ENSEMBLE FRATRES A music rich in contrast. Dynamic, rhythmic and colorful. On period instruments. Founded in 2010 by Nicolas Penel (violin), Laurent Galliano (viola) and Mathieu Rouquié (cello), Ensemble Fratres works in collaboration with the luthier and bow maker Luc Breton, whose experience and knowledge forged its sound homogeneity and artistic taste. After over 300 concerts, Ensemble Fratres presents an engaging music. It performs at the Flandres Festival (Bruges, Maasmechelen, Anvers), AMUZ festival (the complete quintets of Boccherini for two cellos, Antwerp - 2010), Printemps des Arts (Nantes), Spiritual Concert Foundation (Warsaw - Poland), RadialSystem V (Berlin), Thüringer Bachwochen (Erfurt), Händel Festspiele (Halle). The Fratres musicians share an ardent passion for music pronunciation, on any instrument, thanks to a true coloured vocabulary (vowels) and attacks (consonants). "Hissing, whistling, scratching, glissandi and other temperamental games, invite themselves into their performance, thanks to appropriate techniques and special instruments, made to speak in this way. With this musical language, nourished by diversity and contrast, breath-taking, unpredictable and welcoming, we discover a swing, a harmonic and rhythmic life, little in today’s classical music style: a proposal that surprises and must surprise." Francesco Biamonte, RTS.