Duo Lyra Concert | VIII Festival Internacional de Música de Plectro.
Mandolin | Tony Coullet
Harp | Manon Opavska
Created in 2021 following the completion of their first master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, the Duo Lyra aims to break the stereotypes associated with their instruments by offering a repertoire open to world music.
With a classical background, the two musicians are equally comfortable with jazz, soul, Latin music, and chanson . Their repertoire ranges from Piazzolla to Chick Corea, including original compositions.
Let yourself be surprised by the majesty of the harp, punctuated by the brilliance and the brightness of the mandolin's timbre.
Concert Program
Heitor Villa-Lobos | O Canto do Cisne Negro
Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons | All of me
Vincent Beer-Demander | Lyra (composition and arrange for harp and mandolim from Vincent Beer-Demander)
Duke Ellington | It don’t mean a thing (transcription from Tony Coullet for solo mandolin)
Jacob do Bandolim | “Vibrações” (arrange from Tony Coullet for harp and mandolim)
Radamès Gnattali | da Suite Retratos _IV. Chiquinha Gonzaga (arranje for harp and mandolim by Manon Opavska)
Chick Corea | Spain
Deborah Henson-Conant | Baroque Flamenco (for solo harp)
Astor Piazzolla
- Oblivion
- Libertango (arranje for harp and mandolin by Tony Coullet)
Tony Coullet | El gato (for harp and mandolin)
Biographies
Manon Opavska began studying the harp at the age of 8 at the C.R.R. de St-Maur-des-Fossés and continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where she obtained a double master's degree.
Also studied with Isabelle Moretti, Fabrice Pierre, Frédérique Cambreling, and Pia Salvia.
Currently, she divides her musical life between her passion for teaching and her love for the stage, performing with various groups and projects, including the Lyra duo, the La Monnaie orchestra in Brussels, the Opéra Royal de Liège, and the rapper Dooz Kawa.
Tony Coullet grew up in Marseille and studied guitar and mandolin at the local Conservatory. He studied with Vincent Beer-Demander at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he obtained two master's degrees with distinction.
Strongly influenced by Latin music, jazz, bluegrass, and world music in general, he plays instruments from the same mandolin family, namely the mandola and the bandoloncello.
Since 2020, he has been collaborating with the rapper Dooz Kawa. In 2023, he performed at the Mandol'in Marseille festival, where he won the first prize in the International Mandolin Competition in Marseille.