Sofie Garcia
Soprano

Sofie GARCIA started her preparation as a musician from a very early age.

She studied harpsichord at the conservatory of Lyon.

She was also a member of the children’s choir of the Opera of Lyon for seven years, where she took part in several productions.

After receiving a scientifical A-level, she continued her musical theoretical training at the Conservatory of Lyon, got her Bachelor of Music and Musicology at the Sorbone University in 2010 and took singing classes with D.Vellard, C. de Boever and S.Vittucci.

She left her hometown to study in Vienna-Austria with Heidi Brunner for five years before returning to France to get her DEM on Lyrical singing in Jan Marc Bruin’s class in 2017.

She is now preparing her DNSPM and DE on lyrical singing at the ESM Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Agnès Mellon’s class.

Recently, she has sung the soprano solo in Les Leçons de Ténèbres (Couperin), the Te Deum (Charpentier), Johannes Passion (Bach), she has also played several important roles, including: Eleonora (Prima la musica e poi le parole – Salieri – 2014), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande – Debussy – 2015), Amour, Zaïre (Les Indes Galantes – Rameau – 2016), Amour (Orphée et Eurydice – Gluck – 2017), Daniele (Susanna – Stradella – 2017).

She is a member of the following ensembles : Eclats de France (Guillaume Fauchère - Wien), Una corda (Alexis Gipoulou – Saint-Etienne), Traveling by (Camille Leblond – Lyon) , she joined the Palais Royal (Jean-Philippe Sarcos – Paris) for a production in April 2018.

Her future engagements include the role of Cendrillon in Les Contes de Perrault of Felix Fourdrain (Benoît Willman) and joining the cast of Nymphes des bois and Pulcherrima with les voix animées (Luc Coadou).

Laura Jarrell
Mezzo / Soprano - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2019

French mezzo-soprano Laura Jarrell is currently studying in Rennes under the tutelage of mezzo- soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac. Previous to this, she graduated with Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London where she was supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Big Give award and the Audrey Sacher award.

As an ensemble singer, she tours with many groups in France and abroad, including the Monteverdi choir conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Le concert spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet, La cappella nacional de Catalunya conducted by Jordi Savall, the ensemble Aedes conducted by Mathieu Romano...

As a soloist, she has sung various roles from Monteverdi to Poulenc. She works on a regular basis with stage directors Alain Garichot and Jean-Michel Fournereau.
Earlier this year, Laura sung Colette in Richard Coeur de Lion by Grétry at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. She also performed Amour in Orphée et Eurydice by Glück in Brest. Before this, she was Clizia in Teseo by Handel and Eurydice in L’Orfeo by Monteverdi at the Rennes Opera House with Le Banquet Céleste conducted by Damien Guillon.

Laura has won various prices in competitions such has the Léopold Bellan International Competition, the Beziers Opéra International Competition and was a finalist at the Froville international baroque competition.
Next year, she will sing the roles of Melanto and Ericlea in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria de Monteverdi at the Royaumont Abbey.

Laurence Recchia
Mezzo / Soprano - Member & Founder of Les Voix Animées

Laurence has been a musician from an early age (piano). She  recorded musical stories for children (voice), and discovered choir singing at adolescence. She then explored many repertoires, from classical singing to American pop songs but also worked in musical theater with several leading roles in different productions.

She sang in several ensembles : the Choir of the Sorbonne (directed by Jacques Grimbert and Denis Rouger), the PACA Regional Choir (directed by Michel Santos), the Contemporary Choir (directed by Roland Heyrabédian) and Le Jardin des Muses (directed by Luc Coadou). In July 2008, she sang in the choir at the « Opéra au Village » in Cinderella by Pauline Viardot, under the direction of Luc Coadou.

Laurence Recchia has always been passionate about music but also about creating and developping cultural projects. In 2008, in Paris, she founded Les Voix Animées with Luc Coadou and since then, she has been singing in the vocal ensemble in numerous productions.

Today, Laurence Recchia leads simultaneously her career as an artist and as the manager of Les Voix Animées. She is also the general coordinator of the FIMÉ, the International Festival of Film Music that she created in 2005. The 16th edition of this festival dedicated to « ciné concerts » took place in November 2022.

Isabelle Schmitt
Mezzo / Soprano - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2016

She first studied cello and viola da gamba at conservatory of Aix en Provence where she obtained her DEM then she went on to perfectionning the Schola Cantorum in Bâle, where her passion for singing began. 

