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France, Paris, 2021-01-14. Portraits of the Jalef Duo with violinist Magdalena Geka and pianist Kishin Nagai. Photography by Maria Mosconi / Hans Lucas. France, Paris, 2021-01-14. Portraits du Duo Jalef avec la violoniste Magdalena Geka et le pianiste Kishin Nagai. Photographie de Maria Mosconi / Hans Lucas.

Magdalēna Geka et Kishin Nagai, Duo Jalef

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Magdalēna Geka
Violinist Magdalēna Geka (1992, Latvia) has performed chamber music in many prestigious European venues such as Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre in London, UK; Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, France; the Verbier Festival, Switzerland and the Kuhmo Festival in Finland. She is an ardent advocate of 20th century and contemporary music, and has collaborated with such composers as Pēteris Vasks, Platons Buravickis, Eric Tanguy, Camille Pépin, Santa Bušs and Gabriel Sivak, premiering to-date around forty works for violin and ensemble. Formerly violinist of the Trio Sōra, she is now 1st violin of the renowned Quatuor Akilone.
Magdalēna Geka is the winner of the Parkhouse Award in London, the International Marschner Competition in Germany and, most recently, the Pro Musicis Prize 2021 and the Académie des Beaux-Arts prize at the Musiques d’Ensemble competition in Paris. She is a sought-after soloist and concertmaster and has been nominated twice for the Latvian Grand Music Prize; in 2014 as the Young Artist of the Year and in 2020 for an Excellent Performance. Most recently she received three nominations for the prestigious German award Opus Klassik, including Newcomer of the Year.
Ms. Geka holds a Master’s degree in both Violin and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, France, as well as Artist Diplomas from both CNSMDP and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium. During the 2021-2022 season she was the only participant of a unique concertmaster training course, a partnership between Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon and Orchestre National d’Auvergne in France. Her mentors include the Ebène and Artemis Quartets as well as Svetlin Roussev, Marc Danel, Wolfgang Marschner, Ayako Tanaka and Philippe Graffin.
Ms. Geka has received generous support from many foundations and sponsors, including the Fondation l’Or du Rhin, the ADAMI, the Fondation Meyer, the Fondation Singer-Polignac, the Fondation Baillet-Latour and the Fondation Boubo-Music.
Magdalēna Geka plays an Alessandro Gagliano 1734 violin generously on loan through the Anima Music Foundation.

 

Kishin Nagai
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kishin started playing the piano at the age of four. After studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) with Hiroshi Nagao, he was unanimously admitted to the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) where he later completed three bachelor’s degrees in Piano (J. Rouvier, P. Benoit, D. Pascal, L.Cabasso), Chamber Music (M. Moragues) and Accompaniment (G. Dutroncy), as well as three master’s degrees in Piano (H. Cartier-Bresson, F. Rossano), Vocal Accompaniment (A. Le Bozec, E. Olivier) and Piano Accompaniment (J. F. Neuburger et Y. Otsu).
He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Chamber Music at the CNSMDP with Claire Désert.
An avid chamber music player, he often works with other instrumentalists and singers. In 2018, he became a member of Ensemble Rayuela (https://www.ensemblerayuela.com/), and since 2019, he has been performing with Magdalēna Geka (violinist). The duo has already won many awards including the International Pro Musicis Prize 2021 in France and the Académie des Beaux-Arts Prize (2nd Prize) at the 34th European Chamber
Music competition of the FNAPEC. The duo was also one of the semi-finalists of the 16th Lyon International Chamber Music Competition 2021, and finalist of the Parkhouse Award 2021 in London.
He has appeared at many music festivals and radio programs including Les Nuits d’été de Mâcon (France),the World Saxophone Congress (France and Croatia), Pamplona Acción Musical (Spain), the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron (France), Générations France Musique, le live (Radio France) both as a soloist and as a chamber musician and has already performed in prestigious halls including the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Concert Hall at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, and the Wigmore Hall in London.
As a soloist, he has performed as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Orchestre du Conservatoire (Paris Conservatoire Orchestra), the Tokyo New City Orchestra and the Orchestra Motif, working with famous conductors including Pierre-André Valade.

