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.
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.
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.
Distinguished by numerous awards, Nigel Short has built an enviable reputation for both his recordings and concerts, leading some of the world’s greatest orchestras and ensembles. A former member of the renowned vocal ensemble The King’s Singers (1994-2000), Nigel formed Tenebrae in 2001, a virtuosic choir that combines the passion of a cathedral choir with the precision of a chamber ensemble. Under his direction, Tenebrae has collaborated with internationally acclaimed orchestras and instrumentalists and is now recognized as one of the finest vocal ensembles in the world.
To date, Nigel has conducted the Academy of Ancient Music, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, English Chamber Orchestra, English Concert, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, and Britten Sinfonia. He conducted the London Symphony Orchestra alongside Tenebrae in a live recording of Fauré’s Requiem, which was nominated for the Gramophone Awards (2013), and since then, he has been conducting the St. Paul’s Cathedral Orchestra as part of the City of London Festival. Other orchestral recordings include Mozart’s Requiem and Corpus Ave Verum with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and a recent release of music by Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Zemlinsky with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, described as a “masterstroke in programming” (Financial Times).
Recently, he has conducted the BBC Singers, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, and the Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Nigel has extensive recording experience, having conducted for some of the world’s leading labels, including Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, LSO Live, Signum, and Warner Classics. In 2018, he received a Grammy nomination in the ‘Best Choral Performance’ category for Tenebrae’s album Music of the Spheres, featuring songs from the British Isles. As a Grammy Award-winning producer, Nigel works with some of the UK’s leading choirs and professional vocal ensembles, including Alamire, Ex Cathedra, Gallicantus, and The King’s Singers.
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.
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.
