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Vanya Pesheva

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Vanya Pesheva a pianist gifted with outstanding abilities including active performing and teaching activities. Her repertoire includes a variety of styles, primarily focusing on the important piano and chamber works, always interpreted with a keen emotional reflectivity and sensitivity, combined with intense expansiveness of musical expression and spontaneity of temperament. The artistic performing activity of the pianist covers to the same extent soloist and chamber sphere of music making, keeping fully the brightness of her interpretative uniqueness both in solo concerts and in terms of her partnership in various chamber ensembles. Music critics and many distinguished performers define her as: “… a bright musician with her own interpretational view, possessing all the qualities for an artistic career – brilliant technique and performer individuality” (Prof. Zheni Zaharieva); “…a musician gifted with exceptional artistic skills, technical capabilities and impressive emotionality” (Prof. Dimo Dimov); “…very mature music making with a deep understanding of the different styles in which the player invests her talent and great virtuoso brilliance” (Musical Horizons magazine). Vanya Pesheva began her intense concert activity very early, when at the age of 9 she participated in prestigious international forum Assembly “Banner of Peace” – Sofia.

This was followed by numerous awards from national and international competitions, including: the National Competition “Svetoslav Obretenov”, the National Creative Meeting for Pianists, the International Piano Competition “Dimitar Nenov”, and the International Piano Competition “Marsala” – Italy. Vanya Pesheva graduated from the music school in the class of distinguished teacher Eleonora Karamisheva and the National Music Academy in the piano class of Prof. Marina Kapatsinskaya and chamber music with Prof. D. Kozev and Prof. Dimo Dimov. In 2000, she was invited to specialize in the master class in interpretation of Prof. Carla Giudici in Rome. In his creative path of professional development, she enjoyed a great beneficial effect from the contacts with eminent musicians such as Prof. Ventsislav Yankov (Paris, France) Prof. Marcello Abbado (Italy), Prof. Dominique Weber (Geneva, Switzerland). As a pianist, she had individual classes with them and participated in their master classes. In the period 1998-1999, she taught piano in the Music Academy in Gwangju, South Korea, while at the same time had active concert activity in Seoul, Gwangju, Anyang, etc. For many years, she taught piano in the Piano Department and in the Chamber Music Department at the National Music Academy “P. Vladigerov” – Sofia.

Vanya Pesheva has successfully given concerts as a soloist with most symphony orchestras in the country. Her active performing career includes solo and chamber recitals in Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Macedonia, France, Switzerland, South Korea; records in the Bulgarian National Radio and participations in prestigious music festivals, including “March Music Days”, “European Music Festival”, “Salon des Arts”,” Sofia Summer”, “Golden Lyre”, the International Festivals of Chamber Music – Plovdiv and Dobrich, the International Festival “Laureate Days of Katya Popova” – Pleven and others.

In 2010, she realized and released a CD “Piano Sonatas” with works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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Jul 18
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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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Oct 05
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Vassilena Serafimova

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Vassilena Serafimova is a percussionist. After graduating from her father’s percussion class in Bulgaria, she trained at the CNSMD in Paris and at the Juilliard School in New York. Between 2003 and 2010, she won several international prizes, among them 1st prize at the World International Marimba Competition in Stuttgart and 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

In 2014, she made her debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York. A year later, with the jazz pianist Thomas Enhco, she was the first marimba player in history to perform at the French awards ceremony Victoires de la Musique Classique. In 2016, the duo recorded their first album, Funambules, for Deutsche Grammophon.

Vassilena has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous festivals and has recorded for Radio France, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Bulgarian National Radio. She has performed at the Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris. She is an Adams Musical Instruments and a Zildjian artist, and has created her own mallet series with Vibrawell.

 

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May 16
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Véra Tsybakov & Romain Hervé

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Véra Tsybakov and Romain Hervé met at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP). Their complicity was instantaneous and quickly led them to perform together at the Cité de la Musique and Radio France.

Tsybakov and Hervé gained admission to the Paris Conservatory the same year. Both earned their Bachelor’s Degrees in piano and chamber music with distinction, before pursuing graduate studies.

A disciple of Brigitte Engerer, Véra Tsybakov is a laureate of the prestigious “Marguerite Long –Jacques Thibaud” International Competition, and the Banque Populaire Group Foundation. In addition, she won first prizes at competitions organized by Radio France, Steinway Paris, Zonta Club and Vulaines-sur-Seine.

