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Duo Gagey-Bleton

Eléonore and Guillaume met while in high school. They crossed paths again several years later, and their musical connection was evident. They then embarked on numerous concerts featuring programs of Italian, Neapolitan, and French music, and finally recorded their first album with a collection of Spanish melodies. From this album emerged a staged concert concept by Sol Espeche, exploring the idea of romance, oral tradition, and memory.

Eléonore Gagey

Mezzo-soprano Éléonore Gagey trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under Brigitte Balleys and Hiroko Kawamichi. She has performed roles such as Cherubin (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Carmen (Carmen, Reine du cirque) at the Avignon Opera, Cillene and La Difficoltà in a work by Carlo Pallavicino in Potsdam and Beaune with Les Talens Lyriques (conducted by C. Rousset), Rosine (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Théâtre de Montereau, Carmen (Bizet) in South Korea, Clotilde (Norma, Bellini) at the Lausanne Opera, and as solo alto in Verdi’s Requiem in Lausanne. During the 23-24 season, she performed the role of Aristeo in L’Orfeo by Sartorio with the Artaserse ensemble under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky, touring with the Arcal company in France. Éléonore also has a strong affinity for chamber music and regularly performs in recitals with pianist Martin Jollet or guitarist Guillaume Bleton. She was the third-place winner in Opera at the International Competition of Marmande and is a recipient of the Royaumont Foundation scholarship.

Guillaume Bleton

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Guillaume Bleton began his musical journey with rock and jazz, but it was at the conservatory that he developed a passion for classical music, interpretation, and composition. He studied guitar, writing, analysis, orchestration, and music history at conservatories in Paris. He then obtained his diploma with honors from the Pôle Supérieur de Lille, followed by pedagogical training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he earned his Certificate of Aptitude.

As a concert performer, he frequently collaborates in chamber music settings with flute (Duo Lazare, Duo Tallet-Bleton), voice (Duo Gagey-Bleton), violin (Duo Inao with Florian Perret), and cello (Duo Nouhaud-Bleton). He has recently performed alongside soprano Nadine Sierra, pianist Thomas Enhco, violinist Jordan Victoria, and accordionist Félicien Brut. As an arranger for numerous concert projects, he initially developed his composition skills through collaborations with dance. Associated with the Les Orpailleurs company since 2009, he has worked with them on multiple occasions as an instrumental and electro-acoustic composer, performer, and improviser. Returning to his early influences, he composes and performs with his progressive rock duo PRIISM. These diverse styles infuse his instrumental music inspired by Ligeti or Dutilleux, both in language and in the exploration of timbres and textures, as heard in Le Bateau ivre, premiered in July 2022 by the Cordissime quintet, or in Mémoires de Nuit, premiered in March 2024 by Duo Inao. In addition to his performing and composing career, Guillaume teaches guitar at the CRR de Créteil.

Duo Gagey-Bleton

Eléonore and Guillaume met while in high school. They crossed paths again several years later, and their musical connection was evident. They then embarked on numerous concerts featuring programs of Italian, Neapolitan, and French music, and finally recorded their first album with a collection of Spanish melodies. From this album emerged a staged concert concept by Sol Espeche, exploring the idea of romance, oral tradition, and memory.

Eléonore Gagey

Mezzo-soprano Éléonore Gagey trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under Brigitte Balleys and Hiroko Kawamichi. She has performed roles such as Cherubin (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Carmen (Carmen, Reine du cirque) at the Avignon Opera, Cillene and La Difficoltà in a work by Carlo Pallavicino in Potsdam and Beaune with Les Talens Lyriques (conducted by C. Rousset), Rosine (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Théâtre de Montereau, Carmen (Bizet) in South Korea, Clotilde (Norma, Bellini) at the Lausanne Opera, and as solo alto in Verdi’s Requiem in Lausanne. During the 23-24 season, she performed the role of Aristeo in L’Orfeo by Sartorio with the Artaserse ensemble under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky, touring with the Arcal company in France. Éléonore also has a strong affinity for chamber music and regularly performs in recitals with pianist Martin Jollet or guitarist Guillaume Bleton. She was the third-place winner in Opera at the International Competition of Marmande and is a recipient of the Royaumont Foundation scholarship.

Guillaume Bleton

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Guillaume Bleton began his musical journey with rock and jazz, but it was at the conservatory that he developed a passion for classical music, interpretation, and composition. He studied guitar, writing, analysis, orchestration, and music history at conservatories in Paris. He then obtained his diploma with honors from the Pôle Supérieur de Lille, followed by pedagogical training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he earned his Certificate of Aptitude.

