Caroline Charrière

L'enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

L'enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

This Trio has been written to the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the subject 'water'. The piece starts very quietly in the low and middle register, getting more lively, whirles with trills befo...

This Trio has been written to the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the subject 'water'. The piece starts very quietly in the low and middle register, getting more lively, whirles with trills befo...

Petite Suite has three movements. I wrote 'Contrastes', the first one, for an anniversary. The beginning is peaceful, the second part becomes more animated, and the end is again calm, as if suspended...

Petite Suite has three movements. I wrote 'Contrastes', the first one, for an anniversary. The beginning is peaceful, the second part becomes more animated, and the end is again calm, as if suspended...

Caroline Charrière was a flute virtuoso and knew all the secrets of her instrument. She wrote a first version of Envol [Flight] in 2004, on the occasion of the retirement of Pierre Wavre (flutist and...

Caroline Charrière was a flute virtuoso and knew all the secrets of her instrument. She wrote a first version of Envol [Flight] in 2004, on the occasion of the retirement of Pierre Wavre (flutist and...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

The beginning is taken from one of my previous works (1994) written for women's choir with harp and incorporated into this Libera me, with the addition of two horns. The first performance was given in...

In this short song, Caroline Charrière sets to music a poem by the Vaud poetess José-Flore Tappy. She dedicates it to the Fribourg politician Solange Berset, in gratitude for her commitment to the cre...

In this short song, Caroline Charrière sets to music a poem by the Vaud poetess José-Flore Tappy. She dedicates it to the Fribourg politician Solange Berset, in gratitude for her commitment to the cre...

The Work Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a str...

The Work Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a str...

Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict purit...

Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict purit...

This piece was written for a concert that brought together two choirs, the Divertimento vocale and the Winterthurer Vokalensemble, around Orlando di Lasso's Vespers. I thought of setting several verse...

This piece was written for a concert that brought together two choirs, the Divertimento vocale and the Winterthurer Vokalensemble, around Orlando di Lasso's Vespers. I thought of setting several verse...

This cycle Femmes de Jérusalem (Women of Jerusalem) has been commissioned by the vocal ensemble DeMusica and its director Marc Bochud for the celebration of the 20ieth anniversary of the ensemble, and...

This cycle Femmes de Jérusalem (Women of Jerusalem) has been commissioned by the vocal ensemble DeMusica and its director Marc Bochud for the celebration of the 20ieth anniversary of the ensemble, and...