Sofie Garcia
Soprano - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2019

Lauréate du prix Tsvétana Marthaler 2023 et finaliste du concours des Symphonies d’automne 2023, Sofie poursuit actuellement un Master d’interprétation à la HEM de Genève dans la classe de Clémence Tilquin (après y avoir obtenu un Master de Pédagogie en Juin 2023).

Passionnée par la voix sous toutes ses formes, elle aime jongler avec les styles : d’Alstisidore (Boismortier) à Mélisande (Debussy) en passant par Lucy (Menotti). Elle a récemment coécrit et interprété un spectacle autour du téléphone de Menotti réunissant un patchwork de musique américaines et du XXe siècle. Membre cofondateur du septuor vocal Vagabondes (en résidence à la cité de la voix Quotidiennes 2023), elle travaille régulièrement avec plusieurs ensembles (Les métaboles, Les Voix Animées, Amarilia, chœurs de l’opéra de Dijon et du GTG).

Récemment on a pu l’entendre en soliste dans un récital Haendel avec Franck Marcon pour le festival de la Route Royale des orgues, au Grand Manège de Namur dans le programme Arcadelt de Cappella Mediterranea, dans les spectacles Souris Traviata et Colorama au Grand Théâtre de Genève. Elle a chanté Manuela dans la recréation mondiale et l’enregistrement de la Sorcière d’Erlanger au Victoria Hall de Genève sous la baguette de Guillaume Tourniaire. Au printemps, elle participera comme madrigaliste soliste à la création Amour à mort de la Cité Bleue sous la baguette de Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.

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 19th edition of this festival dedicated to « ciné concerts » took place in November 2025.

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.

Luc Coadou
Musical Director & Baritone - Member & Founder of Les Voix Animées

Born under the Northern mists, Luc Coadou, just like the Renaissance Flemish masters, easily switches from the role of singer to the role of music director with a constant care about pedagogy and musicological research. We can find a particular interest for early music in his academic work - he is the author of research articles on the lyrical theatre during the French revolution.

With Les Voix animées, Luc Coadou explores the vast repertoire of a cappella vocal music and especially that of Renaissance polyphony. Besides being the music director of Les Voix Animées, he is the artistic director of L’Opéra au Village. He has conducted, among others, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Purcell’s Dido, Haendel’s Messiah, Boieldieu’s Caliph of Baghdad, Weber’s Abu Hassan, Chabrier’s Fish-ton-Kan, Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène, Bataclan, Vent du Soir and La Bonne d’enfant, Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon and Le Dernier Sorcier, Bizet’s Djamileh. Philémon and Baucis by Charles Gounod, La Servante Maîtresse by Pergolese, Le Tableau parlant by Grétry, Les Pantins de Violette by Adolphe Adam, Deux Vieilles Gardes by Léo Delibes & Faust en ménage by Claude Ter. He also created pieces by Tristan-Patrice Challulau and, Gérard Garcin, Karol Beffa, Dimitri Tchesnokov, Jean-Michel Bossini and by Tomas Bordalejo & Léo Collin.

Baritone, Luc Coadou started his career as an altar boy in the Manécanterie of Dunkerque Les Rossignolets. He studied singing in Lille, and improved his technique with Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs at the Studio Versailles-Opéra. From then, he started singing with several ensembles such as La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Le Parlement de Musique (Martin Gester), La Grande Ecurie and La Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Magloire), Le Concert Spiriturel (Hervé Niquet)… From medieval music to contemporary creation, his work is a mix of musical research and eclecticism.

Luc Coadou has performed in prestigious festivals and in famous theatres such as the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Salzbourg, Ambronay, the Berlioz festival in La Côte Saint-André, Saintes, Chaise-Dieu, Turku, the Theatre des Champs Elysées, at the Opéra comique of Paris, at Sao Carlo of Lisbon, at the Brooklin Academy of Music of New-York, at the Royal Albert Hall and at the Barbican Center of London, at the Theater an der Wien and Konzerthaus-Mozart of Vienna, at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, at the Semperoper of Dresde, at the Opéra de Liège, at the Opéra d'Anvers, at the Opéra de Lille, at the Opéra de Lyon, at the Opéra de Rennes, at the Opéra de Bordeaux, at the Opéra de Nancy, at the Opéra and Arsenal de Metz, at the Opéra du Rhin, at the Opéra d'Angers, at the Palau de la Mùsica Barcelone, at L’Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing...

After ten years of teaching at the Conservatoire of Caen, he has been teaching since the year 2000 at the Music Conservatoire of Toulon Provence Méditerranée. He has been invited by the CNSM Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon for masterclasses dedicated to the Renaissance polyphony.

Alexis Roy
Compositeur et arrangeur

Formé à la direction d'orchestre auprès de Jean-Sébastien Béreau et Jean-Jacques Werner à la Schola Cantorum de Paris, Alexis Roy a étudié parallèlement l'érudition avec Alain Weber pour l'écriture et le contrepoint et Alain Louvier avec qui il obtient deux premiers Prix en analyse et en orchestration, ce qui lui permet de répondre aux commandes d'arrangement et d'orchestration pourles ensemble vocaux, à vents, orchestre d'harmonie ou symphoniques.

Fondateur de l'orchestre symphonique L'Ensemble Parisien en septembre 2007, il explore à la tête de cette formation la musique française et romantique, travaillant à l'exhumation d'fluvres symphoniques oubliées, et donnant leur chance à de jeunes solistes très prometteurs (Un CD Schumann-Haydn chez Saphir). Chef associé de l'orchestre Léon Barzin et et de l'orchestre RSO, AlexisRoy dirige également l'Orchestre d'Harmonie Briard depuis janvier 2013.

En 2012, Les Voix Animées passent commande d'un medley Offenbach à Alexis Roy pour leur deuxième album, [Ré]Créations A Cappella. Séduit par cet arrangement composé sur mesure à partir des airs les plus célèbres des opérettes d'Offenbach, Luc Coadou lui confie la composition de deux véritables cue sheets pour le ciné-concert Charlot, Octave & Bobine. Sur un rythme trépidant, les voix virevoltent et entraînent les auditeurs dans une course étourdissante, à la suite du génial Charlot. Au pied de l'écran, les 4 voix s'animent et sautillent de thème en thème, du classique au populaire, pour le plaisir des auditeurs épatés par la virtuose performance

Anne Mirou
Compositeur et arrangeur

Anne Mirou's musical journey follows the history of music chronologically: in an embryonic state, she was impregnated with Renaissance counterpoint within the vocal ensemble to which her parents belong; as a child, she played the harpsichord, with a predilection for the English virginalist composers of the Elizabethan era, and for the music of Bach, whose liturgical work is for her a real revelation; as a teenager, she takes a liking to romantic music, notably thanks to Mendelssohn; finally, as an adult, she fell in love with Ravel.

At the same time, traditional Irish and Breton music, then jazz, gospel, soul, rock, enrich the resources gathered by her ear as influences on her creativity. In her early days at the Angers Conservatory, Anne studied the bass continuo, the organ, sang in choir, obtained an award for harpsichord and another for music theory. Then, at the conservatory of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, she began studying harmony and piano together.

She was accepted shortly after in the composition class of the CNSM in Lyon, from where she emerged five years later with her master's degree, but above all rich in a founding experience for her job as a composer. Back in Anjou, today Anne Mirou teaches piano and harmony, puts texts that inspire her into songs, is the author-composer of a musical tale for children, transcribes many songs for vocals ensembles and for her pianist students, and composes for Les Voix Animées.