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May 28
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Lillian Gordis

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Born in 1992, Lillian Gordis discovered the harpsichord at the age of 9. At Pierre Hantaï’s encouragement, she moved to France at 16, where she was his private student from 2009 to 2013. She was also mentored by Skip Sempé and Bertrand Cuiller. In 2018, she received a master’s degree in performance, summa cum laude, from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and the Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne.She has been an invited soloist on France Musique’s radio show, Génération Jeunes Interprètes, and regularly performs as a soloist in festivals in France, across Europe and the United States. She plays in a duo with Jérôme Hantaï and maintains regular chamber music engagements.

Lillian is a four-time laureate of the Fondation Royaumont (2013, 2015-2017) and is supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Safran. Her first solo album, dedicated to sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, is appearing in 2019 for Paraty (Harmonia Mundi-PIAS)

 

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ZONES | Domenico Scarlatti

ZONES | Domenico Scarlatti

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May 27
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Clairs de Lune | Berlioz & Fauré

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Clairs de Lune | Berlioz – Fauré
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, ténor & Quatuor Manfred

After more than 30 years of intense activity, the repertoire that our quartet has enjoyed, explored and championed is particularly vast. Several characteristics are expressed in it, and one of them is highlighted in this recording: our passion for the repertoire with voice.

The truly rich histories of string quartets, of the French mélodie and of the German Lied offer parallels, but curiously, they only rarely intersected (Schoeck, Wellesz, Schoenberg, Eisler, Hindemith, Milhaud wrote for voice and the quartet, but are not among the most sought-after composers). We often approach certain cycles through transcriptions that we commission or create for ourselves (Haydn, Schumann, Dvořák, Brahms, Mahler).

In response to the rich harmonic colours of Berlioz, Gabriel Fauré’s string quartet makes its presence felt through its entirely symbolist intimacy, its finely chiselled harmony, and “its thought purified up to the threshold of abstraction and evanescence”

With regard to the Summer Nights and in order to pursue our singular poetic path with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, our dear quintet partner proposed to us the Fauréan vision of Gautier’s Lamento (Fauré kept the original title La chanson du pêcheur whereas Berlioz chose Sur les lagunes). In order to develop this long-distance dialogue between the two composers, we were tempted to compare the Clair de lune of Paul Verlaine by Fauré with that of Gautier by Berlioz.

This is how Clairs de lune was born, an album more poetic – more dreamlike – than musical, a truly personal album by our quartet, an amorous programme of mélodies for voice and string quartet.

Emmanuel Haratyk (Violist fot the Manfred Quartet).

 

Le choix de France Musique
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Clairs de Lune|Berlioz & Fauré

Clairs de Lune|Berlioz & Fauré

Quatuor Manfred / Schumann & Tchaïkovsky

Quatuor Manfred / Schumann & Tchaïkovsky

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May 05
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Joanna Goodale - 2018 Portrait

Joanna Goodale

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Joanna Goodale - 2018 Portrait

JOANNA GOODALE, pianist & composer

Born into a British-Turkish family, Joanna Goodale is a French-Swiss pianist with an eclectic and creative identity, opening up the classical repertoire to traditional world music and to her own comprovisations.

She has been invited to perform in Switzerland, in France, in Germany, in Turkey, in Spain and in the United Kingdom. Graduate of a Master of Arts in Piano (Geneva) and a Master of Arts in Anthropology (London), she has benefitted from the support of the Fondation L’ABRI in Geneva and of the advice of internationally renowned pianists such as Alice Ader, Alain Kremksi, Cedric Pescia, Menahem Pressler and Anne Queffélec. Deeply convinced that music can transcend borders and touch the sublime, she invites her public to enter in communion with sound and silence in a space-time of rare intensity.

 

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Bach in a Circle

Bach in a Circle

Mar 26
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Stéphane de Carvalho

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Stéphane de Carvalho

The guitarist Stéphane de Carvalho likes interpreting the repertoire which covers the periods of the Renaissance to the present day.

He also enjoys combining the guitar with the cello of Alain Meunier, the voice of the soprane Omo Bello and tenor Serge Goubioud, the harpsichord of Cédric Burgelin or the poetry told by Jean Jacques Epron.

Winning the First prize of the CNSM of Paris in the class of Alexandre Lagoya and Alberto Ponce, it is with Roberto Aussel at the Musikhochschule of Cologne that he affirmed his interpretative dimension, as well as in the class of chamber music cellist Alain Meunier and pianist Zhu Xiao Mei.

