La Quintina

Sylvain Manet , Countertenor/Clarinetist

Throughout his career, Sylvain Manet has questioned the best way to transmit his music. Whether through the use of words and language in his singing, a choreographic approach to the musician's movement, simple words, or staging, he challenges the codes of performance and seeks to create different listening experiences.

It was with his Klezmer group Paye ton Schtreimel that he most frequently performed for audiences, after having toured the streets, bars, and festivals of France for seven years. These experiences, alongside his clarinet studies at the CRR in Lille, allowed him to develop stage presence and a spontaneity essential to street performance.

He began singing in 2010 at the Lille Conservatory and went on to study early music at the Versailles Baroque Music Centre (2014-2016) and then at the Lyon National Conservatory of Music (2016-2020). He is currently pursuing a master's degree in early music singing in the class of Robert Expert.

He is committed to singing in all its forms, as a soloist, chorister, and in small ensembles. He regularly works with Les Meslanges, Spirito, Les Voix Animées, Concerto Soave, and L'Archivolte, and performs with Le Concert Spirituel, the Tourcoing Opera Workshop, and Les Musiciens du Louvre. He will also be part of the upcoming contemporary opera production Jungle, a wild opera by the Eclats company in Bordeaux, in the role of Sherekhan the tiger.

To further his research at the intersection of music and movement, he trained in yoga, baroque dance with Béatrice Massin, and in stage and choreographic writing during a workshop with Gisèle Vienne. He has also worked as a performer and musician-actor for the Brigitte Nielsen Society, Compagnie dans l'arbre, and Collectif XXY.