Aurore Tillac (born in 1980) is a French choir conductor. Since 2007, she has been directing the Choir of the French Army and the Republican Guard.
Biography
Born in Miélan in the Gers department Aurore Tillac was very early passionate with vocal and instrumental music, and particularly traditional music. At age 15, she won the first prize in diatonic button accordion at the festival of Castelnau-Barbarens. At the end of a first training in instrumental and vocal music that she finished at the National School of Music in Tarbes, with a Golden medal and a First prize in clarinet, chamber music and musical training, she studied how to conduct Gregorian chant in the conservatoire de Paris.
From 2002 she became an assistant at the Maîtrise de Paris of Patrick Marco, whose teaching she attended at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris [fr], and joined, at the mezzo-soprano pulpit, the Dialogos ensemble, which specializes in medieval music. At the same time she conducts the "Concentus vocal" in a wide repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary music and directs the Choir of the Universities of Paris. Since 2007, she has been creating and directing the "Manufacture vocale", a variable geometry ensemble with an eclectic repertoire.
In 2005 she joined the Chœur de l'Armée française à la Garde as assistant conductor and then choir conductor since 2007. She holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.
References
- "Auch. Cette chef d'orchestre ne manque pas d'éclats", Xavier Hurtevent, La Dépêche du Midi, 8 June 2007, (read online)
- ^ « Aurore Tillac, chef de chœur de l'armée française », Marcel Quillévéré, Les Traverses du temps, France Musique, 5 March 2014 (read online)
- ^ Biographie du commandant Aurore Tillac, Republican Guard, Gendarmerie nationale, Le chœur de l'armée française (read online)
- Patrick Marco on Concert classique.com
- Dialogos ensemble on Ensemble-dialogos.org
- "Concentus vocal" on data.bnf.fr
- the "Manufacture vocale" website
External links
- Aurore Tillac on concerts.fr
- Aurore Tillac on France Musique
- Aurore Tillac, chef de choeur de l'armée française on France Bleu
- Biographie de la lieutenante-colonelle Aurore Tillac on gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr
- Aurore Tillac on LCI
- Aurore Tillac fait chanter l'armée française in Le Figaro (5 July 2010)
