Closing Concert

Friday 7th August 2026 – 21 PM
Collégiale Saint-Pancrace, Aups

For this final concert, the strings, the bassoon and the clarinet will take centre stage. With the classical elegance of François Devienne, the ethereal tones of Camille Pépin and the tormented emotions of Johannes Brahms, this concert promises an explosion of colours and extraordinary sounds, featuring great figures who have each left their mark on the history of music.

After this series of six concerts, in which you will have heard all manner of combinations, the various combinations of timbres will hold no secrets for you. To round off the series in style, you will hear the virtuosic and sparkling melodies of the composer François Devienne, nicknamed the ‘French Mozart’, in contrast to Johannes Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, a powerful and nostalgic work that is a cornerstone of the chamber music repertoire. For this concert, these composers come together around the contemporary composer Camille Pépin and her work ‘Feuilles d’eau Silvacane’; premiered in 2019, it explores the full range of string timbres in an extremely organic composition that evokes memories of nature within a diaphanous atmosphere.

Boldly brought together, these eclectic compositions will bring the Festival to a deeply moving close in Aups, the project’s home town.