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Duo Anthemis

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The duo Anthemis was born in 2017 out of an irresistible need for chamber music on the part of its two protagonists, both originally from Nancy. One, a concert pianist and professor at the Metz Conservatory, the other, the principal clarinetist of the National Orchestra of Metz Grand-Est. These kindred spirits recognized each other behind the scenes and in the antechambers of the beautiful concert halls where they have had the privilege of performing regularly. For six years now, they have tirelessly explored the most beautiful pages of French, English, American, and German chamber music in order to offer them to you generously in concerts and recordings, without artifice, like a beautiful bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers.

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La Chapelle Rhénane

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Founded in 2001 by tenor Benoît Haller, the Chapelle Rhénane is an ensemble of solo singers and instrumentalists. The team is dedicated to revisiting the great works of the European vocal repertoire. Its ambition is, through concerts and recordings, to reveal in these works the emotion, humanity and modernity capable of appealing to a wide contemporary audience. The challenge constantly taken up by the Chapelle Rhénane is to demonstrate that so-called classical music does not belong to the past, that it is not a collection of sound monuments to be contemplated with distance and respect, that it is not the preserve of a learned and privileged elite.

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Duo Anthemis

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The duo Anthemis was born in 2017 out of an irresistible need for chamber music on the part of its two protagonists, both originally from Nancy. One, a concert pianist and professor at the Metz Conservatory, the other, the principal clarinetist of the National Orchestra of Metz Grand-Est. These kindred spirits recognized each other behind the scenes and in the antechambers of the beautiful concert halls where they have had the privilege of performing regularly. For six years now, they have tirelessly explored the most beautiful pages of French, English, American, and German chamber music in order to offer them to you generously in concerts and recordings, without artifice, like a beautiful bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers.

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Aurélienne Brauner & Lorène de Ratuld

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Aurélienne Brauner, violoncelliste website
Aurélienne Brauner a été nommée super-soliste à l’Orchestre National de France en 2021.
Elle se produit sur scène en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et en Asie, notamment à la Philharmonie de Paris, au Théâtre du Châtelet, au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, à l’Auditorium de Bordeaux, au Palais des Beaux- Arts de Bruxelles, au Suntory Hall de Tokyo, au Théâtre de Tunis, Forum Grimaldi à Monaco, Conservatoire Tchaïkovski et Philharmonie de Moscou, Palazzetto Bru Zane à Venise, ainsi que dans plusieurs festivals en France et à l’étranger (festival de musique de chambre d’Oslo, Journées Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury, festival d’Aix-en-Provence, festival 1001 Notes, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Abbaye de Royaumont, Château d’Örbyhus en Suède…).
Révélation Classique de l’Adami en 2007, Aurélienne Brauner se voit remettre en 2009 le prix de la Fondation Del Duca par l’Académie des Beaux-Arts pour récompenser le début de sa carrière musicale. Aux Pays- Bas, elle a été sélectionnée par le « International Holland Music Sessions » en tant que « New Masters on tour » pour un concert au Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam (2010-2011).

En soliste, elle a joué avec l’Orchestre National de Lille, l’Orchestre de la Philharmonie de Baden-Baden, l’Orchestre de Douai/Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, l’Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine et l’Orchestre de chambre de Lyon dans les concertos de Lalo, Haydn, Tchaïkovski, Dvorák et le Double concerto de Brahms avec Alexandra Soumm…
En musique de chambre, on a pu l’entendre aux côtés de Patrice Fontanarosa, Paul Katz, Svetlin Roussev, François Salque, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Maxim Vengerov, Thierry Escaich, Sarah Nemtanu… Avec le Trio Gallien, composé de Tristan Liehr (violon) et d’Emmanuel Christien (piano), elle remporte en février 2018 le 3e prix du prestigieux concours de musique chambre « Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne » à Graz, et, en septembre de la même année, le 1er prix et le prix du public au 23e concours « Gaetano Zinetti » à Vérone.
En 2016, son enregistrement consacré aux œuvres de David Monrad Johansen pour le label SIMAX Classic en Norvège a été nommé aux Grammy norvégiens (Spellemanprisen).

