Clump Of Dust

Hypokrat

Cannibal

La leche

Mackie Messer

Reflections

Three pieces for solo clarinet - 2

Three pieces for solo clarinet - 1

Sonatimage

Fantaisie

Facing the looking glass - 3

Avalon (Isle of apple trees in Celt) is known to be the place where King Arthur’s sword Excalibur was forged. It’s the Island where the King was taken, welcomed and treated by the enchantress Morgan to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann. It’s also a song written by Al Jolson, Vincent Rose & Buddy Desylva. For this first album, Maëla arranged famous jazz standards and unconditional instrumentals like Beautiful Love, Oleo, Sing Sing Sing, Have you met miss Jones and The blue Room. You’ll be able to recognize an inimitable classical sound and tinkling phrasing on the clarinet and bass clarinet. Her improvisations and arrangements are as well influenced by must-see Jazz greats, indispensable classical soloists and contemporary music creators.

Sing Sing Sing

Beautiful love

Born in Brest in 1990, Maëla first obtained her Musical Diploma at the Music Conservatory of Brest in 2007 and then perfected with Olivier Derbesse at the Jacques Ibert Conservatory (CMA19) in Paris. She graduated with distinction from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2014 (class of Ronald van Spaendonck). She also obtained a bachelor as an orchestra musician for the CFMO, Orchestre Ostinato. In parallel, she studied the bass clarinet at the CRR of Paris with Jean-Marc Volta and also made several Master classes with French clarinetists such as Jacques Di Donato and Bruno Martinez. 

Passionate about chamber music, she plays in various formations at many events or festivals : Origami Festival (Beursschouwburg, Brussels), Courant d’air Festival (Brussels), Préludes à l’orchestre de Paris (salle Pleyel), Festival Les Harmonies (Billiers), Concerts at The Campus International of Paris, Tout sauf Debussy (CRR Paris)… She had the opportunity to play and frequently collaborate with concertists such as Sulliman Alltmayer, Patrick Langot, Frédéric Lagarde, Carmen and Ana Mainer…

Very implicated in the contemporary repertoire, she participated to the creation of Tocatina by Sina Fallahzadeh, Heptagramme by M. Lysight, Umbrales by Alex Nante, D’un Vanneur de Blé aux Vents by Suzanne Giraud… and is invited to play in different formations such as the ensemble Alternance , the ensemble Écoute, directed by Fernando Palomeque, the collective Parallèle 21, directed by Benoit Menut… In 2020, Maëla recorded her first contemporary album : Reflections for solo clarinet, with works by Michel Lysight, Sina Fallahzadeh, François Meïmoun, Igor Stravinsky, Jörg Widmann, Luciano Berio and Edison Denisov.

She deals with the symphonic repertoire in various formations: the Ensemble entre Sable et ciel, conducted by Joël Doussard and Marc Schuster, the Ostinato Orchestra (conducted by Jean-Luc Tingaud, Inaki Encina, Anthony Hermus, Kaspar Zehnder…), the Orchestre National de Lyon (Leonard Slatkin), the Paul Kuentz Orchestra, the Ensemble International Musike, conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier, the Orchestre de Laureats du CNSMDP etc… and played with concertists such a Ophélie Gaillard, Gilles Apap, Henri Demarquette…

Curious about all musical worlds, she studied improvisation and jazz with great personalities of Parisian Jazz. 

She had the chance to teach clarinet and chamber music at the Conservatories of Houilles, Saint Leu La Forêt, Argenteuil, Taverny, at the Paris City Hall… She was part of the DEMOS project at the Philharmonie de Paris between 2016 and 2020. She conducted the orchestras at the music school of Saint-Leu-La-Forêt and orchestra at college at the Paris City Hall and in Taverny. She was also assistant conductor of the Orchestre de la Sirene de Paris between 2014 and 2016.

Sing Sing Sing

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