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Alexander Boldachev

Claire Laballery — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:36:42 +0000

Alexander Boldachev is a virtuoso harpist, composer, teacher, exclusive artist of the Italian Harp house Salvi Harps, guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. He received a Master’s degree in harp, composition and conducting from the Zurich Academy of Arts, becoming the best graduate of Professor Catherine Michel. Laureate of more than a dozen prestigious international competitions, including composing competitions; awarded by the “Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies”, “Aoyama Music Award” in Kyoto, “Pro Europa” in Austria, presented by Heinz Fischer for high achievements in the field of culture; Fellow of the international foundations Vontobel in Switzerland and Banque Populaire in France, as well as the Russian foundations for
the development of young musicians Spivakov, Temirkanov, the Rotary Club and Houses of Music that gave a start to his career. Laureate of the Prix Walo television award in Switzerland.
In 2021, he was awarded a letter of thanks from the Minister of the Government of Moscow.
Over 25 years of active work, Alexander has established himself as a performer with a huge repertoire, a creative producer and organizer of concerts and events, an interesting speaker and presenter, a music researcher and arranger of more than 200 works of classical and pop music for harp, a bold composer looking for new forms of material distribution, an active user of social networks, a multi-format musician and conductor. He represents Russia on all continents, actively participates in the development of the modern image of the artist, transmits his knowledge in numerous master classes.The activity of the Russian harpist is devoted to the popularization of the harp, Russian music, creating a balance between “culture” and “art”, educational actions, and the fight against stereotypes.

In 2019, Alexander organized the first Harp Festival in Zurich, where many Russian artists,including Spivakov Foundation laureates, performed in creative collaboration with their Swiss colleagues. On October 20, 2020, Alexander initiated World Harp Day, which brought together more than 100 harpists from 50 countries on one online platform. For seven hours, musicians from all over the world performed national music. Alexander plays the harp, piano and writes music from the age of five. He began his musical education in his native St.Petersburg, from the age of twelve in France, and at the age of fifteen he continued his studies in Switzerland. He travels with solo concerts around the world, leads master classes at such educational institutions as the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Juilliard School in New York, Royal Academy in London, Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. In 2018, he wrote and performed an electronic harp solo at the FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, sharing the stage with Robbie Williams and Aida Garifullina. He performs in such world halls as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Hall of Gaveau in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Great Hall of the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, and others, both with solo concerts and in collaboration with many European and Russian orchestras. Alexander was awarded the “Best Rock Cover Song” award from The Akademia Music Awards in Los Angeles for a unique performance of the song “Californication” by the American band Red Hot Chili Peppers. His extensive compositional activity concentrates on expanding the harp repertoire through transcriptions of classical music (“Scheherazade”,“Petrushka”, “Demon”), interpretation of popular hits (The Beatles, Nautilus Pompilius, ABBA, KINO, Deep Purple,Nirvana, Scorpions, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Adele) and movie music (“Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Spirited Away”,“Circus”, “My gentle and tender beast”).

In 2017, the chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater, Tugan Sohiev, invited Alexander to perform on the premieres of “Carmen”, “The Condemnation of Faust” and the acclaimed “Nureyev”, where he edited and played the unique solo for the Harp on Stage. Some time later, the premiere of his opus “Verbum” based on a story by Nabokov for choir, harp, organ and reciter took place on the historical stage. Moreover, since 2017, Alexander has been working as a music director, composer and one of the actors of the play by Alla Demidova and Kirill Serebrennikov “Akhmatova. Poem without a hero” in the Gogol Center. One of the last theatrical works was the mono-play “Orpheus” together with Chulpan Khamatova.

Alexander Boldachev is a participant of the festivals Burning Man, Musical Olympus, New Names, Mozart+, Davos and Gstaad in Switzerland, Big Russian Ball in Rome, Bravo Award, SKIF Sergey Kuroyokhin, Burberry and D&G shows, projects of The Moscow and St. Petersburg Houses of Music.
The highlight of the year 2018 was the first World Tour: concerts and masterclasses in the USA, England, France, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, Serbia, and Russia. Among his Albums are the “Frédéric” with Chopin’s music, “Harp as an Orchestra” with favorite Opera tunes, “From Russia with Harp” with 15 Russian Composers, and several joint projects with violin, flute, piano, and voice.

