OPENING FOR PAUL LAY TRIO

ATTENTION TALENT!
A VOCAL AND STAGE PHENOMENON TO BE DISCOVERED WITHOUT FAIL

Without doubt one of the most captivating new personalities on the French scene, musician and singer Charlotte Planchou is already establishing herself as a major artist. Fascinated by ancient sounds, her grandmother’s clock is the starting point for her second album, “Le Carillon”, which has won rave reviews from the press (Télérama, France Musique, Jazz Magazine, TSF…).

Sung in five languages (French, German, English, Portuguese and Occitan), this show offers a wide palette of colors and nuances. Charlotte Planchou’s breathtaking vocal mastery, derived from her lyric singing, dialogues with one of the most brilliant pianists – leader and sideman – of his generation, Mark Priore, who in 2024 received the Coup de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros and the Prix Évidence de l’Académie du Jazz.
While “Le Carillon” breathes jazz, it also has a classical and pop flavour, as if Barbara Hannigan, André Minvielle, Alfred Deller and Billie Eilish could be slipped into the same vial…

And it was the highly talented musician and artistic director Daniel Yvinec, who initiated this extraordinary encounter, who worked with the two artists to refine their repertoire, colors and intentions for the stage, putting everything in place to ensure the magic of this profound and unique work.

A breathtakingly profound journey, in the setting of the Théâtre de l’Alliance Française, not to be missed!

Charlotte Planchou: vocals, guitar / Mark Priore: piano

Album “Le Carillon”, released in 2024 by Art District Music
Charlotte Planchou, voted Best French Vocalist by Jazz Magazine

Press coverage:
The Charlotte Planchou phenomenon is winning all hearts, so disarmingly true is her art (…) The duo share the same depth of eclecticism and poetic reverie. Télérama
She is truly inhabited. Jazz Magazine
Since Cécile McLorin Salvant and Youn Sun Nah, I haven’t heard such a combination of precision, positioning and intensity of interpretation. Excellent singers are not rare, true artists are. Alex Dutilh