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<\/p>\nAn artist of two cultures, endowed with a unique vocal expression, style and technique, her Judeo-Berber roots brought her naturally to be a lover of the Mediterranean vocal heritage, in particular the Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Arab traditions, while continuing her career as a lyrical singer.<\/p>\n
Graduate of Musicology at the university of Aix-en-Provence, Vermeil award in piano (in the class of Monique Oberdoerfer) and Gold award in chamber music, the composer Maurice Ohana encouraged her to sing, after choosing her to perform his Cantigas.
First Soprano in the Musicatreize Ensemble conducted by Roland Hayrabedian, she became the pupil of Andr\u00e9a Guiot at the Music Conservatory of Paris.
In 1998, she was the winner of the Villa Medicis Award Hors Les Murs for collecting the musical and poetical tradition of Fes in Morocco, as well as the Fondation Caisse d\u2019Epargne Award \u201cBest World Artist 2007\u201d ; she regularly gives master classes of singing in Geneva, Montreal, Aix-en-Provence, Brussels or Basel.<\/p>\n
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In parallel to her international career of singer, she also was the Artistic Director of the Festival Des Andalousies Atlantiques d\u2019Essaouira (Morocco) from 2007 to 2015 and of the Festival des Musiques du Monde of Gibraltar.
The Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques has inspired, in summer 2015, the Festival D\u2019art Lyrique d\u2019Aix En Provence, as Fran\u00e7oise Atlan was invited to sing \u201cEssaouira Spirit\u201d.
In 2013 she created the Yemaya Company and the Women\u2019s Vocal ensemble Bilbilikos, an amateur band for which she recasted, among other things, the Judeo-Spanish and Arab-Andalusian repertoires for 4 voices.<\/p>\n
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Her new album \u201cAman ! Sefarad\u2026\u201d with the Ensemble Grec Enchordais, released in January 2015, was awarded by the \u201cHeart Crush\u201d of the Charles Cros Academy 2015. That same year, she performed with the Symphonic Orchestra of Montreal under the direction of Maestro Kent Nagano, as part of the season \u201cThe Imaginary Eastern\u201d, with the composer Philipp Glass. French radio station France Musique dedicated to her a one hour portrait in the show Couleurs du Monde, to celebrate the 20th year of her career.<\/p>\n
That same year in 2015, the Ministry of Culture ordered a musical work around the feminine vocal tradition of the Mediterranean. \u201cZelliges\u201d (1h15) was born, for vocals, oud, piano and percussion. In this piece, created during the Joutes Musicales de Correns (Var), Fran\u00e7oise Atlan blends together poems in her favorite languages, Hebrew, Arab and Castillan.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Francoise Atlan led a Choral Academic project, \u201cConvivencia \u201c, with over 100 junior high school pupils.<\/p>\n
Invited to major international stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the International Festival of Mexico, the Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels, the Festival of Sacred Music of Fes, the Arsenal of Metz, the Salle Pleyel, or the Lyrical Art Festival of Aix, the singer Fran\u00e7oise Atlan recorded several discs acclaimed by the critic \u2013 Diapason d\u2019Or, Choc du Monde de La Musique, FFFF T\u00e9l\u00e9rama, Grand prix de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros\u2026<\/p>\n
Discography :<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRomances Sefarades \u201d Buda Musique (FFFF T\u00e9l\u00e9rama) Look at our catalogue of songs of Fran\u00e7oise Atlan<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to tracks of Fran\u00e7oise Atlan\u2019s albums<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cNoches \u201d Buda Musique (Choc du Monde de La Musique)
\u201cEntre la rose et le jasmin\u201d (Diapason d\u2019Or)
\u201cCantigas de Santa Maria\u201d with Joel Cohen and the ensemble Gilles Binchois (Erato and Na\u00efve)
\u201cNawah \u201d with Palestinian singer Moneim Oudwan
\u201cAndalussiyat\u201d Universal (Prix de l\u2019acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros)
\u201cTerres Turquoise\u201d with Constantinople, Atma (Diapason d\u2019Or)
\u201cAy Amor !! \u201d with Constantinople.
\u201cAman ! Sefarad\u201d (2015) with the Ensemble En Chordais of Thessaloniki<\/p>\n