Les nuits du château de la Moutte

Guillaume Gallienne

After four years at the Cours Florent drama school, Guillaume Gallienne enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, where he met Daniel Mesguich. This encounter led to him playing Arcas in Jean Racine's Mithridate, alongside Claude Mathieu. They remained close friends and continued to work together. In 1998, he became a resident of the Comédie Française, then a member seven years later. In 2005, he appeared in various plays by Molière, Chekhov, Goldoni, Goncharov, De Musset, Hugo, Visconti, and Brecht. That same year, he won the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor for George Feydeau's Un Fil à la Patte.
In 2010, he created his play Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! It was a huge success with audiences and critics alike. He won the Molière Award for Best Newcomer that same year. Three years later, his success was confirmed when he adapted the play for the cinema. The film received five César Awards, including Best Actor and Best Film.
His performance in Jalil Lespert's Yves Saint Laurent earned him a César Award nomination for Best Actor in 2015. That same year, he appeared alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos in Pierre Godeau's Eperdument and alongside Guillaume Canet in Danièle Thompson's Cézanne et Moi. In 2017, he directed his second film, Maryline. Recently, he has appeared in two plays by Molière: Le Malade Imaginaire, directed by Claude Stratz, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
Guillaume Gallienne is currently working on a new adaptation of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Quatuor Modigliani

AMAURY COEYTAUX (VIOLIN), LOÏC RIO (VIOLIN), LAURENT MARFAING (VIOLA), FRANÇOIS KIEFFER (CELLO)

Founded in 2003, the Quatuor Modigliani is recognised as one of today’s most sought- after quartets, regularly performing in leading international concert series and on the world’s most prestigious stages.
Starting from the 2025/26 season, the Quatuor Modigliani will be the artist-in-resident at Radio France in Paris. As part of this residency, the quartet will give two string quartet concerts annually, as well as a chamber performance with guest musicians. The residency will culminate in the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Philippe Manoury.
Other highlights of the upcoming season include a North American tour in Autumn 2025, with performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. An extensive tour of Asia will follow, featuring concerts in South Korea, China, and Singapore. In Europe, the quartet will perform at major venues including the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, or the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In 2020, the quartet became artistic director of the string quartet festival “Vibre! Quatuors à Bordeaux” as well as the renowned “The Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.” The quartet is the founder and artistic director since 2011 of the Saint-Paul-de-Vence Festival. Since Autumn 2023, they have been mentors at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.
The Quatuor Modigliani has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 13 award-winning albums. In January 2024, the quartet’s latest album with string quartets by Grieg and Smetana was released and received enthusiastically by the international press: “The French Quatuor Modigliani brings these highly emotional works to life with energy, color and glowing passion.” (Rondo, January 2024) The recording was also featured in the bestseller list 2-2024 (category chamber music) at the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”. Since 2024, the Quatuor Modigliani is dedicating itself to the greatest challenge in the life of a string quartet: recording all 16 string quartets by Beethoven.

Thanks to the generosity and support of private sponsors, the Quatuor Modigliani plays on four outstanding Italian instruments:
Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1715 violin by Stradivari,
Loïc Rio plays a 1780 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini,
Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 viola by Luigi Mariani,
François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller.

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