Le Salon de Musiques

In 2010, Chouchan founded “Le Salon de Musiques,” an intimate chamber music concert series at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center in Los Angeles. The concert series is inspired by Queen Marie-Antoinette’s “Le Salon de Musique” in Versailles and Schubert’s “Schubertiaden” in Vienna. After eleven successful years in Los Angeles, Chouchan relocates his concert series to San Diego, at the historic La Jolla Woman’s Club.

In an intimate setting, without any stage or separation between the audience and the artists, one can feel the essence of Chamber Music and immerse in the "Heart of the Art" to become one with the Music. 

A French Champagne reception with a gourmet buffet follows the performance and the Q & A between the artists and the audience. 

 

Le Salon de Musiques founder Francois Chouchan says chamber music is intended for small venues, where listeners can experience the “essence” of the music. (Hojoon Kim)

Le Salon de Musiques founder Francois Chouchan says chamber music is intended for small venues, where listeners can experience the “essence” of the music. (Hojoon Kim)

By ELISABETH FRAUSTO – STAFF WRITER

MAY 16, 2021 12 PM PT

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Performing is “an act of love,” according to Francois Chouchan, who is moving his classical music enterprise, Le Salon de Musiques, to La Jolla later this year, hoping to share his passion with a new audience.

Le Salon de Musiques will feature chamber music concerts with musician Q&As and buffet-style dinners at the La Jolla Woman’s Club. The season will run monthly on Sunday evenings from Sept. 26 through June 12, 2022, except for October.

The concerts are orchestrated to be an intimate experience, Chouchan said. “We put the musicians in the middle of the audience. We can almost touch them.”

“I always wanted to perform chamber music in an intimate venue,” he said. “Chamber music is always written for small venues, intimate spaces. Most of the time it’s performed in big venues on a stage. The artists are very far away from the audience,” which means “you miss most of the essence of chamber music.

“You don’t feel the real vibrations of instruments, you miss the interaction between the performers. This is the essence of chamber music.”