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Fuoco E Cenere, Jay Bernfeld

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Now in its fteenth year, Fuoco E Cenere has established itself as an arena for sensational musical adventures. The ensemble has ever since retained an often remarked daring in its choice of repertoire. Eager to preserve the unique freshness of the concert-going experience Fuoco E Cenere has devised quite a number of original entertainments, including recent intriguing mixes of music and puppetry, or music and haute cuisine.

Story telling through song and translating emotions and dreams into music are the missions we have readily accepted. In our musical laboratory we eagerly juxtapose, metamorphose outstanding works, permitting the listener to view these gems of a bygone era in a new light, frequently imagining entertainments that delight both young and old, the novice and the connoisseur.

Spurred on by director Jay Bernfeld’s love of song, Fuoco E Cenere has been pleased to collaborate with many of today’s nest voices as well as the stars of tomorrow. The ensemble is proud to have presented several forgotten masterpieces to an appreciative public. The ensemble boasts ten recordings covering 1000 years of music. Fantasy in Blue – Purcell meets Gershwin was hailed by Le Monde as a ‘veritable knock- out’. The ensemble’s recording of Marco da Gagliano’s little known masterpiece La Dafne was awarded the prestigious Orphée d’Or by the Académie du Disque Lyrique, and unanimously lauded by international critics.

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Mar 13
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Geneva Piano Trio

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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).

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Jan 10
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Giancarlo Crespeau

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Giancarlo Crespeau is a French pianist and composer, born in 1985. A child prodigy, he entered the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM), at the age of 13, studying with Jacques Rouvier. After graduating from the CNSM in 2001, he was awarded First Prize in Piano. The following year, he won Third Prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht.

He has performed in Europe, Russia and Asia, played in festivals, under the direction of Kun-Woo Paik and Piotr Paleczny, and performed for musical events organized by Christoph Eschenbach and the Vladimir Ashkenazy Foundation. In 2015, he entered the Mozarteum, in Salzburg.
Passionate about composition, he studied from 2008 to 2011 with composer Stéphane Delplace and
has premiered several of the latter’s works, including his Sonata, at the Philharmonie de Paris, in 2016, on Stephen Paulello’s revolutionary piano. He now collaborates with composer Kirill Zaborov, whose Vermeer Sonata and Vienna Variations receive their world premiere performance on this CD.

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Jan 08
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Isabelle Durin

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After studying at the academies of Drancy, Sceaux and the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Isabelle Durin entered the CNR of Versailles as a student of Alexandre Brussilovsky. She won her highest tribute as a violinist receiving her gold medal in 1996.

She studies for one year with Antoine Goulard, and later entered in 1997 the CNSM in Lyon in the class member of Jean Estournet and Kaziemierz Olechovski. In the same instance, Isabelle also obtained a Doctorate in philosophy in La Sorbonne.

In 1999, Isabelle toured the European round with Gustav Malher Jugend Orchester, under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst. In 2001, she obtained the DNESM of Lyon. In the same year, she was selected for the master’s class of Shmuel Ashkenasi, at the Schleswig Holstein Muzik Festival of Lübeck. She advanced to a new level after studying with well-renowned violonists including Jean-Pierre Sabouret, Boris Garlitsky, Igor Volochin, Patrice Fontanarosa and Roland Daugareil. She continued her pursuit of chamber music under the direction as of Alain Meunier and Michel Strauss.

She became a member (2003) of the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, led by Yoel Levi and now Enrique Mazzola. Followed shortly after, in December 2003 she received a bronze medal of Société d’Encouragement au Progrès at the Senate.

Isabelle Durin actively performs chamber music concerts, with special arrangement in duet violon/piano in France and abroad. She appeared as a special guest in Vietnam in 2004 and 2006, at the grand Opera and l’Espace-Centre Culturel of Hanoi.

For the past four year (2002) she has been the Artistic director of the festival musical du château de la Légion d’honneur de Pouy-sur-Vannes (Aube),  now, the “Harmonies Estivales” à Villeneuve l’Archevêque (89).

After the release of her record, “Romantisme Hébraïque” (Jade Records/Universal) with Michaël Ertzscheid, pianist, she is able to occur in France, in particular to the Museum of Art and History of the Judaism, to the Memorial of Shoah, to The synagogue ULIF of Copernic in Paris, in the community centers of Strasbourg, in the festival of Jewish music of Carpentras, as well as abroad, to the Jewish Museum of Prague ( Spanish Synagogue), to the Jewish Museum Galicia of Cracow, with the cooperation of the French Cultural centers of these two cities, in Zagreb with the support of the Jewish Community of Zagreb, in Geneva (Synagogue Beth Yacov), in Rumania with the support of the French institutes Cluj, Timisoara and Iasi. We occurred in April, 2011 in United-States and in Colombia, within the framework of the artistic tours organized by the General Delegation of the French Alliances in the United States. 

