Classical session

The 2026 classical session centers on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphonies nos. 1 and 41 and Franz Schubert’s Lieder for orchestra, offering young musicians an immersive experience in the heart of the 18th- and early 19th-century repertoire. With Mozart’s formal clarity and vital energy and Schubert’s introspection and expressive density, the program charts a journey in which the orchestra moves from classical balance to a sensibility already turning toward Romanticism.

Directed by Guillaume Chilemme, the session welcomes the soprano Sandrine Piau for Schubert’s vocal airs, opening a subtile dialogue between the orchestra and the soprano. The musicians also have the rare opportunity to perform this repertoire using antique bows, generously loaned by Jean-Yves Tanguy, in order to explore the stylistic and tonal challenges unique to these seminal works.