The state of mind of the event invented by classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia could only seduce Gaëlle Solal. She who, from the age of 5 began in the discipline and entered the National Conservatory of Music in Paris where she obtained the first prize unanimously at barely 16 years old, could only subscribe to the highlighting of the instrument and young people who ensure the first evenings of the concerts of the season. For this last date, this will be the case of Raphaël Léger, a student at the Conservatory with regional influence in Toulouse in the class of Laurent Vivet.

From Villa Lobos to Jobim

Then will come the program based on the music of the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) but also those of Egberto Gismonti, Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934), Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) among others.

“Gaëlle Solal has a fairly strong stage presence explains Thibaut Garcia, she is very communicative because she has also done theater. Her career is special because she started very young in a guitar duo which is something special because that we usually dedicate ourselves to that. But Gaëlle had to rebuild everything solo because the duo stopped, she took a trip to Brazil which changed her vision of music and life in general. She is fell in love with this culture, the country, this music to which she devotes her last album “Tuhu” (Eudora Records) around Villa-Lobos whose nickname it was.

Thus Brazilian popular music and classical music will be combined on Friday evening by the grace of this outstanding performer to be discovered in the splendid and little-known setting of the Saint-Jérôme church deployed in the heart of the city.