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HEMU Choir
Comprising around sixty choristers, the HEMU Choir brings together all the Bachelor students at the HEMU - Haute École de Musique, both singers and instrumentalists, in colourful sessions. On the programme: a cappella works, multidisciplinary projects and impressive musical frescoes, magnificently orchestrated in collaboration with other HEMU ensembles, under the direction of great maestros.
Choral music has been performed at the HEMU since it was founded in 1861. Throughout its history, the Conservatoire de Lausanne has always been able to count on the presence within its walls of teachers and directors active in the choral world of Vaud, from the founder Gustave-Adolphe Koëlla to Carlo Hemmerling, from Alexandre Denéréaz to Paul-André Gaillard, from Charles Troyon to Jean-Jacques Rapin.
The student environment may have become more international, but its influence remains strong, and the HEMU Choir is a must for all Bachelor's students, whether or not they are singers. For a long time, this experience was guided by Véronique Carrot, and since 2009 it has been led by Dominique Tille and Jean-Pierre Chollet. It is considered essential for even the most inexperienced instrumentalists - to learn to breathe together, to experience the exhilarating emotion of large choirs and, if necessary, to lose one's preconceptions about a choral world that is not so dusty and full of surprises.
The calendar is organised into sessions, alternating between major projects that bring people together, such as Brahms's Requiem conducted by Michel Corboz, St John's Passion with Ton Koopman, a cappella concerts and multidisciplinary experiments, such as the performance of Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces that the singers and instrumentalists of the HEMU, led by Dutch conductor Daniel Reuss, combined with dancers from La Manufacture to present at the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières.