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Ensemble Isabella d’Este

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The ensemble Isabella d’Este was founded in 1985 by Ariane Maurette. Then resident in Geneva (CH), it explored at once many repertoires from Baroque and Renaissance and played in many European countries.

The core, composed of recorder and viol players, was enriched according to the occasion by singers, lute and harpsichord players, violinists, harp and italian cornetto players…

Three records were born during the first ten years: « Les Délices (the Delights) », French baroque music (label Nuova Era), « The image of melancholy » English renaissance music (Symphonia) and « Andrea Falconieri, il primo libro di canzone, 1650 » (Symphonia, new edited by Pan Classics and available on internet).

The following years were dedicated to very miscellaneous programs and numerous projects in France, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. The duet carrying the same name (Ariane Maurette and Caroline Howald) performed also nearly everywhere in Europe.

The ensemble, nowadays under the direction of Caroline Howald, has just recorded (2015) for the label Paraty « Ferveur, Louange et Passion », (Fervour, Praise and Passion) German music of the late seventeenth century.

Whatever the casting of the group or the program, the ensemble Isabella d’Este always puts passion at the centre of its work: a taste for details and precision allows an infinite mutual freedom; the yearning to serve, beyond simple expressivity, the spiritual dimension of the music, eggs on each and every artist to transcend his limits, which creates a real harmony within the ensemble and with the audience.

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Jul 18
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Mickael Viegas

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Mickael Viegas

He was born in Paris on the 12th March 1987. He was a young child when he comes to Portugal and at nine years old he starts studying classical guitar at the Conservatório Regional do Algarve.

While continuing his studies, he also attended several workshops, lectures and classes in the musical field both in Portugal and abroad under the supervision of the most renown interpreters and composers for guitar, namely, Master Classes with Roland Dyens, Leo Brouwer, Sergio and Odair Assad, Alberto Ponce, among   others.

In 2006 he enters in the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa where he gets the degree in Music, in the Fingering Strings Performing Variant (Guitar), finishing the course with a performance as a soloist guitar player for the Concert nr. 6 by Leo Brouwer, accompanied by a strings orchestra from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

In 2009 enters in the Universidad de Extremadura and , in a protocol with this institution, he attends classes at the distinguished Luthier Paulino Barnabé’s home, in Madrid, where he gets his master’s degree in the course “Classical Guitar and Musical Interpretation”, under the supervision of the Spanish master Ricardo Gállen.

Nowadays he is a teacher at the AMEC/Metropolitana in Lisbon.

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Jul 18
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Sébastien Llinares

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Sébastien Llinares was born in 1978 in Toulouse. He received a classical education and studied musicology and jazz, then joined Cristian Marcia’s class at the Conservatoire Frédéric Chopin in Paris. In 2007 and 2008, he attracted attention during the International Academy of Music of Cagliary (Sardinia) where he won a scholarship given by the Zaleski Foundation. This award permitted him to improve himself with Rafael Andia and to get the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution and the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris.

Rafael Andia says about him : « Sébastien has a unique and topflight talent. An unfailing technique, combined with a rare sound, gives his music an uncommon strength. He plays the guitar with such ease that you never have the impression that he makes an effort ­­­– impression generally given even by the greatest guitar players. »

Sébastien Llinares is both interested in early and contemporary music and plays all types of guitars : baroque, romantic, classical and electric. Attached to the great tradition of the Spanish guitar, he plays the repertoire, looking for a new romanticism in which formal clarity, historical consciousness and spontaneity try to get a dialogue going between different styles and periods. Sébastien is also interested in composition. He composes or transcribes unpublished pieces for guitar, trying to connect the vocabulary of the contemporary guitar to the expressive power of the guitar tradition.

He plays as a soloist, in chamber groups and in ensembles. He is regularly invited to appear on stage and in festivals, in France and in Europe.

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Wim Winters

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Wim Winters was born in 1972 in Lommel, Belgium. He began his musical studies in 1984; one year later he took part in the prestigious “International Competition for Amateurs” of the City of Boxtel, the Netherlands. At age 13, Mr. Winters was awarded First Prize in the competition and subsequently decided to pursue a career in music.

