Created around a shared passion for Renaissance and traditional repertoires, 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).
Through her playing of the recorder, Laura Audonnet became immersed in the world of early music
at a very young age. Her particular interest in the Baroque and Renaissance repertoires led her to specialise in these periods whilst broadening her range of instruments. Thus, from her teenage years onwards, she began to take up various instruments such as the chabrette (bagpipes), the three-hole flute/tambour and
finally the Renaissance and Baroque bassoons, as well as the Renaissance bombarde.
In addition to early music, Laura is passionate about traditional oral music, and enjoys exploring its links with the early music repertoire.
Furthermore, she enjoys exploring the contemporary repertoire for recorder, from the most
well-established works to the most recent compositions.
She obtained her CA (pedagogy master) from the CNSMDL in 2026 and currently teaches at the CRR in Annecy.
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 completed a DE (pedagogy Bachelor) in traditional music at the CEFEDEM in Lyon in 2025.
Aglaé Pardonche débute la chabrette à l’âge de 7 ans au conservatoire de Creuse, inspirée par le dessin animé Candy des années 1970. Deux ans plus tard, elle découvre la vielle à roue, influencée par le groupe Nòu. Depuis toute petite, elle fréquente régulièrement les bals trad, où elle aime autant danser que s’inspirer des musiciens qu’elle écoute.
Elle joue aujourd’hui régulièrement en bal et fait partie du groupe traditionnel Saule. D’abord marquée par les collectages du Limousin, son univers musical s’ouvre progressivement à des répertoires d’autres régions ainsi qu’à des compositions plus contemporaines. Elle explore ensuite la musique ancienne, l’improvisation et des sonorités aux accents orientaux qui l’attirent tout particulièrement.
Elle apprécie par-dessus tout l’atmosphère des festivals d’été, comme Gennetines ou Le Son Continu, et aime jouer en bal dès que l’occasion se présente. Elle prépare actuellement un Certificat d’Études Musicales au conservatoire de Limoges.