Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, in agreement with Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, Renaud Muselier, President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Charles-Ange Ginésy, President of the Departmental Council of the Alpes-Maritimes, gives its approval to the appointment of Donatienne Michel-Dansac as director of the International Centre for Musical Research (CIRM), in accordance with the proposal of the jury meeting on April 19, 2021.
A lyric artist, soprano, singer and specialist in contemporary vocality, Donatienne Michel-Dansac graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Paris. In the 1990s, his meeting with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble intercontemporain marked his taste for today’s music. From 1991, she began a rich artistic collaboration with Georges Aperghis. Her career as a performer led her to sing under the direction of William Christie, Emilio Pomarico, Pierre Boulez, François-Xavier Roth, Sylvain Cambreling and Daniel Barenboim. In 2017, her interest in transdisciplinary artistic expressions led her to create the production structure Briskly.
The central axis of his project, vocality through the diversity of musical aesthetics and in relation to all the disciplines of live performance, will allow the CIRM’s commitment to a singular and original development. At the heart of its artistic orientations, today’s writings and musical theatre will be the source of a fruitful meeting of works and audiences. Donatienne Michel-Dansac’s ambition is to install the CIRM in its new premises and to give it a new impetus in its territory.
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, the second woman to become director of a national centre for musical creation (CNCM), will take up her duties on July 1, 2021. She will succeed François Paris who headed the CIRM from 2001 to 2020.