Biography
I Giardini is a collective of inspired and committed artists united around a common sensibility, an unusually strong unity of purpose, and a shared joy in onstage performance. They were nominee for the 2021 Victoires de la musique Classique Award. Giving priority to the musical excellence, the Group’s two co-founders and artistic directors, cellist Pauline Buet and pianist David Violi have made a space for freedom and for the exploration of a unique romantic world, inspired by the past, from Fauré and Bonis to Chausson, Poulenc and Schumann, but also rooted in the present through their collaboration with leading international women composers, such as the American Caroline Shaw and Anglo-French Josephine Stephenson.
Concerts, operatic projects, dance, new forms of language such as Virtual reality… music is first and foremost a constant exchange, to be shared among themselves and with the audience.
Since its foundation, i Giardini has appeared in all major Venues in France (at the Museé d’Orsay, theatre des bouffes du Nord, Auditorium – Orchestre National de Lyon, Arsenal de Metz, theatre du chatelet, le Lieu unique de Nantes, TAP Poitiers, and the opera houses of Lille, Avignon, Montpellier and Bordeaux, etc.) as well as abroad: in Belgium at la Monnaie de mount, Canada (salle Borgie, festival Classica), China (NCPA Beijing, Forbidden city concert hall, Shanghai oriental art center), Germany (Beethoven fest, Heidelberg Frühling) and Italy (Bologna festival, and the Palazzetto bru Zane in Venice, with which they maintain a steady partnership).
Their recent recordings Nuits with Veronique Genes and Bleu – both for Alpha classics – have been hailed by the critics, with distinctions such as a diapason d’or for 2020, a choc Classica, and a ffff rating on Télérama.
Their new album released by Alpha Classics this fall features a monograph by American composer Caroline Shaw (Pulitzer Prize for Music & multi-Grammy Award winner) including a world premiere, “The wheel”, sponsored by the ensemble with the support of Musica Strasbourg, the Opéra de Montpellier, the Lieu Unique de Nantes, the Festival Musique(s) Rive Gauche Paris and the Face Foundation of New York.