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Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt is one of those musicians who cultivate the art of secrecy while opening up the vast garden of his poetic imagination to those who come to listen to him. An inspirational discretion that ennobles every work that falls under his fingers. A discretion that sits alongside freedom. Both traits stem from his devotion to music, from the intimacy he has enjoyed with it every day since his childhood in Grenoble, but also from his reveries on the mountain hikes during which, by going in search of himself, he has constructed his relationship with the world. From the steep, majestic landscapes to the ‘treasure map’ of the world which fascinated the young boy and projected him towards the promises held out by ‘somewhere else’, his desire for space grew and urged him to Paris and then to Europe: London, Berlin, Moscow . . . He needed to go to the living source of his art, to continue to draw nourishment from the finest mentors, following on from the beauty and benevolence practised by his earliest teachers. To forget the hours of hard work in order to acquire from Bruno Rigutto the spontaneity, the emotion of the instant, the self-abandonment to music, even the touch of madness which give such relish to expression. 44 BALLETS