Luc Coadou
Musical Director & Baritone - Member & Founder of Les Voix Animées

Born under the Northern mists, Luc Coadou, just like the Renaissance Flemish masters, easily switches from the role of singer to the role of music director with a constant care about pedagogy and musicological research. We can find a particular interest for early music in his academic work - he is the author of research articles on the lyrical theatre during the French revolution.

With Les Voix animées, Luc Coadou explores the vast repertoire of a cappella vocal music and especially that of Renaissance polyphony. Besides being the music director of Les Voix Animées, he is the artistic director of L’Opéra au Village. He has conducted, among others, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Purcell’s Dido, Haendel’s Messiah, Boieldieu’s Caliph of Baghdad, Weber’s Abu Hassan, Chabrier’s Fish-ton-Kan, Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène, Bataclan, Vent du Soir and La Bonne d’enfant, Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon and Le Dernier Sorcier, Bizet’s Djamileh. Philémon and Baucis by Charles Gounod, La Servante Maîtresse by Pergolese, Le Tableau parlant by Grétry, Les Pantins de Violette by Adolphe Adam, Deux Vieilles Gardes by Léo Delibes & Faust en ménage by Claude Ter. He also created pieces by Tristan-Patrice Challulau and, Gérard Garcin, Karol Beffa, Dimitri Tchesnokov, Jean-Michel Bossini and by Tomas Bordalejo & Léo Collin.

Baritone, Luc Coadou started his career as an altar boy in the Manécanterie of Dunkerque Les Rossignolets. He studied singing in Lille, and improved his technique with Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs at the Studio Versailles-Opéra. From then, he started singing with several ensembles such as La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Le Parlement de Musique (Martin Gester), La Grande Ecurie and La Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Magloire), Le Concert Spiriturel (Hervé Niquet)… From medieval music to contemporary creation, his work is a mix of musical research and eclecticism.

Luc Coadou has performed in prestigious festivals and in famous theatres such as the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Salzbourg, Ambronay, the Berlioz festival in La Côte Saint-André, Saintes, Chaise-Dieu, Turku, the Theatre des Champs Elysées, at the Opéra comique of Paris, at Sao Carlo of Lisbon, at the Brooklin Academy of Music of New-York, at the Royal Albert Hall and at the Barbican Center of London, at the Theater an der Wien and Konzerthaus-Mozart of Vienna, at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, at the Semperoper of Dresde, at the Opéra de Liège, at the Opéra d'Anvers, at the Opéra de Lille, at the Opéra de Lyon, at the Opéra de Rennes, at the Opéra de Bordeaux, at the Opéra de Nancy, at the Opéra and Arsenal de Metz, at the Opéra du Rhin, at the Opéra d'Angers, at the Palau de la Mùsica Barcelone, at L’Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing...

After ten years of teaching at the Conservatoire of Caen, he has been teaching since the year 2000 at the Music Conservatoire of Toulon Provence Méditerranée. He has been invited by the CNSM Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon for masterclasses dedicated to the Renaissance polyphony.

Sterenn Boulbin
Soprano - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2016

After graduating from the music conservatory of Caen, where she obtained a first prize in piano and chamber music, Sterenn followed an advanced program in composition, harmony, orchestration at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris.
She then studied lyrical singing in Paris and Aix-en-Provence within Monique Zanetti’s class, where she obtained a first prize in ancient music.
She now perfects her technique with J.L. Deveze and she attends acting workshops with Xavier Laurent.

Since 2016, she’s been working with the a cappella vocal group “Les Voix Animées”, which specialises in Renaissance music, but also explores modern songs and instrumental music adapted for voices.
Their “Célébrations a Cappella” program, a mix of French and English songs, was given at La Seine Musicale in Paris, La Tour Royale in Toulon, the Radio France Occitanie festival in Montpellier. It was also recorded for the radio program “Générations France Musique”.

In 2021, the vocal group created the musical theatre play Le G5 du Drap d’Or, with 4 voices, viole and lute. It was directed by P. Berling and performed at the Châteauvallon-Liberté national stage in Toulon.
In 2023, she joined the artistic team (5 voices and a sound designer) of the cinema concert The passion of Joan of Arc, a silent historical film by C. T. Dreyer.
As a singer and an actress, she also performed in the radio fiction "1514, le voyage musico-temporel des Voix Animées”, which was produced by France Musique.

