Artists
Trained as a classical clarinettist, but also a composer and improviser, Aurélie Charneux develops a passion for music at an early age. She has a particular attraction to Eastern European music, which she also passes on in workshops and courses, as well as exploring and mixing different languages. In 2025, she benefits from a MetX carte blanche to develop the music-theatre pocket brass band Aerofaunic.
After her studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons, Aurélie was soon attracted to improvisation and composition. She settled in Liege to continue her studies and met Jean-Pierre Peuvion, Michel Massot and Garrett List, among others. Oriental music and swing will be a common thread throughout her musical career, in which she smoothly mixes different genres and forms of expression.
She went on to perform in a number of street art productions, as well as at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, in La cantate de Bisesero by Groupov and in Orchestra ViVo, an ensemble for which she also composes. She founded the duo Les Anchoises, a living jukebox with which she has been touring festivals and venues of all kinds since 2010.
Since then, she has developed a particular attraction to Eastern European music, and klezmer music in particular. This music has become her favourite playground over the last twenty years. In this style, she founded the group Klezmic Zirkus (with whom she played for ten years in Belgium, France and Germany, releasing 3 albums and a one-shot project with the master of the genre David Kakauer), the duo Odessalavie and the quintet Mamaliga Orkestar.
Musicians such as Zahava Seewald, Geoff Berner and the Marx Sisters have called on her services. In 2017, she created, wrote and composed La mère de nos mères, a musical and poetic object supported by the radio show Le monde est un village (RTBF).
She also enjoys passing on her music: for several summers she led the Klezmer ensemble at the Académie Internationale de Neufchâteau and the Weekend Folk klezmer courses in Massembre. She also organised several traditional music courses in Liège (Ecole Itinérante de Musique) and at the UPJB in Brussels, as well as one-off projects designed to stimulate improvisation and creativity.
The album Cinquième Saison, with doholla and darbuka specialist Simon Leleux and double bassist Nicolas Puma, is her latest project (released at the end of January 2025 on homerecords.be) and undoubtedly her most personal.
In 2025, she benefits from a MetX Wild Card to develop the music-theatre pocket band Aerofaunic. She surrounds herself with 4 musicians with very different artistic backgrounds: Emmanuel Baily (Wang Wei Quartet, André Borbé, …) on sax, guitar and composition, trumpeter Rosalie Ballereau (System Trappist), tuba player Gilles Kremer (Kermesz à l’Est, La Compagnie Renard Noire, …) and Sara Moonen on percussion (Lay This Drum, Ze Pocket Koral, …).