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Jul 13
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Ivan Ilić

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Pianist Ivan Ilić took degrees in mathematics and music at the University of California Berkeley before moving to Paris in 2001. He then studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, where he was awarded a Premier Prix. The City of Paris sponsored his first recording.

Ivan Ilić has released three CDs with Paraty: 24 Préludes by Claude Debussy (2008), 22 Chopin Studies by Leopold Godowsky (2012), and For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman (2015). His albums have consistently been among Paraty’s most successful and most widely disseminated.

In recent years Ilić’s approach has broadened in scope, as he searches for a way to reconcile his intellectual curiosity with his career as a soloist. In 2011 he acted in two French short films: Luc Plissonneau’s Les Mains and Benoît Maire’s Le Berger. He also began to write about music; recent articles have appeared on the websites of Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and Music & Literature. Since 2014 he has co-produced several 5-hour radio series for Swiss Radio.

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Jean-Charles Gandrille

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Born in 1982, he spent his youth on the family farm, surrounded by nature and birdsong. He first studied piano at the CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional) in Versailles, then organ at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was unanimously awarded First Prizes in Organ, Harmony and Orchestration. He then continued his organ training at the CRR in Saint-Maur, where he was unanimously awarded a gold medal.

In 2000, he met composer Thierry Escaich and worked with him on improvisation. He became a friend who encouraged and helped him in his vocation as a composer.

From 2001 to 2006, he completed his training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won the following six prizes in chronological order: Orchestration, Harmony, Organ Improvisation, Analysis, Counterpoint, and Fugue and Forms.

For 6 years, he also took up the violin and, more recently, the cello.

He studied composition during courses with the great French composer Jean-Louis Florentz, who had a lasting influence on his career and encouraged his vocation.

Between the ages of 18 and 20 he won three International Organ Improvisation Competitions: the Second Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the Chartres Competition in 2000, of which he was the only finalist, thus becoming the youngest winner in the competition’s history at the age of 18; the First Prize at the Saarbrücken Competition in 2001, and the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Yoann Pachelbel Competition in Nuremberg in 2002.

He has received various international prizes for his compositions: First Prize at the Valentino Bucchi Competition in Rome in 2001, First Prize and Audience Prize at the Orchestre de Flûtes Français de Paris Competition in 2002 and, in 2006, unanimously First Prize at the Concours de Composition pour orgue de Saint-Bertrand de Comminges.

In spring 2015 he will be the ‘Guest Composer’ at the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, where a dozen of his compositions will be performed – one of them by Renaud Capuçon.

He has received several commissions from the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded on a CD in 2015: Concerto for violin and orchestra from 2011 and Minimalist-Concerto, a double-concerto for piano, organ and orchestra, from 2012. This CD was supported by the Marcelle and Robert De Lacour Foundation.

He has also received commissions from Notre-Dame-de-Paris, sung by the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame and conducted by Henri Chalet: a work for mixed choir, fourteen hunting horns and organ, as well as a Magnificat for mixed choir, children’s choir and Great Organ, which premiered in the cathedral in 2016. The latter was released by Warner Classics in May 2020 on a CD from which Gautier Capuçon broadcast several extracts in his programme on Radio-Classique.

In April 2019, his Stabat Mater will be the last polyphony sung at Notre-Dame-de-Paris, twenty-four hours before the fire. The video has been viewed 36,000 times on YouTube. It is his most popular work, both in concert and in the liturgy.
His Christmas Oratorio, commissioned by the Cadéëm company for children’s choir, narrator, accordion and two percussionists, was premiered in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon in December 2021 by the children’s choirs of the Cathedrals of Notre-Dame-de-Paris and Saint-Jean-de-Lyon, conducted by Emilie Fleury and Thibaut Louppe, with the Trio KDM (Adélaïde Ferrière -Victoire de la musique-, percussion 1, Jean-Baptiste Bonnard, percussion 2, Anthony Millet, accordion) and the narrator Pierre Val. The Oratorio was performed again in December 2022 at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, by the Maîtrise de l’Opéra, conducted by Véronique Tollet and the Trio KDM (with Emil Kuyumcuyan, percussion 2). In December 2023, in addition to Rambouillet, it was performed again at Abbaye de Fontevraud, by the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris and KDM.

His Livre pour Violoncelle, a collection of pieces for solo cello written for Gautier Capuçon’s 40th birthday, was published in April 2023 by Éditions Billaudot.

