To the mirrors of the viola da gamba

Marie-Suzanne de Loye collaborates with artists from all walks of life and explores the many possibilities of her instrument, the viola da gamba. As a child, she started playing music on a 17th century organ. By the uniqueness of its sound palette, this instrument will determine his taste for ancient music. After studying organ at the CRR in Paris, two new desires are revealed: to make the sound itself and especially the desire to play with other musician.

She first followed the teaching of Nima Ben David at CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt and obtained an DEM of early music. In parallel, she studied at the Sorbonne Paris IV and graduated with a degree in musicology.

Now a professional musician, she has performed in various ensembles in France (Chapelle Royale de Versailles, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre Antique d'Arles, Musée du Louvre, Abbey of Fontevraud, Reims Opera, Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignons...) and in Europe (Amsterdam Muziekgebouw, MA Festival of Bruges, Warsaw Philharmonic, Oude Muziek Utrecht...)

In parallel, she continues to train by participating in different courses where she approaches baroque dance, contemporary dance, generative improvisation, singing and Ottoman music.

Today, Marie-Suzanne de Loye puts her instrument to the service of a wide variety of aesthetics. In ancient music: L'Achéron, La Tempête, Marguerite Louise, Tictactus, Le Concert Étranger... ensembles with which she regularly records and plays in concerts; with contemporary composers such as Lionel Ginoux, Jean-Pierre Seyvos and Zad Moultaka; with Animal K (Violaine Lochu and Serge Teyssot-Gay); in French song with Elie Guillou, Valentin Vander and the duo Datura for which she arranges a repertoire of songs.

At the intersection of other arts, Marie-Suzanne plays in theatre alongside the company La Subversive, Les Mouvements de l'âme, contributes to the music of Lia Giraud’s short film InVisible, mixes her viola with poetry with the Compagnie Résonances, accompanies the Baroque dances of the Compagnie Beaux-Champs and joins musicians.ne. s from traditional music, such as the Kurdish saz player Rusan Filiztek, the Egyptian singer and slamer Abdullah Miniawy and lately the Iranian music group Atine (Sogol Mirzaei, Christine Zayed, Aïda Nosrat, Saghar Khadem).

Marie-Suzanne plays a 7-string viola bass, after Michel Colichon (Paris, 1691) made by Arnaud Giral in 2019.