Philosophies is a poetic and mystical oratorio from the 21st century. A creation by composer Hana Ajiashvili for French tenor Benjamin Alunni and United Instruments of Lucilin, on texts celebrating poets and thinkers across languages – English, French, Hebrew, Persian and Arabic – and spanning the centuries.
By including these new pieces alongside repertoire works, this oratorio follows a human soul in search of the wisdom of these thinkers to find its own balance, both spiritual and rational.
Created with librettist Royce Vavrek, Philosophies is a journey from obscurantism to enlightenment, a contemporary performance that digs into the past to offer a path to the future.

Libretto Royce Vavrek,
Compositions and musical design Hana David Ajiashvili 
Voice/tenor Benjamin Alunni
Instrumentalists United Instruments of Lucilin 

Executive Producer United Instruments of Lucilin in collaboration with Chant de Linos

Creation May 2023 Tel-Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art and The theaters of the city of Luxembourg

World Premiere :
21.05.2023 Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg
27.05.2023 Tel-Aviv Art Museum Poem Balev Season

Concerts and reading-performance around cultural exchanges – musical, literary, linguistic, aesthetic, etc. – between France and the United States through the 20th century and up to the present day. French and American melodies and works for solo piano.

Project in collaboration with Vincent Giroud. This program benefits from the commission of French melodies given to the American composer Hannah Lash.

31.10 Boston – St Botolph Club / concert
02.11 Washington – Georgetown University / lecture-performance
03.11 University of Maryland  – lunch / concert
04.11 Washington – Maison Française Ambassade de France / concert
05.11 Washington / concert privé
7.11  Newark – Ohio State University / lecture-performance
9.11  Columbus – Ohio State University / concert
10.11 Dallas – French Heritage Society / concert
14.11 A&M University Texas / lecture-performance
15.11 A&M University Texas / concert

Co-production Chant de Linos & Ensemble Écoute.

In 2021, after the pandemic, we were proud to give birth to « Zylan will not sing anymore »: an opera creation for one singer, percussion, electric guitar and cello from a real story about homophobia. One of the goal of this new opera work was that it could be performed where opera doesn’t usually take place like high schools, prisons, college, hospital, etc.

“This Anochecer in España – this evening in Spain – offers exciting possibilities of travels tras los montes, towards the eternal myths and spells of the country of Don Quixote – the idealistic and poetic dreamer – Don Juan – the tireless seducer who gets burned because he’s lived his life of pleasure and opposition to established order too intensely – or else Carmen – the rebellious Andalucian cigar-maker, the icon of emancipated women – but also towards sun, heat, light, and the bygone past which never stops living on through costumes, festivities, songs and dances, the true cement of a proud people, aware of its own vigour – towards southern regions on the shores of the Mediterranean, reaching towards nearby Africa and its bewitching mysteries…”
Collaboration with Musicologist Stephan Reims Champagne-Ardenne University.

The Confluence{s} project explores with unprecedented depth the various facets of Jewish cultures, through the concept of “Mélodie française”. This recital is the fruit of research into little-known or under-appreciated repertoires; it is the result of a creative process combining the folkloric melodies of Israel’s pioneers, pieces from a classical repertory, and contemporary music. The double album recording is available