She also sings with the a cappella group “Tarentule”, which specialises in contempory music. She performed The Prophecies by Fabrice Boulanger at the Festival “Labeaume en Musiques”. She recently sang at various festivals : « Les Musicales de la Vallée aux loups » (Chatenay-Malabry), « les voûtes célestes » (Maillezais abbey), « Novembre musical des Voirons » (Bonne), « FestyVocal » (Firminy).

On stage, she interpreted "Pauline" in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, "Sangaride" in Atys by Lully, at the National Opera in Athens, "Anna Duyret" in L'Expérience, a contemporary opera, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, "Bastienne" in Mozart's early opera Bastien und Bastienne, and the "First Witch" in Didon and Enea by Purcell.
In 2017/2019, she joined the cast of the musical Les Misérables en concert and performed in France, Belgium, China and Korea.

Sterenn also regularly performs as a soloist and a chorister in Oratorios: Cantatas, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach, Requiem by Fauré, Midnight Mass, Te Deum by G. Charpentier, The Messiah by G.F. Haendel, Die Schopfung by J. Haydn, The small solemn Mass by Rossini, A German Requiem by Brahms, King David by Honegger, Saint Nicolas Cantata by B. Britten, …
Beside her activities as a lyrical performer, Sterenn taught piano, singing and music theory in Paris and Aix-en-Provence. She now co-hosts singing workshops in Thoronet Abbey.

Sofie Garcia
Soprano

Sofie GARCIA started her preparation as a musician from a very early age.

She studied harpsichord at the conservatory of Lyon.

She was also a member of the children’s choir of the Opera of Lyon for seven years, where she took part in several productions.

After receiving a scientifical A-level, she continued her musical theoretical training at the Conservatory of Lyon, got her Bachelor of Music and Musicology at the Sorbone University in 2010 and took singing classes with D.Vellard, C. de Boever and S.Vittucci.

She left her hometown to study in Vienna-Austria with Heidi Brunner for five years before returning to France to get her DEM on Lyrical singing in Jan Marc Bruin’s class in 2017.

She is now preparing her DNSPM and DE on lyrical singing at the ESM Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Agnès Mellon’s class.

Recently, she has sung the soprano solo in Les Leçons de Ténèbres (Couperin), the Te Deum (Charpentier), Johannes Passion (Bach), she has also played several important roles, including: Eleonora (Prima la musica e poi le parole – Salieri – 2014), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande – Debussy – 2015), Amour, Zaïre (Les Indes Galantes – Rameau – 2016), Amour (Orphée et Eurydice – Gluck – 2017), Daniele (Susanna – Stradella – 2017).

She is a member of the following ensembles : Eclats de France (Guillaume Fauchère - Wien), Una corda (Alexis Gipoulou – Saint-Etienne), Traveling by (Camille Leblond – Lyon) , she joined the Palais Royal (Jean-Philippe Sarcos – Paris) for a production in April 2018.

Her future engagements include the role of Cendrillon in Les Contes de Perrault of Felix Fourdrain (Benoît Willman) and joining the cast of Nymphes des bois and Pulcherrima with les voix animées (Luc Coadou).

Anara Khassenova
Soprano

Light lyric soprano Anara Khassenova was born and raised in Kazakhstan where she initially studied piano and was a member of an acclaimed children’s choir. She pursued her musical studies in France at the Regional Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt in the class of Anne Constantin, receiving a Bachelor degree in vocal arts (Pole Supérieur Paris-Boulogne) and musicology (Paris-Sorbonne). With a vast repertoire ranging from medieval to contemporary music, in 2015 she won first prize from the City of Boulogne-Billancourt for her performance of contemporary music. Thereafter she was selected for the Royaumont Fondation’s masterclasses, specializing in early music.