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Maitane Sebastián

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Being at the same time appointed to theBayonne Côte Basque Regional Orchestraat age 18, then to the Pau Pays de Béarn Orchestraat age 21, and performing as a member of the Parisian cello ensemble Nomos, Maitane Sebastián alsostarted teachingearly in her career. After having taught for more than 15 years, she is currently teachingcello, chamber music, and conducting the Symphonic Orchestra at the Abbeville Conservatory. Her unconventional professional path led her to experiment new musical movements, and encounter musicians who have inspired her playing and musical vision, such as the cellists Gary Hoffman and Christophe Roy, the baritone Udo Reinemann, the improviser Médéric Collignon, the composers Michel Sendrez and Mauricio Kagel. Maitane Sebastián is currently giving numerous concerts as a solo cellist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestra, with the Midland Symphony Orchestra (Great Britain), the Vignolles Ensemble (Netherlands) ; at the Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Beauvais Cello Festival, the Lyrical Theatre in Cagliari (Italy), La Bâtie Festival in Geneva (Switzerland), “Voix Intimes” Festival in Tournai (Belgium), Classical Music Festival in Peñiscola (Spain), etc. Her favorite chamber music partners are Ann-Estelle Médouze, Naaman Sluchin and Barbara Giepner (Sésame Quartet), the pianist Julien Le Pape (Parhélies Duet) and the guitarist Sébastien Llinares (Anhelo Duet). Her numerous recordings, ranging from Bach to contemporary musicians, have been praised by musical reviews, (such as Classica, Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, Charles Cros), reflecting her research on natural phrasing and her attachment to the deep meaning of the music, from its details to its structure and context. In 2020, Paraty (Harmonia Mundi) released his next album featuring the complete J.S. Bach Suites recorded in the Basque Country. Her instrumentwas made by Frédéric Chaudière, after a copy of a Giuseppe Guarneri Sr. cello. She plays bows by Claudia Carmona and Yasha Shidowezki.

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Jan 08
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Mara Dobresco

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Romanian pianist Mara Dobresco was noticed by the concert-going public and media early on for her playing which is full of character, and for the finesse and elegance of her phrasing. A child prodigy, she first performed with orchestra at age 11. The winner of numerous international competitions, she received scholarships from the Yamaha, Meyer, Tarazzi and Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundations.

Her many recordings have been lauded by the press, who have compared her to Argerich and Arrau. Consequently, she received the advice and support of Martha Argerich and Dominique Merlet, as well as Jean-Claude Pennetier and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, with whom she has performed four-hand repertoire.

Dobresco has given recitals in France, Romania, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Russia, Argentina, Australia and Japan, and gave début recitals in Chicago and New York. At the same time, she has made recordings for Radio France, Swiss Radio, and Romanian national radio and television. She was also invited by film director Radu Mihaileanu to record the soundtrack for his film The Concert (2009) featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 under the direction of Adrian Prabava.

In France, Dobresco is often invited to play recitals and chamber music with the best musicians of her generation in the most prestigious venues, such as the Cité de la Musique, Théâtre du Châtelet, Musée d’Orsay, Salle Cortot, Théâtre Mogador, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Théâtre de la Monnaie, and the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, as well as the Grand Théâtre de Provence, the Festival d’Aix en Provence, the Chopin Anniversary at the Tarmac de Châteauroux and the Salle Pleyel, at the Nohant Festival, at the Chopin Festival at l’Orangerie de Bagatelle, at the Musée Jacquemart- André, at the “Classique au Vert » Festival.

A fervent interpreter of contemporary repertoire, she collaborates regularly with numerous composers: Philippe Hersant, Franck Villard, Philippe Leroux, György Kurtág as well as Oscar Strasnov, who has dedicated several of his pieces to her. Mara Dobresco is also interested in the dramaturgy of musical gesture, and has participated in multiple projects based on the intersection between theatre, literature and music. She is a member of Quatuor Face à Face (2 pianists, 2 percussionists), founded 10 years ago, which gives concerts in many of the world’s largest concert halls, characterised by great virtuosity, a strong identity and a spectacular stage presence.

A graduate of the George Enesco Music School in Bucharest under the tutelage of Gabriela Stepan, Dobresco received a French government bursary which enabled her to pursue her studies at the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) under Gérard Frémy. She was awarded a First Prize for Piano, a First Prize for Vocal Accompaniment and a Chamber Music Prize. She later returned to the Paris Conservatory for graduate studies with Théodore Paraskivesco. Mara Dobresco also holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Music from the Geneva Conservatory.

