Le Concert de la Loge
Le Concert de la Loge est un orchestre sur instruments anciens français, fondé en 2015 par le violoniste Julien Chauvin.

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The orchestra

In January 2015, the violinist Julien Chauvin founded a new period-instrument orchestra with the ambition of reviving an essential component of French musical history: the Concert de la Loge Olympique.

That orchestra, founded in 1783 by the Comte d’Ogny, was then considered one of the finest in Europe and has remained famous for commissioning the ‘Paris’ Symphonies of Joseph Haydn. At that time, a substantial majority of musicians were Freemasons, and many concert associations were linked to Masonic Lodges such as the Loge Olympique de la Parfaite Estime.

The modern, flexibly sized ensemble presents chamber, symphonic and vocal-operatic programmes directed from the violin or the baton and champions a wide repertory ranging from the Baroque era to the early twentieth century.

The aim of this recreation project is also to explore new forms of concerts, harking back to the spontaneity of late-eighteenth practice, which intermingled different genres and artists in a single programme, and to establish links with other artistic disciplines.

Since it was founded, the ensemble has toured many venues with operas including Haydn’s Armida directed by Mariame Clément, Sacchini’s Le Cid directed by Sandrine Anglade, Lemoyne’s Phèdre and Isouard’s Cendrillon staged by Marc Paquien for the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail staged by Christophe Rulhes, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, directed by Jean-Yves Ruf.

 It also enjoys regular collaborations with such renowned soloists as Karina Gauvin, Sandrine Piau, Philippe Jaroussky, Marina Viotti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Andreas Staier and Justin Taylor.

Le Concert de la Loge performs in major French concert halls such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Auditorium de Radio France and the Arsenal de Metz, as well as in European venues such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Wigmore Hall in London, Bozar in Brussels, the Philharmonie in Essen and the Halle Festival, and on several international tours of South America.

In less than a decade, Le Concert de la Loge has built up an extensive discography with some twenty critically acclaimed recordings: Haydn’s complete Paris Symphonies (Aparté label), two albums of violin concerti (Naïve label), before joining the Alpha label for orchestrated French melodies, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, the Simply Mozart cycle around his last three symphonies and more recently a world premiere on historical instruments, Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Aulide.

In June 2016, the French National Olympic Committée objected to the use of the adjective “Olympic” by the ensemble, which was forced to change its historic name to “Le Concert de la Loge”.

The ensemble is supported by the Ministère de la Culture, the Ville de Paris, the Region Île-de-France, the Société Générale C’est vous l’avenir Foundation (its main sponsor), the Fonds de dotation Françoise Kahn-Hamm and the sponsors who are members of Club Olympe. He is in residence at the Jean-Baptiste Lully Conservatory in Puteaux and at the Arsenal – Cité musicale-Metz. It is also an associate artist in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, as well as an associate ensemble at the Auditorium du Louvre and the Théâtre Sénart. In 2021, the ensemble has begun a four-year cross-residency with the Association pour le Développement des Activités Musicales dans l’Aisne (ADAMA) and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

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