In 2017 she was selected to participate in the prestigious Academy Jaroussky where she studied and performed directly under Philippe Jaroussky. Within this context her performances with the ensembles Artaserse and Le Concert de la Loge received critical acclaim by virtue of a voice described as “vibrant and fluid with a gentle richness and subtle palette of colours”. She also appeared alongside Vincent Mussat and Gaspard Dehaene during the 2019-2020 season at the Paris Chamber Music Center. In recitals she performs regularly with pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique. Critically acclaimed stage roles include Adina in L'Elisir d'amore, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (conducted by Cyril Diederich), Laoula in L'Etoile (conducted by Alexis Kossenko at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing), Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea directed by Claus Guth, Susanne in Le Nozze di Figaro, La Baronne in La vie Parisienne and Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites.

In October 2020, she sang for the season opening at Les Invalides, under the direction of Alexis Kossenko. This performance was broadcasted live on Radio Classique.

In 2021 Anara made her debut alongside Franck-Emmanuel Comte and his ensemble Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu in the title role of the opera Talestri by Walpurgis. She subsequently participated in productions of Folia and Jubilatio. Recently she was invited to join the performing cast of the Figaro Music Cruise under the direction of Alain Duault scheduled for April 2022.

Eva Plouvier
Soprano - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2025

Originaire du Pays Basque, Eva Plouvier se familiarise avec la musique classique dès son plus jeune âge. Durant quinze ans, elle est élève au Conservatoire de Bayonne en tant que violoniste, danseuse classique et choriste pour finalement se consacrer à sa passion pour le chant lyrique.
Admise sur concours, le Conservatoire de Bordeaux lui ouvre ses portes en 2014, où elle commence ses études de chant auprès de Maryse Castets.
Elle fait ensuite son entrée au Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles en septembre 2019, où elle obtient son diplôme avec mention Très Bien à l'unanimité en juin 2022.
Elle travaille désormais avec différents ensembles : Correspondances, Les Surprises, Dulci Jubilo, Les Voix Animées... et a participé à plusieurs masterclass avec des artistes tels que : Emmanuelle Haïm, William Christie, Claire Lefilliâtre, Hervé Niquet...
Elle a également tenu le rôle principal dans la pastorale Amaryllis de Campra en mars 2022, combinant gestuelle et danse baroque. En décembre 2022, elle est soliste dans l’Oratorio de Noël de Camille Saint-Saëns. En mai 2024, elle est la soprano solo dans le Dixit Dominus de Haendel et le Magnificat de Bach avec l’orchestre du Pays Basque sous la direction de Philippe Mendes. Plus récemment, elle a été la soliste dans le Requiem de Fauré avec l’ensemble Dulci Jubilo ainsi que la soprano solo dans le Stabat Mater de Bach avec l’ensemble Les Passions.
Elle a gagné le 2e Prix Féminin du « Vienna New Year’s Concert International Music Competition », ainsi que le 2e Prix de l'« International Mozart Competition Vienna », tous deux en 2023.

Faustine Rousselet
Soprano - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2025

Née d’une mère comédienne et d’un père bassoniste, Faustine Rousselet débute sur scène à treize ans en tant que comédienne avec La Compagnie des Gens, à travers laquelle elle se forme et explore pendant sept ans un très large répertoire (théâtre contemporain, tragédie, cabaret, comédie...). Parallèlement, elle entame sa formation musicale dès l'âge de six ans en piano, accordéon et cor d'harmonie.
C'est en intégrant l'académie internationale de comédie musicale à Paris en 2013 qu'elle s'initie au chant lyrique et décide par la suite d'en faire son métier en rentrant dans la classe d'Armelle Humbert au conservatoire de Pantin avec l'obtention d'un DEM de chant lyrique mention très bien à l'unanimité du jury en 2020.
Elle collabore en tant que chanteuse d’ensemble et soliste avec Sequenza 9.3, l'ensemble Synopsis, Le Palais Royal, le CNSM de Paris, Vox 21, l'ensemble Matheus, le Consort Musica Vera, l'ensemble Coruscant, les compositeurs Nicolas Genest (jazz) et Nicolas Frize (musique contemporaine), Scoring Production pour la musique de film, mais également dans l'événementiel musical avec La Neuvième Production et Midnight Première au château de Versailles. Restant très attachée à la scène et à l'interprétation, elle est à la fois comédienne et chanteuse avec l'ensemble Poursuite, l’ensemble baroque Les Sauvages, l'ensemble Carpe Diem, la troupe de théâtre musical du Bout ainsi que dans le spectacle Les Soirées d'une Demoiselle, mariant arrangements du répertoire lyrique d'opérette et chanson française.
En 2021, elle fonde le quatuor vocal Les Goupils s’adressant à un large public dans le but de raconter des histoires et créer des voyages sonores en traversant les époques musicales.

