Solrey
Author of shows and films, musical director of the Traffic Quintet, orchestra conductor, Solrey is an artist who feeds on creation in all its forms to extend her own vision of the world.
Violin
Music will be her first language, perhaps because the violin placed in her hands at the age of 6 seemed to ring on its own. After her studies in Caen, she was taught in Paris by Pierre Doukan, then in the United States by the virtuoso Henri Temianka, as well as at the Chigiana Academy in Siena with Salvatore Accardo, and at the Basel Academy with Jaap Schröder. Formed by these different experiences, she developed a personal interpretation that she would later share with her ensemble.
Other horizons
A career as a musician is taking shape with ensembles such as the Philharmonique de Radio France, the Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne, the Ensemble Mosaïque and 2E2M. Yet Solrey is drawn to other worlds. "I didn't want to limit myself to a repertoire that was two or three centuries old. I prefer rhizomes to deep roots". Solrey prefers an existential and political modernity that knows no boundaries to romantic outbursts: for her, film music rubs shoulders with Dusapin, jazz, transcriptions and the Baroque, and cinema meets the visual arts.
The Traffic Quintet
In 2005, she founded the Traffic Quintet, breaking away from the classical quartet by adding a double bass, and from a stifling hierarchy. The group quickly established its aesthetic: a meeting between the purity of the Baroque sound, discovered with Christophe Coin, and playing styles derived from tango, gypsy and contemporary music. The ensemble soon began recording for the cinema, collaborating with Alexandre Desplat on "Fantastic Mr Fox", "Lust Caution", "Un héros très discret" and performing in concert (Cannes Festival, Villa Medici and Ravello Festival, Florence Gould Hall, Cité de la Musique, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Filharmonia Łódzka, Musée d'Orsay and Seine Musicale ...).
A look
In 2010, brain surgery deprived her of control over her left hand, putting an end to her career as a violinist but opening up a new path towards creation and conducting. Now devoting herself entirely to her artistic vision, Solrey directs several films and video around musicians and co[1]writes the libretto of the opera "En Silence", signed by Alexandre Desplat which she also staged. In 2015, she returned to the Traffic Quintet, as a conductor, which she has been studying ever since. She began conducting Alexandre Desplat's scores, in recording sessions and concerts (Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Norway). Gradually, she began conducting the repertoire conceived and built for the Traffic Quintet with string orchestras (Orchestre des Pays de Savoie), and in October will conduct Alan Lucien's ballet at the Oslo Opera.
"They're all different forms, but for me it's always the same quest: trying to represent a musical thought."