With a dual career as a concert musician and a cultural organisation manager, Emmeran Rollin has been leading the Rocamadour – Sacred Music project for the past 10 years. He is responsible for the artistic direction of the ensemble and is also part of the artistic team as an organist.
Since 2013, he has been in charge of the grand Daldosso organ at the Basilica of Saint-Sauveur in Rocamadour, working on its preservation and promotion.
A graduate of a Master’s degree in cultural project management from the University of Sorbonne, Emmeran Rollin has contributed to the development of numerous projects. In Rocamadour, he initiated the creation of the Rocamadour – Sacred Music project (Rocamadour Festival, Ensemble la Sportelle, Rocamadour Label). His aim is to create a 360° cultural project serving a territory rich in history, drawing inspiration from the past to create today and pass on to future generations.
Owain Park is a composer, conductor, singer and organist. In addition to leading The Gesualdo Six, he regularly collaborates with ensembles such as the BBC Singers and Cappella Cracoviensis. Owain is also the musical director of the Cambridge Choir. His compositions are published by Novello and have been performed outside the UK by groups like the Tallis Scholars and the Aurora Orchestra. During his studies at the University of Cambridge, he studied orchestration with John Rutter before pursuing a master’s degree in composition. Among his recent works are Antiphon for the Angeles for VOCES8 and Rachel Podger, and Footsteps for Tenebrae and Nigel Short – a piece designed to be performed by young amateur singers alongside the professional singers of Tenebrae. His chamber opera The Snow Child was performed for five times at the Edingburgh Fringe Festival, and his compositions have been reconised by organisations like the National Centre for Early Music. His music is regularly broadcasted on the BBC, Classic FM and internationally. The choir of Trinity College in Cambridge, included The Wings of the Wind in their touring programs in the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong, and recently released an album of his music on Hyperion Records, which was nominated for the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Owain is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and received the Dixon Prize for improvisation, after being a Senior Organ Scholar at the Wells Cathedral and at Trinity College in Cambridge. Owain is an associate artist of Tenebrae and has worked with ensembles such as Polyphony, the Gabrieli, Consort and Alamire.
Both a conductor and bass, Lionel Meunier is internationally recognised as the founder and artistic director of the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, whose reputation is now firmly established on the international stage. He is currently regarded as one of the most dynamic and acclaimed conductors working in the field of historically informed performance and vocal music. Known for his precise yet powerful interpretations, he is increasingly sought after as a conductor and artistic director, regularly invited to work with choirs, ensembles and orchestras around the world, sharing his expertise and experience.
Lionel Meunier’s international career took off in 2012, when Vox Luminis was awarded the Gramophone Recording of the Year for its recording of Heinrich Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien. This marked the beginning of an intense international trajectory for Vox Luminis under Meunier’s direction. Since then, the ensemble has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America and Asia, earning the continued trust of prestigious institutions through multi-year artistic residencies at Wigmore Hall, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and Concertgebouw Brugge. With Vox Luminis, Meunier has led projects in collaboration with, among others, Juilliard 415, B’Rock Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and L’Achéron. In recent years, he has also developed close ties with the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Consort, regularly conducting projects with Vox Luminis spanning a broad repertoire.
Numerous recordings made by Meunier with Vox Luminis have received international recognition, including the Choral Award for Buxtehude: Abendmusiken (2019). Other distinctions include the Belgian Klara Award for Ensemble of the Year 2018, a BBC Music Magazine Award, several Diapasons d’Or, the Prix Caecilia and various awards from the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Alongside his role as artistic director of Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier has appeared as a guest conductor with, among others, the Orchestra of St Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Salzburg Bach Choir and the Boston Early Music Festival Collegium.
He is also regularly invited to give masterclasses internationally, including at the Juilliard School, in collaboration with Juilliard 415, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Conservatoire de Paris, as well as at renowned festivals such as Musikfest Bremen.
Meunier trained as a singer and recorder player, and began his career as a bass with renowned ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, the Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Cappella Pratensis. In 2013, he was named Namurois of the Year for Culture, an award presented by the city of Namur, where he lives with his family.
Founder and artistic director of the chamber choir Mikrokosmos since 1989, Loïc Pierre is a musician, director, set designer, composer, and visual artist. A multifaceted artist constantly seeking originality, he draws his influences from figures such as Sam Francis, Ariane Mnouchkine, Bob Wilson, Alfred Hitchcock, and Martin Scorsese. Breaking free from the immutable ritual of the concert, he offers a new kind of ceremony, thereby inventing a choral theater that serves a renewed and entirely contemporary art form.
His productions embody this deliberate fusion: Tenebrae (2001), Ombres vives, une autre histoire du cinéma (2006), La Nuit dévoilée (2013), Jumala (2016), Chroniques des peuples oubliés (2018), Passion (2022), and Le jour m’étonne (2023)—profound and singular works, modern and masterfully executed by an innovative artist. Loïc Pierre is generous with his audience, a humble artisan, sincere, and respectful of the masters he interprets.
Born in 1986, Alix Dumon-Debaecker integrated la Maîtrise de Radio-France at the age of eleven. During this seven-year course, she learned singing, piano, analysis, composition, and choir conducting under Toni Ramon.
From 2005 to 2008, she deepened her choir conducting training at the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt with Marianne Guengard, then joined the CEFEDEM, where she obtained her State Diploma in choir conducting in 2010.
In 2007, she founded the Chœur de Grenelle and studied singing with Gisèle Fixe, a professor at the Conservatory of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, while perfecting her conducting with conductors such as Didier Louis (Lumen de Lumine), Denis Rouger (Chœur Figure Humaine), and Claire Marchand (Ensemble vocal Intermezzo). In 2010, she became an assistant choir conductor at the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, where she trained the children’s choir of the Paris National Opera. In 2014, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Letters and in 2015, founded the Saint John Paul II Children’s Choir. In 2016, she established the Girls’ Choir of Stanislas College. In 2017, she co-directed the Maîtrise of Saint-Christophe-de-Javel with Louis Gal. In 2022, she took over the choir of students in PREFO (IPC/Apprentis d’Auteuil). Since 2023, she has been teaching choir conducting at Paris 8 University. She has also been conducting training sessions for over 10 years on public speaking, assertiveness, and leadership in business.
Laetitia Corcelle was the musical director of Ensemble la Sportelle from the end of 2017 to 2024. She introduced a collaborative approach, similar to the of instrumental chamber music ensembles. When designing the programs, she aimed to make the works of the classical choral repertoire, particularly sacred music, simple, accessible and emotionally moving. During concerts, she created spatialisations that offered the audience a more complete sensory experience, integrating space and architecture into the joy of sound. She often worked on unconventional concert formats where different worlds met particularly the world of wine gastronomy, through crossed tasting events.
She was also involved in many educational activities in mediation, arts and culture, in the Lot, the home base of Ensemble la Sportelle, as well as through the whole of France.
