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2025
at châtelet
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TTT in telerama
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2024
Théâtre de la Mer - La Ciotat
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2024
Festival des Musiques et Chants du Monde
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MARCH
2025
at châtelet
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TTT in telerama
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2024
Théâtre de la Mer - La Ciotat
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2024
Festival des Musiques et Chants du Monde
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Théo Ould : the accordion merges
Portrait
“Served by a masterly technique (an unbelievably supple left hand and an inexhaustible wealth of phrasing), Théo Ould’s interpretations show a personality expressing itself naturally in terms of the imagination, with all the enchanting freshness that word implies.”
Pierre Gervasoni – Le Monde
At the age of 24, Théo Ould becomes the first accordionist to be nominated as a Newly Discovered Talent at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. “His playing wonderfully merges virtuosity, refinement and fantasy, pulling on all the sound strings of the machine all delivered with a confounding naturalness. The accordionist succeeds in this tour de force of aligning baroque, electro and complex contemporary writings in the same concert without it turning into a catch-all”
Sébastien Porte – Télérama
“The Stromae of the accordion” (Le Figaro) began his musical education at the Marseille Conservatoire at the age of 6: ‘When I held the accordion between my hands for the first time, I was fascinated both by the sound it made and by the object itself, halfway between a computer keyboard and a spaceship: a machine to play with in every meaning of the word.’
The history of the accordion is still in the making, as its repertoire, technique, and even its construction continue to evolve. Following in the footsteps of his teachers at the Paris Conservatoire, Théo is fully engaged in the same artistic debate: how best to make sure that the instrument takes its rightful place in the classical repertoire.
And so as a soloist he freely plays the music he loves, Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, without feeling at all constrained by the burden of tradition – at the same time collaborating with composers of today such as Régis Campo, Tomás Gubitsch and Philippe Hersant, to expand the instrument’s work catalogue and exploit all its capabilities.
In 2023, he signed an artist contract with the Alpha Classics label and recorded his first solo album: Laterna Magica.
He continues his collaboration with an upcoming album dedicated to the music of Astor Piazzolla which will be released in 2025. For the occasion, the artist creates his own arrangements for string quintet and accordion.
From autumn 2024, Théo will also offer us a dive into the history of music. From Bach to the present day, you will be able to (re)discover a dozen pieces from the most beautiful pages of the repertoire through the sound of the accordion. Conceived as a real musical odyssey, two new tracks will be unveiled each month on streaming platforms.
Passionate about opera as well as the UK rock scene, he has freely rewritten the conventions of the classical concert – not in any way to sacrifice the music, but rather to let it be heard in a different way, one in tune with our time.
Concerts
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