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 (Austria), the Valletta Baroque Festival (Malta), the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci (Germany), Anciuti Music Festival (Italy) and Semana de la Música Antigua de Álava (Spain).
The ensemble was also part of a theatre play at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg.
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. In June 2021 La Petite Écurie recorded their Debut Album for the record label ARCANA (Outhere Music). The CD "The Queen;s Favourites" has recently been released.
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 to the Stockholm Early Music Festival (Sweden), Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus (Austria), the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg and BachFest in Leipzig (Germany).
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 (Austria), the Valletta Baroque Festival (Malta), the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci (Germany), Anciuti Music Festival (Italy) and Semana de la Música Antigua de Álava (Spain).
The ensemble was also part of a theatre play at the Philharmonie in Luxembourg.
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. In June 2021 La Petite Écurie recorded their Debut Album for the record label ARCANA (Outhere Music). The CD "The Queen;s Favourites" has recently been released.
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 to the Stockholm Early Music Festival (Sweden), Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus (Austria), the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg and BachFest in Leipzig (Germany).