Pianist and trained singer, Ollivier Leroy has been performing and composing since 1995 in musical groups with world music influences (Pändip, Shafali, Stok an Dans, Mukta).
His project Olli and the Bollywood Orchestra, featuring twelve Indian and Breton musicians and a video montage, is a unique creation centered on Bollywood cinema that has taken him to major European stages.
In 2006, Olli was awarded a Villa Medici grant “outside the walls.”
With Contréo and The Secret Church Orchestra, he brings together an unlikely blend of pop melodies, baroque and classical music, and electronic sounds, in collaboration with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the children’s choir of Maîtrise de Bretagne, and the Jean-Philippe Goude Ensemble.
In 2017, he arranged and directed the creation Arth of Sounds (electro-Gaulish). And in 2018, he created the transmedia electro-hip-hop musical project Great Man Hiboo, alongside Chicago-based rapper Billa Camp.
Alliance Française
Ollivier Leroy (France)
The Odyssey, 2022
LABEL CARAVAN PRESENTS
In co-production with AFCA and the Court Métrange festival, and in collaboration with the Trans Musicales association of Rennes
2022, THE ODYSSEY
A film-concert exploring science fiction and futuristic themes,
geared towards teen and adult audiences – ages 11 and up – duration: 60 min
Composition / Musical performance: Olli
After eight film-concert creations for children since 2001 (in co-production with festivals, film distributors, cities, and the Orchestre National de Lille), and over 1,500 performances in France and worldwide, Olli presents, for the first time, a solo show aimed at teenage and adult audiences.
The eight selected short films tackle themes such as futurism, transhumanism, overconsumption, and science fiction, using a variety of animation styles and techniques, and featuring little or no dialogue.