Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu

LE CONCERT DE HOSTEL DIEU
Since its inception, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu has been a major player in the French Baroque scene. The set is distinguished by a sensitive and dynamic approach to interpretation of the vocal and instrumental repertoire of the 18th century, promoting systematically an historical and philological approach.
Under the direction of Franck-Emmanuel Comte, passionate artist and committed educator, the ensemble defends the originality and specificity of a regional repertoire by highlighting baroque manuscripts preserved in the libraries of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It thus realizes various renditions and editions of unpublished scores, rich of the privileged links, which Lyon maintained with Italy
Transposing the richness and diversity of baroque music to our time is one of the strengths of Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu. Nourished by stimulating artistic collaborations, the ensemble brings together the different baroque aesthetics with various cultures and artists from diverse backgrounds. Its creations reinvent the concert format and aim at reaching at new audiences of different ages and also to perform in outlying areas.
As well as creating and performing, Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu also supports young soloists at the beginning of their careers, noticed at international singing competitions or academies

Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu is supported by the City of Lyon, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, Ministry of culture, CNM, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM and Musique Nouvelle en Liberté.


FRANCK-EMMANUEL COMTE, conductor and harpsichordist

Conductor and harpsichordist specialized in the performance of baroque and classical repertoires on historical instruments, Franck-Emmanuel Comte strives above all to share his passion with the broadest possible audience. His artistic projects are habitually developed in tandem with musical outreach initiatives.

After his studies at the CNSMD de Lyon, he held important posts and worked with numerous opera houses (Nantes, Lyon, and the Studio Opéra de Paris, among others) and orchestras (including the Orchestres des Pays de Savoie, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Orchestra of the University of Auckland, Collegium Musicum of Riga, and Ensemble Arion in Montréal).

In 1992, he founded Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu (CHD), a Lyon-based instrumental ensemble dedicated to the baroque repertoire, which he is continues to lead as artistic director. He has directed the orchestra in more than 1500 concerts and recorded more than 20 CDs. La Francesina, their more recent album, released by the Aparté Label, was named “Baroque Vocal CD of the Year” by the 2021 International Classical Music Awards.

Regularly invited to conduct in cultural capitals in Europe and worldwide (including Barcelona, London, Moscow, Riga, Krakow, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Calcutta, Chennai, and Beijing) and as part of numerous international festivals (Montserrat, Brežice, Girona, Foligno, Wallonie, Nuits de Fourvière, Ambronay, Chaise-Dieu, Peralada, Händel Festpiel in Halle, Bayreuth Baroque Festival, MA Festival Brugges, among others), Franck-Emmanuel Comte is particularly interested by regional baroque repertoires and interdisciplinary or out-of-the-ordinary projects, such as the ballet Folia which he recently developed in collaboration with the choreographer Mourad Merzouki.

Strongly committed to transmission and professional integration, he teaches baroque aesthetics at the Université Catholique de Lyon and is a member of the jury of the Concours international de chant baroque de Froville, which discovers new vocal talents every year.

Franck-Emmanuel Comte is also the artistic director of the Centre Musical International J.-S. Bach de Saint-Donat and of the Festival baroque du Pays du Mont-Blanc.
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