Programme

MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER

11:30 AM – Opening of the Destination Limoges / Destination Jazz meetings.

12:00 PM / 2:00 PM – Talk “Artistic direction and development within cultural organisations (role, economic vision, understanding audiences, regional attractiveness, commitment, risk-taking, etc.).” With: Alain Mercier, General and Artistic Director – Opéra de Limoges; Gersende Michel, Director – Centre Culturel de Rencontres de Villefavard; and Frédéric Faucher, President of the Festival Éclats d’Émail Jazz Édition…

TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER

12:00 PM / 2:00 PM – Talk “Behind the Scenes”: lighting designers, scenographers, set designers, costume designers, stage managers (lighting, sound, or performance), as well as stagehands and technical workers (painters, carpenters, electricians…). Without them, there would be no performances and no creations. Testimonies and discussions about essential professions, career paths, and training.

Gabriel Desprat, Technical Director of the Opéra de Limoges; Fabien Lambré, Manager of SARL FL EVENT; Dominique Boos, Manager of OUÏ DIRE recording studio.

WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER

11:45 AM / 1:30 PM – Talk with the members of violinist and composer Caroline Bugala’s quartet. In residence at the Centre Culturel Jean Gagnant before their concert and the release of her new album, this is an opportunity to ask questions to an artist we have been following for several years.

1:30 PM / 2:00 PM – Mini concert with members of the quartet: Caroline Bugala (violin), Philippe Parant (guitar), Victor Pierrel (bass), Tom Moretti (drums).

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER

11:45 AM / 1:30 PM – Talk with two flagships of instrument design and manufacturing in France: Christophe Sirgues, Director of the MAUGEIN accordion factory, the last French accordion manufacturer. Christophe Sirgues will explain the challenges facing a craft tradition in the complexity of an economic, social, and technological world that is changing too fast and too drastically. Adrien Besse, Sales Manager at Manufacture SELMER, also recognised as an Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant and a world leader in wind instruments, saxophones, and clarinets, will also be present.

1:30 PM / 2:00 PM – Screening of the documentary “Behind the Scenes of the Design”: exclusive access to the original tools carefully preserved by MuPop – the Museum of Popular Music in Montluçon – and to Django Reinhardt’s legendary SELMER guitar, kept at the Museum of Music at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, enabled luthiers Gérald Alonso and Fabian Le Dosseur – SELMER’s project technical directors – to carry out meticulous reconstruction work based on an in-depth study of historic models.

FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER

11:45 AM / 2:00 PM – Talk with Olivier Vitu, SACEM Regional Director (with other speakers also present).

Birth, role, and development of SACEM since 1851. For its 175th anniversary, celebrated this year, it will be interesting to see how this institution has become essential in supporting those who make music: songwriters, composers, publishers, and more. This discussion will also allow us to address current realities such as artificial intelligence and the dissemination of musical works.

SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER

12:00 PM / 1:30 PM – Talk and conference – After a first chapter last year on Maloya, the resistance music of Réunion Island in its traditional form, journalist and director Anne-Laure Lemancel returns this year to explore its current developments. The result is an immersion in the island’s contemporary sounds, in words and music, followed by a meeting with Réunion-born jazz musician Valérie Chane Tef, who will perform the following day at the Théâtre de l’Union, for a dialogue about a unique island identity.

1:30 PM / 2:00 PM – Mini concert by Valérie CHANE-TEF, pianist and composer.