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It is a real artistic frenzy which pushes Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach [saxophone] and Wang Wenjiao [piano] to reclaim all repertoires, including transcriptions from Bach to Poulenc, while remaining at the forefront in the era of contemporary music. Dedicatees of several works, the two musicians collaborate regularly with composers such as Marco Stroppa, Frédéric Durieux, Bruno Mantovani… The cultural field of the two inexhaustible-energy performers has led them to play in places such as the Museum of Orsay, the Orangerie Museum, the Maritime Museum, the “Grand Salon des Invalides”, the “Cité de la Musique” or the castle of Nantes. Duo Azar is regularly invited to perform in France and abroad. Summer 2011 led them especially to Beijing and to Buenos Aires for concerts and public lectures.
Formed in 2008, Duo Azar obtained a Master of chamber music (First Class Honours voted unanimously with honors) in 2012 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the classes of Claire Désert and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Duo Azar recently distinguished itself by obtaining prizes in the Saxiana international chamber music competition with saxophone, the Adolphe Sax International Competition / Paris, the international competition of Dreux. Having both studied at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSMDP), Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach and Wenjiao Wang are also both prize-winners at numerous national and international competitions – Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Safran Foundation, Alfred Reinhold Foundation, the National Competition of China. A first album based on Spanish music and tango (Duo Azar plays Albéniz, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla) was released in March 2011 at P.A.I Records. A second album around the music of Bach and Hindemith, featuring special guest Pierre Lenert, Viola Soloist of the Paris National Opera Orchestra, was released in September 2019 by Paraty Label – PIAS Harmonia Mundi.
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Sensible, précis et réfléchi, du très beau et bon Prokofiev que nous propose le duo Gjezi/Lancien. Rarement nous avions ressenti autant d’émotions à l’écoute d’un disque de musique de chambre. Ici, nous sommes sous le charme à travers ces trois ouvrages d’une complexité redoutable. Dans les cinq Mélodies, la souplesse de jeu, la spécialité du son et la générosité sont au service des différentes et nombreuses atmosphères recherchées par le duo. Ajoutant à cela une rondeur d’attaque et une virtuosité qui ne se veut clairement pas démonstrative, tout est chantant et poétique. L’approche est linéaire, multipliant les couleurs et les saveurs qui nous rappellent avec émotion quelques parfums suaves. Des moments suspendus, magiques en somme, dont le retour à la réalité s’opère par divers soubresauts. Dans la Première Sonate, l’auditeur est face à une pensée dramatique d’une rare profondeur. Dans le premier mouvement, les deux artistes vont au fond des idées et ne cherchent pas la facilité. La rondeur des graves, associée à une ligne mélodique juste énoncée, nous entraîne vers un second mouvement percutant, acide et franc. La douceur du troisième mouvement, telle de l’eau coulant délicatement, annonce la course effrénée aux allures de fête du dernier mouvement. Si la technique est parfaite, comment exprimer le ressenti face à tant de tableaux et paysages si convaincants ? C’est par une forme de mélancolie que débute la Sonate n°2. Le duo fouille chaque recoin de la partition et en tire des accents expressifs conséquents. Le second mouvement est dansant, virevoltant, à l’inverse du troisième qui se rapproche d’une berceuse. Tout est naturel, sensible, avec des rapports d’une grande bienveillance. Enfin, c’est la fête, ça bouge, mais toujours avec le souci du détail et du respect du matériau. La complicité de ces deux amis, clairement affichée ici, fait de cet enregistrement une réelle leçon de musique.
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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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