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[New Album] Jean-Charles Gandrille, prolific pianist and composer, is launching his second album for the Paraty label. This ambitious project has the invaluable support of the Fondation du Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise. Discover his new opus and let yourself be carried away by his unique musical universe!
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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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Duo Gagey-Bleton
Eléonore and Guillaume met while in high school. They crossed paths again several years later, and their musical connection was evident. They then embarked on numerous concerts featuring programs of Italian, Neapolitan, and French music, and finally recorded their first album with a collection of Spanish melodies. From this album emerged a staged concert concept by Sol Espeche, exploring the idea of romance, oral tradition, and memory.
Eléonore Gagey
Mezzo-soprano Éléonore Gagey trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under Brigitte Balleys and Hiroko Kawamichi. She has performed roles such as Cherubin (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Carmen (Carmen, Reine du cirque) at the Avignon Opera, Cillene and La Difficoltà in a work by Carlo Pallavicino in Potsdam and Beaune with Les Talens Lyriques (conducted by C. Rousset), Rosine (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Théâtre de Montereau, Carmen (Bizet) in South Korea, Clotilde (Norma, Bellini) at the Lausanne Opera, and as solo alto in Verdi’s Requiem in Lausanne. During the 23-24 season, she performed the role of Aristeo in L’Orfeo by Sartorio with the Artaserse ensemble under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky, touring with the Arcal company in France. Éléonore also has a strong affinity for chamber music and regularly performs in recitals with pianist Martin Jollet or guitarist Guillaume Bleton. She was the third-place winner in Opera at the International Competition of Marmande and is a recipient of the Royaumont Foundation scholarship.
Guillaume Bleton
Guitarist, composer, and arranger Guillaume Bleton began his musical journey with rock and jazz, but it was at the conservatory that he developed a passion for classical music, interpretation, and composition. He studied guitar, writing, analysis, orchestration, and music history at conservatories in Paris. He then obtained his diploma with honors from the Pôle Supérieur de Lille, followed by pedagogical training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he earned his Certificate of Aptitude.
As a concert performer, he frequently collaborates in chamber music settings with flute (Duo Lazare, Duo Tallet-Bleton), voice (Duo Gagey-Bleton), violin (Duo Inao with Florian Perret), and cello (Duo Nouhaud-Bleton). He has recently performed alongside soprano Nadine Sierra, pianist Thomas Enhco, violinist Jordan Victoria, and accordionist Félicien Brut. As an arranger for numerous concert projects, he initially developed his composition skills through collaborations with dance. Associated with the Les Orpailleurs company since 2009, he has worked with them on multiple occasions as an instrumental and electro-acoustic composer, performer, and improviser. Returning to his early influences, he composes and performs with his progressive rock duo PRIISM. These diverse styles infuse his instrumental music inspired by Ligeti or Dutilleux, both in language and in the exploration of timbres and textures, as heard in Le Bateau ivre, premiered in July 2022 by the Cordissime quintet, or in Mémoires de Nuit, premiered in March 2024 by Duo Inao. In addition to his performing and composing career, Guillaume teaches guitar at the CRR de Créteil.
Duo Gagey-Bleton
Eléonore and Guillaume met while in high school. They crossed paths again several years later, and their musical connection was evident. They then embarked on numerous concerts featuring programs of Italian, Neapolitan, and French music, and finally recorded their first album with a collection of Spanish melodies. From this album emerged a staged concert concept by Sol Espeche, exploring the idea of romance, oral tradition, and memory.
Eléonore Gagey
Mezzo-soprano Éléonore Gagey trained at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under Brigitte Balleys and Hiroko Kawamichi. She has performed roles such as Cherubin (Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Carmen (Carmen, Reine du cirque) at the Avignon Opera, Cillene and La Difficoltà in a work by Carlo Pallavicino in Potsdam and Beaune with Les Talens Lyriques (conducted by C. Rousset), Rosine (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Théâtre de Montereau, Carmen (Bizet) in South Korea, Clotilde (Norma, Bellini) at the Lausanne Opera, and as solo alto in Verdi’s Requiem in Lausanne. During the 23-24 season, she performed the role of Aristeo in L’Orfeo by Sartorio with the Artaserse ensemble under the direction of Philippe Jaroussky, touring with the Arcal company in France. Éléonore also has a strong affinity for chamber music and regularly performs in recitals with pianist Martin Jollet or guitarist Guillaume Bleton. She was the third-place winner in Opera at the International Competition of Marmande and is a recipient of the Royaumont Foundation scholarship.
Guillaume Bleton
Guitarist, composer, and arranger Guillaume Bleton began his musical journey with rock and jazz, but it was at the conservatory that he developed a passion for classical music, interpretation, and composition. He studied guitar, writing, analysis, orchestration, and music history at conservatories in Paris. He then obtained his diploma with honors from the Pôle Supérieur de Lille, followed by pedagogical training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he earned his Certificate of Aptitude.
As a concert performer, he frequently collaborates in chamber music settings with flute (Duo Lazare, Duo Tallet-Bleton), voice (Duo Gagey-Bleton), violin (Duo Inao with Florian Perret), and cello (Duo Nouhaud-Bleton). He has recently performed alongside soprano Nadine Sierra, pianist Thomas Enhco, violinist Jordan Victoria, and accordionist Félicien Brut. As an arranger for numerous concert projects, he initially developed his composition skills through collaborations with dance. Associated with the Les Orpailleurs company since 2009, he has worked with them on multiple occasions as an instrumental and electro-acoustic composer, performer, and improviser. Returning to his early influences, he composes and performs with his progressive rock duo PRIISM. These diverse styles infuse his instrumental music inspired by Ligeti or Dutilleux, both in language and in the exploration of timbres and textures, as heard in Le Bateau ivre, premiered in July 2022 by the Cordissime quintet, or in Mémoires de Nuit, premiered in March 2024 by Duo Inao. In addition to his performing and composing career, Guillaume teaches guitar at the CRR de Créteil.
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).
NEW ALBUM] : le label Paraty est heureux d’annoncer le lancement du prochain album de l’Ensemble Vedado, dirigé par Ronald Martin Alonso – viole de gambe. Il s’agît du 3ème album pour le Paraty Label Discographique, et le 4ème est déjà en préparation. Bravo à toute l’équipe et nous vous remercions pour votre confiance.
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