Pianist
Marie-Elsa Drelon, born in 1971, is of French-Irish descent.
She studied piano at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with André Gorog and Germaine Mounier. She is a multiple laureate of international chamber music competitions.
In 1994 she moved to Berlin. Here, the freelance musician turned to the Argentine tango. As a pianist she has been at classical South American concerts at renowned venues
She played u.a. in the bar of every reason, and as a guest with the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker and Babelsbergerfilmorchester.
For over 10 years she works for the Flying Theater. She has participated in numerous figures theater pieces, sound designer and actress and toured with them at home and abroad.
She has been working as a theater musician and dart maker in the puppet theater scene for 12 years. And played u. a. With the Flying Theater and Couturier Theater.
In 2008 she composed the music for theater couturiers »Duck Death and Tulip«, the winner of the Berlin Theater Prize IKARUS 2009 and has been performing live as a musician ever since.
In 2015 she recorded the CD »Lullabies, Chansons pour Dormir«.
Events
8. Mai 2020 — Rotatonics – Live Streaming
aus der ufa Fabrik, 20:00 Uhr
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8. Juni 2020 — Schalala – Das Mitsingding
ufa Fabrik, 20:00 Uhr
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18. Juni 2020 — Schalala – Das Mitsingding
Kino Union Friedrichshagen, 20:00 Uhr
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Lullabies
The idea to record a CD with lullabies was inspired by my Irish mother. She rocked me to sleep and sang nursery rhymes and lullabies in French and English. In addition, working in the children’s theater has brought me closer to the inner world of children and their creativity for more than 10 years.
On the CD I sing my childhood songs and accompany them on the piano.
As a counterbalance to the seriousness of classical music, this work filled me with ease and joy.
Laudatio
» … What would all this be without the virtuoso musician Marie-Elsa Drelon! She is not a companion, but a playmate. She is also the contact person for the duck, and her music tells the story. Much of the serenity and humor of the production is due to the sounds and melodies that it elicits from the instruments. What can one hear for crude sounds, how much untamed pleasure is in the simple, recurring melodies!
It’s not just the players who bring the characters to life, it’s the music as well. Such a wonderful, mutually inspiring togetherness Music and play – that is total enjoyment for eyes and ears. And if in the end, just as in the melodrama or in the film, the violins and celebs do not sob, but just the silence in the room, then the heart falters …«
Projects
Rotatonics
As a film lover, I discovered fascinating film scores that have accompanied me for a long time: from Jacques Tati to Hitchcock, Philippe Sarde or Georges Delerue. Nino Rota’s music was one of the most important for me. With Carsten Wegener, a passionate multi-instrumentalist, I have found a partner who shares my passion for this music.
Rotatonics, a charming hand orchestra duo. The unusual instruments they play (musical saw, lapsteel, organ Korg CX 3, sound collages, etc) transform Rota’s compositions into captivating soundscapes.
»Schalala – The Mitsingding«
We sing in France spontaneously after the meal, with friends, with family. Popular melodies whistle and accompany our daily lightness … A cliché become tradition.
And then there is this variety show on French television, we are in 1975, names like Serge Gainsbourg, Juliette Gréco, Michel Berger or Georges Moustaki become essential.
I could not therefore resist, a few decades later, the proposal of a friend: »The Mitsingding« , The Sing-along.These singing evenings are contagiously cheerful where humor and good humor reveals to participants a radiant and fulfilled aura.
Performance R31
Two artists meet on the stage. A dialogue arises between music and image.
The visual-acoustic concert tells an abstract story of water:
What does water sound like? What does the sound of the sea look like?
The ocean, calm and clear, people float through the sea, meet and unite, dissolve and perish.
Waves on the surface, stars in the sky. Stars become ashes, ashes become seeds, roots,underwater plants, waves, shoals of fish swim through the room.
Images dance on the canvas. Shadows are created. With the pictures arises
the music. The audience can immerse themselves in a world of sounds and images.
The visual techniques range from shadow theater, live drawing and painting to OH projections and animation films.
With Marie-Elsa Drelon at the piano and Denise Sheila Puri with graphic media.
Tango-Trio Tritángulo
Tritángulo combines the crème de la crème of the European tango scene.
Lothar Hensel, the bandoneónist and founder of the ensemble, tries to come closer to his dream of a balanced conversation between musicians with this intimate cast. He brought friends and proven specialists to his side.
His long shared experience in the tango ensembles Septísimo and tango fusión connects him with Oliver Potratz. Oliver Potratz won the 2007 German Jazz Prize.
The French pianist Marie- Elsa Drelon turned after the move to Berlin the Argentine Tango. In addition, she participated in many productions as a theater musician, sound designer and actress.
The repertoire of Tritángulo is not only for connoisseurs a true treasure chest: The repertoire is as complex as the tango.
Music for Children’s Theater
I have been working for the Fliegendes Theater for over 10 years. I have worked on many productions as a theater musician, sound designer and actress, as well as on domestic and international tours. My main instruments are piano and keyboards, I play various other instruments such as harp, jaw harp, glockenspiel, kalimbas, etc.
In 2008 I composed the music for Theater Couturier’s »Duck Death and Tulip«. The piece won the 2009 IKARUS Prize of the Berlin Youth Culture Service.
Participation in the following productions:
Fliegendes Theater
Anne Frank, verstecktes Leben
Die Drachenprobe
Ein Haus erzählt
Eine Reise in die Urzeit
Fantasien zu Paul Klee
Kleine Schöpfungsgeschichten
Matti Patti Bu
Tage, wo überall Feinde lauern
Was macht der Mond
Isabelle Engel
Schnuddelgeschichten
Josa mit der Zauberfidel
Schiffchens große Fahrt
Wo ist mein Schirm
Berührung
Adventskalender
Die kleine Wolke
Theater Couturier
Ente, Tod und Tulpe, Preisträger des IKARUS 2009
Musikkompositionen für folgende Theater:
Theater in der Badewanne Stuttgart
Theater Miamou Berlin
Theater Tearticolo Klotten
Theater Minimal Berlin
Referenzen
Festival Augenblickmal Berlin
Brotfabrik Bonn
Theater Junge Generation Dresden
Festival Starke Stücke Rhein-Main
Kiesel Friedrichshafen
Festival Geo Condé Frouard (F)
Festival Meli Mome , Reims (F)
Festival Spleen Graz (A)
Festival KinderKinder Hamburg
Marottinale Karlsruhe
Comedia Köln
TaK Schaan Festival , Luxemburg
Festival Re-Generation Lyon (F)
Schnawwl-Theater Mannheim
Festival Momix Kingersheim (F),
Pasinger Fabrik München
Festival Panoptikum Nürnberg
Bayer Kultur Leverkusen
Scene d’Europe Reims (F)
Festival Meli Mom Reims (F)
Illkirch-Graffenstaden (F),
Imaginale Stuttgart
Festival Blickfelder Zürich (CH),
Figura Theater Festival Baden (CH)
Kindertheater des Monats in NRW
Kindertheater des Monats Schleswig- Holstein
Stadttheater Herford
Theatertage Dachau
Figurentheater Festival Fidena Bochum
Figurentheater Tage , Husum
Schattentheater Festival Schwäbisch Gmünd
Meppel 10de Internationaal Poppenspelfestival
Breda Amstelveen (Holland)
Parma (Italien)
Chennai. The little Festival (Indien)
Teatro Mayor, Bogota
Quito Theater Sucre (Ecuador)
Centro Cultural Sarao, Guayaquil (Ecuador)