Romain Hervé, a Classica Magazine “Discovery Artist” in 2003, is a laureate of the Geneva Arts Society International Competition, the Polignac Festival, a first-prize winner at the Radio France competition, and laureate of the Cziffra and Banque Populaire Foundations. He is proud to have had Pierre Froment (a disciple of Alfred Cortot) and Bruno Rigutto (a disciple of Samson François) as his mentors.

Tsybakov and Hervé have had the honor of appearing in many of France’s most renowned concert halls. In Paris, these include the Châtelet, Champs-Elysées and Mogador Theatres, the Salle Pleyel, the Salle Gaveau, the Cité de la Musique, and the Maison de Radio France. In the French provinces they have performed at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes, Avignon’s Palais des Papes, the Lyon Opera, the Saint Etienne Opera, and the Périgueux Palais des Congrès. They have also performed in Germany (Radio Hanover), Belgium (Royal Conservatory of Brussels), Korea (Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall), Holland (Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Rotterdam’s De Doelen), Japan (Musashino and Kanazawa), Singapore (Esplanade Concert Hall), and Switzerland (the Athénée Theater and Studio Ansermet).

They enjoy designing themed programs and collaborating with French actors such as Francis Perrin, Robin Renucci, Francois Beaulieu and Daniel Mesguich.

Véra Tsybakov and Romain Hervé have recorded several CDs for French record labels Calliope, Intrada and Saphir Productions. Their recordings have won multiple awards in France, including RTL Radio’s Critic’s Choice Award, FNAC’s Choice Award, an R10 Rating from Classica Magazine, a Recording of the Year Award from Pianiste Magazine, and 5 stars from Diapason Magazine and 4 stars from Le Monde de la Musique.

Véra Tsybakov has also recorded 43 instructional DVDs for Pianiste Magazine. Her “Piano Kit” – a compilation of piano lessons – is available on Sony Classical.

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Jan 21
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Véronique Bonnecaze

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Veronique Bonnecaze

Pianiste intègre, Véronique Bonnecaze met son jeu au service de la poésie et de la sincérité. Dans son répertoire de prédilection, on retrouve souvent Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scriabine, Debussy, dont elle sait dégager l’émotion, les couleurs, et les ambiances sonores.

Ses interprétations fortement personnelles, son puissant engagement en concert, et sa totale indépendance au sein du monde musical, font d’elle une musicienne secrète et originale. Des choix artistiques exigeants l’ont conduite, par exemple, à enregistrer les 24 études de Chopin qu’elle a également souvent données en récital.

​Véronique Bonnecaze a étudié au Conservatoire de Bordeaux puis elle a été formée à Paris par Nadia Tagrine, avant d’entrer au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris dans la classe de Ventsislav Yankoff, où elle a obtenu un Premier Prix de Piano et de Musique de Chambre.

Elle a été lauréate et finaliste de plusieurs concours internationaux dont Genève, Mavi Marcoz, Chopin Palma de Majorque, Pescara et Jaen.

Elle a joué en récital et avec orchestre en France (Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Théâtre de lʼAthénée, etc.), en Autriche (Mozarteum de Salzbourg), en Allemagne, en Suisse (Victoria Hall de Genève), aux États-Unis (Carnegie Hall de New York) mais aussi en Belgique, en Espagne, en Italie, en Hongrie, en Suède, en Grèce, au Japon, au Liban etc.

Son enregistrement des vingt-quatre Études de Chopin a été salué par Harold Schonberg, critique musical au New York Times. Elle a aussi enregistré la troisième sonate de Chopin chez Polymnie et son double album Schumann-Liszt, aussi chez Polymnie, a obtenu la récompense “Maestro” du magazine Pianiste.

Elle est professeur titulaire de piano à l’Ecole Normale de Musique où elle est aussi directrice artistique des Concerts de Midi & Demi (2012 – 2015) à la salle Cortot et donne des master-class entre autres au Japon et à l’Académie MUSICALTA, Cagliari, Musique en Graves, PTNA.

Elle a créé notamment le Concours international de Piano d’Arcachon, les soirées musicales « Harmonies du Soir » à lʼhôtel Plaza Athénée à Paris, le cycle de concerts “Emotions musicales” au Cercle France-Amériques à Paris, ainsi qu’un concours annuel à Tokyo permettant l’attribution de bourses d’études à l’École normale Cortot.
En 2014, Véronique Bonnecaze a également créé l’Académie de Musique à Biscarrosse.

Membre de jury de concours internationaux en France, Italie, Japon (Yokohama, Tokyo, PTNA), elle a été vice-présidente du Concours international Francis Poulenc.

​Véronique BONNECAZE est également la fondatrice et présidente du Concours International de Piano France-Amériques à Paris.

 

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Jul 18
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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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