Eurochestries Charente-Maritime
Board of directors
Claude Révolte - President
Founding President of the Federation of Eurochestries Festivals (since 1998)
President of the Eurochestries Charente-Maritime association (since 1996)
President of the Arts and Entertainment association in Haute-Saintonge
Musical director “Ensemble Vocal du Donjon” of Pons (Charente Maritime)
Head of the Symphonic Orchestras Commission at the Confédération Musicale de France (CMF) (since 1998)
Founder of the Haute Saintonge School of Arts (music, singing, dance, dramatic arts and languages) (director from 1981 to 2005).
President of the Departmental Union of Musical Societies of Charente-Maritime (from 1985 to 1996)
Vice President of the Departmental Federation of Music Schools of Charente-Maritime (1983 to 1996)
Founding President of the Association of Music Societies and Schools of Charente-Maritime Assem17 (President from 1996 to 2002). Member of the board of directors and head of the voice college (to date)
President of the Poitou-Charentes Musical Federation (from 2000 to 2008).
Was a member (4 years) of the federation of musician educators in Quebec (FAMECQ)
Founding member of the international foundation of Arts and Peace for
youth. (Moscow)
Choir and orchestra conductor.
Poet and writer in his spare time.
Knight in the National Order of Merit (2017)
Youth and Sport silver medal (2017)
Hélène Bonnet - Vice-President
Originally from Charente, exiled in Paris for twenty years, after a 1er piano prize, she followed accompaniment classes and obtained a writing and counterpoint prize at the CNR in Aubervilliers. Holder of a Master 2 in Musicology at the Sorbonne, a State Diploma and CAPES, she divides her time between teaching, journalism, cultural activities within associations and her pianistic activities, with a specialty in the lyrical repertoire.
Engaged since 2018 within the Festival and the Eurochestries 17 office, she is currently vice-president alongside Claude Révolte.
Gérard Chauvet - Treasurer
Born May 3, 1947
Retired from the Administration
Former Manager of Tourism and Heritage of the city of Pons
Treasurer of Eurochestries 17 since 2014
Claudine Ligné - Assistant Treasurer
Participated in Eurochestries since their creation, alongside her career at the Mutualité Sociale agricole des Charentes and more actively for 15 years when she retired; administrator of the Association, she takes care of the Treasury; she participates in the Festival every year for various tasks, more or less depending on her availability.
Serge Hirel - Secretary
After a career as a reporter in the regional press, then as a specialist in media economics for national titles, Serge Hirel settled in the Vals de Saintonge. A member of tourist and heritage associations since his thirties, he is convinced that, to continue to shine, beyond their beauty, “old stones” have only one friend: music.
Marc Dondeyne
Assistant Secretary
In 1965, at the age of 15, he joined the Versailles Conservatory to learn the oboe in the M. Gaston LONGATTE class in which he obtained a first in oboe. To perfect his instrumental studies, he entered the CNSM in the class of Pierre BAUDO and Pierre PIERLOT in which he obtained a first prize in oboe.
He continued his writing studies with his father, Désiré DONDEYNE, and in 1982, he obtained his CA as director for the Regional and National Music Schools. He teaches oboe in various music schools and alongside his position as oboist in the Orchester des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris, he is involved in the associative world by becoming secretary general of the Orchester Pro Arte de Paris and Orchester Lyrique des Hauts de Seine. He also directs the Chamber Orchestra of AMOPA (Association of the Order of Academic Palms). He holds the following honorary distinctions: Medal of Honor of the National Police - Knight of Academic Palms - Knight of Arts and Letters.
Philippe Groult
Born in 1941 in Morocco, he spent his entire professional career in aviation as an agent then a commercial services executive, he was Deputy then Station Manager in Nice, Bastia and Casablanca, then in charge of European stops, he retired as head of department of the Air France transport department
Arriving in Charente Maritime in 1999, he was elected Municipal Councilor then Deputy Mayor for Culture of the commune of Aigrefeuille d'Aunis.
Michel Cozic
Retired from secondary and higher education (faculty of Poitiers), I am part of a CNRS research seminar (Patrology).
A member of the Eurochestries board of directors for a long time, I continue choral and Gregorian singing and, with my friend Philippe Groult, we have made Aigrefeuille loyal to the Eurochestries concerts...
Louison Audebeaud
Louison Audebeaud, 17 years old, has been part of the board of directors since 2020, but has also been a volunteer at the festival for the entire technical part for 3 years.
Christian Seugnet
Max Surreau
Vice-president of the Pont l'Abbé d'Arnoult music school
Treasurer of the Poitou-Charentes musical federation
Treasurer of Eurochestries International
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Laurent Jacquier
Born in Grenoble in 1966, Laurent Jacquier approaches music through electric guitar and rock. He then studied writing with François Luzignant at the Conservatoire National de Région de Grenoble, where he obtained 3 gold medals in harmony, counterpoint and fugue. He continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris where he obtained two certificates in analysis and orchestration and studied harmony and Jazz arrangement with Pierre Drevet at the Chambéry conservatory. He also holds a Master 2 in Arts research specializing in music from the University of Bordeaux III.
An eclectic composer, he works in many fields: instrumental music, contemporary dance, theater, song and current music as well as for images with the composition of soundtracks for various documentary films. His catalog includes several pieces for orchestras or small ensembles (harmony, opera for orchestra, choirs and soloists, percussion ensemble, string ensemble and voices, etc.), which are performed in France and abroad (United States, Czech Republic, Brazil). He is a semi-finalist in the international composition competition “Coups de vents” with his “Urban symphony”.
From 2008 to 2012, he collaborated with the Colorado Wind Ensemble of Denver and its conductor Matthew Roeder, gave lectures for the composition class of Metro State University of Denver and was also invited as composer in residence at the La Rochelle Conservatory for the year 2009 /2010. The diversity of these experiences and these encounters has nourished his music which is at the crossroads, between “learned”, current and traditional music. Also a teacher, he works within the Departmental School of Music of Charente as head of the Barbezieux branch.
Philippe Hélis
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Véronique Lavaud
