Concerts Duo CANTICEL
Duo Catherine Dagois: singer (contralto) and Edgar Teufel: organ, well-known to the Catalan public (palace of the kings of Majorca, cathedral of Perpignan, priory of Serrabonne) have already perfomed in 25 countries and on four continents.
SUMMER CONCERTS
Sunday 1st August - 20:30
Grotte des grandes Canalettes, Villefranche-Cornéllia-de-Conflent
« Carmen » : Music from the renaissance of the court of the king of Spain, in the grotte des grandes Canalettes with its superb natural accoustics.
Thursday 5th August - 17:00
église de Rignac (Aveyron)
« Autour du Stabat Mater de Vivaldi » Sacred Baroque music » Part of « l’été musical »
Friday 6th August - 20:30
église de Port-Vendres
« l’Orgue-Enchanteur » concert-conte musical mêlant musiques sacrées et chants du monde de Piazzolla à Ramirez.
Sunday 8th August - 17:00
festival d’orgue, abbaye d’Arles-sur-Tech
« chants sacrés du Sud » Vivaldi Rossini Verdi...
Wednesday 11th August - 20:30
Collégiale de Pézenas (Hérault)
« Chants Sacrés du Grand Sud » Villa-Lobos, Ramirez... « Les mercredis de
l’orgue »
Thursday 12th August - 21:00
église du village Saint-Cyprien
« Chants Sacrés du Grand Sud »
Friday 13th August - 21:00
église de Cerbère
« Autour du Stabat Mater de Vivaldi » Sacred Baroque music »
Sunday 15th August
Monastir del Camp
« Autour Du Stabat Mater De Vivaldi » to celebrate the 15th august celebvrations including a free guided visit.
Wednesday 18th and Friday 20th August
grande salle du Palais des Papes d’Avignon
Two showings of « Carmen au Palais »
Friday 27th August - 21:00
église de Prats de Mollo
« autour du Stabat Mater de Vivaldi » free guided visit of the church and exhibition.
Saturday 28th August - 20:30
préau de la mairie de Saint André
« Sur un air de Carmen » concert preceded by free guided visit of the maison de l’art roman
Sunday 29th August - 18:00
cathédrale d’Agde (Hérault)
« Autour du Stabat Mater de Vivaldi » summer festival
Saturday 4th September 21:00
Église de Saint-Laurent-de-la- Salanque
« l’Orgue-Enchanteur » concert-conte musical , sacred and world music.
Catherine Dagois and Edgard Teufel: together intensely
“To hear the level of expression and charm you give to my musique fills me with admiration.”
Xavier Montsalvatge (letter to Catherine Dagois and Edgar Teufel)
CATHERINE
Born into a family of artists, from a very early age she demonstrates her very rare dramatic contralto voice, a voice that would make her the ideal soloist for modern and contemporary post-romantic works.
After winning the Gold Medal at the national “Concours Musical de France”, and entering the finals of the “Concours des Voix d’Or” at the age of 21, she earns a musicology degree at the Conservatory of Toulouse University, followed by the prestigious Professor of Singing title at the Stuttgart Conservatory. These early successes lead to a beautiful concert and opera signing career: after being discovered by renowned French musicologist, producer at “France Musique,” and director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Jacques Bourgeois, who calls her a “France’s unique, true contralto”, she lines up concert after concert:From the closing night at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, accompanied by the excellent Philharmonic of Polish Radio abd Television, to the Opéra Bastille in Paris or de Flanders Opera in Antwerp, her voice, hailed as “sumptuous” by critics, wins over audiences worldwide. She appears with the greates conductors, including Edgar Howarth, Frédéric Chaslin, Kwame Ryan, Johannes Kalitzke, to name but a few...
"She’s a voice you’ll never forget”
Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw)
EDGAR
As an exceptionally young talent, he first discovers France as the youngest candidate in the International Encounters of the Jeunesses Musicales, conducted by the greates French and German masters.During his brilliant studies at the Conservatory and University of Stuttgart, he earns degrees as organist, pianist, musicologist, conductor, as well as music and literature professor. He becomes a professional orchestra musician, participating in international tours, and numerous radio and television recordings. In 1985, Edgar founds a youth orchestra in Sigmaringen, which he’s been conducting since its inception.
Edgar Teufel’s unique musicality, which is both large and nuanced, is unanimously appreciated by critics.
"From the very first bar, one could admire the accompanist’s exceptional talents.”
FAZ (Frankfurt)
CATHERINE AND EDGAR
Their encounter changed their lives forever, as they quickly decided to unite their talents and passion for music. This duo in life as well as on stage, has so far:
- performed on numerous tours - singing with piano and/or organ - in over 24 countries, and on four continents, in the most prestigious cities, music halls and cathedrals in Europa, Asia, the Americas and beyond...
- done a dozen recordings of singing/piano and singing/organ with labels such as Audite, Bayer Records, Troubleyn, Dux, SWR, Ars Produktion and more...
- taught Masterclasses in singing, organ and piano in the most prestigious professional establishments (Conservatory of Ostrava, Bucarest, Timisoara, Wroclaw, Tananarive, Canton, Wuhan, Novossibirsk...).
Their most intense bliss is to play concerts and recording music that they profoundly love in places filled with soul and history.Meeting Joanna Bruzdowicz and her marvellous, luminous and captivating music was thus an utter revelation for Catherine and Edgar. But nothing prepared them for the joy when the great composer brought them on board this magnificent project: to record an album entirely arranged and composed for them in the magical priory of Serrabona and the beautiful church of Saint-Laurent de la Salanque.
