ARIANE
LE FOURNIS
Mezzo-soprano singer
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Ariane Le Fournis, a French mezzo-soprano with a rich and full-bodied voice, graduated in June 2025 with a Master's degree in early music singing from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon.
A multidisciplinary singer, Ariane explores the spaces of boundaries and crossings. Ranging from medieval to Romantic music, through Baroque and contemporary creation, she appreciates the variety of vocal styles and techniques.
She is passionate about ensemble practice, which is why she is involved in many choirs and polyphonic ensembles, from symphonic to early music (Le Chœur de Versailles, Sollazzo, Musica Vera, Spirito, le Concert Spirituel, Vox Luminis, Correspondances, G. Binchois, Radio France, Les Cris de Paris, Irini, La Chapelle Harmonique, le Jeune Orchestre Baroque Européen)...
BIO
GRA
PHY
Ariane Le Fournis, a French mezzo-soprano with a rich and full-bodied voice, graduated in June 2025 with a Master's degree in early music singing from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon.
A multidisciplinary singer, Ariane explores the spaces of boundaries and crossings. Ranging from medieval to Romantic music, through Baroque and contemporary creation, she appreciates the variety of vocal styles and techniques.
She is passionate about ensemble practice, which is why she is involved in many choirs and polyphonic ensembles, from symphonic to early music (Le Chœur de Versailles, Sollazzo, Musica Vera, Spirito, le Concert Spirituel, Vox Luminis, Correspondances, G. Binchois, Radio France, Les Cris de Paris, Irini, La Chapelle Harmonique, le Jeune Orchestre Baroque Européen)...
A creative force, she also performs with young ensembles co-founded with former Conservatoire classmates, such as Matica de Flor, a quartet specialising in traditional Mediterranean and Renaissance music on period instruments, l'Orangier, a French Baroque music quintet, and the duo Nysiak, combining early plucked strings and voice with theorbist Pierre-Baptiste Brioude. The ensemble Matica de Flor is supported by the Cité de la Voix and won the NextGen competition in Brussels in December 2025.
Having grown up in the Sarthe, she discovered music at the CRD du Mans, first as an instrumentalist (flute, harpsichord). Passionate about literature, she pursued her studies in Paris in Literature (preparatory classes at Fénelon, then a Master's MEEF at the Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Musicology (bachelor's degree at the Sorbonne). She also studied Oriental and Mediterranean singing in the class of Rachid Brahim-Djelloul at the CRD de Gennevilliers.
In 2020, she joined the CNSM de Lyon in early music singing, under the direction of Robert Expert (Baroque singing), Anne Delafosse (medieval singing), and Anne-Catherine Vinay (harpsichord coach). She continues her exploration of singing with soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul.
She has had the opportunity to participate in courses and masterclasses with many vocal specialists (Paul Agnew, Marc Mauillon, Stéphane Degout, Sandrine Piau, Peter Kooij, Sébastien Daucé, Lucile Richardot, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Benjamin Lazare, Vincent Dumestre).
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Messe & Requiem, Mozart & Haydn par B'Rock & Vox Luminis
Shortly after a concert at Brussels Cathedral, Vox Luminis invites the audience to gather at BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts) for Haydn's Requiem (Michael) and Mozart's Mass in C minor, performed with a large ensemble and accompanied by the B'Rock Orchestra.
Ariane Le Fournis's mezzo-soprano voice asserts itself with an impressively sustained woody, round and burnished quality that becomes almost androgynous in its confidence — abyssal and deep.
Soline Heurtebise
Olyrix
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Retour sur le concours de chant baroque de Froville 2024
It has now been 13 years since the Froville Baroque singing competition was created (linked to the festival), which takes place between the Château de Lunéville and the Église de Froville.
The first mezzo-soprano we will mention, the French singer Ariane Le Fournis won us over with her particularly powerful and deep low notes, which had us double-checking her vocal range. Hearing them, one could easily mistake them for those of a contralto! Her upper register nonetheless confirms her mezzo tessiture, and her overall vocal palette offers beautiful shading. The trills she produces are present without being overly marked or sounding "forced", and across all three arias she reveals beautifully shimmering colours. Here too, we were disappointed not to find her among the finalists.
Elodie Martinez
Opéra Online
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Festival. Festival de Royaumont, Abbaye de Royaumont
It is nothing less than its 60th anniversary that the Festival de Royaumont is currently celebrating (from 7 September through to 6 October 2024). The musical weekend of 14 & 15 September, held in the sumptuous Abbaye Royale de Royaumont, opens with a promenade concert through the magnificent spaces of the venue.
The vocal style is impeccable and truly remarkable from beginning to end. The performance of alto Ariane Le Fournis is, quite simply, a revelation.
ClassiqueNews
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Chants séfarades et paysages méditerranéens aux Archives Nationales
On the final day of the 2023 Festival Européen Jeunes Talents during this Parisian summer, the ensemble Matica de Flor offered a concert along the Sephardic Paths, in the Cour d'Honneur of the Archives Nationales. The programme featured traditional Sephardic songs performed before an audience surrounding the soloists. Seated on chairs, on the cobblestones, or standing (which did however lead to some friction between audience members), listeners of all ages were able to discover and journey through this little-known musical repertoire, one that calls upon a complex history.
Mezzo Ariane Le Fournis, who recently made an impression on Brussels audiences on the Bozar stage with the ensemble Vox Luminis by plunging into very vibrant, woody and deep low notes, is less ceremonial here: freer in her approach to this no less demanding repertoire. Her vocal incantations grow ever more vibrant, both sonically and in terms of expressive engagement.
Soline Heurtebise
Olyrix
concerts
Alkymia
18/04/2026
Revel-Tourdan, Isère
Sucreries : Y se va la segunda !
l'Orangier
24/04/2026
église saint Bruno des Charteux
Une auberge occitane
Matica de Flor
25/04/2026
Printemps Baroque de Spa (Belgique)
Alta es la luna