Witness art
in the making
Patrick Lo Re,
Founder of Atelier Musical.
About Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO)
Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) engages, inspires and empowers youth through music in a progressive learning environment leading to high-level performance opportunities. More than 500 students from New York’s Capital Region and western New England are selected by audition each year to perform in ESYO.
With 14 performing ensembles and orchestras suiting a range of playing levels, members receive training from outstanding conductors and coaches, and tutelage from extraordinary guest artists. In 2015, ESYO launched CHIME (Creating Harmony Inspiring Musical Empowerment) in Schenectady to address fundamental inequities preventing universal access to high level music opportunities for young people.
Today, this free music program serves more than 150 Schenectady students. Founded in 1979, ESYO is a not-for-profit organization that has been recognized as a premier music education and performance program for youth and has received three ASCAP awards. ESYO’s ensembles, led by the flagship ESYO Symphony Orchestra, perform more than 30 public concerts each year at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, the Massry Center, Zankel Music Center, Proctors, and the annual CBS6 Christmas show, Melodies of Christmas. https://esyo.org/
About Atelier Musical
Atelier Musical (AM), a division of One Soul Group, LLC, awards recording production residencies to young professional musicians, ending with immersive public presentations. On the last day, small audiences are invited to be part of the “making of a production” while having a “salon experience” in a state-of-the-art recording studio.
AM serves as a crossroad for musical artistry, craftmanship and education. The initiative brings together composers, performers, teachers, conductors, recording engineers and videographers to collaborate and achieve artistic excellence in an inspiring setting. https://ateliermusical.art/
These events retain the energy and connection of a live performance and offer musicians the freedom to experiment. They are free to redo a section of a piece, in search of a different dynamic or interpretation. For the audience, witnessing a performance in an acoustically designed space allows everyone to re-experience the physicality of sound. Being close to the musicians, feeling the vibrations in the floor, in your seat and in your bones redefines music for what it is! A physical experience, a pulse that is impossible to experience through a phone or 30 + feet away from the musicians in a regular concert hall.
L'Atelier Musical
A crossroad for sound crafts, talents and science
About US
Patrick Lo Re
Founder
Patrick Lo Re is a Grammy nominated sound engineer and acoustic designer
Patrick Lo Re founded One Soul Group, LLC in 1995 and ran the studios in NYC until 2015.
One Soul is the alliance of Marie Anne Bacquet, a French acoustic designer, Jean Jacques Bacquet, founder of Klinger Favre Audio, a French company developing and creating high end audio equipment (speakers, amplifier, dac), Andras Gipp, a Hungarian American master woodworker/ piano rebuilder, founder of Hudson Workshop, Tosh Sheridan, an American musician- arranger/ producer, Bobby Avey, a fabulous piano technician and pianist extraordinaire.
Since 1995, Patrick has provided acoustic consultations, designed and overseen construction of private
music studios and small concert spaces in the US & France.
During the same period, he engineered/ produced a multitude of acoustic recordings ranging from classical to jazz, Latin, folk, pop, r & b.
In 2020, through Covid, along with his team, they decided to design a private venue on his property in New Baltimore, NY to reflect the sum of their combined expertise and showcase their work.
As a result, this private venue is, a recording studio, an acoustic solutions showroom, a salon style venue (35 to 40 guests max), an audiophile salon, and a home theater. One Soul Group is also the US representative of KLINGER FAVRE AUDIO
The studio opened in 2021 and after fine-tuning and learning the space for almost a year, Patrick shared with local friend Patrice Kuzniak, another French American music lover, his desire to develop an Atelier Musical: a musical workshop, where sound can be experimented with, from the instrument maker to the performer, from the acoustician that creates the space to the engineer that records the performance, all the way to the audio component and speaker builder that allows the playback of all these craftsmanships and talents.
"I want to thank Sabrina, Alta, Andrea, Ann, Charlie, Chris, Heike, Janet, Jennifer, John, Karen, Luisa, Mahmoud, Michael, Ned, Patrice, Philip, Susan and all the volunteers that are actively helping put this second season together!
Thank you all for sharing this adventure !"
Patrick Lo Re
Etienne Abelin
Music Director & Symphony Orchestra Conductor at ESYO
Swiss conductor Etienne Abelin has been lauded as a "post-classical pioneer" by BBC Music Magazine and an "icon of new ways in classical music" by the Musica VivaMagazine Brazil. His gripping, emotionally charged performances have been hailed as "always unforgettably fine" by eminent conducting mentor Jorma Panula.
