00e9 will be coming back to sing the mass on <strong>Sunday, 6<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>les Amis de Jean Langlais<\/strong>, directed by\u00a0<strong>V\u00e9ronique MAC\u00c9<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jean-Michel NO\u00cbL,\u00a0<\/strong>accompanied by\u00a0<strong>Ludovic BILLON<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>On Thursday, 10th July<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>La Chorale Les Amis de Jean Langlais\u00a0<\/strong>directed by\u00a0<strong>Jean-Michel NO\u00cbL\u00a0<\/strong><strong>will be joined by two extremely talented young musicians<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>L\u00e9a COSTARD<\/strong>\u00a0(piano) and<strong>\u00a0Marie THIEBAUT\u00a0<\/strong>(trumpet) to perform works by Gounod, Arbeau and Jean Langlais.<\/p>\r\n<p>We shall have great pleasure in welcoming the return visit of <strong>l\u2019ENSEMBLE INCONTR\u00c0<\/strong>, the prize-winning Italian choir directed by\u00a0<strong>Roberto BRISOTTO,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>who will be travelling from Trieste to give three concerts <\/strong>in La Fontenelle\u00a0<strong>(16<sup>th<\/sup> July)<\/strong>, Saint-Enogat, Dinard (<strong>17<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/strong>) and Pontmain (<strong>18<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/strong>).<\/p>\r\n<p>We\u2019ll have the great privilege of hearing\u00a0<strong>Marie-Louise LANGLAIS<\/strong>, the composer\u2019s widow,\u00a0with <strong>Sylvie MALLET<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Margaux and Felix de SALINS,\u00a0<\/strong>Jean Langlais\u2019 grand-children, in a concert illustrated with videos\u00a0\u201c<strong>Hommage \u00e0 Jean Langlais<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c with music for organ, piano, trombone and tuba the church at La Fontenelle, on <strong>Saturday<\/strong>, <strong>19<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p>And the 20<sup>th<\/sup> festival will end with the return of the organists and British singers who were here at the start of the festival in 2005.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<strong>CHORUS 25\u201d<\/strong>, a specially created choir will be directed by \u00a0<strong>Malcolm ARCHER<\/strong>\u00a0and accompanied by par\u00a0<strong>David BEDNALL<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Colin SPINKS<\/strong>\u00a0in 3 concerts on\u00a0<strong>24th, 25th and 26th July<\/strong>\u00a0in Rennes, Dol de Bretagne and La Fontenelle.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our association was created in December, 2005 in La Fontenelle (Val-Couesnon, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany) the birthplace of Jean Langlais to promote his music and his memory and to help to develop music in the area. Since then we have organised 19 international festivals in La Fontenelle and the surrounding region and we are proud to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WELCOME&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdejeanlanglais.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}