Sine Qua Non Quartet
was created in 2006 by graduates of the national conservatories and music schools of Paris and Lyon. Their careers and diverse sensitivities - Baroque, contemporary music, French chanson, world music, pedagogical research - are so many riches that merge in the Quartet and make for a multi-facetted ensemble. Very quickly, they were invited to play in prestigious venues (Olympia, Théâtre Mogador, UNESCO and Cité de la Musique in Paris, Château de Fontainebleau, Théâtre Impérial in Compiègne, Théâtre Sébastopol in Lille), abroad (Cameroon, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, South America), and in festivals. The Quartet is always seeking to broaden its horizons and thus performs with artists as different as guitarists Olivier Pelmoine and Eric Franceries, pianists Jean-Pierre Ferey and Patrick de Hooghe, the Arte Combo wind quintet, the opera singer Jacques-Greg Belobo, the pop singers Emilie Simon and Marc Perrone, flamenco guitarist Juan De Lerida, jazzman Didier Riey, composers Sergio Arriagada, Laurent Boutros, Olivier Calmel, Florentine Mulsant, Sébastien Vachez…

They have created numerous original shows, including L'Assassinat du duc de Guise in 2008 around the André Calmettes film and the first film score written by Camille Saint-Saëns, a video currently shown at the Cité de la Musique in Paris; Les 8 saisons by Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla in 2009, directed by Pierre-Yves Gronier; L'Amour sorcier in 2010, around music by Manuel de Falla, transcribed by Sara Chenal and directed by Virginie Vinel... Since 2013, they have showcased women composers with the repertoire of quartets written by women, so illknown by the public. In 2017, their meeting the haute-contre Fabrice Di Falco and bass player Julien Leleu resulted in the birth of the Baroque ensemble Les Sauvages, under the patronage of Frédéric Lodéon.