As a concert performer, he frequently collaborates in chamber music settings with flute (Duo Lazare, Duo Tallet-Bleton), voice (Duo Gagey-Bleton), violin (Duo Inao with Florian Perret), and cello (Duo Nouhaud-Bleton). He has recently performed alongside soprano Nadine Sierra, pianist Thomas Enhco, violinist Jordan Victoria, and accordionist Félicien Brut. As an arranger for numerous concert projects, he initially developed his composition skills through collaborations with dance. Associated with the Les Orpailleurs company since 2009, he has worked with them on multiple occasions as an instrumental and electro-acoustic composer, performer, and improviser. Returning to his early influences, he composes and performs with his progressive rock duo PRIISM. These diverse styles infuse his instrumental music inspired by Ligeti or Dutilleux, both in language and in the exploration of timbres and textures, as heard in Le Bateau ivre, premiered in July 2022 by the Cordissime quintet, or in Mémoires de Nuit, premiered in March 2024 by Duo Inao. In addition to his performing and composing career, Guillaume teaches guitar at the CRR de Créteil.

The Geneva Piano Trio was formed in 2009 from a meeting of three Russian musicians – each were winners of numerous international prizes – whose paths crossed in Geneva.
The Trio took the name Geneva in homage to the warm welcome they received there.
Since its formation, the ensemble has performed throughout Europe, Russia, Israel, and as far as Korea in various concerts and festivals.
The Geneva Piano Trio recorded its first album in the famous recording room of La Chaux-de-Fonds, with the revolutionary Dolby Atmos technology. For their first CD, the musicians chose to celebrate their cultural roots with the trios of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

Irina Chkourindina. Russian by birth and Swiss by adoption was born in Moscow. A graduate of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she was the protégé of the great piano school master Heinrich Neuhaus.
She is acclaimed by the Swiss press as a musician "with imperial technique and a generous heart.
Her thematic concert on the exile of composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff was a great success. The show was performed in Switzerland, France and Canada.
Sergey Ostrovsky was born in 1975 in Nizhny Novgorod (central Russia) into a family of musicians, before emigrating to Israel with his family in his teenage years.
In 1996, he founded the Aviv Quartet with which he won the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition and the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition.
As a soloist he performed under the direction of acclaimed conductors such as Zubin Mehta and Maxim Vengerov.
He is regularly invited as a conductor to numerous venues, including Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia and Israel.
Sergey plays a violin by Giovanni Granccino (1716).

Dan Sloutskovsky was born in Moscow into a family of musicians as well. Trained at the music school of the Moscow Conservatory, he was declared a child prodigy, and performed as a soloist from the age of eleven on stages in his country and then internationally.

He continued his studies at the Geneva University of Music – his studies completed under the tutelage of masters such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Arto Noras, Frans Helmerson, Lynn Harell, Boris Pergamenschikow, Natalia Gutman, David Geringas and Natalya Shakhovskaia.
Dan plays a cello by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (1760).

Dan plays a cello by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (1760).

Founded in 2001 by tenor Benoît Haller, the Chapelle Rhénane is an ensemble of solo singers and instrumentalists. The team is dedicated to revisiting the great works of the European vocal repertoire. Its ambition is, through concerts and recordings, to reveal in these works the emotion, humanity and modernity capable of appealing to a wide contemporary audience. The challenge constantly taken up by the Chapelle Rhénane is to demonstrate that so-called classical music does not belong to the past, that it is not a collection of sound monuments to be contemplated with distance and respect, that it is not the preserve of a learned and privileged elite.

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The duo Anthemis was born in 2017 out of an irresistible need for chamber music on the part of its two protagonists, both originally from Nancy. One, a concert pianist and professor at the Metz Conservatory, the other, the principal clarinetist of the National Orchestra of Metz Grand-Est. These kindred spirits recognized each other behind the scenes and in the antechambers of the beautiful concert halls where they have had the privilege of performing regularly. For six years now, they have tirelessly explored the most beautiful pages of French, English, American, and German chamber music in order to offer them to you generously in concerts and recordings, without artifice, like a beautiful bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers.

