Paco Garcia, Étienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Biography Paco Garcia, Étienne Bazola, Ensemble Les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
Paco Garcia
began his musical training at an early age in the Maîtrise of Reims Cathedral. He went on to study with Alain Buet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, graduating in 2017 with distinction. Prior to this he was active as a Baroque cellist, and early music has continued to play a central role in his career.
He works as a soloist with various ensembles, including Les Surprises under Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, with which group he has performed repertory including Bach’s St John Passion at the Festival d’Ambronay, and Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre, with which he has sung the haute contre parts in Lully and Charpentier’s settings of the Te Deum at the Festival Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
Paco Garcia‘s past engagements have also included Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse, the title role in Giovanni Maria Pagliardi’s Caligula under Vincent Dumestre at the Philharmonie de Liège, Remendado (Carmen) at the Opéra Comique in Paris and Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
Recently Paco Garcia sang two haute contre roles in a recording of Mademoiselle Duval’s opera Les Génies under Camille Delaforge, which was released in January 2024 on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label.
His projects following his Salzburg Festival debut as Nathanaël (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) will include the production Le Carnaval baroque under Vincent Dumestre at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra de Dijon, First Priest and First Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Rennes and the Angers Nantes Opéra, Giannino in Galuppi’s L’uomo femmina under Dumestre at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres with the Ensemble Correspondances.
Etienne Bazola
began his studies at the CRD in Orléans, where he studied with Sharon Coste and Denis Poras. In June 2012, he was awarded a first prize in opera singing at the CNSMD in Lyon in the class of Isabelle Germain and Fabrice Boulanger. There he perfected his work on the Lied, opera, oratorio and French mélodie repertoires during numerous masterclasses under the direction of François Le Roux, Christian Immler, Rosemary Joshua and Udo Reinemann.
An international artist, he is regularly engaged as a soloist by the major European ensembles and festivals, whether or not they specialise in baroque music.
In 2022, he will have the pleasure of performing in the USA, Spain (Teatro Real), the Vàc Festival in Hungary, the MA Festival (Bruges), where he will have the immense pleasure of playing the role of Mercury in Cupid and Death, and in Hamburg for the Concert Royal de la Nuit.
