Promoting contemporary music, performing the greatest classics of the 20th century, supporting creation, collaborating with many composers and artists, working on sound, curve and musical matter in a full devotion, associating pleasure of the play, searching for style and excellence… such are the main purposes of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain.

The ensemble works on the expression of sound resulting from instrumental play or mix of instrumental and electro acoustic sources. Lead by the ambition of building a specific event-driven dimension for each concert, it is able to associate music of 20th and 21st century to different frame of broadcast such as music for small and big stages, theatres, churches, and to suggest thematic programs, daring ambitious or original mix of art styles such as poetry, theatre, choregraphy.

The vitality of an ensemble is certainly measured with its wide range of styles but also with the eclecticism and the relevance of a coherent, original and inventive program. The Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain occurs to be one of the most involved and creative French ensembles in contemporary music. More than just a team of high skilled musicians, the ensemble offers interesting personalities and talents that contribute to a great flexibility of overall play, an extreme «internal listening» conferring to the ensemble a « sound » and a genuine personality.

In the past 16 years, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain offered great seasons of concerts all dedicated to nowadays repertory. Nearly 70 creations by composers from different countries were carried out, in particular Jonathan Harvey, Daniel d'Adamo, Hugues Dufourt, Robert Pascal, kaija Saariaho, Xu Yi, Pierre Jodlowski, Gilbert Amy, Yoshihisa Taïra, Dominique Lemaître, Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou…

Well-known performers joined the ensemble such as Anne Gastinel, Gary Hoffman, Noëmi Schindler, Yumi Nara, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Chantal Perraud, Vincent Texier, Gilles Ragon, Daniel Kientzy, Elizabeth Grard, Joanna Mac Gregor, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Pierre-André Valade…