In 2019, the French conductor Jean-Pierre Lo Ré commissioned him to write Vision Céleste for Doudouk, Kéna, Choir and Organ, followed in 2023 by “Arménie” for Choir, Orchestra and Doudouk, premiered in the Eglise de la Trinité in Paris in early June 2023 by the Chœur et Orchestre Français d’Oratorio.

In November 2023, he was awarded 1st Prize in the 10th Fernando Rielo International Sacred Music Composition Competition in Madrid, for “Tibi Domine” for choir and orchestra, ahead of 29 scores from around the world.

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Sep 01
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Jean-Christophe Revel & invités

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Jean-Christophe Revel, organ

Jean-Christophe Revel discovered the organ with Jean-Marie Meignien and more particularly the old organ. This is perhaps why he has never stopped putting music and history, ancient music and works of our time into perspective, and for 20 years he has been working on the transmission of repertoires and musical practices over time.

He perfected his art with Odile Bailleux. He was rewarded with a first prize for organ and “prix de perfectionnement” for specialization in early music. Under the direction of Georgie Durosoir, he devoted his master’s degree to the tablature of B. Schmidt Le Jeune (1607). His meeting with Jean Boyer and Jean- Charles Ablitzer is also decisive in the pursuit of his musical journey.

Convinced chamber musician, Jean-Christophe Revel accompanied artists such as James Bowman, Josep Cabré, Isabelle Desrocher, William Dongois, Eugène Green, Raphaele Kennedy, Manuel Weber, Marcel Pérès and Jean Tubéry, among others, as well as with different ensembles. (including the Musicians of Parnassus and I Sospiranti). Curious about all musical genres, he works both in the fields of early music and in those of today’s music with many composers who write for him such as J. Lenot, E. Tanguy, R. Campo, B. Pauset, E. Canat de Chizy, G. Pesson, A. Markéas, B. Mantovani, B. Clouteau or even C. Roche or G. Lorieux. He is a guest artist at numerous festivals, (in France and abroad), records for France Musique radio and european television. Since 2014 he is the pedagogical manager of the early music department of the CRR de Paris, teaches basso continuo, old repertoires on the organ at the PSPBB and is director of the keyboard festival in the Auch region, where he is the permanent organist at the magnificent console of the Jean de Joyeuse instrument at the cathédrale of Sainte-Marie.

 

Vincent Lièvre-Picard, haute-contre

He studied at the Tours and Paris Conservatoires, and then at the Conservatoire Supérieur. He graduated from these three establishments in Lyrical Singing (unanimous First Prize) and in Early Music (Post-Graduate Diploma with honours). His teachers were Noémi Rime and Howard Crook in Early Music, and Ana Maria Miranda and Anne-Marie Rodde in Lyrical Singing. He studied with Udo Reinemann for several years, and he also took master-classes with Alain Buet. His current coach is François-Nicolas Geslot.

At the opera, Vincent Lièvre-Picard has performed works by Charpentier, Rameau, Mozart, Haydn, Offenbach and Carl Orff: the title role of Charpentier’s Actéon at the Théâtre de Bordeaux, Rameau’s Zoroastre in Marseille, Cecco in Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna in Angers and Die Erzähler in Orff’s Der Mond at the Opéra National de Paris-Bastille. He was Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in Toulon, Monostatos, and the Servants in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Grenoble. He recently sang Arnalta in Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea conducted by René Jacobs, and then took part in the world premiere of Le Petit Prince by Michaël

Lévinas, conducted by Arie van Beek and staged by Lilo Baur – in which he sang L’Aviateur – first in Lausanne, then in Lille, at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva and finally at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Gentilhomme staged by Denis Podalydès. In the concert hall, under Michel Corboz’s impetus, Vincent’s renderings of the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions have acquired an international prominence; he also frequently performs pieces from the French Baroque repertoire – ideally suited to his effortless high notes and his understanding of the proper style required for the “French haute-contre” parts – and oratorios by Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Orff and Britten. .Several recordings of his are about to be published. They will complement a discography that can already boast 30 releases, of which several have been awarded prestigious distinctions (Diapason d’Or, Choc of Le Monde de la Musique, Prix Massenet for the best complete recording of a French opera, CD of the month of the Goldberg Magazine…).