Aficionado of flamenco, he regularly goes to Granada, Seville, Jerez de la Frontera or Madrid to receive the teachings of the great masters and is currently dedicates himself to accompany the singing and flamenco dance on stage with his wife Tomomi Akao, a flamenco dancer.

He travels regularly to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Mexico and has been awarded the Perez Nieto Prize at the M. M. Ponce of Mexico.

His first solo CD “Con Fuoco” featuring sonatas from the baroque Scarlatti to contemporary Ginastera has received great reviews from the public and the specialised press.

This second solo opus, “Cathedrals”, also released under the label Paraty, invites you to a trip to the South American continent where it highlights the union between the popular and the scholar …

 

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Con Fuoco

Con Fuoco

Cathédrales

Cathédrales

Mar 25
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Jean-Paul Fouchécourt & Quatuor Manfred |Clairs de Lune

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Fouchécourt

Saturday 6 april, 20h

Eglise Protestante, 14 boulevard de Brosses 21000 Dijon

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, ténor

& Quatuor Manfred

 

BERLIOZ, Les Nuits d’été, op.7

Transciption pour voix et quatuor à cordes, Emmanuel Haratyk

FAURÉ, Quatuor en mi mineur, op.121

FAURÉ, Six mélodies pour voix et quatuor

Transciption pour voix et quatuor à cordes, Emmanuel Haratyk

 

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Clairs de Lune|Berlioz & Fauré

Clairs de Lune|Berlioz & Fauré

Quatuor Manfred / Schumann & Tchaïkovsky

Quatuor Manfred / Schumann & Tchaïkovsky

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Mar 25
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Ensemble Près de votre oreille | Come Sorrow

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Concert 1 st april – 20h

Athénée, Théâtre Louis Jouvet | 7 rue Boudreau 75009 Paris

Come Sorrow

Ensemble Près de votre oreille
avec Anaïs Bertrand – Mezzo soprane, Nicolas Brooymans – Basse, Thibaut Roussel – Luth renaissance, Robin Pharo – Viole de gambe et direction

”Wise griefes have joyfull turnings, Nice pleasures ende in mournings”.

 

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Come Sorrow, Songs by Robert Jones, Johan Dowland & Tobias Hume

Come Sorrow, Songs by Robert Jones, Johan Dowland & Tobias Hume

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Mar 19
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Ensemble Près de votre oreille

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Ensemble Près O@Rita Cuggia

In 2017, Robin Pharo creates the ensemble Près de votre Oreille (“Near Your Ear”), an original space of creation and artistic meeting between musicians and artists. Près de votre oreille is an idea that is near and dear to his heart: to involve listeners and spectators as much as possible with the emotional issues of a creation and to bring to the ears of the public an intimate and delicate music that flourishes in works and projects for a small group of artists, from early music to contemporary music, while exploring universes such as songs and choreography.

This project is a continuation of various programs that Robin Pharo has initiated since 2010. In duet with Ronald Martin Alonso, he participates in the production of the show Paroles de violes, dedicated to the viol music written by Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, which has been programmed at the Théâtre de L’Epée de Bois, at the Cartoucherie. He plays as a duet with Ronan Khalil with whom he performs at the Handel House Museum in London and at the Jeunes Talents Festival in Paris. Robin Pharo recorded for the label Paraty the disc L’Anonyme Parisien, devoted to the virtuosic pieces composed by Charles Dollé for viola da gamba and basso continuo. In Poland, at the Muzyka W Raju Festival, Robin Pharo created a program entitled Orpheus in the Underworld which combines pieces composed by Marin Marais and tunes from the Opera La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

During the 2017/2018 season, the ensemble Près de votre oreille will perform at the Baroque Festival in Timisoara, in Romania, at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris (Philippe Maillard Production), at the Embaroquement Immédiat Festival, at the Midsummer festival, in Hardelot and at the Nasz Telemann festival in Poland. In June 2018, with the collaboration of the L’Entente Cordiale’s Cultural Center, he will also record for the Paraty label a CD entitled Come Sorrow, dedicated to English Elizabethan music composed by Robert Jones, Tobias Hume and John Dowland, at the Elizabethan Hardelot Theatre. In September 2018, Près de votre oreille will be in residence in the city of Longjumeau for the creation of the piece Le Manuscrit de Voynich, composed for mezzo-soprano and a consort of violas da gamba by the Bulgarian composer Yassen Vodenitcharov. In october 2018, he will present a the Consevatory of Gennevilliers the show named Les Trois Ailes du Papillon (with two dancers and one solo viola da gamba). In 2019, Près de votre oreille will perform at the Opéra de Lille, at the Rencontres Internationales de Musique en Trégor, at the Rencontres Musicales de Bel-Air and at the festival baroque de Tarentaise.