On 2010, Isabelle obtained her DEM in baroque singing at the Baroque Music Center of Versailles. She gives concerts on a regular basis in the Royal Chapel of Versailles and in several festivals in France and abroad and with different ensembles : the Spiritual Concert with Hervé Niquet, the Capella Genevensis with Claude Xavier Hollenstein, The Cappella reial de Catalunya with Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras, The Concert D’Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm. 

Through her interest in stage work, she was able to work at the Theatre du Soleil with Étienne Peruchon then in other national performances with Myriam Dooges’ singing and dancing company. Since 2016, she sings with the ensemble “Les Voix Animées” directed by Lou Coadou. 

Cyrille Lerouge
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2018

Cyrille is a french Countertenor. He started singing at age 7 in a Boys Choir based in his hometown, in Nogent-sur-Marne (near Paris). He has stayed in this choir until he was 18, which made him sing more than 50 concerts every year, as a solo and ensemble singer, in prestigious places in Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Louis en L’Île etc.) and abroad during the international summer tours (Spain, Switzerland, U.S.A., Japan…).

In 2011, he began his proper singing studies in the « Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs », linked to the prestigious Conservatoire National Régional de Paris. In 2015, he received his « Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales ». Then, he studied in the « Département de Musique Ancienne » (specialized in the ancient music répertoire, from middle-ages to late baroque ») in the same Conservatoire, with Isabelle Poulenard as his main teacher. There, he performed the roles of Telemaco in Monteverdi’s « The Return of Ulysses », L’Homme Affligé in Psyché, by Lully and Appolo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo.

In 2018, he performed the role of Tullio in Haendel’s Arminio, with young french ensemble Vox 21 during the Festival de Bourbon Lancy. In Sacred Music he sang, among other things, the Alto solo part in Bach's Cantata 144 with Antoine Torunczyk, conducting Bach's Christmas Oratorio in various places in Burgundy and in le Collège des Bernardins à Paris, with La Fenice conducted by Jean Tubery, Zelenka’s Lamentation of Jeremiah per Alto Solo with ensemble Musica Vera conducted by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas…

He also regularly performs as an a cappella ensemble singer to perform Renaissance music, most notably with Ensemble Cosmos and Les Voix Animées, conducted by Luc Coadou. This winter, he’ll be Ruggiero in Haendel’s Alcina with Marouan Mankar conducted, in the « Musée d’Art et d’Histoire » in Saint-Denis. He keeps working on his voice with Lea Sarfati and Robert Expert.

Maximin Marchand
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2023

Comédien diplomé de l’ERAC, Maximin est également contre-ténor formé au conservatoire d’Aix en Provence dans la classe de Monique Zanetti.

Entre autres faits d’armes, en 2014, au Festival d’Avignon, il chante dans Le Prince de Hombourg de Kleist mis en scène par Giorgio Barberio Corsetti; en 2015, c’est le rôle d’Orphée de Louis Lully sous la direction de Pierre Guiral. 2016 le voit danser et chanter Vivaldi dans Combat de Carnaval et Carême, d’Olivia Grandville.

En 2017 commence une collaboration avec le metteur en scène Yves Beaunesne sur un Cid où il joue Corneille et chante les compositions de Camille Rocailleux. Collaboration qui se poursuit en 2019 avec Ruy Blas de Victor Hugo, puis en 2021-2022 avec un Tartuffe de Molière crée au Théâtre de Liège.

En 2020 il enregistre pour les musiques des films de Stéphane Brizé (Un autre monde) et Étienne Comar (A l’ombre des filles). 2022 voit la tournée de Tartuffe, et des créations mêlant théâtre et musique avec les ensembles Musica Ex Anima et l’Archivolte. Il enregistre également pour la fiction radiophonique La Reine Margot réalisée par Laure Egoroff pour France Culture.

D'autre part, il collabore régulièrement comme soliste avec des ensembles tels que Parnassie du Marais, Musica Ex Anima, Ad Fontes Canticorum, les Offrandes musicales, Stravaganza, le Choeur du Luberon, l’ensemble l’Archivolte et le Choeur de chambre Asmara.

Raphaël Pongy
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2012

First, Raphaël Pongy worked on his whole tessitura (baritone and falsetto) and in mean time he had a degree in musicology in Aix-en-Provence. When he came in Lyon, he got an award in sol-fa, he met Nicolas Domingues with whom he exclusively worked on the countertenor register.

