JOANNE MCIVER / CHRISTOPHE SAUNIÈRE
NEW ALBUM !
DUO
MCIVER
Nous vous invitons à venir découvrir deux artistes talentueux: Joanne McIver, écossaise de l’île d’Arran, joue de la grande cornemuse écossaise, de la petite cornemuse, de la flûte traversière, des flûtes irlandaises et elle chante.
Christophe Saunière quant à lui joue de la harpe (médaille d’or de harpe et de musique de chambre), harpiste solo au « Royal Scottish National Orchestra », il a fait des tournées dans le monde entier. Ils nous invitent à la découverte des îles au large de l'Ecosse.
Epopée musicale, imprégnée de contes celtes, terres battues par le vent et les vagues, magie tellurique et maritime: ces mélodies sont vibrantes de poésie insulaire. Un voyage authentique, une émotion rare!
Joanne McIver a grandi sur l’île d’Arran, au Sud-Ouest de l’Écosse. Elle compose, joue de la cornemuse et des flûtes irlandaises. Son exceptionnel grain de voix magnifie la musique de son île, qu’elle porte bien au-delà de ses frontières. Christophe Saunière, harpiste virtuose, a joué dans les principales formations symphoniques françaises et européennes.
Les chants limpides, portés par les flûtes, sont empreints de poésie gaélique. La smallpipe (petite cornemuse) évoque des paysages enchantés dont les menhirs sont les gardiens... La harpe convoque avec modernité le symbolisme celtique. Un voyage authentique, une émotion rare.
Leurs CDs ont tous été vivement salués par la critique.
JOANNE
MCIVER
Joanne McIver grew up on the Isle of Arran, in the south west of Scotland.
She started learning the bagpipes at the age of six and played for twelve years with the local pipe band. She also learned the flute and subsequently studied classical music at Glasgow University specialising in performance and composition.
After meeting Christophe Saunière in Glasgow and moving to Paris she started to write a book of bagpipe tunes about Arran, which in fact became a joint project and they finally recorded a CD together entitled "Leaving Arran". This led to many concerts in France and a tour in Scotland.
Another CD of Joanne's compositions called "The Dwarfie Stone", followed in 2004, then in 2006 the third album "Glenfinnan to Glasgow".
"The Three Sisters" was launched in February 2008, again entirely original material, this time composed around a story that she wrote about the Machrie standing stones on the west coast of Arran.
Joanne divides her time between composing, recording, teaching and playing all over the world.
Joanne pipes regularly for the British Embassy in Paris.
CHRISTOPHE
SAUNIÈRE
A most eclectic and active musician, Christophe Saunière at an early stage of his career already showed signs of what some would call artistic contradictions.
Whilst playing the harp with the principal French symphonic orchestras he was also the drummer as well as bass player in various rock bands. His thirst for discovery led him to Scotland where he settled for five years and became the main harpist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
He rediscovered his Celtic roots and started working with bagpiper Joanne McIver, with whom he tours throughout Europe and the United States. He then returned to France and broadened his musical scope.
VWorking as a studio musician for many jazz, classical and world music projects, he was hired to play the harp for the recording of an impressive list of soundtracks, including The English Patient, Titanic, Alien IV, Star Wars – Episode 1, and performed with some of the main European contemporary music groups : Klangforum Wien, EIC and Court-Circuit...
Christophe's harp playing appears on 60 recordings!
DISCOGRAPHIE
2001 Leaving Arran
CD 13 titres de compositions originales
de J. McIver arrangées par C. Saunière
2004 The Dwarfie Stone
CD 15 titres de compositions originales
de J. McIver arrangées par C. Saunière
2004 Ecosse : Musiques des îles
CD 28 titres Buda Musique dist.Universal
2006 Glenfinnan to Glasgow
CD 13 titres Buda Musique dist.Universal
2008 The Three Sisters
CD 15 titres Buda Musique récompensé
par un « Bravos !! » de Trad’Magazine
2011 The Cannie Hour
CD 13 titres Buda Musique dist.Universal récompensé par un « Bravos !! » de Trad’Magazine
2014 Train 221 : The Jazz Album
CD 10 titres Buda Musique dist.Socadisc