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Marco Brescia

Marco Brescia

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Italian / Brazilian organist settled in Porto (PRT), Marco Brescia is a remarkable specialist in the historically informed performance practice of Iberian and Italian keyboard music (16th — 19th centuries).Mr. Brescia performs regularly in prestigious organ and early music international festivals like Euro-Via / Festival Internazionale di Venezia, Festival Organistico Internazionale Città di Treviso e della marca trevigiana, Stagione Internazionale di concerti sugli organi storici della provincia di Alessandria, Settimana Organistica Internazionale di Piacenza (ITA), Landsberger Orgel Sommer (DEU), Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Daroca, Festival Espazos Sonoros de Galicia (ESP), Festival de Órgão da Madeira, Festival de Estoril / Lisboa (PRT), Festival Internacional de Música Colonial Brasileira e Música Antiga de Juiz de Fora (BRA), etc. The classes given by José Luis González Uriol in the early music courses of Daroca (ESP) were crucial to Mr. Brescia’s artistic development. He holds a masters in Performance of Early Music / Historic Organ (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), accomplished under the supervision of Javier Artigas and in which he was awarded with the prestigious matrícula de honor, as well as a PhD in Musicology (Universities Paris IV – Sorbonne / NOVA de Lisboa), receiving the highest commendation, très honorable à l’unanimité. Mr. Brescia is currently a researcher at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences / NOVA de Lisboa University, where he is an effective member of the CESEM – Centre for Studies of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics. Main promoter and technical coordinator of the critical restoration of the historic organ Almeida e Silva of Diamantina (1787) he was decorated by the Government of the State of Minas Gerais with the Medalha de Honra Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek.

With the soprano Rosana Orsini, Mr. Brescia recorded at the historic organ Manuel de la Viña / Ramón Cardama of the Convent of Santa Clara in Santiago de Compostela (1713/1865) the album «Angels and Mermaids: religious music in Oporto and Santiago de Compostela (18th/19th century)» (Arkhé Music, 2016). Since 2015, he has been the artistic director of the Festival Internacional de Órgão de Vila Nova de Famalicão e Santo Tirso (PRT).

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Marie Vermeulin / Pianiste

Marie Vermeulin

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Marie Vermeulin / Pianiste

A First Prize winner of the International Music Tournament (Italy, 2004), and Grand Prize winner at the Maria Canals International Music Competition (Barcelona, 2006), and the Concours International Olivier Messiaen (Paris, 2007), Marie Vermeulin is undoubtedly a major discovery of recent years. In recent years her playing has been noticed for its technical temerity, finesse, and exceptional maturity.

Despite her youth, Ms. Vermeulin boldly engages with demanding works such as Stravinsky’s Trois mouvements de Petrouchka, Schubert’sWanderer-Fantaisie, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. She also plays major contemporary works (Boulez, Murail, Messiaen…), revealing an appetite to play and immerse herself in the widest possible repertoire.

Ms. Vermeulin’s phrasing, her colorful and poetic touch, and her taste for theatrical expression all contribute to an artistic temperament that is distinguishable from the very first notes. Her concerts are greeted by unanimous praise, and listeners are delighted to discover a complete artist with a tonal palette of remarkable richness.

Before her thirtieth birthday, the pianist has already worked with the greatest conductors, (Pierre Boulez, Paul Goodwin…) and has performed in many of the finest festivals and venues in France (Cité de la Musique, Opéra Bastille…) and abroad (Spain, Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Switzerland, Belgium, Algeria, Moldova, Montenegro, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines…)

After her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale of Imola, Ms. Vermeulin developed a special affinity with French music, including the work of Olivier Messiaen. Her interest in Messiaen has been encouraged by the great Messiaen interpreter Roger Muraro with whom she has performed Visions de l’Amen for two pianos.

Coinciding with Olivier Messiaen’s centennial in 2008, Ms. Vermeulin became known for her performances of a large number of works by the composer. Since then she continues to perform Messiaen’s work regularly throughout the world, sometimes coupling her recitals with master-classes and conferences. A regular guest at the Messiaen Festival in Meije, she chose to record this album at the Church of La Grave, known for its exceptional acoustics which were an inspiration for the composer.

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Marie-Claude Bantigny & Romano Pallottini

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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.

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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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Marine Sablonnière

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A graduate of the CNSMD in Lyon in Pierre Hamon’s class, Marine Sablonnière went on to study in Barcelona with Pedro Memelsdorff, and also benefited from the teaching of Peter Holstlag, Walter van Hauwe and Dan Laurin.

She has performed under the baton of Skip Sempé (Capriccio Stravagante), Jordi Savall (Hesperion XXI), Marc Minkowski (Les Musiciens du Louvre), Raphaël Pichon (Pygmalion), Gérard Lesne (Il Seminario Musicale), Hervé Niquet (Le Concert Spirituel), Vincent Dumestre (Le Poème Harmonique), Christina Pluhar (l’Arpeggiata) and Les musiciens du Paradis. She also plays chamber music with the ensemble Résonances and with Bertrand Cuiller and the ensemble Le Caravansérail.

