LItinéraire & Léo Margue
Biography LItinéraire & Léo Margue
Ensemble Itinéraire
is one of the main European musical creation ensembles. A true breeding ground for composers and performers, the collective has shared the adventure of several generations of creators daring all the limits of sound, from acoustic saturation to micro and macro-phonic amplification, to the unheard of electronics.
Since its founding, the ensemble has created hundreds of works among those by the most notable artists such as Grisey, Lévinas, Murail, Dufourt, but also Scelsi, Harvey and Romitelli.
Today, thanks to very high-level soloists, L’Itinéraire maintains a spirit of adventure and artistic excellence and tirelessly continues to explore unknown territories of sound. He constantly questions the circumstances of musical creation, from writing to instrumental practices, from stage to multimedia, thus participating in the innovations of young artistic creation in all its forms.
This desire for sharing and discovery leads him to offer meetings with musicians, of all nationalities, from different aesthetic horizons, from baroque to electronic music. It is with this transversal approach to creation that he performs in multidisciplinary places such as La Marbrerie de Montreuil or the new Parisian venue La Scala in 2019.
An internationally renowned ensemble, it collaborates regularly with the IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and has performed at the Venice Biennale, Stuttgart, Stockholm, Salzburg, Bogota, Medellin, New York and Dartmouth in the US. The Itinerary will soon be performed in Shanghai and Berlin.
Concerned about access to youth culture, the ensemble carries out several cultural actions in Ile-de-France in partnership with the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux, the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art from Val-de-Marne.
The Itinerary is supported by the DRAC Ile-de-France, SACEM, SPEDIDAM, Impuls Neue Musik, Franco-German-Swiss Fund for Contemporary Music, Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture and the Ernst von Siemens Foundation.
