Choeur accentus

accentus was founded by Laurence Equilbey over 26 years ago and is deeply committed to the a cappella repertoire. accentus performs in leading French and international concert venues and festivals, including the Salzburg Mozartwoche Festival, the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix, at Versailles, the Theater an der Wien, the Ludwigsburg Festival and at Lincoln Center in New York.
accentus enjoys a close partnership with the Philharmonie de Paris and is the resident choral ensemble at the Opéra de Rouen. Christophe Grapperon has been the ensemble’s main associate conductor since 2013.
The chamber choir has also collaborated regularly with prestigious conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Anders Nilsson, Eric Ericson, Christoph Eschenbach and Simon Rattle, as well as with orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, the Ensemble intercontemporain, Concerto Köln, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic.
accentus has participated in various opera productions including Pascal Dusapin’s Perelà, uomo di fumo and Matthias Pintscher’s L’Espace dernier at the Paris Opéra, Ondřej Adámek’s Seven Stones at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Reynaldo Hahn’s Ciboulette and Gounod’s La Nonne sanglante at the Opéra Comique, as well as a staged production of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with La Fura dels Baus.
accentus’s recordings have received widespread critical acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for Transcriptions in 2004. The ensemble has made recordings of the Mozart Requiem and the Krönungsmesse, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and orchestral transcriptions of Schubert Lieder with the Insula orchestra, as well as the first ever recording of Charles Gounod’s long considered lost sacred work Saint François d’Assise with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. accentus won ensemble of the year at the prestigious Victoires de la musique in 2002, 2005 and 2008.
In 2017 accentus inaugurated a Paris-based resource centre, featuring both physical media and digital content, which was designed to promote the art of choral singing and to share the working documents and expertise the ensemble has amassed since its foundation.