In 2011, he graduated  in baroque song in Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, into the classroom of Isabelle Desrochers, during when he was under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli, Hervé Niquet, incent Dumestre and he also worked with Alain Buet, Christine Schweitzer, Marteen Königsberger…

He also sang as a soloist into Le Couronnement by Popée, La jeune fille aux mains d’argent, La Susanna by Stradella, le Stabat mater by Pergolèse and les Litanies à la vierge by Moulinié. He also played into numerous group as Sagittarius, Les Voix animées, or Arianna.

Mathieu Becquerelle
Tenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2010

At the age of 5, his parents took Mathieu to his first piano lesson, and from this moment on, he has been seen behind the keyboard. Trained at the Conservatoire de Marseille, he won the Premier Prix d’Art Lyrique. He started his career by joining Les Carboni with the show Un de la Canebière. After performing with Les Tréteaux de France and twice at the Festival d’Avignon, the show came to Paris at Théâtre 14, and was also broadcast on French national television.

With Les Carboni, Mathieu was part of the original cast of L’incroyable destin de René Sarvil, which was performed at the Théâtre des Carmes for the Festival d’Avignon 2011. Mathieu regularly performs with the a cappella vocal group Les Voix Animées, directed by Luc Coadou in Toulon. In 2012, Mathieu joined the cast of the Broadway musical Sister Act at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris. Mathieu worked as assistant director on Songs For A New World in the fall 2013 with the group AMTLive. As a pianist, Mathieu accompanied singers Maurane and Clara Guipont on France 2 in February 2014.

In March 2014, Mathieu wrote his first show Comme à la maison, including his own songs which he arranged for voice, piano and cello. In July, Mathieu played the role of a « comique-troupier » during WW1 in Le Cabaret Blanche, then wrote his second show in the fall, Je l’ai cherché partout, featurings songs by Michel Legrand. He ended the year by playing in Blanche-Neige & moi, a musical show for kids, in Paris. 

In June 2015, he joined the a cappella male sextet Opus Jam as first tenor. Since then, the group has performed in Italy, Switzerland, in London, in several jazz festivals in France but also for the closing ceremony of the Festival de Cannes 2016, as guests of Ibrahim Maalouf. He also created the role of Kay in the English show King Arthur, the Sword from the Stone in the spring 2016 for the troupe Théâtre En Anglais.

Olivier Merlin
Ténor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2019

Originaire de la région parisienne, Olivier Merlin étudie le chant lyrique ainsi que le piano au conservatoire régional de Cergy-Pontoise, tout en poursuivant en parallèle des études de droit et de lettres modernes.

Son activité de chanteur comprend de nombreuses et régulières participations aux chœurs d’opéra en France, notamment avec le chœur Mélisme(s) dirigé par Gildas Pungier pour les Opéra de Rennes, Nantes et Anger, la compagnie la Co[opéra]tive dans les théâtres nationaux du Nord de la France, ainsi que le chœur de l’opéra de Massy.

Il se produit par ailleurs avec de nombreux ensembles français et étrangers comme le Chœur du Palais Royal dirigé par Jean-Philippe Sarcos, l’ensemble Cyterra dirigé par Mihaly Zeke, le chœur de la Cathédrale américaine de Paris, ou plus récemment les Voix Animées. Il est également co-créateur du chœur des Gentilshommes, chœur de chambre pour voix masculines, ainsi que du quatuor de jazz vocal et chanson française A Bocca Chiusa.

Il a rejoint plusieurs ensembles spécialisés dans le répertoire de la musique contemporaine comme l’ensemble parisien Soli-Tutti, le chœur de chambre Nocturnal de Versailles ou l’Insieme vocale consonante UT avec lequel il chante régulièrement à Rome ou Arezzo en Italie.

Camille Leblond
Ténor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2022

Camille Leblond discovered instrumental practice by chance at age 11 through harpsichord. Very soon, he was brought to explore the lyrical repertoire from ensemble music. That is how he revealed his voice and developed a passion for working on it. After a long self-teaching period, he began a lyrical formation in 2019 with Hubert Humeau and then Laetitia Volcey at the Conservatoire du Grand Châlon from which he received his degree in 2021.

During this course, he embodied a wide range of roles in numerous pieces such as Idomeneo (Arbaces) by W-A. Mozart, La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (Orphée) by M-A. Charpentier, Rake’s Progress (Tom) by I. Stravinsky and La Petite Messe Solennelle (solo tenor) by G. Rossini. In a constant search of innovations and improvements for his voice, he had the chance of receiving advices from singing personalities such as Robert Expert, Marie-Louise Duthoit and Sophie Marin-Degor.