Esther Gutbub
Mezzo / Soprano - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2025

A versatile musician, Esther took her first steps on stage at the piano under the guidance of the great Russian teacher Rena Shereshevskaya. She devoted herself to it until the end of her studies at the Hochschule in Munich, after which she immersed herself in choir conducting and, by extension, singing.
She took her first singing lessons with Nataša Mirković in Vienna, then moved to the Netherlands to complete a degree at the Zwolle Conservatory. There she developed a particular interest in early and contemporary music, as shown by the masterclasses she attended with Evelyn Tubb, Johannette Zomer, Stephan MacLeod, Peter Kooij and Marcel Beekman, and in ensemble singing with Paul Hillier and the members of his Theatre of Voices.
For several years, she sang regularly with Consensus Vocalis, the Junger Kammerchor Basel and the A-Ronne Vocal Ensemble, before returning to France to fulfil a long-held wish: to specialise in French Baroque repertoire at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
As a mezzo-soprano, she now devotes her time to polyphonic repertoire, still with a strong affinity for the early and contemporary repertoires, while maintaining her activities as a pianist, choral conductor and singing teacher, particularly in the context – dear to her heart – of cultural mediation.

Laura Jarrell
Mezzo / Soprano - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2019

French mezzo-soprano Laura Jarrell is currently studying in Rennes under the tutelage of mezzo- soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac. Previous to this, she graduated with Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London where she was supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Big Give award and the Audrey Sacher award.

As an ensemble singer, she tours with many groups in France and abroad, including the Monteverdi choir conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Le concert spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet, La cappella nacional de Catalunya conducted by Jordi Savall, the ensemble Aedes conducted by Mathieu Romano...

As a soloist, she has sung various roles from Monteverdi to Poulenc. She works on a regular basis with stage directors Alain Garichot and Jean-Michel Fournereau.
Earlier this year, Laura sung Colette in Richard Coeur de Lion by Grétry at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. She also performed Amour in Orphée et Eurydice by Glück in Brest. Before this, she was Clizia in Teseo by Handel and Eurydice in L’Orfeo by Monteverdi at the Rennes Opera House with Le Banquet Céleste conducted by Damien Guillon.

Laura has won various prices in competitions such has the Léopold Bellan International Competition, the Beziers Opéra International Competition and was a finalist at the Froville international baroque competition.
Next year, she will sing the roles of Melanto and Ericlea in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria de Monteverdi at the Royaumont Abbey.

Laurence Recchia
Mezzo / Soprano - Member & Founder of Les Voix Animées

Laurence has been a musician from an early age (piano). She  recorded musical stories for children (voice), and discovered choir singing at adolescence. She then explored many repertoires, from classical singing to American pop songs but also worked in musical theater with several leading roles in different productions.

She sang in several ensembles : the Choir of the Sorbonne (directed by Jacques Grimbert and Denis Rouger), the PACA Regional Choir (directed by Michel Santos), the Contemporary Choir (directed by Roland Heyrabédian) and Le Jardin des Muses (directed by Luc Coadou). In July 2008, she sang in the choir at the « Opéra au Village » in Cinderella by Pauline Viardot, under the direction of Luc Coadou.

Laurence Recchia has always been passionate about music but also about creating and developping cultural projects. In 2008, in Paris, she founded Les Voix Animées with Luc Coadou and since then, she has been singing in the vocal ensemble in numerous productions.

Today, Laurence Recchia leads simultaneously her career as an artist and as the manager of Les Voix Animées. She is also the general coordinator of the FIMÉ, the International Festival of Film Music that she created in 2005. The 19th edition of this festival dedicated to « ciné concerts » took place in November 2025.

Vincent Candalot
Contre-ténor - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2025

After completing a Bachelor's degree in musicology at the Sorbonne, followed by a Master's degree in musicology research, both with honors in 2019 and 2022, Vincent Candalot unanimously obtained his DEM in opera singing, thus completing his studies in the Parisian conservatories with Guillemette Laurens, Isabelle Michelin, Jean-Marc Pont Marchesi, Anne-Marguerite Werster, Géraldine Casey and Léa Sarfati.