Aurélienne Brauner, violoncelliste website
Aurélienne Brauner a été nommée super-soliste à l’Orchestre National de France en 2021.
Elle se produit sur scène en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et en Asie, notamment à la Philharmonie de Paris, au Théâtre du Châtelet, au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, à l’Auditorium de Bordeaux, au Palais des Beaux- Arts de Bruxelles, au Suntory Hall de Tokyo, au Théâtre de Tunis, Forum Grimaldi à Monaco, Conservatoire Tchaïkovski et Philharmonie de Moscou, Palazzetto Bru Zane à Venise, ainsi que dans plusieurs festivals en France et à l’étranger (festival de musique de chambre d’Oslo, Journées Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury, festival d’Aix-en-Provence, festival 1001 Notes, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Abbaye de Royaumont, Château d’Örbyhus en Suède…).
Révélation Classique de l’Adami en 2007, Aurélienne Brauner se voit remettre en 2009 le prix de la Fondation Del Duca par l’Académie des Beaux-Arts pour récompenser le début de sa carrière musicale. Aux Pays- Bas, elle a été sélectionnée par le « International Holland Music Sessions » en tant que « New Masters on tour » pour un concert au Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam (2010-2011).

En soliste, elle a joué avec l’Orchestre National de Lille, l’Orchestre de la Philharmonie de Baden-Baden, l’Orchestre de Douai/Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, l’Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine et l’Orchestre de chambre de Lyon dans les concertos de Lalo, Haydn, Tchaïkovski, Dvorák et le Double concerto de Brahms avec Alexandra Soumm…
En musique de chambre, on a pu l’entendre aux côtés de Patrice Fontanarosa, Paul Katz, Svetlin Roussev, François Salque, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Maxim Vengerov, Thierry Escaich, Sarah Nemtanu… Avec le Trio Gallien, composé de Tristan Liehr (violon) et d’Emmanuel Christien (piano), elle remporte en février 2018 le 3e prix du prestigieux concours de musique chambre « Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne » à Graz, et, en septembre de la même année, le 1er prix et le prix du public au 23e concours « Gaetano Zinetti » à Vérone.
En 2016, son enregistrement consacré aux œuvres de David Monrad Johansen pour le label SIMAX Classic en Norvège a été nommé aux Grammy norvégiens (Spellemanprisen).

Lorène de Ratuld, pianiste website
Au fil des concerts et des enregistrements, Lorène de Ratuld donne à entendre un vaste répertoire :
centré sur la période romantique et la musique française, il fait aussi la part belle aux compositeurs et compositrices méconnus, aux œuvres rares ou inédites et aux compositeurs d’aujourd’hui (N. Bacri, K. Beffa, S. Bortoli, P. Farago, N. Mondon, F. Mulsant).
Élève de Brigitte Engerer, elle reçoit une riche formation au CNSMD de Paris : après son prix de piano avec mention Très Bien à l’unanimité, elle se perfectionne auprès de Jean-François Heisser (cycle de perfectionnement piano), Christian Ivaldi (musique de chambre) et Anne Grappotte (accompagnement vocal).
Lauréate du Concours International Piano Seiler en 2003, elle obtient en 2004 plusieurs prix au Concours International Piano Campus, dont celui du magazine Classica-Répertoire qui publie son premier récital (CD « Découverte »). En 2005, elle reçoit le Prix Lucien Durosoir avec Geneviève Laurenceau et, en 2011, le Prix Pro Musicis.
En récital ou en musique de chambre, Lorène de Ratuld est l’invitée des festivals d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Piano à Auxerre, Matinales d’Arles, Serres d’Auteuil, Piano en Valois, Festival Berlioz, Festival de l’Epau, Festival 1001 Notes, Journées Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury, Moments musicaux de Chalosse… et se produit également en Allemagne, Autriche, Belgique, Italie (Fondation Bru Zane), Roumanie, Suède et dans différents pays d’Afrique.
Outre son activité en duo avec Aurélienne Brauner, elle joue aux côtés du violoniste François Pineau-Benois, des chanteuses Roselyne Martel-Bonnal et Valérie Condoluci, et des Solistes de l’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris et de l’Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine. Attirée par le théâtre, elle participe à plusieurs spectacles du chanteur et comédien Mario Hacquard.
Sa discographie reflète ses choix artistiques et son engagement auprès de différents artistes et labels : Récital Dutilleux/Beffa (« Coup de Cœur » de l’Académie Charles Cros), Œuvre pour violon et piano de L. Durosoir (« Gramophone recommends »), Sonates pour violoncelle et piano de C. Franck, G. Fauré et L. Vierne avec Aurélienne Brauner. Récemment ont paru Piano Works de F. Mulsant (« 5 Étoiles » de Classica) et l’intégrale de L’Œuvre pour piano de J. de La Presle (« 5 Diapasons »), inédite au disque.