Meanwhile, he discovered medieval and renaissance vocal improvisation. Furthermore, his needs for exploration of choir repertoire in its widest diversity brought him to begin working with ensembles such as Les Voix Animées (Dir. Luc Coadou), Les Métaboles (Dir. Léo Warynski) or even Le Concert Spirituel (Dir. Hervé Niquet). However, his great passion for lyrical art doesn’t prevent him from proceeding with his first interests for harpsichord. He, today, still plays it in a professional way.

Eymeric Mosca
Tenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2011

Along with a Bachelor in Filming and Audio Engineering, Eymeric Mosca studies the piano with Michel Capolongo in Cannes, and with Jean-Sébastien Bardon in Aubagne, where he obtains his diploma.

In 2010, he finishes the Music Theory course in the Conservatoire of Marseille. The same year, he starts singing in Toulon with Luc Coadou and Marie-Louise Duthoit, along Music Culture and Choir Directing courses.

In 2014, he enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon, where he perfects his formation with Anne Delafosse, Raphaël Picazos, and where he has the chance to work under the conducting of Michael Radulescu, Paulin Bündgen, Pierre Hamon, Jean-Marc Aymes, Alain Garichot. Eymeric Mosca has been heard in many oratorios (Campra’s Messe des Morts, Charpentier and Saint-Saën's messes de minuit, Bach's cantatas…), lyric works (Strauss, Bossini, Aboulker, Offenbach), and in recital, singing repertoires from Middle Ages (especially with « Le Jardin des Délices ») to 21st century.

He is a composer and an arranger too, he works since 2012 with the vocal ensemble « Les Voix Animées », with which he sings in concert, but also on stage.

Damien Roquetty
Tenor

After graduating with a degree in musicology, Damien Roquetty studied voice at the Conservatoire of Aix-en-Provence with Laure Florentin.  Passionate about early music, he joined the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles where he worked with Viviane Durand then Isabelle Desrochers and got a final degree (DEM).

This solid background led him to sing under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli, Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset, Patrick Cohen-Akenine, Jérémie Rohrer, David Fallis. He studied with Christine Schweitzer, Alain Buet, Maarten Koningsberger et Stephan Van Dyck during some masterclasses. He also took part in the Academy of Early Music in Le Thoronet led by Dominique Vellard, in the Fonti e Memorie Academy based on improvisation and ornamentation in early music led by Jean Tubéry and in the Academy of the Festival du Périgord Noir (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière and Lully) led by Michel Laplénie.

In the CRR of Tours, he studied the medieval and Renaissance repertoire with Véronique Bourin, Jean-Paul Rigaud and Denis Raisin-Dadre. He has sung with Les Talents Lyriques, le Parlement de Musique, la Cappella Genevensis and recorded some music with les Festes d’Orphées and la Dolce Maniera. He worked on some contemporary creations and musical theatre with Soli-Tutti.

With Les Voix Animées, he now explores a cappella polyphony from Renaissance to today. He also works with composer and multi-instrumentalist Etienne Champollion, with whom he wanders in several musical styles, between creation, art repertoire and popular music.

Julien Guilloton
Bass - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2023

Julien Guilloton étudie la trompette pendant 11 ans puis décide de se tourner vers le chant et plus particulièrement vers le répertoire a cappella. Il étudie la musicologie à Tours, intègre en 2001 le choeur Mikrokosmos, spécialisé dans la musique contemporaine, puis étudie 4 ans aux Pays-Bas afin de perfectionner sa technique vocale de basse.

Il débute sa carrière professionnelle en 2009 avec les ensembles Aedes, Pygmalion, Egregor Vocal, Le Concert d’Astrée, Dulci Jubilo, et Exosphère qui lui permettent de se produire dans de nombreux opéras français tels que Bordeaux, Lille, Caen, Quimper, Besançon, Aix-en-Provence, l’Opéra Comique ainsi que dans des lieux magiques tels que le Théâtre du Châtelet, le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, l’Abbaye de Noirlac ou le Mont Saint-Michel.

Julien rejoint, en 2011, le sextet vocal Opus Jam qui le confronte aux musiques amplifiées et au jazz vocal, l’amenant à se produire à l’international (Italie, Corée du Sud, Allemagne, Singapour…) sur des reprises de la Motown et de chansons françaises incontournables. En 2012, il participe à la création du Quatuor A’dam qui développe un répertoire éclectique (chansons de la Renaissance et chansons françaises, gospels, lieder allemands et pop anglaise). Toujours à la recherche de défis vocaux, Julien intègre en 2019 l’ensemble ClimaX afin de découvrir le répertoire Barbershop, style proche du jazz, son terrain de jeu préféré