Lisandro Nesis, taille

Born in Argentina, Lisandro Nesis started his artistic studies at the Buenos Aires Conservatory, then moved on to study early music singing in France at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has also participated in many early music workshops and academies (Ambronay, Royaumont…) and trained as an actor in commedia dell’arte (Carlo Boso, Alberto Nason) and Baroque gesture (Nicole Rouillé, Benjamin Lazar), as well as in American musical theater interpretation (Jen Waldman & Andrew Byrne in New York, Julie Atherton & Paul Spicer in London). He has performed as a soloist in over fifteen countries with prestigious ensembles such as Le Poème Harmonique, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Il Seminario Musicale, Elyma, La Tempête, Les Nouveaux Caractères, Cappella Mediterranea… Within the Baroque repertoire, he has performed the opera roles of Octavio (L’Europe Galante by A. Campra, W. Christie, cond.), Ruggiero (La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina by F. Caccini, G. Garrido, cond.), Pastore and Spirto (L’Orfeo by C. Monteverdi, S. d’Hérin, cond.), Phoebus (The Fairy Queen by H. Purcell, S. d’Hérin, cond.), Licas (Scylla et Glaucus by J. M. Leclair, S.d’Hérin, cond.), Sailor (Dido & Aeneas by H. Purcell, K. Weiss, cond.), to name a few. He has also performed as a tenor soloist in two international touring productions of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière and Lully, staged by Benjamin Lazar with Le Poème Harmonique (V. Dumestre, cond. – DVD Alpha) and by Jérôme Deschamps with Les Musiciens du Louvre (M. Minkowski, cond.). He also performed, to critical acclaim, the title-role in the opera Atys by J.-B. Lully in a historically-staged production at Château de Meudon for the reopening of the Grand Dauphin’s Orangerie.

He appears regularly in solo concerts and Baroque recitals in France, Germany and South America and has an extensive discography.
Lisandro Nesis is a member of the faculty of the early music department of the Paris Conservatory (CRR de Paris), where he teaches Baroque gesture, historic pronunciation, declamation and theatricality.

 

Jean-Manuel Candenot, basse-taille

A pupil of Lionel Sarrazin, Jean-Manuel Candenot performs a wide range of repertoire from baroque music to contemporary creation. In this field, he is a member of the Musicatreize ensemble (Victoire de la Musique 2007). He regularly performs oratorio and opera in France and abroad (Brazil, United States, Colombia, Peru, Netherlands). He has been invited to perform in numerous festivals such as La Chaise Dieu, Aix-en- Provence, Salzburg.

His projects will lead him to participate in the creation of two chamber operas: “El Reto” by Paul Desenne, and “Allongé sur le Divin” by François Rossé, and he will sing the role of Jesus in the “St John Passion” by Bach, in Toulouse (Festival: Passe ton Bach d’abord). Finally, he will be the title role in “Don Pasquale” (Donizetti) in the summer of 2022, and will record works by the American-Swedish composer Kali Malone as part of a video recording for the Blogothèque de Paris.

Passionate about teaching and research, he gives singing lessons at all levels.

Jean-Manuel Candenot is a member of the Radio France Choir (M. Batič), as Bass.

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Jean-François Novelli

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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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Jean-Jacques Bedikian

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In 2010, he was awarded 1st prize at the J.S. Bach competition at the Marseille Conservatoire; in 2013, he was a prizewinner at the Corbelin International Piano Competition; a semi-finalist at the Lyon International Piano Competition, he was selected the same year for the Virtuoses du Coeur competition in Paris.

He joined Boyan Vodenitcharov’s class at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel for his Bachelor’s degree, and also studied with Fernando Rossano at the Crr de st-Maur.

He studied in the Cycle d’Excellence at the CRR in Rueil-Malmaison and in Boulogne Billancourt in the class of Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt in Paris. He has also taken part in numerous masterclasses and received advice from Ilja Scheps, Cyril Huvé, Désiré N’Kaoua, Éric Tanguy, Philippe Hersant and Claire Désert.

In 2015, he took part in a series of concerts conducted by Vladimir Cosma.

In 2019, he had the honour of being invited to sit on the jury of the Concours International Music Festival Paris.

He has since performed in recital on numerous occasions, including the Chopin-Sand Festival at La Seyne-sur-Mer, the Fort Napoléon, the Castellet Festival, the 6th World Water Forum – Pigna (Corsica), the Palais Longchamp, the Mozart Amphitheatre in Avignon, the Abbaye Saint Victor, the Musée de la Marine in Toulon, the Palais du Pharo, for the Lions Club, the Sahak Mesrop Cultural Centre, the Maison de la Philosophie in Marseille…

A member of the contemporary music ensemble “Da Pacem”, he also practices improvisation, jazz and film music.

Since 2018, he has collaborated regularly with mandolinist Vincent Beer-Demander on concerts, premieres and recordings of works by Vladimir Cosma, Richard Galliano, Jean Claude Petit, Claude Bolling, Mike Marshall, etc.

Deeply attached to his Armenian roots, he performs regularly with Doudouk player Levon Khozian, with whom he will be recording “Mayrig” in 2019 alongside mandolinist Vincent Beer-Demander, an extract from Henri Verneuil’s film and music by Jean Claude Petit.

Passionate about teaching, he teaches piano at the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Marseille.

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