Award winner of the Toulouse and Paris Music Academies, Emmanuel Ferrer-Laloë has performed in numerous countries during his career. He has won prestigious international competitions, most notably in Barcelona, Paris, and Ourense.

An avid chamber music enthusiast, he has taught at the University of Hartford in Connecticut and has given masterclasses at the universities of Beirut and Taiwan, contributing to the training of many professional performers.

Although he now seldom performs on the music scene, Emmanuel Ferrer-Laloë continues to teach at the Basque Country Higher Music Centre Musikene in San Sebastián.

He also expressed his admiration for the dancers, as he highlighted the quality of their performance, their grace, and skills. “The expression of the dancers, in their movements, really express a lot of things, feelings, and impressions, it’s very, very, very well done!”

“There is a palpable message behind it, a spiritual message. This traditional aspect is also very important. Traditions must be preserved,” says the former resident of the Sorèze Abbey.

A spiritual dimension enshrined in a “renewal” allows the viewer to escape the torments of modernity, he said. “Today, there is a welcomed reaction to the ambient materialism,” said Ferrer-Laloë.

“I believe that the aspiration of Art is precisely to convey messages, to convey peace, a transcendental vision of humanity and what it constitutes,” continues the pianist.

In order to comply with the French government’s decision to ban gatherings of more than 1,000 people due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Shen Yun company doubled the number of performances planned at the Corum in Montpellier.

Five additional sessions were thus programmed to allow audience members who had booked tickets to attend the show they had been awaiting for months, resulting in the artists having to perform nine times within five days.

This effort made it possible to limit the number of spectators to 800 per performance and to comply with the public health measures in place. In this context, the endurance and dynamism of the company’s artists did not fail to impress the pianist.

“If they practice this meditation, if they practice this way of doing things, obviously, it is the best way to generate beneficial energy, so, they can give the maximum!” enthused Emmanuel Ferrer-Laloë.

Enthralled by the show and the values carried by the company’s artists, the concert performer is full of praise when recommending Shen Yun: “It’s wonderful! It’s magical and extraordinary, with a lot of precision, a lot of finesse.”