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The French counter-tenor, Gabriel Jublin, studied singing in the Early Music Department of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in the class of Marie-Claude Vallin, where he obtained in 2010 a Bachelor’s degree (2007-2010). He then attended the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the classes of Dominique Vellard and Gerd Türk, where he obtained a Master’s degree in 2013 unanimously with honours. He also attended master-classes with Richard Levitt, Andreas Scholl and Margreet Honig in Basel. Also an instrumentalist, he obtained the first prize for Horn and Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Nice.
Gabriel Jublin co-founded the ensemble Vars Musica in 2003, a trio specialized in vocal improvisation. This ensemble performs regularly at Thoronet Abbey and in Fréjus’ Cloister, both located in the Var.
Additionally, Gabriel Jublin performs in medieval and Renaissance repertoires with the following ensembles: Gilles Binchois (Dominique Vellard), Odhecaton (Paolo Da Col) and Mala Punica (Pedro Memelsdorff). He frequently collaborates with ensembles such as the Concert Spirituel, Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon), Akadêmia Ensemble (Director: Françoise Lasserre), Le Parnasse Français, Ensemble Claudiana, ensemble Voces Suaves (2015 winner of the EEEmerging contest of Ambronay), le Choeur de Chambre de Namur (Director: Jean Tubéry) and La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Director: Jordi Savall), under the direction of conductors such as Hervé Niquet, Sigiswald Kuijken, Ton Koopman, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Françoise Lasserre, Louis Castelain, Graham Ross, Luca Pianca, Francesco Saverio Pedrini, Raphaël Pichon and Jordi Savall.
Gabriel Jublin has performed in prestigious concerts halls and festivals such as the Royal Chapel of Versailles Palace, the Vienna Konzerthaus and its Resonanzen festival, Klarafestival at Brussels, AMUZ festival of Antwerp, the OudeMusiek Festival in Utrecht, the Trinità dei Monti church in Rome, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Sinfonia in Périgord and the Festival of Ambronay, la Rassegna medievale e Rinascimentale Cantar di Pietre, Rheingau Musik Festival as well as Bremen Festspiel.
In 2015, Gabriel Jublin sang in the Missa Salisburgensis H.I.F. Biber at the Barcelona Auditorium and the Vienna Konzerthaus with La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations under the direction of Jordi Savall. Gabriel gave a tour of 5 concerts in the fall of 2014 of the Missa Papae Marcelli by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in Mexico with Odhecaton dir. Paolo da Col. He realized his opera debut in July 2014 as Pastore III in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Bayerish Staatsoper in Munich with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie under the direction of Ivor Bolton, staged by David Bösch. In recent years, he has been heard in different series of solo cantatas of J.S. Bach in Lyon and Aix-en-Provence, in the Mass in B minor BWV 232 by J.S. Bach at the XVIIIème Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken on the occasion of a big European tour. He also sang in the same work at the Berlin Philharmonie, where he also held the part of Cyrus in the oratorio Belshazzar HWV 61 George Frideric Handel, with Baroque Berlin under the direction of Gerhard Oppelt.
In November 2016, Gabriel Jublin sang as cantus in the concert “Bastarda Regina” with La Pedrina in the madrigals of Marenzio, Crequillon, Sandrin and G.P.d. Palestrina, dir. Francesco Saverio Pedrini with Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba, for the Forum Alte Musik Basel. During the summer of 2016, he took part in a tour of various festivals in the Rhone-Alpes area (France) of J.S. Bach's Motets and Cantatas with Spirito / Choeur Britten, dir. Nicole Corti. He performed in a program by D. Scarlatti, Missa "La Stella" and the Stabat Mater for 10 voices, at the Festival Concerti per Maria Vergine of the Societa del Quartetto di Milano with Il Canto di Orfeo directed by Gianluca Capuano.
In November 2017, Gabriel Jublin sang Testo (Narrator) in A. Stradella's La Susanna with the Stradella Y-Project, dir. Andrea de Carlo in Rome and L'Aquila. In October, he sang the solo parts of Roman Vespers of Alessandro Scarlatti and P.P. Bencini with the Ensemble Jacques Moderne (Director: Joël Suhubiette), in a tour of 4 concerts in Paris, Blois and Tours. During the Royaumont Festival, he sang with the ensemble Cosmos in the "Nuit et Mystère" program, ranging from Tallis to Whitacre. He sang the cantus part in the program "Luther in Rom" in sacred polyphonies of the Renaissance with Concerto Romano, dir. Alessandro Quarta at the 72nd Sagra Musicale Umbria in Perugia and the Musikfest Stuttgart 2017. In April and May, he made his debut as Phosphorus in M. Marais' Alcione under the musical direction of Jordi Savall and the staging of Louise Moaty at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with a reprise at the Royal Opera of Versailles in June. For Good Friday, he sang the alto part in St. John’s Passion BWV 245 by J.S. Bach in the Berlin Philharmonie with Berlin Baroque, dir. Gerhardt Oppelt. Following a special commission from the Palazzo Venezia in Rome for the audioguide of their exhibition "Labirinti del cuore", he recorded with La Pedrina the madrigal "Quando madonna io veng'a contemplarte" by Verdelot.
Among his next engagements: two performances of Alcione (a coproduction with the Opéra-Comique) at the Theater of Caen in January 2018. He will participate in a cycle of four concerts of J.S. Bach's cantatas in the cathedral of Olten, Switzerland where he will sing as soloists the following cantatas: BWV 76, BWV 106, BWV 170 and BWV 54. His ensemble, Vars Musica, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2018, will give a series of concerts in the Thoronet Abbey during the summer and fall. |