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Hervé Billaut

Audrey Prud'Homme — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:56:34 +0000

Hervé Billaut is a tone painter . In his recent, widely acclaimed recording of Isaac Albeniz’ masterpiece Iberia he sketches with imagination and sensibility a spelling, sensual, “wild landscape of the secret Spain” (Epok). Audiences have followed him through this musical journey with enthusiasm in Paris or La Roque d’Anthéron as well as in South America and in China.
According to this musical explorer, being a musician means going beyond one’s brilliant technique in order to create a world of sensations, impressions and emotions. By applying this principle, Hervé has become rapidly a well regarded professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris where he has been teaching for ten years.
He, himself, went through a rigorous training as a talented child, he graduated at 16 from the Conservatory of Paris with the highest distinctions. Among his numerous awards (Viotti, 1981 ; Vercelli, 1982 ; Epinal, 1983 ; Pretoria, 1990 ; Tokyo, 1995) , he won the 3 rd Grand Prize at the prestigious Long – Thibaud Piano Competition in 1983.

Since then, he has performed all over the world, playing at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, the Salle Pleyel in Paris or the Teàtro Real in Madrid as well as in Latin America or in the Far East. These tours have enabled him to build an extraordinary large repertoire, from Bach to Copland, as well as gaining great stage experience, acquired by playing in front of the most versatile audiences. He gave the national premiere of Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Concerto in Ecuador.

His artistic friendships reveal an open personality: invited by the Orchestre National de France, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic or the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, he has played under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner and Yehudi Menuhin; an accomplished chamber musician, he shares complicity with pianists Frank Braley, Philippe Cassard, Cédric Tiberghien or violinists Stéphane Tran Ngoc and Naoko Ogihara; a regular guest in Radio France, he often participates in broadcast or gives live radio recitals; he still deepens his musical thinking by collaborating with such musicians as Marie-Françoise Bucquet and Jorge Chaminé or working at the Kempff Fondation in Positano; as the soloist of the Monte-Carlo Ballet, he has worked with choreographers Jean-Christophe Maillot, John Neumeier and Roland Petit.

« Music is an experience, which liberates from gravity » – Hervé Billaut made his own this sentence by Leon Fleisher, who reports with pride and humour: « A former student of mine also pilots airplanes. »

On stage, Hervé Billaut plays the way he is: going straight to the essential.

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François Chaplin

Audrey Prud'Homme — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:57:07 +0000

François Chaplin trained at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) with the
Bulgarian pianist Ventsislav Yankoff and with Jacqueline Robin
(accompaniment and chamber music), and was unanimously awarded first prizes for piano and chamber music. He then followed the advanced course with Jean-Claude Pennetier.

In 1987, he won the International Piano Competition in Senigallia (Italy), and received in 1989 the Mozart and Robert Casadesus Prizes at the International Competition in Cleveland. Those distinctions are the start of a brilliant international career.

His recording of Debussy’s complete piano works has been unanimously acclaimed by the international press and has reaped many awards (Diapason d’Or, ffff Télérama, Award BBC Magazine). It is already regarded internationally as a reference. His Debussy’s recording is internationally-renowned.

François Chaplin now appears as a soloist in many of the world’s capitals, including Tokyo, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Mexico, to name but a few, and with many fine orchestras such as the Japan Philharmonic, the Saint Petersbourg Philharmonic and the renowned French national orchestras. He appears regularly at important festivals, including La Roque-d’Anthéron, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, the Chopin Festival at Paris Bagatelle, the Chopin Festival at Nohant (Rencontres Internationales), Pontlevoy, Reims (Les Flâneries Musicales), Cervantino (Mexico), Yokohama (Japan), Saint Petersbourg, Riga, Kazakstan, etc.

In chamber music, François Chaplin is used to perform with quatuors like Talich Quartet, Elysées, Psophos and Debussy. He collaborates with cellists like François Salque, Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianists like Cedric Tiberghien, Marie-Joseph Jude and the clarinetist Patrick Messina.

His concerts and recordings have met with great critical acclaim, and he has been described as “one of the most original and engaging of all French pianists”. His sumptuous sound, great expressiveness and feeling, and his intelligence as an artist enable him to understand and bring out the dark moods of Brahms, the whimsicality of Schumann, the brightness of Debussy, and the personality of Mozart, Poulenc and others.

François Chaplin’s other recordings include works by Chopin (Ballades, Barcarolle, Berceuse), Schumann (Kreisleriana, Kinderszenen), Poulenc (works for two pianos with Alexandre Tharaud), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (sonatas) and Mozart (concertos, chamber version).

On the occasion of the bicentenary of Chopin’s birth, François Chaplin recorded the complete Nocturnes (label Zig-Zag Territoires/Harmonia Mundi) in March 2010, acclaimed by critics (ffff Télérama) and labellised « Chopin 2010 en France ». For this event, François Chaplin performed on the most famous international stages.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth in 2012, François Chaplin recorded with the famous French pianist Philippe Cassard a new CD of the complete works for two pianos by Claude Debussy. This new CD came out the 15th of January 2012 and a tour of many concerts on the most international stages is organized.