He has graced the world’s most prestigious concert halls, performing with leading orchestras. In recent years, Abelin has brought his visionary leadership to the Empire State Youth Orchestra, one of the nation’s foremost youth orchestras, where he serves as Music Director and Symphony Orchestra Conductor. Under his direction, the orchestra has delivered acclaimed performances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
Abelin won the exceptional privilege of being a musical collaborator for 18 years with classical music legend conductor Claudio Abbado, who has been described as one of the three greatest conductors of all time by BBC Music Magazine. As such, Etienne was handpicked by Mr. Abbado to be a founding member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, where he was the Principal Second Violin for seven years. With these orchestras, he performed in the world's most prestigious concert halls and recorded for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi. Abelin has conducted orchestras such as the Beethovenorchester Bonn, the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa or the Musikkollegium Winterthur in venues and festivals such as the Teatro alla Scala Milano, Royal Festival Hall London, the Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid or Beethovenfest Bonn.
Among his passions and special fields of focus in conducting are education and audience interaction - be it with the digital music visualization software Music: Eyes he co-founded (a.o. project with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2021), in the program "Netzwerkorchester" ("Innovative Orchestra Award" 2019 of the Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung) or in cross-genre collaborations with composers such as Gabriel Prokofiev, Francesco Tristano or Daniel Schnyder. Etienne Abelin has presented on multiple occasions as a TEDx speaker and performer
David Bebe
Associate Music Director of CHIME & Chamber Music.
Dr. David Bebe has an active career as conductor, cellist, and educator. Currently the Associate Music Director for the Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO), he conducts the El Sistema inspired CHIME Orchestra, and directs the Chamber Music Program and Summer Sessions. Through his work at ESYO, he has had the opportunity to collaborate with Etienne Abelin, Walter Thompson, Eric Booth, Adrian Gordon and the Archipelago Project to bring new innovative approaches to young musicians through Collective Composition, Soundpainting, and the Amplify Our Voice initiative.
Prior to joining ESYO, David was a professor of music at the College of Saint Rose from 2009 to 2021. While at the college, he was the Director of the Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, the String Program Coordinator, Instructor of Violoncello, and the Director for the Pre-College Experience in addition to teaching courses in musicianship, string techniques and music education.
An active cellist, Dr. Bebe has appeared as a soloist in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, performed under the baton of legendary conductors such as Kurt Mazur and Michael Tilson Thomas, and been a featured chamber musician with the Spira Quartet, Cantus Trio, Saint Rose Camerata and Copernicus Duo throughout the United States, Canada and France. While pursuing his doctorate from the Frost School at the University of Miami, he served as the Associate Conductor for the Frost Symphony Orchestra and held conducting appointments with the Broward Symphony Orchestra and the Clark Chamber Players. Other conducting positions include the Willamette Valley Music Festival Youth Orchestra and Young Musicians and Artist String Orchestra in Oregon.
Heike Bachmann
Video host
Born in Munich, Germany, Heike grew up in a home filled with music. “Every Sunday, my dad would play an entire opera on his stereo in the living room, seating us kids with librettos in hand, while also chasing every Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson concert.”
This early exposure to the world of opera and jazz shaped her fascination for the art of storytelling—both in words and music.
After earning an MA in Literature and Philosophy, she moved to New York to pursue a career in publishing, drawn to the power of language and its ability to connect people across cultures. Over time, her voice became her profession, and today, she records German voiceovers for U.S. companies and museums while also serving as the German translator for the Metropolitan Opera’s METtitles.
Her passion for music has come full circle in her role as video host for L’Atelier Musical, where she interviews musicians before they step into the recording studio, capturing their thoughts, inspirations, and the magic that happens before the first note is played.
When she’s not behind the mic or in front of the camera, she makes a life in the Hudson Valley with her husband, tending to their bees and chickens—an existence that, much like music, is all about rhythm and harmony.
Michael Angelis
videographer
Michael Angelis is a visual artist and teacher based in Port Chester, NY. He is an adjunct professor of Printmaking at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, and an adjunct professor of Fine Arts at Purchase College, SUNY. He received his Masters of Art Education degree from Teachers College in 2005, and his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Purchase College in 2001. He has taught studio and digital art classes at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, CT since 2005. His own artwork deals with themes of cultural ideas and constructs that are in flux, and the connection/disconnection of communication and technology through those periods of flux. His paintings and prints capture concepts that are not intended to be preserved or memorialized, and attempt to provide a lens onto images and ideas which are temporal and transitory, as a means to understand the factors that are the catalyst for change and flux. He has worked with Atelier Musical as a videographer since 2022.
