BIOGRAPHY

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Under the guidance of Arcadi Volodos, she joined the Music Conservatory of Nancy, and attended Nadia Cauvin’s and Jeanne Bon-Rougier’s chamber music classes in1999. Currently living in Limoges, she graduated in musical studies from the class of Geneviève Bouillet in 2011. She studied vocal technique with Michelle Command, Christine Solhosse, Liliana Dumitrache and Anne-Marie Auboiron-Grain, while attending chamber music classes with Jacqueline Bensimhon, and Baroque music classes with Mireille Podeur and Jordi Savall. She completed her training from the Académie de la Roche d’Hys, Burgundy.


A member of the choir of the Opéra de Limoges, she regularly performs as a soloist and participates in many concerts and festivals such as Echange de bons procédés (Lillebonne International Gallery of Art, Nancy,in 2002), Grand Ec’Art at the Théâtre de l’Union (Scène Nationale du Limousin in 2009), and recently performed at the Festival International de Musique Méditerranéenne at the Théâtre Toursky, Marseille in 2010.
In 2003 and 2004 she performed in concerts of sacred music with the Orchestra Symphony of Bryansk, led by Edward Ambartsumyan in France and Belgium and in the Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Rémi Gousseau. She sang with different instrumental ensembles the Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater (2003), the Oratorio de Noël by Marc- Antoine Charpentier (2004), the Cantate Ariane à Naxos de Joseph Haydn (2005) and Messe modale by Jehan Alain (2007- 2008).
She sang in the operetta Monsieur Petitpois achète un château by Germaine Tailleferre, under the direction of Guy Condette (2009), and in Chabrier’s L’Etoile, conducted by Benjamin Levy, where she was Koulikouli (2010), as well as in the baroque opera Orfeo by Luigi Rossi, under the direction of Mireille Podeur in 2011.
Cristiana Eso is active in promoting Romanian operatic and chamber music. Her recital « Romanian Christmas » with the harpist Marie-Monique Popesco included many famous pieces by Romanian composers such as George Enesco, Gheorghe Dima, Eduard Caudella, Tiberiu Brediceanu. In 2012, still in collaboration with Marie-Monique Popesco, she created the show Eros, toujours ce hero, which evokes the God of love through legends and myths, opera arias and melodies. With the pianist Gilles Lecomte, she performed in the recital Du Sacré au profane, made of a variety of Czech, French and Romanian chamber music pieces.
Being the founding member of the trio Lyricus, made of Jean-Pierre Raillat (violin / alto) and Antoine Metelin (piano), she performed in 2012 at the Opéra de Limoges the recital Going to the ball – a journey through various countries chamber music heritage: French, Argentinian, Spanish, Yiddish, German, etc.
Apart from her singing performances, Cristiana Eso also wrote and directed the musical theaters « Prose et cadences » in Nancy, 2002, « Le Livre roumain des quatre saisons” (The Romanian book of the four seasons) in Limoges, 2011, « La Chaise enchanteresse” (The Enchanting Chair) in Limoges, 2012. Moreover, she also recorded songs and played in a musical film, Pestele verde (The Green Fish), for the Romanian television in 2006.