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Bach , the Art of Fugue

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Composed during the last ten years of his life, the Art of Fugue consists of 14 fugues (or counterpoints) and 4 canons on a single subject. It was his last and most accomplished exploration
in the field of contrapuntal composition.
Check out an excerpt from harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss’ latest album, Bach’s Art of the Fugue, in pictures.

Listen to the album here 👇
https://lnk.to/Bach_Art_of_Fugue_Kenneth_Weiss

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Kenneth Weiss

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Kenneth Weiss

Born in New York, Kenneth Weiss began his musical studies on piano. After attending the High School of Performing Arts he entered the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Joseph Schwartz (piano), William Porter (organ) and Lisa Goode Crawford (harpsichord). It was through his studies on organ and harpsichord that he became aware of the vast early keyboard repertoire and decided to devote his professional life to it. He continued his studies with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory and in 1985 settled in France where he is still based today. Kenneth Weiss has worked as an accompanist, vocal coach, opera continuist, chamber musician, conductor and soloist for several decades, performing extensively in Europe, North America and Asia. A dedicated teacher, he has taught at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Haute École de Musique in Geneva and the Juilliard School, and has given master classes in Mexico, Great Britain and Israel. He has been professor of Chamber Music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris since 1996. His solo recordings on the Satirino label include Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Partitas, and Well-Tempered Clavier, a recording of Rameau operas and ballets transcriptions, two Scarlatti albums, and two albums devoted to Elizabethan keyboard music — A Cleare Day and Heaven & Earth.

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Fanny Vicens

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Pianist and accordionist, Fanny Vicens leads a singular international career reconciling her double profile, from classical piano recitals to experimental music mixing microtonal accordion and electronics. She appears on prestigious stages as a soloist and chamber musician in some twenty countries (Arsenal de Metz, Philharmonie de Paris, Musikverein de Vienne, Philharmonie de Odessa, Konzerthaus de Vienne, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, KKL Lucerne, Philharmonie de Cologne, Auditorium Pollini de Padova, … She is also an active ensemble musician: a member of the ensembles Cairn, Flashback and Soyuz21, she has been a guest of some thirty ensembles throughout the world, including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, 2e2m, l’Itinéraire, Court-Circuit, the NEC, the Collegium Novum Zürich, the NEM (Montreal), Argento (New York), the Philharmonisches Orchester Augsburg, and the Secession Orchestra, among others.

She is regularly invited to play in concerto, as a pianist and as an accordionist, with renowned orchestras such as the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kammerorchester Pforzheim, the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, the orchestras of Besançon, Cannes, Metz, Perpignan, the Orchestre des gardiens de la Paix, the Orchestre de Bretagne… under the baton of Jacques Mercier, Olari Elts, Pierre-Alain Monot, Daniel Tosi, David Reiland, Susanna Mälkki, Nicolas Chalvin, Johannes Kalitzke, Pascal Rophé: She defends the classics of her instruments (concertos for keyboards by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich and those for accordion by Nordheim, Haas, Françaix), but also works to enrich the repertoire by being the dedicatee of several concertos for classical accordion (Sua Seo, Chengbi An), or microtonal (Bastien David, Naoki Sakata).

She contributes to the influence of the accordion through her commitment to the contemporary repertoire and the historically documented interpretation of the baroque and classical repertoires, defending a wide solo repertoire ranging from the Goldberg Variations to Berio’s Sequenze for piano and accordion, with a predilection for 18th century keyboard music and that of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through her contact with the composers of her time, she has developed a reflection on the sound identity of the accordion and the piano, which is reflected in the creation of a rich repertoire, sometimes using electronics, or the invention of microtonal accordions. She appears in interdisciplinary performances, where chamber music often has a privileged place, within the duo XAMP, the trio 20° dans le noir or in collaborations with the choreographers Maud le Pladec, Annabelle Bonnery or Hervé Robbe.

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Jean-François Novelli

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JF Novelli; spectacle De La Fontaine 2016

The French tenor, Jean-François Novelli, winner of the Concours Général, holder of a Master’s degree in Musicology from the Sorbonne, First Prize in recorder, graduate of the CNSMD in Paris in singing and ADAMI young talent, turned quite naturally – from his first instrument – to early music, which he has practised and continues to practise with great passion. His thirty or so recordings and DVDs with Philippe Pierlot, Christophe Rousset, Gerard Lesne, Hervé Niquet, or with the Lunaisiens, an ensemble he co-directed for ten years, bear witness to this

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Eudes Bernstein

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Eudes Bernstein, saxophones
After starting his musical studies in the Yvelines, Eudes Bernstein obtained a Paris Conservatory’s Master degree in saxophone under Claude Delangle. He also studied with Daniel Gauthier during an Erasmus exchange at the Cologne Hochschule and completed his training with a degree in musicology from the Sorbonne.
Award winner in several international competitions (Osaka, Dinant, Aeolus, FMAJI, FNAPEC), he has
performed as a soloist with many international orchestras (Orchestre de Chambre de Belgique, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sud Westphalen Philharmonie, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Garde Républicaine, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe) notably under the direction of David Reiland, Benjamin Levy, Nicolas Simon, Julien Leroy, Romain Dumas and Martin Lebel. He is also one of very few saxophonists to receive support from the prestigious Fondation Banque Populaire.
He is also the founder of the atypical Trio Dämmerung, with violin and piano, whose ambitious project is to create new transcriptions of works from the great orchestral repertoire (Ravel’s La Valse, Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune, Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique). The trio works with the collective of arrangers Lacroch’, clarinetist Paul Meyer and soprano Marina Viotti. It was featured on Radio France in Gaëlle Le Gallic’s program « Générations Jeunes Interprètes ».
Very much attracted to contemporary music, Eudes Bernstein premiered the concerto for saxophone
by Karol Beffa as well as works by Thierry Escaich, Bruno Mantovani, Philippe Hurel, Matteo Franceschini, Jonathan Pontier, Naoki Sakata, Philippe Leroux and Orlando Bass. In 2020 he performed at the Venise Biennale in the world premiere of Habitat, a multimedia work in collaboration with the composer Francesco Pellegrino and the visual artist Roberto Cassano under the direction of Thierry Coduys and Andrew Quinn.

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