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Come Sorrow, Songs by Robert Jones, Johan Dowland & Tobias Hume

Come Sorrow, Songs by Robert Jones, Johan Dowland & Tobias Hume

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Feb 12
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Marie-Claude Bantigny & Romano Pallottini

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Bantigny & Pallottini Beethoven 4_Jean-Baptiste Millot

Marie Claude Bantigny, cello

In 1982, Marie-Claude Bantigny entered the CNSM in Paris in the class of Maurice Gendron, and Bruno Pasquier for chamber music. She obtained a First Prize in these two disciplines in 1986. She continued her studies under the direction of André Navarra and Roland Pidoux. Laureate of the International Academy “Maurice Ravel” of Saint-Jean de Luz, she is the guest of the program “Jeunes Solistes” by Maguy Lovano and participates in several recordings for Radio France. In 1987, she joined the Improvement Cycle in the Chamber Music class of Christian Ivaldi with the “Fidelio” quartet. In November 1987, his quartet won the First Prize of the Trieste International Chamber Music Competition “Sergio Lorenzi”. She performs as a soloist with the orchestras of Bordeaux, Bayonne (Basque Coast), Perpignan, and with the Orchester Symphonique Français where she is a solo cellist. In 1991, she recorded her first album with the French Symphony Orchestra, directed by Laurent Petitgirard: The Muse and the Poet by Camille Saint-Saëns and in 1996, a second disc – the 1st Cello Concerto in Saint-Saëns. Since then she has performed as a duet with Noelle Balbi in France and Italy and with her husband David Braslawsky.

She just recorded the 5 cello and piano Beethoven’s Sonatas with Romano Pallottini.

website Marie-Claude Bantigny

 

Romano Pallottini, piano

Born in Italy, Romano Pallottini studied piano with Franco Scala at Pesaro’s National Conservatory where he obtained a first Price voted unanimously. He won successively the First Prices at Milan’s competitions « Interprètes d’aujourd’hui » and « Alberto Mozzati » and the 2nd Price Yamaha “Città di Stresa”. Then, he joined successfully the prestigious piano Academy of Imola in Lazar Berman’s class.
Romano Pallottini performed as a soloist in recital, with orchestra and also in chamber music in Paris (Radio France with France Musique, Salle Gaveau, Opéra Garnier, Salon d’honneur des Invalides…), Vincennes’ Château, Renn

ianoes’National Theater (with Orchestre de Bretagne ), Festival des Arcs, Quartz of Brest, Saint-Riquier Festival, Opera of Quimper, Piano Festival of La charité sur Loire, Nuits pianistiques d’Aix en Provence, Palais des arts de Vannes, Nuits catalanes de Perpignan, Nancyphonies of Nancy, Musicalta in Rouffach, Festival de Mayenne, Festival de Mouvaux, Auditorium des Alpes de Courchevel, Archévéché of Narbonne, Palais des congrès de Tignes, Sala Verdi in Milano, Parco della Musica and Teatro Eliseo in Roma, Auditorium Pedrotti in Pesaro with Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Villa dei Compositori in Torino, Wallonie Festival in Belgium, Atenaeum in Bucarest, Opera of Teheran with Musiciens de la Prée Orchestra, Groningen Concertgebow in Netherland, Kuwait City , Folles journées des Pays de la Loire , Bösendorfer Salle in Vienna, Souzhou ( China), Oslo festival, Piano Festival of Gümüsluk ( Turkey).

He made several concerts in Parco della Musica in Rome for the integral of Liszt’s Music, organized by American Liszt Society under the direction of Michele Campanella.

He has been pianist for the Opéra national de Paris ballet.

After the Aptitude Certificate in Teaching Skills of CNSM, Romano Pallottini is piano teacher at CNSM in Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse), at Saint-Maur CRR (Conservatoire Rayonnement régional), at Summer Academy and festival Musicalp ( Tignes) , at Pôle Sup 93, Les Arcs, Altidona (Italy), Gümüslük ( Turkey), Souzhou ( China).

He is regularly invited in International ( Maria Canals in Barcelona, Brest, Yamaha of Lyon, Mayenne, Lagny sur Marne, San Sebastian) and National competitions as a member of jury as well for the examinations of CNSMD of Paris and Lyon and he signed a 3 years contrat with China for concerts and masterclasses.