In 2023, he passed the entrance exam for the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and joined the class of Frédéric Gindraux and Jean-Philippe Clerc. During this year, he was heard as the alto solo in Messiah (Handel) and King Arthur (Purcell), and in the roles of Madame de la Haltière (Cendrillon, Massenet) and the Old Lady (Candide, Bernstein).
The following year, the young countertenor presented his second recital with piano at the Honfleur Lyrique festival, took part in the choir of the Aventures du Roi Pausole (Honegger) at the Nouvel Opéra de Fribourg and the Opéra de Lausanne, played the role of the Première Prieure (Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc) and had concerts and recordings with the conductor Gabriel Garrido.

In addition, he participated in a number of projects, joining a variety of a cappella vocal ensembles such as Ensemble Resurrexit (2019), Les Tisserands (2021), Magnum Mysterium (2021), Les Ardeurs (2024), Les Voix Animées (2025), as well as joining the Académie du Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris directed by Lionel Sow, then Marc Korovitch and Ingrid Roose (2020-2023), and taking part in the Farinelli voice recreation project and Judith Deschamps' La Mue at Ircam and the Centre Pompidou (2021-2022).

Cyrille Lerouge
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2018

Cyrille is a french Countertenor. He started singing at age 7 in a Boys Choir based in his hometown, in Nogent-sur-Marne (near Paris). He has stayed in this choir until he was 18, which made him sing more than 50 concerts every year, as a solo and ensemble singer, in prestigious places in Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Louis en L’Île etc.) and abroad during the international summer tours (Spain, Switzerland, U.S.A., Japan…).

In 2011, he began his proper singing studies in the « Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs », linked to the prestigious Conservatoire National Régional de Paris. In 2015, he received his « Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales ». Then, he studied in the « Département de Musique Ancienne » (specialized in the ancient music répertoire, from middle-ages to late baroque ») in the same Conservatoire, with Isabelle Poulenard as his main teacher. There, he performed the roles of Telemaco in Monteverdi’s « The Return of Ulysses », L’Homme Affligé in Psyché, by Lully and Appolo in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo.

In 2018, he performed the role of Tullio in Haendel’s Arminio, with young french ensemble Vox 21 during the Festival de Bourbon Lancy. In Sacred Music he sang, among other things, the Alto solo part in Bach's Cantata 144 with Antoine Torunczyk, conducting Bach's Christmas Oratorio in various places in Burgundy and in le Collège des Bernardins à Paris, with La Fenice conducted by Jean Tubery, Zelenka’s Lamentation of Jeremiah per Alto Solo with ensemble Musica Vera conducted by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas…

He also regularly performs as an a cappella ensemble singer to perform Renaissance music, most notably with Ensemble Cosmos and Les Voix Animées, conducted by Luc Coadou. This winter, he’ll be Ruggiero in Haendel’s Alcina with Marouan Mankar conducted, in the « Musée d’Art et d’Histoire » in Saint-Denis. He keeps working on his voice with Lea Sarfati and Robert Expert.

Maximin Marchand
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2023

Comédien diplomé de l’ERAC, Maximin est également contre-ténor formé au conservatoire d’Aix en Provence dans la classe de Monique Zanetti.

Entre autres faits d’armes, en 2014, au Festival d’Avignon, il chante dans Le Prince de Hombourg de Kleist mis en scène par Giorgio Barberio Corsetti; en 2015, c’est le rôle d’Orphée de Louis Lully sous la direction de Pierre Guiral. 2016 le voit danser et chanter Vivaldi dans Combat de Carnaval et Carême, d’Olivia Grandville.

En 2017 commence une collaboration avec le metteur en scène Yves Beaunesne sur un Cid où il joue Corneille et chante les compositions de Camille Rocailleux. Collaboration qui se poursuit en 2019 avec Ruy Blas de Victor Hugo, puis en 2021-2022 avec un Tartuffe de Molière crée au Théâtre de Liège.