Lorène de Ratuld, pianiste website
Au fil des concerts et des enregistrements, Lorène de Ratuld donne à entendre un vaste répertoire :
centré sur la période romantique et la musique française, il fait aussi la part belle aux compositeurs et compositrices méconnus, aux œuvres rares ou inédites et aux compositeurs d’aujourd’hui (N. Bacri, K. Beffa, S. Bortoli, P. Farago, N. Mondon, F. Mulsant).
Élève de Brigitte Engerer, elle reçoit une riche formation au CNSMD de Paris : après son prix de piano avec mention Très Bien à l’unanimité, elle se perfectionne auprès de Jean-François Heisser (cycle de perfectionnement piano), Christian Ivaldi (musique de chambre) et Anne Grappotte (accompagnement vocal).
Lauréate du Concours International Piano Seiler en 2003, elle obtient en 2004 plusieurs prix au Concours International Piano Campus, dont celui du magazine Classica-Répertoire qui publie son premier récital (CD « Découverte »). En 2005, elle reçoit le Prix Lucien Durosoir avec Geneviève Laurenceau et, en 2011, le Prix Pro Musicis.
En récital ou en musique de chambre, Lorène de Ratuld est l’invitée des festivals d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Piano à Auxerre, Matinales d’Arles, Serres d’Auteuil, Piano en Valois, Festival Berlioz, Festival de l’Epau, Festival 1001 Notes, Journées Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury, Moments musicaux de Chalosse… et se produit également en Allemagne, Autriche, Belgique, Italie (Fondation Bru Zane), Roumanie, Suède et dans différents pays d’Afrique.
Outre son activité en duo avec Aurélienne Brauner, elle joue aux côtés du violoniste François Pineau-Benois, des chanteuses Roselyne Martel-Bonnal et Valérie Condoluci, et des Solistes de l’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris et de l’Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine. Attirée par le théâtre, elle participe à plusieurs spectacles du chanteur et comédien Mario Hacquard.
Sa discographie reflète ses choix artistiques et son engagement auprès de différents artistes et labels : Récital Dutilleux/Beffa (« Coup de Cœur » de l’Académie Charles Cros), Œuvre pour violon et piano de L. Durosoir (« Gramophone recommends »), Sonates pour violoncelle et piano de C. Franck, G. Fauré et L. Vierne avec Aurélienne Brauner. Récemment ont paru Piano Works de F. Mulsant (« 5 Étoiles » de Classica) et l’intégrale de L’Œuvre pour piano de J. de La Presle (« 5 Diapasons »), inédite au disque.

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Duo In VENTO

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Marion Fermé is a recorder player with an international career. She masters both the ancient and contemporary repertoires for the recorder with equal ease.

She is a prizewinner in international competitions (Musica Antiqua in Bruges as a recorder trio and in Montreal as a soloist). She has performed in numerous festivals throughout Europe with her various ensembles. Marion Fermé is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, as well as the Sorbonne (BA in English and Russian) and Sciences Po Paris.

She has been artistic director of the ensemble The Theater of Music since 2006, which became its eponymous ensemble in 2013. A fan of unusual instrumental combinations, she also has a duo In VENTO, accordion/recorder, which plays music by Bach, Vivaldi and contemporary music. Committed to contemporary music as a soloist and in ensembles, she works with the German ensemble Effusions and regularly collaborates with composers to create new compositions for the recorder.

She teaches recorder and chamber music (Certificat d’aptitude de musique ancienne) at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Paris (14th arrondissement).

