Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije

Du 10 juillet au 20 juillet 2008

Founded in 1998, the Messiaen Festival at the Pays de la Meije celebrates every year Olivier Messiaen's attachment to the village of La Grave in the Hautes-Alpes department. He refered to it as a grandiose space to tune in, a place for his concerts: "I have heard an outdoor performance of Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortourum high in the mountains, in La Grave, right across La Meije's glacier, in those powerful and grand lanscapes that I consider my homeland."

The 11th Messiaen Festival at the Pays de la Meije, happening from July 10th to 20th, 2008, will be exceptionnal in many ways. It will combine several concerts, some outdoors in accordance with Messiaen's will, with the best performers of his music, including Myung-Whun Chung who will conduct the Radio France Philharmonic and the Maitrise de Radio France, as well as study days bringing together several observers of his life as a composer and teacher. 



 

Directeur artistique : Gaëtan Puaud