Tom Yang (voice) and Alain Roudier (piano) are performing Franz Schubert’s Le Voyage d’Hiver (Die Winterreise) in the upcoming concert presented by the association Le Temps Rentrouvé as part of the concert series in Villenueve Lez Avignon, France, on August 30, 2026.
Among his many activities as a performer, scholar, and educator, Alain Roudier has been a driving force in creating the unique and important collection of historical keyboard instruments of the Ad Libitum collection located in Etobon, France. Access to the instrument collection is made available to performers, composer, and scholars, and thereby the Ad Libitum association continues to make performances on historical instruments a living art-form. The Ad Libitum association was started in 1993 and has an in-house instrument restauration shop, as well as having published a significant catalogue of books on historical instruments and performance practices.
Organologist, researcher and performer, Alain Roudier played an important role in the return of historical keyboards to the concert stage – and with it, the development of the historically informed practice movement as a whole. Apart from his career in chamber music and as a soloist, he is also responsible for the restoration of countless instruments, has appeared many times as a lecturer on the evolution of keyboard manufacture, has recorded a large discography and is author or co-author of numerous books and articles.
https://alainroudier.com/biography/
In 2010 Nicolas Deletaille (Belgium) and Alain Roudier (France) were guests of Wassard Elea and concertised in the Cilento region. The duo played works by Franz Schubert, Boyan Vodenitcharov and René Mogensen for piano and arpeggione in the Cilentan towns of Ascea, Vallo della Lucania, Pellare and Novi Velia during that summer. Roudier played on an original 1828 Conrad Graf piano (Vienna) brought directly from the Ad Libitum collection in Etobon, France. The concerts also included René’s work Sonata Neo-Schubert for arpeggione, piano and computer and a studio recording of this composition was later released on the album The New Arpeggione Walls of Nicosia which is available as a download, physical CD and from streaming services world-wide on the RM New Classical label.
Photo of the Conrad Graf piano is copyright the Ad Libitum collection.