The day after their 3e Following the success of the music academy and the five concerts given at the end of April, the masterminds behind Moris Orkestra (MO) began to prepare for the 2026 edition of this ambitious and necessary project., that democratizes music, trains the artists of tomorrow, composes and innovates, breaks down barriers between styles and appeals to all audiences… The sixty participants to this adventure, of which twelve fourteen days of maximum musical intensity, and not without a lot of hard work. familiar to the generous repertoire played. Dominique Bellier
Imagine ravanne specialist Kurty O’Clou, with his huge natties and village chief looks, at the heart of a symphony orchestra, striking his instrument to Mo Belmer, a true sega classic. This experience was offered during the two closing concerts of the 2025 Academy at the Caudan Arts Centre. Just as it blends naturally with jazz, séga harmonizes perfectly with string instruments, classical winds and percussion, provided that quality arrangers, composers, teachers and performers take an interest in it… This is what MO has been doing for several years, and this is William Ross’s vision for the country’s musical development.
MO’s father and his compatriot, singer Mathieu Michel, both performers and music teachers at conservatories in France, have surrounded themselves with specialists, for example, for Cholo, their chamber group, or rather the laboratory of experimentation and first encounters between Western classical and Mauritian musical heritage… This core group embodies stylistic audacity and the constructive reappropriation of the term cholo, which once referred to sega and its practitioners with a terribly disdainful pout. In the same spirit, the orchestra brought tenfold power and resonance to Ki zot problem and Retourn mwa sa lepok la, the politically committed songs of artist Bilygane, who entered the Caudan Arts Centre through the front door for the first time!
Photo: © Frédérick Bréville
