2025 The major event of the year will be the inauguration in Ajaccio of the new Conservatoire de Corse de Musique, Danse et Art dramatique Henri Tomasi, designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti (see the press kit, the article of 21/02/2024  on the visit to the building site and the report of 21/02/2024 on the progress of work on France-Info – FR3 Corse Viastella).

The architect was inspired by the saxophone concerto for the façade

The inaugural concert will take place in November (or December) and will be performed by professors and students from the Conservatoire. It will open with a portrait of the composer, a tribute from the internationally renowned Ensemble A Filetta, read by Jean-Claude Acquaviva in the Corsican language. A broad panorama of works by “the most Corsican of the great French musicians” will allow visitors to discover—from the 1920s to the 1960s—the multiple facets of a “protean” creator.

In Paris, three renowned masterpieces will be honored with exceptional programming:

• on February 6 at the Cathédrale des Invalides, l’Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde Républicaine will perform the Requiem pour la paix conducted by Sébastien Billard, with the Chœurs de l’Université de Paris (OCUP) conducted by Guillaume Connesson, as part of the commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Invalides and the musical cycle “Une certaine idée de la France”.
• on April 6 at the Philharmonie de Paris in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, the World Doctors Orchestra will perform the Trumpet Concerto conducted by Stefan Willich, with trumpeter Joannes Leiner (programmed with Debussy’s La Mer and Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Symphony).
• on June 19 at the Palais-Royal, the Brass and Percussion Ensemble of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Antoine Ganaye, will perform the Liturgical fanfares / Fanfares liturgiques. This concert will be broadcast simultaneously on France 4 on the occasion of France Music Week 2025 (International Music Week organized by the Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Music Available for replay until June 2026  (at 00:10:37 from the beginning)

On May 10 in Chinon, Stéphanie Moraly will once again perform the Capriccio for violin with the Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde Républicaine conducted by Sébastien Billard. Watch the trailer here, and view details on the CD “Complete works for violin by Henri Tomasi” produced by Naxos Records by clicking on the image.

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Regarding the double anniversary in 2027 of Oscar Vladislav de Lubicz Milosz (the 150th of his birth) and of Don Miguel Mañara (the 400th of his birth), a great spiritual figure revered in Seville for having founded a charity that is still alive today, the Santa Caridad, see the project for a European co-production of Don Juan Mañara’s opera which is underway.

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The Concerto for guitar and orchestra in memory of murdered poet Federico García Lorca, performed several times in March 2024 at the 3rd La Maestra International Conductors’ Competition, is available for viewing until March 2026.

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