Marc Mauillon, Christian Rivet, Les Joueurs de Traverse
Biography Marc Mauillon, Christian Rivet, Les Joueurs de Traverse
Marc Mauillon
sings both tenor and baritone roles. His repertory has included Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Bobinet (La Vie parisienne), Mercure (Orphée aux enfers), Husband in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Momo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, La Haine in Lully’s Armide, Tisiphone in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), along with the title roles of Cavalli’s Egisto and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Adonis in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Pélée in Marais’ Alcione.
On the concert stage he has sung French motets by Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Desmarest, Campra and Couperin, Italian madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo, secular cantatas by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Montéclair and Clérambault and medieval and Renaissance music.
He has worked with conductors such as William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Raphaël Pichon, Christophe Rousset, Alain Altinoglu, Jordi Savall, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurent Campellone, Maxime Pascal and Geoffroy Jourdain, and with directors including Lukas Hemleb, Deborah Warner, Benjamin Lazar, Robert Carsen and Jetske Mijnssen.
Together with Myriam Rignol, Thibaut Roussel and Marouan Mankar-Bennis he has made a CD of Michel Lambert’s Leçons de Ténèbres, released in 2018 by the label harmonia mundi. In 2020 he released a Fauré album on the same label with the pianist Anne Le Bozec.
Most recently he has appeared as Cithéron in Rameau’s Platée at the Theater an der Wien, as Andrès / Cochenille / Pitichinaccio /Frantz (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, in recitals with Lea Desandre at the Opéra Comique and in concerts celebrating the 40th anniversary of Les Arts Florissants in London, Hamburg, Baden-Baden, Madrid and Paris.
Other engagements have included Orfeo at the Royal Danish Opera, Pelée in Marais’ Alcione at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and, recently, Pelléas at the Opéra National de Montpellier.
Since 2018 he has taught early music interpretation at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Christian Rivet
studied guitar, orchestral conducting, composition, and chamber music at the CNR in Metz.
During this time, he met the lutenist Hopkinson Smith, who allowed him to develop a personal method yet respectful of the styles: both “ancient” and “modern” instruments thus became integral parts of his musical mindset.
Having been awarded a variety of the most prestigious awards, he studied under Alexandre Lagoya at the CNSMDP in Paris in 1984. After receiving the first prize for guitar and chamber music (in 1987 and 1988), he was admitted unanimously as a postgraduate and received regular advice from the guitarist Alvaro Pierri, and the flautists Michel Debost and Aurèle Nicolet.
As a result of the various important encounters throughout his career, notably Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Pascal Dusapin, Jean‐Paul Roussillon and Jean Echenoz, of his many concerts given in France and abroad for prestigious festivals, as a soloist or alongside his colleagues Emmanuel Pahud, the Sine Nomine quartet, Michel Portal, and Laurent Korcia, and as a result of his “original” outlook to the world, Christian Rivet has developed a passion for the various colours of music, and studies both music and literature with equal interest.
Christian Rivet is the artistic director of the festival “Le Vent sur l’Arbre”, and has been for seven years.
