The Lyrique-en-mer team
Jazmin Black Grollemund / Artistic Director
Based in Belle Ile, the Franco-American soprano Jazmin Black Grollemund who discovered the festival as a Young Artist in 2009, was already in charge of cultural and educational initiatives for Lyrique en Mer. Highly committed to projects that democratize opera singing, in 2025 she initiated the formidable «Carmen Investigation» project in collaboration with the Michel Lotte secondary school and other establishments in Belle Ile and Paris. She is currently working on an educational project entitled à East of me which will bring together 92 choristers, 7 professional artists, local partners and two schools, and will result in performances to be presented in April.
Jazmin Black Grollemund is also co-director and one of the principal artists of Les Variétés Lyriques, a company dedicated to the creation, performance and transmission of opera.
Photo credit: Brian Downie
Brigitte Clair/ Choir director
A prestigious career for this native of Rennes, who has been everywhere and rubbed shoulders with some of the greatest names in the musical world... After winning two first prizes in piano and viola at the CNR de Rennes at the age of 14, Brigitte Clair went on to study piano, chamber music, composition and accompaniment at the CNSM de Paris, where she won the Concours International de Sonates de Vierzon. Pianist at the Ecole d'art lyrique de l'Opéra de Paris, she went on to work with the Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Festival Radio-France Montpellier, Palazetto Bru Zane, Radio France, Deutsch Oper Berlin, Bologna, Lausanne...and as far afield as China, performing classical repertoire and contemporary creations. In demand as a harpsichordist and pianist, she becomes the musical assistant to conductors such as R. Jacobs (Cosi fan tutte at the Champs Elysées...) or E.Pido( Cenerentola...), collaborates with B.Haîtink for an anthological Pelléas et Mélisande, with Kurt Masur, M.W.Chung at RadioFrance for Messiaen's Saint-François d'Assise, Carmen...and many other premieres, as well as with Ève Ruggieri, J-M Damian and regularly performs with the NFB (January 2024 Carmina Burana with Ludovic Tézier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées). Accompanying artists such as Jean-Pierre Wallez, Maxence Larrieu, Anne-Sophie Von Otter, Franck Ferrari, Magdalena Kozena, Vincent Le Texier, Marianne Crébassa, Timothée Varon, Elsa Benoit...the Festivals of Périgord Noir, Septembre Musical de l'Orne, Chartres, Ile de France, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Ramatuelle, Rennes, Moscow Contemporary Music, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and even China regularly invite her. For the 2018 season, she joined the Pôle Supérieur de Dijon as vocal director and continues to collaborate with numerous theaters and festivals (Clermont, Lyon, Menuhin Festival in Gstaadt, Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint André , Festival de la Trinité sur mer, OpéraComique ,Musicatreize, ... as vocal director and recitalist with singers. She continues to work with Philippe Jaroussky at his academy. Developing numerous projects in Brittany with the Compagnie La Voce dell'Alma, she works with the Triforium choir in Vannes as guest conductor.
Board of directors
Lyrique-en-mer is an association under the 1901 law. Since 2005, the Board of Directors has contributed to the realization of all projects. It is made up of :
