Choeur D'enfant du Benin

This choir from Benin has 60 children at the French Arts Centre of Cotonou.  The choir was started in 1992 as part of the children’s section of the L’Ensemble Polyphonique du Bénin.  Students at the school study ballet, choir and orchestra. Choeur D’Enfants du Benin has developed a large repertoire of African music and has enjoyed many intercultural exchanges.

Felix Nassi

Born in 1961 at Natitingou, Benin (West Africa), Felix Nassi is a self-taught musician who later studied choral conducting in France with Stephane Caillat and Jacques Barathon and in the Netherlands with Jos V. Veldoven.  He has founded and directed several choirs, the most well known being the Children’s Choir of Benin.  Nassi can speak French, English,  Spanish, Dutch and four African languages.  He has created the festival Les Rencontres Polyphoniques du Benin and has been invited as guest conductor and lecturer in Namibia, South Africa, Belgium, France, Canada, USA and the Netherlands.