French musicians letter to Macron: Our entire profession is in jeopardy

A list of 263 French musicians, led by pianist David Fray and the Modigliani, Belcea, Ebène (pictured) and Diotima string quartets, has written to President Macron calling for financial aid for freelance artists.

Extract:

We are not used to expressing ourselves in words. Our language is that of notes, phrasing, articulations, bowsings… We must, however, describe and name a situation which leaves us speechless. Because we are disarmed. Like everyone, faced with this pandemic, its mourning, this mysterious and dreaded second wave.

And of course, destitute, in the first sense, that is to say, without the material resources which until now sustained our daily lives….

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Here is the complete list of signatories:
Accordéonistes Fanny Vicens, Félicien Brut ; Altistes Lise Berthaud, Adrien Boisseau, Nicolas Carles, Gérard Caussé, Miguel Da silva, Pierre Franck, Mayeul Girard, Léa Hennino, Mathieu Herzog, Adrien La Marca, Isabelle Lequien, Michel Michalakakos, Beatrice Muthelet, Jean Sautereau, Diederik Suys, Antoine Tamestit ; Bassonistes Pascal Gallois, Evolène Kiener, Amiel Prouvost ; Clarinettistes Paul Meyer, Raphaël Sévère ; Contrebassistes Laurène Durantelle, Edouard Macarez ; Corniste David Guerrier ; Flûtiste Patrick Gallois ; Guitaristes Thibaut Garcia, Christian Rivet ; Harpiste Isabelle Moretti ; Ondes Martenot Thomas Bloch ; Percussionniste Daniel Ciampolini ; Pianistes Pascal Amoyel, Arthur Ancelle, Nicholas Angelich, Fanny Azzuro, Ludmila Berlinskaya, David Bismuth, Florent Boffard, Stefan Cassar, Bertand Chamayou, Emmanuel Christien, Jean Philippe Collard, Jean Marie Cottet, Geoffroy Couteau, Michel Dalberto, Celimene Daudet, Claire Désert, Tanguy De Williencourt, Gaspard Dehaene, Shani Diluka, Jérôme Ducros, François Dumont, Nina de Felice, David Fray, Jean-Paul Gasparian, Julien Gernay, Nathanael Gouin, François-Frederic Guy, Jean-François Heisser, Emmanuelle Jaspart, David Kadouch, Nicolas Kruger, Adam Laloum, Claire-Marie Le Guay, Eric Le Sage, Jean-Marc Luisada, Vahan Mardirossian, Ismaël Margain, Selim Mazari, Dominique Merlet, Nathalia Milstein, Paul Montag, Jérémie Moreau, Jean-Frederic Neuburger, Josquin Otal, Denis Pascal, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Alain Planès, Anne Queffélec, Pierre Reach, Jacques Rouvier, Lise de la Salle, Emmanuel Strosser, Alexandre Tharaud, Audrey Vigoureux ; Quatuors Quatuor Agate (Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps, Raphaël Pagnon, Simon Iachemet), Quatuor Akos (Alexis Gomez, Aya Murakami, Théo Delianne, Cyrielle Golin), Quatuor Akilone (Emeline Concé, Elise De-Bendelac, Tess Joly, Lucie Mercat), Quatuor Ardeo (Carole Petitdemange, Mi-sa Yang, Yuko Hara, Joëlle Martinez), Quatuor Arod (Jordan Victoria Alexandre Vu Tanguy Parisot Samy Rachid), Quautor Belcea (Corina Belcea, Axel Schacher, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Antoine Lederlin), Quatuor Bergen (Mathilde Klein, Sakkan Sarasap, Mirabelle le Thomas et Magdalena Probe), Quatuor Chiaroscuro (Alina Ibragimova Pablo Hernan Beneti, Emilie Hörnlund, Claire Thirion), Quatuor Confluence (Daniel Vlashi ,Vincent Forestier, Pierre-Antoine Codron , Tom Almerge-Zerillo), Quatuor Danel (Marc Danel, Gilles Millet, Vlad Bogdanas ,Yovan Markovitch), Quatuor Diotima (Yun Peng Zhao, Constance Ronzatti, Franck Chevalier,Pierre Morlet), Quatuor Elmire (Cyprien Brod, Nam Nguyen Issey Nadaud Rémi Carlon), Quatuor Ebène ( Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Lemagadure, Marie Chilemme, Raphaël Merlin), Quatuor Girard (Hugues Girard, Agathe Girard, Odon Girard, Lucie Girard), Quatuor Hanson (Anton Hanson, Jules Dussap Gabrielle Lafait Simon Dechambre), Quatuor Hermès (Omer Bouchez, Elise Liu, Yung-Hsin, Lou Chang, Yan Levionnois), Quatuor Ludwig (Sébastien Surel, Manuel Doutrelant, Padrig Fauré, Anne Copéry), Quatuor Métamorphoses (Mathilde Potier, Rachel Sintzel, Jean-Baptiste Souchon, Alice Picaud), Quatuor Modigliani (Amaury Coeytaux, Loïc Rio, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer), Quatuor Mona (Verena Chen, Roxana Rastegar Arianna Smith Elia Cohen Weissert), Quatuor Psophos (Eric Lacrouts, Bleuenn Le Maitre, Cécile Grassi, Guillaume Martigné ), Quatuor Tana (Antoine Maisonhaute, Ivan Lebrun, Maxime Desert, Jeanne Maisonhaute), Quatuor Van Kuijk (Nicolas Van Kuijk , Sylvain Favre-Bulle, Emmanuel François, François Robin), Quatuor Wassily (Quentin Reymond, Marine Faup-Pelot, Dominik Baranowski, Raphaël Ginzburg), Quatuor Zahir (Guillaume Berceau, Sandro Compagnon, Florent Louman, Joakim Ciesla) ; Trios Trio Chausson (Matthieu Handtschoewercker, Antoine Landowski, Boris de Larochelambert), Trio Hélios (Camille Fonteneau, Raphaël Jouan, Alexis Gournel), Trio Karenine (Fanny Robilliard, Louis Rodde, Paloma Kouider), Trio Metral (Victor, Joseph ,Justine Metral ), Trio Sora (Pauline Chenais, Angèle Legasa, Clémence de Forceville), Trio Zadig (Boris Borgolotto, Marc Girard, Garcia Ian Barber) ; Violonistes Luc-Marie Aguera, Flore-Anne Brosseau, Renaud Capuçon, Julien Chauvin, Oliver Charlier, Marina Chiche, Guillaume Chilemme, Nicolas Dautricourt, Stephanie-Marie Degand, Augustin Dumay, Amanda Favier, Ami Flammer, Pierre Fouchenneret, Sylvie Gazeau, Raphaëlle Moreau, David Moreau, Liya Petrova, Guillaume Sutre, Diana Tishchenko ; Trompettistes David Guerrier, Lucienne Renaudin Vary ; Violoncellistes Adrien Bellom, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Gautier Capuçon, Yvan Chiffoleau, Marc Coppey, Henri Demarquette, Anne Gastinel, Gary Hofmann, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Victor-Julien Laferrière, Alain Meunier, Edgar Moreau, Christophe Morin, Philippe Muller, Aurélien Pascal, Jérôme Pernoo, Astrid Siranossian, Camille Thomas ; Réalisateur Bruno Monsaingeon