En 2020 il enregistre pour les musiques des films de Stéphane Brizé (Un autre monde) et Étienne Comar (A l’ombre des filles). 2022 voit la tournée de Tartuffe, et des créations mêlant théâtre et musique avec les ensembles Musica Ex Anima et l’Archivolte. Il enregistre également pour la fiction radiophonique La Reine Margot réalisée par Laure Egoroff pour France Culture.

D'autre part, il collabore régulièrement comme soliste avec des ensembles tels que Parnassie du Marais, Musica Ex Anima, Ad Fontes Canticorum, les Offrandes musicales, Stravaganza, le Choeur du Luberon, l’ensemble l’Archivolte et le Choeur de chambre Asmara.

Raphaël Pongy
Countertenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2012

First, Raphaël Pongy worked on his whole tessitura (baritone and falsetto) and in mean time he had a degree in musicology in Aix-en-Provence. When he came in Lyon, he got an award in sol-fa, he met Nicolas Domingues with whom he exclusively worked on the countertenor register.

In 2011, he graduated  in baroque song in Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, into the classroom of Isabelle Desrochers, during when he was under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli, Hervé Niquet, incent Dumestre and he also worked with Alain Buet, Christine Schweitzer, Marteen Königsberger…

He also sang as a soloist into Le Couronnement by Popée, La jeune fille aux mains d’argent, La Susanna by Stradella, le Stabat mater by Pergolèse and les Litanies à la vierge by Moulinié. He also played into numerous group as Sagittarius, Les Voix animées, or Arianna.

Mathieu Becquerelle
Tenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2010

At the age of 5, his parents took Mathieu to his first piano lesson, and from this moment on, he has been seen behind the keyboard. Trained at the Conservatoire de Marseille, he won the Premier Prix d’Art Lyrique. He started his career by joining Les Carboni with the show Un de la Canebière. After performing with Les Tréteaux de France and twice at the Festival d’Avignon, the show came to Paris at Théâtre 14, and was also broadcast on French national television.

With Les Carboni, Mathieu was part of the original cast of L’incroyable destin de René Sarvil, which was performed at the Théâtre des Carmes for the Festival d’Avignon 2011. Mathieu regularly performs with the a cappella vocal group Les Voix Animées, directed by Luc Coadou in Toulon. In 2012, Mathieu joined the cast of the Broadway musical Sister Act at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris. Mathieu worked as assistant director on Songs For A New World in the fall 2013 with the group AMTLive. As a pianist, Mathieu accompanied singers Maurane and Clara Guipont on France 2 in February 2014.

In March 2014, Mathieu wrote his first show Comme à la maison, including his own songs which he arranged for voice, piano and cello. In July, Mathieu played the role of a « comique-troupier » during WW1 in Le Cabaret Blanche, then wrote his second show in the fall, Je l’ai cherché partout, featurings songs by Michel Legrand. He ended the year by playing in Blanche-Neige & moi, a musical show for kids, in Paris. 

In June 2015, he joined the a cappella male sextet Opus Jam as first tenor. Since then, the group has performed in Italy, Switzerland, in London, in several jazz festivals in France but also for the closing ceremony of the Festival de Cannes 2016, as guests of Ibrahim Maalouf. He also created the role of Kay in the English show King Arthur, the Sword from the Stone in the spring 2016 for the troupe Théâtre En Anglais.

Camille Leblond
Ténor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2022

Camille Leblond discovered instrumental practice by chance at age 11 through harpsichord. Very soon, he was brought to explore the lyrical repertoire from ensemble music. That is how he revealed his voice and developed a passion for working on it. After a long self-teaching period, he began a lyrical formation in 2019 with Hubert Humeau and then Laetitia Volcey at the Conservatoire du Grand Châlon from which he received his degree in 2021.

During this course, he embodied a wide range of roles in numerous pieces such as Idomeneo (Arbaces) by W-A. Mozart, La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (Orphée) by M-A. Charpentier, Rake’s Progress (Tom) by I. Stravinsky and La Petite Messe Solennelle (solo tenor) by G. Rossini. In a constant search of innovations and improvements for his voice, he had the chance of receiving advices from singing personalities such as Robert Expert, Marie-Louise Duthoit and Sophie Marin-Degor.