He just recorded the 5 cello and piano Beethoven’s Sonatas with Marie-Claude Bantigny.

 

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Beethoven, complete sonatas for cello & piano

Beethoven, complete sonatas for cello & piano

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Jan 21
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Ensemble Baroque de Monaco

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Ensebaroque_Monaco

L’Ensemble Baroque de Monaco, fidèle à l’histoire baroque de la Principauté, défend les plus belles pages de la musique tirée du répertoire des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, tout en s’évertuant à recréer des ouvrages oubliés ou méconnus qui, par centaines, abondent dans le paysage de la musique baroque. Tous les instrumentistes jouent sur instruments d’époque, accordés aux diapasons historiques. Attaché à ses racines, l’Ensemble vit cependant avec son temps et fut placé en 2013 sous la direction de Matthieu Peyrègne, chanteur et chef d’orchestre spécialiste de musique ancienne. Fidèle à la vie musicale baroque faste de la Principauté sous le règne d’Antoine 1er qui recevait les meilleurs artistes transitant par la France et l’Italie, l’Ensemble fait des compositeurs originaires de ces deux pays sa spécialité. En témoignent ses récentes prestations de la Messe de l’Homme Armé pour 4 chœurs de Carissimi dont la recréation mondiale donna lieu à une tournée de concerts en 2015, ou ses prestations des plus belles pages de la tragédie lyrique telles les Indes Galantes de Rameau ou Armide de Lully. Ou encore la récente recréation mondiale de l’Assunzione della Beata Vergine d’Alessandro Scarlatti illustrée par ce disque. Monaco ayant accueilli en ses terres les plus grands compositeurs baroques de l’époque, cette formation s’inscrit dans une volonté d’être l’ambassadrice, et la mémoire vivante d’une période historique et culturelle d’une richesse incroyable à perpétuer. L’Ensemble Baroque de Monaco s’est aussi engagé à perpétuer le travail de la maison d’édition musicale de « L’Oiseau Lyre » qui n’a eu de cesse pendant le demi-siècle passé, de ressusciter nombre de chefs d’œuvres vocaux et instrumentaux de la période baroque.

website Ensemble Baroque de Monaco

 

Matthieu Peyrègne, direction

Chanteur, et chef d’orchestre, Matthieu Peyrègne a suivi une brillante formation au C.N.R de Nice où il fut d’abord diplômé en violon pour ensuite obtenir les plus hautes récompenses en écriture et direction d’orchestre et de chœur. Ayant toujours eu un goût prononcé pour la musique baroque, il entreprend des études de chant auprès de Monique Zanetti au Conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, pour lesquelles il obtiendra un prix avec mention très bien, tout comme au Conservatoire de Nice dans la classe de Claire Brua. Il a travaillé les répertoires polyphoniques renaissance et baroque auprès de Denis Raisin Dadre (ensemble Doulce Mémoire) et Dominique Vellard (ensemble Gilles Binchois) à la Schola Cantorum de Bâle où il poursuivit son apprentissage auprès de Richard Levitt, professeur, notamment d’Andreas Scholl. Demi-finaliste du Concours International de Chant Sacré de Rome en 2014, Matthieu Peyrègne chante avec les plus prestigieux ensembles vocaux tels Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Les Talents Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), l’ensemble Doulce Mémoire (Denis Raisin Dadre) avec qui il enregistre le disque consacré à Claude Lejeune en 2017, l’ensemble Consonance (François Bazola), l’ensemble Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé),…En tant que chef, Matthieu Peyrègne s’attaque à tous les répertoires, en partant de la musique baroque dont il a fait l’une de ses spécialités, jusqu’à la musique contemporaine qu’il a travaillé aux côtés de Nicole Corti au Chœur Britten de Lyon. Ayant été retenu pour les phases finales des concours internationaux de direction d’orchestre des Jeunesses Musicales de Bucarest en 2015, et de Nice en 2018, il dirige régulièrement l’orchestre Passion Classique et l’Ensemble Baroque de Monaco. Il est aussi directeur artistique des «Confé-Concerts» (www.confeconcerts.com), cycle annuel de manifestations se déroulant sur la Côte d’Azur, ayant désormais attiré plus de 15.000 spectateurs depuis sa création en 2010 au travers de plus de 100 concerts!

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L’assunzione della Beata Virgine, Alessandro Scarlatti

L’assunzione della Beata Virgine, Alessandro Scarlatti

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