In 1990 Mr. Winters was accepted to the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he studied with Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ) and Willem Brons (piano). In 1998 he completed his studies with the highest honors, earning two First Prizes in pedagogy and performance. During his conservatory years Mr. Winters also studied with Jean Boyer, Hans van Nieuwkoop, Hans Davidsson and Harald Vogel.

In 1994 he won both the Baroque and Romantic prizes at the “Studenten Orgelconcours” in Leiben, the Netherlands. Between 1997 and 1999 he took Third Prize in the following three international competitions: “Music Antiqua Bruges”, Maastricht’s “Europe and the Organ” and “Schnitger”, in Alkmaar.

Mr. Winters has performed in numerous organ festivals in France, Germany, Holland, Spain and Belgium. In addition, Mr. Winters is actively involved in restoration projects of historic organs throughout Flanders.

Eager to explore other keyboards, Mr. Winters devotes a substantial part of his interpretive work to the clavichord. Since 2008 he regularly performs works by the Bach family, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven on a five-octave unfretted clavichord built by the renowned Belgian, Joris Potvlieghe.

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Jul 18
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Les Lunaisiens

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Lunaisians ? Of a sentence that is simple, but not banal (coming as it does from Raymond Queneau), we have made our commitment, and taken our ensemble’s name.

What is the sentence?

‘The Lunaisians are the inhabitants of the moon…’

We seized upon this inescapable definition, as beautiful as it is playful; to define and claim the artists we wish to be: Lunaisians.

Our creed: to meet, through music and through words (since we are singers of words) the multitudinous creations that abound in the musical repertoire; to open the borders between eras and shine as much on a madrigal by Gesualdo as on a pirouette of Offenbach’s, a Bach chorale or Béranger’s songs.

True, Lunaisians are great dreamers, since like Pythagoras they dream of the ‘music of the spheres’… But it was starting from a dream that led men to walk on the moon.

Already, several festivals and institutions have accompanied this ensemble as they serve their apprenticeship to this musical dream.  These include the Paris Opéra Comique, the Cité de la musique, the Utrecht Festival, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Venice’s Palazetto Bru Zane, the Pontoise, Prague, and Île de France Festivals, the Conservatoire de Genève, the region of Picardy, etc…

Artistic Director : Arnaud Marzorati

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CLIP video. CD La complainte de Lacenaire, Arnaud Marzorati / La Clique des Lunaisiens from classiquenews.com on Vimeo.

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SpiriTango Quartet

SpiriTango Quartet

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SpiriTango Quartet

Closeness, friendship, enthusiasm and creativity: these four words sum up the SpiriTango Quartet.

In their first five years, their rich and varied repertoire has covered a mixture of traditional tango, nuevo tango, contemporary music and original compositions.

After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, under Ami Flammer and Jean-Noël Crocq, they released their first album, Rage, in 2003, which was dedicated to the music of Astor Piazzolla then in March 2015 their second album Chin Chin, opening their world to other composers. They studied further under Richard Galliano, Hervé Sellin, Juan José Mosalini as well as the Quatuor Ebène.

They performed on the national and international stages: Les Invalides & La Sorbonne in Paris, the opera house (amphitheatre) in Lyon, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels… They were invited to perform at many festivals, including Festival Radio France Montpellier, Pianos Folies Touquet, Piano Campus, les Pianissimes, Le Printemps des Alizés (Morocco), Jeunes Talents, Concerts de Poche… Their music is regularly broadcast on France Musique , France Inter, RFI , FIP , Radio Classique.

Their artistic project hinges around very personal interpretations at the crossroads of tango and classical music, each world enriching the other. On the other hand, in selecting the repertoire for this ensemble, they endeavour to create and promote new works from contemporary composers, particularly showcasing the new generation. They have worked with Graciane Finzi, Mathieu Stefanelli, Alexandre Fontaines —among others— and plan to collaborate with Etienne Kippelen, Olivier Calmel and Andrea Marsili.