Meanwhile, he discovered medieval and renaissance vocal improvisation. Furthermore, his needs for exploration of choir repertoire in its widest diversity brought him to begin working with ensembles such as Les Voix Animées (Dir. Luc Coadou), Les Métaboles (Dir. Léo Warynski) or even Le Concert Spirituel (Dir. Hervé Niquet). However, his great passion for lyrical art doesn’t prevent him from proceeding with his first interests for harpsichord. He, today, still plays it in a professional way.

Eymeric Mosca
Tenor - Member of Les Voix Animées since 2011

Along with a Bachelor in Filming and Audio Engineering, Eymeric Mosca studies the piano with Michel Capolongo in Cannes, and with Jean-Sébastien Bardon in Aubagne, where he obtains his diploma.

In 2010, he finishes the Music Theory course in the Conservatoire of Marseille. The same year, he starts singing in Toulon with Luc Coadou and Marie-Louise Duthoit, along Music Culture and Choir Directing courses.

In 2014, he enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon, where he perfects his formation with Anne Delafosse, Raphaël Picazos, and where he has the chance to work under the conducting of Michael Radulescu, Paulin Bündgen, Pierre Hamon, Jean-Marc Aymes, Alain Garichot. Eymeric Mosca has been heard in many oratorios (Campra’s Messe des Morts, Charpentier and Saint-Saën's messes de minuit, Bach's cantatas…), lyric works (Strauss, Bossini, Aboulker, Offenbach), and in recital, singing repertoires from Middle Ages (especially with « Le Jardin des Délices ») to 21st century.

He is a composer and an arranger too, he works since 2012 with the vocal ensemble « Les Voix Animées », with which he sings in concert, but also on stage.

Damien Roquetty
Tenor

After graduating with a degree in musicology, Damien Roquetty studied voice at the Conservatoire of Aix-en-Provence with Laure Florentin.  Passionate about early music, he joined the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles where he worked with Viviane Durand then Isabelle Desrochers and got a final degree (DEM).

This solid background led him to sing under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli, Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset, Patrick Cohen-Akenine, Jérémie Rohrer, David Fallis. He studied with Christine Schweitzer, Alain Buet, Maarten Koningsberger et Stephan Van Dyck during some masterclasses. He also took part in the Academy of Early Music in Le Thoronet led by Dominique Vellard, in the Fonti e Memorie Academy based on improvisation and ornamentation in early music led by Jean Tubéry and in the Academy of the Festival du Périgord Noir (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière and Lully) led by Michel Laplénie.

In the CRR of Tours, he studied the medieval and Renaissance repertoire with Véronique Bourin, Jean-Paul Rigaud and Denis Raisin-Dadre. He has sung with Les Talents Lyriques, le Parlement de Musique, la Cappella Genevensis and recorded some music with les Festes d’Orphées and la Dolce Maniera. He worked on some contemporary creations and musical theatre with Soli-Tutti.

With Les Voix Animées, he now explores a cappella polyphony from Renaissance to today. He also works with composer and multi-instrumentalist Etienne Champollion, with whom he wanders in several musical styles, between creation, art repertoire and popular music.

Cyril Tassin
Ténor - Membre des Voix Animées depuis 2025

Born in 1997, in Versailles, Cyril developed a passion for music at a very young age. At the age of 8, he joined the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV), where he received rigorous training for five years. Through this renowned institution, he acquired strong vocal skills and a solid knowledge of the Baroque repertoire.

He later obtained the Brevet de Technicien des Métiers de la Musique at Lycée Jean-Pierre Vernant in Sèvres, a diploma that provided him with both theoretical and practical skills in various musical fields. His desire to refine his vocal interpretation led him to pursue three years of study at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under the direction of Jean-Philippe Courtis. He also trained in electroacoustic composition by enrolling in a specialized program at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) de Paris, allowing him to explore new sonic horizons and push the limits of his artistic expression.

Following this training, Cyril chose to return to the CMBV, this time as a Chantre, which enabled him to deepen his mastery of Baroque singing. He completed his studies in 2022, earning his diploma as a reward for years of effort and passion.

Today, Cyril collaborates with prestigious ensembles such as Le Concert Spirituel, Les Métaboles, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and more recently, Les Voix Animées.