La Petite Écurie is an oboe band performing music of the 17th and 18th centuries on historical instruments: two oboes, taille, bassoon and percussion. The name of the ensemble refers to the “Grande Écurie”, a musical establishment at the royal court of Louis XIV in Versailles, where most of his wind players were employed.
Miriam, Valerie, Marc, Giovanni and Philipp met at the Festival Musica Antica in Urbino (I) in 2018. After playing together with great enthusiasm at the baroque music course of Alfredo Bernardini, they decided to form an oboe band together. Since then, they have been invited to play concerts in several festivals, including the Internationale Barocktage in Melk (AT), at the Valletta Baroque Festival (Malta) and the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci (DE).
The group was recently selected by the REMA (European Early Music Network) as a promising new ensemble and invited to perform in front of a broad selection of European early music promoters.
The musicians from La Petite Écurie also play elsewhere on a regular basis:
Miriam Jorde Hompanera started her studies with Katharina Arfken and continued with to years of postgraduate studies with Alfredo Bernardini. She is also a founding member of the ensemble El Gran Teatro del Mundo. Miriam was a member of the EUBO (European Union Baroque Orchestra) and plays with several ensembles, such as the Freiburger Barockorchester.
Valerie Colen became a baroque oboe student of Alfredo Bernardini, after fnishing her modern oboe studies. Apart from playing baroque oboe with ensembles like Hofkapelle München, Akamus and Freiburger Barockorchester, she had a temporary contract with the modern oboe in the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, and currently has a fxed position in the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NL).
Marc Bonastre Riu studied modern oboe with Thomas Indermühle and Jaime González, and continued to study historical oboe with Katharina Arfken and Omar Zoboli at the Musik Akademie in Basel. At the moment, Marc is studying with Alfredo Bernardini at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (AT).
Marc plays frequently with Kammerorchester Basel, La Scintilla, L'Arpa Festante and I Barrocchisti. Recently, Marc became the oboe teacher at the Konservatorium in Bern (CH).
Giovanni Battista Graziadio studied historical bassoon with Maurizio Barigione, Giorgio Mandolesi, Alberto Grazzi and Donna Agrell. He is also a founding member of the Abchordis Ensemble and The Italian Consort, and plays with orchestras such as Concerto Romano, Kammerorchester Basel and I Barocchisti. He is also a researcher of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland) working on the project “Fagottini and Tenoroons” (founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and a PhD student at the University of Basel.
Philipp Lamprecht studied percussion with Peter Sadlo at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg AT), where he became a percussion teacher in 2015. Besides being specialised in contemporary music, Philipp is very active as a renaissance and baroque percussionist. He is a founding member of the ensembles Duo Enßle-Lamprecht and plays often with Berlin Baroque, Münchner Hofkapelle and Concerto Köln.
Besides performing music written originally for oboe band, the ensemble expands its repertoire by playing contemporary and traditional music, as well as orchestral music arranged for La Petite Écurie.
Their upcoming concerts take them all over Europe and include engagements in Vienna, Urbino, Luxembourg, and Naples.
Miriam, Valerie, Marc, Giovanni and Philipp met at the Festival Musica Antica in Urbino (I) in 2018. After playing together with great enthusiasm at the baroque music course of Alfredo Bernardini, they decided to form an oboe band together. Since then, they have been invited to play concerts in several festivals, including the Internationale Barocktage in Melk (AT), at the Valletta Baroque Festival (Malta) and the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci (DE).
The group was recently selected by the REMA (European Early Music Network) as a promising new ensemble and invited to perform in front of a broad selection of European early music promoters.
The musicians from La Petite Écurie also play elsewhere on a regular basis:
Miriam Jorde Hompanera started her studies with Katharina Arfken and continued with to years of postgraduate studies with Alfredo Bernardini. She is also a founding member of the ensemble El Gran Teatro del Mundo. Miriam was a member of the EUBO (European Union Baroque Orchestra) and plays with several ensembles, such as the Freiburger Barockorchester.
Valerie Colen became a baroque oboe student of Alfredo Bernardini, after fnishing her modern oboe studies. Apart from playing baroque oboe with ensembles like Hofkapelle München, Akamus and Freiburger Barockorchester, she had a temporary contract with the modern oboe in the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, and currently has a fxed position in the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NL).
Marc Bonastre Riu studied modern oboe with Thomas Indermühle and Jaime González, and continued to study historical oboe with Katharina Arfken and Omar Zoboli at the Musik Akademie in Basel. At the moment, Marc is studying with Alfredo Bernardini at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (AT).
Marc plays frequently with Kammerorchester Basel, La Scintilla, L'Arpa Festante and I Barrocchisti. Recently, Marc became the oboe teacher at the Konservatorium in Bern (CH).
Giovanni Battista Graziadio studied historical bassoon with Maurizio Barigione, Giorgio Mandolesi, Alberto Grazzi and Donna Agrell. He is also a founding member of the Abchordis Ensemble and The Italian Consort, and plays with orchestras such as Concerto Romano, Kammerorchester Basel and I Barocchisti. He is also a researcher of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland) working on the project “Fagottini and Tenoroons” (founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and a PhD student at the University of Basel.
Philipp Lamprecht studied percussion with Peter Sadlo at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg AT), where he became a percussion teacher in 2015. Besides being specialised in contemporary music, Philipp is very active as a renaissance and baroque percussionist. He is a founding member of the ensembles Duo Enßle-Lamprecht and plays often with Berlin Baroque, Münchner Hofkapelle and Concerto Köln.
Besides performing music written originally for oboe band, the ensemble expands its repertoire by playing contemporary and traditional music, as well as orchestral music arranged for La Petite Écurie.
Their upcoming concerts take them all over Europe and include engagements in Vienna, Urbino, Luxembourg, and Naples.