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Jul 18
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Romina Lischka & Sofie Vanden Eynde

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Romina et Sofie 2012

Romina Lischka was born in 1982 in Vienna, Austria. Her interest in early music brought her to the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzeland, where she studied viola da gamba with Paolo Pandolfo. She received her soloist’s diploma with distinction in 2006. Romina then continued her studies with Philippe Pierlot at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, completing her Master’s degree with distinction in 2008.

Since 2008, she has developed her activities as a concert artist, playing with ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Gli Angeli Genève and others, performing in Europe, Japan and United States.

She has recorded for the labels Ricercar, Flora, Coro, Christophorus, Musica Ficta and Fuga libera.

During the 2012-13 season, she was chosen as a Rising Star by BOZAR and Concertgebouw Amsterdam in the early music category. Her first solo CD, Pièces de viole de Sieur de Machy, received a Diapason 5.

In 2011 Romina set up the Hathor Consort. Her ensemble’s first CD, a recording of John Dowland’s Lachrimae, was well received by the press (IRR outstanding, 10 Klara nominations, 4 Diapasons).

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Sofie Vanden Eynde was born in 1978 in Belgium. She studied lute and theorbo with Philippe Malfeyt at Ghent Conservatory and with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

In 2006 her home town awarded her a prize in recognition of her artistic achievements. With the ensemble Le Jardin Secret she was awarded both first prize and the audience prize at the 2007 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition.

She performs with the Hathor Consort, Encantar, Bel Ayre, l’Achéron, and as a duo with Romina Lischka and Thomas Hobbs. Together with the soprano Rebecca Ockenden, Sofie explores and performs the rich repertoire of the lute-song. Itheir first CD (Mistress Elizabeth Davenant, her Songes) was released in 2011. In 2012, she set up Imago Mundi, a non-profit organisation which aims to foster encounters between different branches of the arts and kinds of music: eastern and western, old and new. The first fruits of the project, DIVINE MADNESS, appeared on CD a year later. Sofie has recorded for RAMEE, CORO, Phaedra, CYPRES, Aeolus, Fuga Libera, Paraty, Ricercar and K617.

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Varduhi Yeritsian

Varduhi Yeritsyan

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Varduhi Yeritsian

Born in Armenia on Labour Day and living in France since the age of 20, Varduhi Yeritsyan holds an uncommon place in the current pianistic landscape.  Through her twin cultures inherited by great masters such as Brigitte Engerer, Vladimir Krainev, Msitslav Rostropovich, Denis Pascal and Claire Désert, she is both a specialist in the Russian repertoire and a regular interpreter of the French repertoire.  After graduating from Yerevan’s Tchaikovsky Specialised Music School for gifted children, she studied at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), where she obtained the highest prizes for piano and chamber music.  She then completed a postgraduate cycle in both areas, studying with, respectively, Brigitte Engerer – her true mentor ever since her arrival in France – and cellist Marc Coppey.

In 2007, Varduhi Yeritsyan won the Paris Conservatoiry’s Avant-Scènes annual student contest.  She has also won accolades from the Natixis-Banque populaire, Tarrazi, Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Meyer and Or du Rhin Foundations, and was named “Classical Music Revelation” by ADAMI, a French performers’-rights collective.

Since completing her studies with a performance of Aram Khachaturian’s Concerto at the Cité de la musique, she has been invited to multiple festivals (Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins de Toulouse, Festival Berlioz de La Côte Saint André, Pianofolies de Touquet, Piano en Valois, Festival de Saint Lizier, Piano(s) à Lille, Les solistes aux Serres d’Auteuil, Festival international de violoncelle de Beauvais, Festival de Sully sur Loire, Festival Messiaen de la Meije) and has played on many French and international stages, including Paris’s Louvre Auditorium, the Cité de la musique and the Salle Pleyel, the Arsenal in Metz, Toulouse’s Halle aux Grains, Porto’s Casa da Musica, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Hague Theatre, the Czech Philharmonic in Prague, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Estonia theatre in Tallin…

