Les Petites Surprises

After three seasons rich in discoveries, learning, and sharing, Les Petites Surprises are back for the start of the 2025 academic year:

SEPTEMBER 22 & OCTOBER 2 : Juliette Guignard, viola da gamba (5 performances)

OCTOBER 6 & 7 : Lucile Tessier, recorders, oboe, and bassoon (6 performances)

DECEMBER 09, 08, 11 & 12 : Sandra Latour, transverse flutes (11 performances)

MARCH 12 & 13 : Damien Pouvreau, theorbo (6 performances)

MAY 21 & 22 : Anaëlle Blanc-Verdin, violin (6 performances)

In 2018-2019, the ensemble Les Surprises joined forces with the Compagnie éclats to create Les petites surprises d’éclats, a season of concerts and shows for young audiences, bringing together schools and families. After two seasons in Bordeaux, the residency with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and the Sinfonia en Périgord festival has made it possible to develop a traveling season, with concerts held directly in schools in the Dordogne.

Considering the success of this project, we decided to reiterate it during the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 seasons. Itinerant concerts were programmed to students from the nursery school to high-school. The purpose for them is to discover baroque music and to familiarize with the instruments used at that time.

This program called Les petites Surprises, is constructed as a path and takes place in three steps :

• Before the concert: a mediator meets the students in order to talk with them about the concert, the baroque music and give them some historical and practical info.
• During the concert: a musician goes directly in the classes to perform a recital followed by a question/answer time with students and teachers (1 hour)
• After the concert: a document is send to all the teachers so that they can go into what was heard and said in depth.

Les Surprises is delighted to continue this series thanks to the support of Ferme de Villefavard, Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and the City of Bordeaux (sponsorship of the Jean Cocteau school).