L'ensemble | English

The ensemble | Français

Under the drive of Geoffroy Heurard, the five singers of Perspectives gathered in 2011, around the shared desire to imagine the concert in a new perceptive space, beyond the stylistic splits and well-trodden paths where music often loses its Ariane’s thread.

The Ensemble goes beyond time and space, putting works in perspective and allowing them to meet. From William Byrd to David Bowie passing by Duke Ellington or The Beatles, Perspectives falls within new opening dynamics, following new musical paths.

Ensemble Perspectives has given more than a hundred concerts and has shot several music videos. Songs of Experience, first disc of Ensemble Perspectives, was released in September 2017 (Outhere Music France) and was well received by the public and the musical press.

Every year, the Ensemble is invited to sing in prestigious festivals. Thanks to its light structure, Perspectives is a group that can easily adapt to many kinds of venues, in France and elsewhere. Its project attracts a curious public often passionate about discovering the new repertoires displayed by this unique band. Perspectives sings in classical venues or more original ones and in front of various audiences (traditional, young, disabled…).

Season after season, Perspectives’s audience is growing. Promoters, and mostly festivals, show an undeniable interest in programming Perspectives year after year in different programmes.

Direction | English

Geoffroy intègre le CNSM de Paris après un Master Lettres & Musique à la Sorbonne. Lauréat de la bourse Lavoisier, il se perfectionne trois ans à l’Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst de Vienne. Il est sélectionné pour le 5ème Forum Lyrique Européen (Arles) et demi-finaliste des Concours Internationaux de la Mélodie Française (Toulouse) et de Chant Baroque (Chimay). Il chante avec Correspondances (S. Daucé), Pygmalion (R. Pichon), les Cris de Paris (G. Jourdain), les Arts Florissants (W. Christie). Lauréat de la Fondation Banque Populaire, il fonde en 2012 l’Ensemble Perspectives.

Director | Français

Geoffroy Heurard enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris after taking a Masters in Literature and Music at the Sorbonne University; he made a special study of French song and the German Lied, as well as baroque repertoire with Emmanuelle Haïm. Having won a Lavoisier bursary, he spent three years further improving his technique at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, notably in the Lied and Or- atorio class of Charles Spencer. He also took part in masterclasses with Walter Berry, Craig Rutenberg, Jean-Christophe Benoît, Russel Ryan, Pierre Mervant, Rachèle Yakar, David Pittman Jennings, Nicole Fal- lien, Yves Sotin, and the vocal group The King’s Singers.

He was selected to participate in the Fifth European Forum Lyrique at Arles; his on-stage roles include Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring, Ben in The Telephone by Menotti, and contemporary operas as well. Passionately committed to the art of the song recital, he has performed Schubert’s Die Winterreise, and the Dichterliebe and Liederkreis Op. 39 cycles by Schumann, as well as French song, in recitals at Tou- louse (in the Halle aux Grains), and in Paris, Lyon, Ghent and Geneva, accompanied at the piano by Antoine Palloc and Yann Molenat. Both as soloist and choir member he has sung with les Arts Florissants (directed by William Christie), the Ensemble Correspondances (Sebastien Daucé), the Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), les Cris de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain), Le Balcon (Maxime Pascal), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre) and la Main Harmonique (Frédéric Bétous).

His discovery of vocal ‘a cappella’ music (particularly in small groups) during his years of training came as a revelation to him. On winning a Banque Populaire Foundation Award in 2011, he formed Ensemble Perspectives, a group of five singers, to explore all the treasures of the vocal a cappella repertoire. Having himself an invisible disability he is sensitive to the problems of the disabled, engaging in many cultural activities on their behalf.