Marine Sablonnière holds Certificats d’Aptitude in early music and recorder, and teaches at the CRR in Marseille.

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Matthieu Stefanelli

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Born in Nice (France) on 8th March 1985, Matthieu STEFANELLI learned to play the piano at six years old at the Nice Conservatoire and received a very complete musical education (musical analysis, chamber music, choral singing and composition with Jean-Louis LUZIGNANT).

At 16 he joined the piano class of the Paris CNSM (Consevatoire National Superieur de Musique) with Jacques ROUVIER, Prisca BENOIT and Bruno RIGUTTO. He also studied musical analysis with Alain LOUVIER, chamber music with Claire DESERT, Ami FLAMMER, Yovan MARKOVITCH and Hatto BEYERLE (Quatuor BERG), conducting an orchestra with Philippe FERRO, then orchestration at the Paris CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional), still with Alain LOUVIER, then with Anthony GIRARD.

He obtained three prizes at the CNSM and several international prizes (Orléans, Brême, San Sebastian, FNAPEC, Forum de Normandie, etc…).  His career as a soloist and chamber musician took him to more than ten countries, particularly with the trio Métabole with the violinist Besa CANE and the cellist Julien LAZIGNAC, as well as the tenor Patrick GARAYT. He recorded several discs and founded the Lacryma Voce choirs in Paris in 2016.

As early as 2005, Matthieu STEFANELLI regularly met Bernard CAVANNA, who provided support and tutoring in his work as a composer.  He was one of the finalists in the Boulogne-Billancourt International Competition for young composers in 2006 when Philippe HERSANT was President of the jury.  He was nominated « Composer in residence » at the Abbaye de La Prée in 2019 and 2020 and at the Festival of Chapels on the Island of Groix (Brittany) in 2013 and 2014. In 2015 he won the Charles Oulmont Foundation pianist and composer prize, and in 2019 the Banque Populaire Foundation composer prize, who supports him for his first album Chroma with his piano concerto (Label Paraty) – in 2020.

His opera Nadir (commissioned by Levallois) is nominated for the prize of Musical Teaching by the CEMF (Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs de France) in 2018. Massy Opera commissioned a piece for a symphonic orchestra: Hypnos (2019). His Illusions, Ombres chinoises and Sonata-Partita are included in the list of exam pieces in all the Conservatories in France by the CMF (Confédération Musicale de France).

His works are published by Henry Lemoine, Combre, Gérard Billaudot, Klarthe, Delatour France and Lacroch’. Some of them have been recorded as CDs by the SpiriTango Quartet (Cabeceo), Matthieu Delage and Magali Albertini (Mélisma), Nima SARKECHIK (Passacaglia) and Tristan PFAFF for France Musique in Montpellier (Illusions).

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Maxence Pilchen

Maxence Pilchen

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 Maxence Pilchen

Beginning piano at a very early age, Maxence Pilchen won his first prize when he was eleven, at the televised RTBF Young Soloists competition in Brussels. He went on to study with well-known pianists Bernard Ringeissen and Janusz Olejniczack, and benefitted in particular from the teaching of the renowned Byron Janis in the United States, with whom he has a great affinity, performing with him in New York in early 2015. Already in 2010, Maxence had presented the European première of the film The Byron Janis Story. His vast repertoire for solo piano and piano and orchestra takes him from Bach to Rachmaninov, and from Mozart to Debussy, Beethoven, and Prokofiev, not forgetting contemporary music, whilst his painstaking approach has prompted him to delve deeper into his conception of the works of Chopin, with whom he nurtures a close relationship and to whom he is devoting his first CD. The winner of the Prix Maurice Lefranc for young musicians in Brussels and a prize laureate at international competitions in Oporto, Barcelona, Rome, and Épinal, this young Franco-Belgian musician, hailed by international critics, and much in demand in France and elsewhere, has performed with leading orchestras including the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,  and the Oporto National Orchestra, under the baton of prestigious conductors and in the some of the world’s great concert halls, from the Salzbourg Mozarteum to the Théâtre de la Monnaie and Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Maxence Pilchen’s performances have also been broadcast in the media from France to the United States and Asia.

In 2012, he also took part in a feature film by Philippe Claudel, Before the Winter Chill. Open to all types of music, his varied tastes have made him a popular performer at leading music festivals, including the Festival Chopin in Nohant, where he has been a regular guest since 2004. Maxence Pilchen has also worked with original 19th century pianos, exploring the subtlety of their nuances and their rich colours in order to develop them subsequently on modern instruments. He is supported by the Safran Foundation, where he was a prize laureate in 2014.

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