90 student musicians from the nine European universities of the CIVIS alliance (Rome, Madrid, Bucharest, Tübingen, Brussels, Athens, Stockholm, Glasgow and Aix-Marseille) take over the spaces of La Criée to perform Gustav Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 1 (known as "Titan"), under the baton of conductor Sébastien Boin, director of the Aix-Marseille University Symphony Orchestra (OSAMU) and two guest conductors from the partner universities.

Within the framework of the European university alliance "CIVIS", Aix-Marseille University will welcome its European counterparts from April 11 to 17, 2022 for a week of European orchestra residency. This residency will end with two original concerts on Saturday, April 16 at the Théâtre de la Criée, the first at 11:00 a.m. specifically adapted for family time. The big concert at 8pm will be broadcast live (streaming).

Practical information :

Saturday April 16, 2022 - Grand concert of the CIVIS Orchestra Academy | Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler
11h00 | Family concert - 45mn - Presentation Nicolas Lafitte
8:00 pm | Grand concert - 1h20 - with streaming
Théâtre de la Criée, Marseille

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Reservation required here !

About CIVIS:

A network creating links across Europe and beyond
Aix-Marseille University (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France), National and Capodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania), Autonomous University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain), La Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy), Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden), and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) are joining forces to build a European University Alliance called "CIVIS".

This alliance created under the statute of European University meets the criteria of the "Erasmus +" call of the European Commission and will gather some 384,000 students and 55,000 staff members.

For more information: https://civis.eu/fr

Project initiated and coordinated by the Culture and Society Department of Aix-Marseille University.
In partnership with the Théâtre de la Criée, the European network CIVIS
the Conservatoire national à rayonnement régional de Marseille and the IESM.