To mark the 2025 edition of the Mois Molière, Versailles' theater and music festival, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invites you to enjoy a wide range of activities for the whole family: lectures, concerts, workshops, tours... We look forward to welcoming you!
Concerts
Music for French cathedrals in the 17th century
TUE. JUNE 3, 2025 - 8pm
Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles
Tours and Deslauriers manuscripts
Étienne Moulinié (1599-1676)
Guillaume Bouzignac (1587-1643)
Henry Du Mont (1610-1684)
Antoine Boësset (1587-1643)
Jean Millet (1618-1684)
Anonymous composers
Fabien Armengaud, music director
With CMBV choirs Les Pages & Les Chantres
Maud Caille, cornetto
Isabelle Saint-Yves, viola
Patrick Wibart, serpent
Volny Hostiou, serpent
Haruna Nakaie, organ
Janus 2025 – Yesterday and Today
THURS. JUNE 19, 2025 - 9pm
Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles
Excerpts from works by Henri Du Mont, Frank Martin, Louis Chein, Pierre Robert and Marc-Antoine Charpentier, with a creation of a new work Encre simulacre by Adrien Trybucki
Fabien Armengaud and Clément Buonomo, music director
With CMBV choirs Les Pages & Les Chantres
Ondine Lacorne-Hébrard, viola da gamba
Haruna Nakaie, organ
João Svidzinski, Ircam electronics
Jérémie Bourgogne, Ircam sound broadcasting
Bestiaries or colours
MON. JUNE 23, 2025 - 7pm
Salle des fêtes de l'Hôtel de Ville de Versailles
The primary choirs of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invite you to a festive and musical moment, exploring the music of Benjamin Britten and new creations, composed for the Maîtrise as part of the A.V.E.C (Ateliers Voix Et Composition) project of the ensemble Les Cris de Paris directed by Geoffroy Jourdain.
Emmanuelle Gal, music director
With the Primary choirs of the Maîtrise du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
A year of chamber music
THURS. JUNE 26, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
The Chantres and Chantresses of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, students on a higher professional training course in baroque singing, present the results of a year's work on the chamber music repertoire, from the baroque to the 20th century, accompanied by their conductors.
Les Rencontres des Menus-Plaisirs
The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invites you to the Rencontres des Menus-Plaisirs, a series of conferences at the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs.
The baroque musette: the history of a french instrument, from oblivion to revival
TUE. JUNE 3, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Lecture by Peter Nahon, CNRS researcher at CMBV
Playing Alceste and Célimène in Molière's Misanthrope, The history of these roles from the 17th to the 21th century
TUE. JUNE 10, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Lecture by Julia Gros de Gasquet, CNRS researcher at the CMBV
Discover Roman De Brasseur, a parisian musician in the age of enlightment: three sonatas for fortepiano (1771)
TUE. JUNE 17, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Concert-conference by Bertrand Dagallier and Marcia Hadjimarkos
Côté Cour, côté jardins: Flautists in Versailles at the end of the 17th century
TUE. JUNE 24, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Musical lecture by Gilles de Talhouët, flutist and traverso teacher at the CRR in Nantes.
‘Baroque music ? Presentation of the book by Frédéric Haas (published by Les Belles Lettres)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25, 2025 - 6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Lecture by Frédéric Haas, harpsichordist and writer
Workshops · Visits
Baby baroque
Music workshop for little ones (0-3 year-olds)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11, 2025 - 9:30 & 10:30am
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles offers a musical initiation workshop for toddlers (0-3 years) and their parents, based on listening, gentleness and sharing. On the program: discovery of sounds, nursery rhymes and illustrations to share a timeless moment!
Discovery Day
SATURDAY JUNE 14, 2025
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
One Saturday every month the CMBV runs a series of interactive fun activities for families and friends at the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs. On offer are workshops, stage productions, guided tours, treasure hunts and the chance to meet a researcher, all designed to draw you into the fascinating world of Baroque music!
- 2-5pm: NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles - For all ages (45 mins)
- 2pm: Treasure hunt – Chasing after lost time - For adults & children aged 10+ (1hr 30 mins)
- 3.15pm: Discover Baroque: Costumes - Age 6+ (45 mins)
- 3.30pm: Loup XIV et les Comptines stage show - Age 2-6 (40 mins)
- 4pm: Guided tour - All ages (45 mins)
- 5pm: Screening of the documentary ‘Le troisième monde: rencontre entre musique baroque et électronique’ (40 minutes (screening) and 20 minutes (discussion)
La Journée du clavecin invite le hautbois
SATUR. JUNE 21, 2025 - 2pm/6pm
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs de Versailles
Concerts, presentations and an exhibition will punctuate the afternoon, in partnership with the association Clavecin en France. The event will showcase the harpsichords and oboes recently rebuilt for the production of Atys (2024), the first recording projects by young harpsichordists, and the CMBV's new Découvertes collection dedicated to the oboe, illustrated by students from conservatoires.
- 2 - 6pm: exhibition of baroque harpsichords and oboes
- 2pm: Harpsichord recital - Eva del Campo Casse
- 2.30pm: Harpsichord recital - Dario Cervera Jordá
- 3pm: Harpsichord recital - Anastasie Jeanne
- 3.30pm: presentation of scores from the CMBV's new Découvertes collection devoted to the oboe (cycles 1, 2 and 3)
- 5pm: harpsichord recital - Mathilde Mugot
- 5.30pm: concert - Ensemble La Ferté