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The PhilidOr Ensemble has brought new life to the extraordinary tradition

of 18th century wind instrument groups.

Founded in Tours in 1992 and now directed by Daniele Latini, it has rapidly

become one of the most inventive wind instrument ensembles.

Its demanding, enthusiastic, collaborative and enterprising members,

educated in the most prestigious European music institutions, endeavour to

bring new life to both celebrated and unknown works of this original musical

repertoire, to create new perspectives for ancient music and to share their

passions and their discoveries.

The Ensemble’s repertoire is devoted to the Harmoniemusik of the 18th and

19th centuries : original works for wind instruments (and transcriptions)

by Mozart, Haydn, Krommer, Rossini, Beethoven… The PhilidOr Ensemble

performs each of its concerts on historic wind instruments (or rigorous

copies), constantly striving for authenticity in highlighting these works,

basing their exploration on up-to-date research by musicologists on the

interpretation, organology and styles of each of these periods.

The PhilidOr Ensemble has performed its version for wind instruments and

voices ofMozart’s completeoperaCosi fanTutte forty times in 2010, andplans

a version for wind octet and puppets of“Philemon and Baucis”, the only opera

for puppets composed by Haydn for the Esterhazy Court to have survived.

The PhilidOr Ensemble is subsidized by the

Conseil Régional du Centre

and the

Conseil Général

d’Indre-et-Loire

. Il also has a grant from the city of Tours and the DRAC Région Centre.