Music Festival in Perche, France /  Poster and Print design

L’Oreille du Perche 2025

The Ear of the Perche

The L’Oreille du Perche festival was created in 2022 with a strong ambition: to become a true moment of shared social and cultural life for everyone.
The program of L’Oreille du Perche, presented in the churches of the Perche’s rich heritage, offers a window into the diversity of artistic expression and cultures—a wide-open view on the world around us. This artistic diversity allows for the transmission of a wide range of human values, skills, and worldviews through the narrative and interpretative talents of the invited artists.
Special care is taken to ensure the accessibility of the concerts and the warmth of the welcome, so that every spectator, partner, donor, volunteer, patron, or festival contributor experiences L’Oreille du Perche as a “shared” project— a space for discovery and connection that sparks curiosity, imagination, and a desire for exchange in each of us.

EDITORIAL
The programming of L’Oreille du Perche often takes artistic paths that are hard to categorize, as the cultures, journeys, and styles of the invited artists are so diverse, intertwining and crossing over. And this is precisely the core identity of L’Oreille du Perche: above all, a festival of living music.

Each concert invites you on a journey into very different worlds, like an open window onto the world, carried by extraordinary musicians who, while maintaining exceptional artistic standards, make their creations completely accessible to all audiences.

This fourth edition invites you to take “paths less traveled”—musical visions that transcend the roots or inspirations from which they sprang.
In Vortice, it’s the circus and the world of carnivals that resonate in the imagination of double bassist and composer Claude Tchamitchian. In Superklang, violinist Frédéric Aurier and percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre create an imaginary, free, and virtuosic folklore, nourished by our ancestral and cultivated traditions. With My Own Ravel, pianist and composer Andy Emler—an essential figure in creative jazz on the European scene—offers a masterful reimagining of Maurice Ravel’s music. And finally, with Jacky Molard’s Acoustic Quartet, a powerful Breton identity is transcended to give birth to one of today’s deepest and most exhilarating musical expressions.

Let yourself be guided and amazed by these “paths less traveled,” where the strength of imagination and poetry come together for the delight of our ears.

Bénédicte Affholder & Claude Tchamitchian

THE TEAM
Artistic Direction: Bénédicte Affholder, Claude Tchamitchian
Production, Administration: Françoise Bastianelli, Bénédicte Affholder
Ticketing, Invitations: Rosa Ferreira, Françoise Bastianelli, Ninon Bourdin
General Stage Management: Stéphane Cronenberger, Dominique Legrix
Lighting: Stéphane Cronenberger
Sound: Matteo Fontaine
Technical Team: Hyacinthe François, Olivier Clarenc
Concert Recording: Jean-Baptiste Clarenc
Refreshments: Catherine Clarenc, Jacqueline Barraud, Micheline Penchenat, Maxime Dallaporta
Meals: Marie and Lionel Body
Photography: Léa Coudry
Graphic Design: Christian Kirk-Jensen / Danish Pastry Design
Website: Jean Delestrade / Jazzus