Renowned for her interpretation of Alexander Scriabin, whose cycle of ten sonatas for piano she regularly plays as a cycle, she is also a passionate chamber musician, sharing the stage with Brigitte Engerer, the Danel, Psophos, Zemlinsky and Ardeo string quartets, violinists Renaud Capuçon, Fanny Clamagirand, Hae Sun Kang, Geneviève Laurenceau and Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, cellist Marc Coppey, bassoonist Pascal Gallois, pianist François-Frédéric Guy, jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan and dudukplayer Araik Bartikian.  She also particularly enjoys performing as soloist, and in recent years has played with conductors including Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Anissimov, Fabien Gabel, Claire Gibault, Christoph Koenig, Bruno Mantovani, Tugan Sokhiev and Zahia Ziouani, leading orchestras such as the Bretagne, Île-de-France and BBC London orchestras, that of Porto’s Casa da Musica, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Strasbourg Philharmonic and the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra…

In 2010, she received funding from the prestigious Jean-Luc Lagardère foundation for her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s music, released by Maestria Records in 2012.  Varduhi Yeritsyan has been a guest on many shows on Radio France’s “France Musique” channel, including Gaëlle le Gallic’s “Dans la cour des grands”, Arièle Butaux’s “Un mardi ideal” and Jean-Pierre Derrien’s “Le matin des musiciens”. She is an assistance professor of Denis Pascal’s piano class at the Paris Conservatory.

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Stefanie Troffaes

Stefanie Troffaes & Julien Wolfs

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Stefanie Troffaes

Stefanie Troffaes – Flute

Stefanie Troffaes was born in Bruges, Belgium, in 1980, where she attended flute lessons with Patrick Beuckels and recorder lessons with Tomma Wessel. Stefanie continued her studies at the Brussels Royal Conservatory with Marc Hantaï, Barthold Kuijken and Frank Theuns for the flute and with Bart Coen for the recorder. Besides her Master’s degree which she concluded with magnum cum laude, she also received the prestigious Köberle Prize there. She has followed master classes with Daniël Brüggen, Karl Keiser and Wilbert Hazelzet.

In 2002, Stefanie was finalist at the International Soloist Competition Musica Antiqua Brugge, and in 2015, she was nominated for the Klara Audience Prize Jonge Belofte 2014 for her promising career.

She has performed freelance with numerous internationally renowned ensembles, including Les Talens Lyriques, B’Rock, Le Concert d’Astrée, Collegium Vocale, Les Muffatti, Insula Orchestra and Bach Concentus.

Stefanie has assisted in recordings for the labels Alpha, Musica Ficta, Naïve, Archiv Productions, Aparté, Challenge, Opus Arte, Palazzetto Bru Zane and Virgin.

 

Julien Wolfs – Harpsichord

Julien Wolfs was born in Jodoigne, Belgium, in 1983, where he received his first harpsichord lessons from his mother Marie-Anne Dachy. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and obtained his Master’s degree under Menno Van Delft.  At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, he continued his studies with Françoise Lengellé and Dirk Börner, where he earned a Master’s degree in chamber music. At the IMEP in Namur, he also gained a Master’s degree in pedagogy.

In 2007, Julien Wolfs was first laureate at the international contest for harpsichord at Musica Antiqua Brugge. Besides a shared second prize, he also scooped the Audience Award and the Editions Minkoff Prize.

Julien is founding member of the ensemble Les Timbres. In 2009, the ensemble won first prize at the contest Musica Antiqua Brugge, along with the special prize for the best performance of a contemporary creation.  Their first CD Les Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts of Jean-Philippe Rameau was awarded a Diapason d’Or in 2014.

Julien was a guest at prestigious festivals in Europa and Japan, both as a soloist and in chamber music. He can be heard in the following ensembles and alongside the following artists: Les Timbres, Ricercar Consort Philippe Pierlot, Lingua Franca, Benoît Laurent and For two to play. He has taken part in several recordings for the labels Ricercar, Ligia Digital, Flora and Mirare.

Translation: Kristien Temperville

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