Events

A permanent fixture on Deauville's cultural calendar, the Easter Festival is all about discovery, sharing and learning. Over the years, the Easter Festival has brought to light five generations of young musicians and chamber ensembles, now well known to all. Elders and cadets always pass on their knowledge with the same joyful complicity...

Following in the footsteps of Renaud Capuçon and Amaury Coeytaux, Pierre Fouchenneret has succeeded in rallying the most promising chamber musicians around him. This is the perfect opportunity for them to confront two of the finest examples of 20th-century Romantic and French chamber music.

Program:

Franz Schubert
- Quintet for two violins, viola and two cellos op. 163 D. 956
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For one day only, saxophonists BL!NDMAN [sax] take over Les Franciscaines. Led by Eric Sleichim, this collective continually explores the boundaries between disciplines and eras. BL!NDMAN [sax] will deliver a first performance based on cinema, followed by an evening piece based on J.S. Bach...

Four absolute masterpieces of 20th-century invention, virtuosity and sound poetry by four of the most brilliant and inspired young chamber musicians of their generation.

Program:

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Divertimento for violin and piano (1932)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano Sz 111

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Paillettes, music hall and charleston for this well-crafted comedy by Feydeau.
On the eve of his marriage to Viviane, Bois d'Enghien tries unsuccessfully to break up with his mistress, the famous music-hall singer Lucette Gautier. But his future mother-in-law, Baroness Duverger, invites the star to sing at the ceremony. Lucette accepts...

At the end of its week-long residency, the Sans Roi company will present a working stage of its next piece, exploring the tumult of love and desire, an energy difficult to tame.

"Sur la route d'Eden" is a show that captures the intensity of a particular second. Not just any second. The one that precedes the ave...

It's a festival tradition every spring to bring together the most seasoned of its young chamber musicians in a complete instrumental ensemble: strings, winds, brass, keyboards and voice. Every year, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkovski, Christopher Hogwood, Jérémie Rhorer, Maxime Pascal and now Pierre Dumoussaud have accomplished the feat ...

Novelists, biographers, comic book illustrators and authors, children's authors, singer-songwriters... come together in Deauville for musical readings, literary concerts and singular, original encounters that explore, comment on and illustrate the links and rebounds between writing and music.
Since 2004, Deauville has been the...

Every spring, the Livres & Musiques literary festival in Deauville celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events.

Milan Kundera, whose father was a pianist and musicologist, first considered a career as a composer before turning to writing. Music has always held a special place in his...

Every spring, the Livres & Musiques literary festival in Deauville celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events.

A musical and visual exploration of what is evoked by ten album covers, like ten Proust's madeleines, each accompanied by comments by authors. An immersion in...

Every spring, the Livres & Musiques literary festival in Deauville celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events.
Awarded since 2004 by a jury of writers chaired by Jérôme Garcin, the Deauville Books & Music Prize is awarded each year to an author inspired by music. It dedicates the author to his work in the ...

Every spring, the Livres & Musiques literary festival in Deauville celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events.

Accompanied on the piano by Romain Berrodier, Sophie Delassein and Rose offer a musical reading, in the manner of a sound journey, of Sagan's songs, those that have been dedicated to him...