Created around a shared passion for Renaissance repertoire, the ensemble brings together five musicians with various backgrounds.
History
Rich in their artistic and educational experiences, Marie-Agnès Martineau and Gaëtan Polteau have nurtured musical and human relationships since 2011, leading to various projects including the production of a CD "Dansez mon Amy" (Renaissance dances) in 2016. To listen to some excerpts from the CD:
https://cieamaltheechabret.wixsite.com/cie-amalthee/cd
In 2020, the five members of Campanaire came together to play Renaissance polyphonies with a specific instrumentarium. In 2021, the ensemble decided to expand its repertoire to include traditional music from Limousin and Poitou while keeping the same sound colors .
Gaëtan Polteau is a musician and maker of bagpipes and oboes from Poitou. Through music, research, making, teaching (exhibitions, conferences, training), he wishes to transmit his passion and to make people discover this rich heritage of bagpipes from Limousin and its repertoires. His research and practices are diverse: traditional repertoire (collecting in adolescence), creation, improvisation, early music (Renaissance and Baroque, notably at the CRR of Toulouse with courses in baroque oboe, and court musette with JC Maillard). He exhibits his instruments and regularly plays in concert or at balls, in different music festivals ("Bouche à Oreille" in Parthenay, Saint Chartier/Château d'Ars, "Zin Zan festival" in Baux de Provence, Sarrant, Saint Jean du Gard, Bordeaux, Paris, etc.). He has participated in various CD recordings ("Miroirs" self-produced CD: Dances and melodies from the 16th to the 18th centuries. La Gente Poitevinerie; "Chabretaires à Ligoure" CD CMTRA/CRMT Limousin: collectives of musicians involved in current practices in chabrette; "Le Bal" Company Maître Guillaum e, "Dansez mon amy"). Holder of the DE and CA in traditional music, he teaches at the Conservatory of Limoges since 2007 and regularly participates in the training of students at the Center for Higher Studies in Music and Dance (Pôle Aliénor) in Poitiers since 2011. He created with Nicolas Rouzier 'Compagnie Amalthée” whose aim is to promote the chabrettes and oboes of Poitou.
Marie-Agnes Martineau likes to introduce the richness and diversity of recorders: its sizes, its timbres and its different constructions depending on the era and repertoire. She is particularly fond of projects that combine different arts (dance, lights, circus, theater, etc.) and likes to bring music and heritage into resonance in historic places such as Romanesque churches and castles. Her varied repertoires: Renaissance, Baroque, contemporary, traditional, improvisation allow her to adapt to various contexts. Marie-Agnès Martineau regularly plays with various groups and companies: Ensemble Trio-bourdon (hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes and flutes: Renaissance, Baroque and Traditional repertoire), ensemble Campanaire (five musicians on the Renaissance and traditional repertoire), various chamber music, duets with lute or harpsichord or organ, circus companies, etc. She regularly participated in the festival "Nuits Romanes" in Poitou-Charentes and recorded an album of solo pieces in the church of St Hilaire in Poitiers in May 2008 on nine recorders with varied repertoires. She initiated with Gaëtan Polteau an artistic and educational project which resulted in a recording of Renaissance dances mixing professional musicians and advanced students in 2016/2017 : "Dansez mon amy". Since adolescence, she has trained in Renaissance, Baroque, Contemporary, Improvised, Traditional dance (numerous courses). She likes to share her passion for the links between music and dance on the period of the French Renaissance and also plays the pipe and drum and the dulcian. She has been a recorder teacher at the Limoges Regional Conservatory since September 2000 and regularly participates in training students in body awareness at the Pôle Aliénor (Center for Advanced Studies in Music and Dance in Poitiers).
Laura Audonnet has been involved in early music since the very start of her musical studies, beginning with the recorder in 2006 at Limoges Conservatoire. Alongside her recorder Bachelor with Claire Michon, she tried her hand at several other instruments: the chabrette (bagpipe), the flute and drum and finally the bassoon, both Renaissance and Baroque and the shawm. Indeed, her curiosity and attraction to the history of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries led her to train as closely as possible with the professional musicians of the period, who were also multi-instrumentalists. Her two main instruments, however, are the recorder, on which she obtained a Master's degree at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2021, and the historical bassoon, which she studied at the same institution with renowned bassoonists Donna Agrell, Benny Aghassi and Wouter Verschuren.
She is currently preparing a CA (pedagogy Master) in Lyon’s CNSMD.
Adrien Perron studied classical percussion and Iranian zarb at the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison with G. Sylvestre and F. Bedel. There he discovered a repertoire of contemporary music, as well as an opening to Balinese gamelan and Taiwanese percussion. He played as a musician for 3 years with the theater company "Etosha" and for a few years with the group "Pangpung" (Indian and Javanese influences). He has been studying the chabrette and the pipe and drum at the Limoges Conservatory for several years. These two instruments led him to explore a repertoire of traditional French music and Renaissance music.
Nino Clavé-Chastang is a chabrette (traditional bagpipe) player. Holder of a DEM from the CRR of Limoges in traditional music, he studied chabrettes, but also violin and singing. In addition to traditional French repertoire, he is interested in Hip-Hop which he practiced as a chabrette player within the group "Yemgui et les saboteurs" and in traditional Irish repertoire. He has participated in the groups "Couleur chabrettes" since 2003 and "la Rousse et les petits Roberts" since 2018. He also plays the violin, whistles and guitar. Thanks to the various projects within the conservatory, he discovered and deepened the Renaissance repertoire. He is currently preparing a DE in traditional music at the CEFEDEM in Lyon.
