After conducting choirs - many of which he has created - and teaching music in Geneva for nearly thirty-five years, Jean-Louis Rebut moved to Burgundy where he took up residence as Master of Chapel in Paris. Abbey Cluny in 2010. Passionate Gregorian chant and polyphonic singing, he has not stopped, throughout his career, to put on the program of little-known composers, even unknown to the Renaissance, while doing the share beautiful to famous works of Monteverdi, Pergolese, Mozart or Stravinsky.
When he directs, there remains a teacher who shares with his choristers and the public the history of the musicians and the expressivity of the Flemish and Italian schools.
Having had the chance to train alongside such figures as Dom Gajard at the Abbey of Solesmes, César Geoffray in Lyon or Michel Corboz in Lausanne, he delivers here, during a long interview, what he draws from all these years spent teaching choirs of adults or children: the qualities that he considers essential for a choir director - the satisfaction of being able to take his ensembles to numerous concert tours abroad, and especially in Venice, where he has developed close ties with the musical world - the pride of having seen some students become renowned soloists or take the same path as him by leading choirs and singers.
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