Ambre Vuillermoz, accordion

Ambre Vuillermoz is a founding member of a number of ensembles with varied aesthetics, in which she seeks to make the most of the rich potential of her instrument, always in a creative and demanding spirit. She explores the original chamber repertoire and transcriptions with Avès duo (piano and accordion), In VENTO (recorder and accordion), opera (l’Orpiment company), jazz (Ouroboros) and world music (Syrto). As a soloist, she makes the most of her instrument’s repertoire and regularly works with composers to develop new works. She is also particularly attached to eighteenth-century harpsichord music, playing the key works (Bach, Scarlatti, etc.) as well as those by lesser-known composers that she likes to rediscover on the accordion.

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Sophie Lacaze

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After graduating in engineering, Sophie Lacaze turned to music. A graduate of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, she went on to study composition at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena (Italy) with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone, attended Pierre Boulez’s classes at the Collège de France and took up musical theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Centre Acanthes. In 2002, she was invited to take up a residency at the Electronic Music Unit at the University of Adelaide (Australia).

In 2023, her catalogue includes over 80 works, ranging from solo pieces to orchestral works, including two operas and mixed works, which are regularly performed in France and abroad.
Performers include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (dir. Pierre-André Valade), the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (dir. Aziz Shokhakimov), the Orchestre National d’Auvergne (dir. Baldur Brönnimann), the Orchestre de Perpignan Méditerranée (dir. Daniel Tosi), the BBC Symphony Orchestra (dir. Sakari Oramo), I Solisti Veneti (dir. Claudio Scimone), the Orchestra Națională Radio România (conductor Horia Andreescu), the Orchestra Filarmonica Mihail Jora di Bacau (conductor Ovidiu Balan), the Orchestre de Flûtes Français (conductor Pierre-Alain Biget), the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (conductor Bruno Mantovani), the Chœur Calliope (conductor Régine Théodoresco), the Mora Vocis ensemble, …

A winner of several international competitions, Sophie Lacaze has also been awarded the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs (2009) and the SACEM’s Claude Arrieu Prize (2010).

Sophie Lacaze does not belong to any particular school or musical movement, but has forged a personal and original aesthetic that seeks to restore to music its original vocations, such as ritual, incantation and dance, and its links with nature, and in which timbre plays a central role. It was during her first trip to Australia in 1996 that she discovered the culture of the Aborigines. Since then, it has been essential for her to return to the very essence of the art of music, to its fundamental purity.

A committed artist, she has been defending contemporary music for over 15 years, directing festivals such as Turbulences Sonores in Montpellier and Musiques Démesurées in Clermont-Ferrand, and giving lectures. She is also the founder of the French association of women composers Plurielles 34.

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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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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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Octetology

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Since its creation in 2020, Octetology has won the first prize in the international competition of Castelfidardo in Italy, in the “Piazzolla Awards” category; and has received some great programming (Théâtre du Châtelet, FIP concert live Studio at 104 de Radio France, Nuits de Nacres, Nuits musicales d’Uzès, Festival Tango de Gennevilliers, Générations France musique Live…). Dedicated to Astor Piazzolla’s flamboyant and emblematic Octeto Buenos Aires, these eight musicians retrace the origins of Tango Nuevo to deliver a resolutely modern interpretation.
When he left Paris to return to Buenos Aires in 1955, Astor Piazzolla was determined to “get tango out of the monotony in which it had become mired”, by overturning its codes and traditions through the creation of new music. He surrounded himself with some of the most emblematic musicians of the genre (A. Stampone, L. Federico, E. Francini…) to create the “Octeto Buenos Aires”, a short-lived formation (1955-1958) that would profoundly influence the music of Buenos Aires and that would remain one of the composer’s most avant-garde attempts. Despite the originality of the proposal, the virtuosity of the performers and the flamboyant writing, the project did not receive the hoped-for response from the public and connoisseurs, which led Piazzolla to abandon it and destroy all the parts of this immense repertoire.

Through extensive research and rewriting, Octetology has succeeded in reconstituting this lost repertoire, never recreated since its disappearance over 60 years ago.

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