Luan Góes

COUNTERTENOR | DIRECTOR OF LES FURIOSI GALANTES

“Luan Góes’ voice is phenomenal. Countertenors’ voices are generally quite vertical, threaded, not very enriched with harmonics, or noisy, he is endowed with a true mezzo-soprano voice, round, rich, supple, with an enormous width... ”

MUSICOLOGY.ORG : The Luan Góes phenomenon

Jean-Marc Warszawski

Graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris — Alfred Cortot and from the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Nathalie Stutzmann. Franco-Brazilian countertenor Luan Góes is currently under the tutorship of Sonia Prina at the Verona Opera Academy.

At the age of 7, he began his musical journey in the master’s choir of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro under the direction of Maria José Chevitarese and at 11, he was a soloist at the Municipal Theater of Rio in ” The Magic Flute” by Mozart and “Tosca” by Puccini. At 16, he sang the title role of “Amahl and the visitors of the night” by Giancarlo Menotti at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, and was selected for the support program for young talents “Furnas Geração Musical”.

In 2012, Luan began working on his countertenor register under the tutelage of Marcos Louzada. In 2013, Luan Góes obtained a Bachelor’s degree in piano in the classes of Sonia Goulart and Midori Maeshiro at the Federal University of Rio. The meeting with the organ builders Daniel Birouste and Bertrand Lazerme that same year, allowed him to extend his musical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, in the class of Vladimir Chernov.He also works in Paris with Yves Sotin (CNSMDP) and Mickaël Mardayer.

Luan Góes is also a researcher in the field of the castrati repertoire. In 2019, he participated as a researcher – musicologist on the album “Contralto” by Nathalie Stutzmann and “Orfeo 55” released in 2021 by Erato (Warner). This contributed to the promotion and recording of unpublished tunes.

In 2020 Luan Góes founded the baroque ensemble Les Furiosi Galantes. Under his direction, the ensemble aims to highlight little-known or unpublished works of Italian, French and Brazilian baroque.

In 2021, he sang the title role of “Marco Antonio e Cleopatra” by Hasse at the Miramare Castle in Trieste as part of the Picolo Opera Festival. That same year he obtained the Bachelor’s degree in singing at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Nathalie Stutzmann and Heidi Brunner (with the maximum score of 6/6 unanimously by the jury).

ver the years, Luan Góes has consolidated his career on European soil, having played in: Serbia, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary and Switzerland. In 2022 he is one of the initiators of the research project Pasticcio alla Napoletana, which created an original opera with unknown fragments from the Baroque period found in Italian libraries and archives. This project from the Geneva High School of Music took place under the artistic direction of Florence Malgoire.

In 2023 Luan will perform a series of concerts around the castrati repertoire with the Pulcinella ensemble under the direction of Ophélie Gaillard. With this training and the participation of Marina Viotti and Sandrine Piau, he recorded an album. In 2024, with the contralto Sonia Prina and the ensemble the Furiosi Galantes He recorded the album “Dolce Pupillo” which includes many unpublished works, the result of musicological research by Luan Góes. As part of the preview of this album, Luan and the ensemble Les Furiosi Galantes were guests on the Génération France Musique show (Radio France).