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Pierre Etcheverry

Audrey Prud'Homme — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:13:19 +0000

After private training with Yvonne Loriod, Pierre Etcheverry entered the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris where he received the superior diploma in execution, first nominated – out of competition – 1984 – (Jean MICAULT’s class) and Chamber Music Superior Diploma unanimously– 1985 – (Jean BOGUET’s class). He is a prize-winner of the “Citta di Stresa” piano competition (second prize) and of the G.B. VIOTTI chamber music competition. He subsequently attended complementary training with Nikita MAGALOFF and Claude HELFFER.

Pierre ETCHEVERRY has given recitals and concerts in the most prestigious concert halls of France: Salle GAVEAU, as a soloist with the Romanian National Orchestra, Salle PLEYEL, with the European Philharmonic Orchestra, at UNESCO as a soloist and with the Romanian National Orchestra from Belgrade, at the MIDEM 1989 (a recital broadcast live on FRANCE-MUSIQUE), at the festivals “PIANO A RIOM “ in 1995 (with the Auvergne Chamber Orchestra), “ORANGERIE DE SCEAUX” (1998) – and abroad – MUNICH (HERKÜLESSAAL), WARSAW (CHOPIN Academy), GENEVA, MOSCOW, TURIN (CONSERVATOry G. VERDI), BUCHAREST (RADIO – TELEVISION).

Pierre ETCHEVERRY has taken part in several radio and television broadcasts– in particular on FRANCE-MUSIQUE, on FRANCE–CULTURE, on FRANCE 2 (LE GRAND ECHIQUIER) and FRANCE 3 PARIS / ILE-DE-France.

Moreover, he has recorded CDs of Chopin (LYRINX 1986), MAHLER – E.M.S (ARCOBALENO) – 2000 – (with the SOPRANO CLAUDIE VERHAEGHE).

INTEGRALE FRANÇOIS COUPERIN (coffret 6 CD – BNL 2007) – DIAPASON

In January 2006, he was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris, succeeding Jean Micault (last assistant of Alfred CORTOT and professor since 1949).

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Les Frères Bouclier

Audrey Prud'Homme — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:20:54 +0000

Issus d’une famille de musiciens, Dimitri et Julien Bouclier s’imposent aujourd’hui comme de véritables virtuoses de leurs instruments.
Leur parcours est, pour l’un comme pour l’autre, exceptionnel et leur palmarès brillant. Le violoniste Julien Bouclier est diplômé de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève et lauréat de plusieurs prix internationaux de musique de chambre, et Dimitri Bouclier, diplômé de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne est lauréat des plus grands prix internationaux d’accordéon de concert (Klingenthal, Castelfidardo, Sarajevo, Glasgow) et des fondations Georges Cziffra et Banque Populaire.

Ils se produisent en concert depuis 2005 dans des festivals réputés : Festival Radio France Montpellier, Festival International d’Arcachon, Festival Musique d’Un Siècle, Festival Européen « Jeunes Talents » parrainé par Jean-Claude Casadesus, etc.) et en Europe (Italie, Ecosse, Suisse, Serbie, etc.).

Si violon et accordéon riment souvent avec musique de l’Est, ce duo transporte le public vers des terres inconnues qui appellent le respect et invitent au voyage. Dimitri et Julien Bouclier impressionnent déjà par le lyrisme, la liberté, l’engagement et la simplicité des grands interprètes. Les oeuvres qu’ils nous font entendre sont arrangées par leur soin et nous permettent de découvrir l’accord parfait qui peut exister entre ces deux instruments.

Ils sont régulièrement invités dans des magazines de France Musique (émissions de J.P. Derrien, A. Merlin, G. Le Gallic). Gaëlle Le Gallic leur consacre une émission «Concert de midi et demi Jeunes Interprètes» en avril 2012 d’après le concert donné à Radio France en mars 2012.

“La révélation de ce que pouvait être l’accordéon de concert.” Nicolas Bacri

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Marie Vermeulin

Claire Laballery — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:33:05 +0000

Née en 1983, Marie Vermeulin se forme auprès de personnalités musicales telles que Marie-Paule Siruguet au CRR de Boulogne, ou Hortense Cartier-Bresson au CNSMD de Lyon. Elle se perfectionne parallèlement auprès de Lazar Berman qui l’accueille chaleureusement en Italie, puis auprès de Roger Muraro, bénéficiant ainsi de la connaissance profonde du pianiste pour l’œuvre du XXème siècle français.

En 2004, elle remporte le 1er Prix du Tournoi International de Musique (Rome), en 2006, le 2ème prix au Concours International Maria Canals (Barcelone), puis en 2007 le 2ème Prix du Concours International Olivier Messiaen (Paris). Elle est également lauréate en 2009 du Prix International “Pro Musicis”, association qui vise à offrir des moments musicaux à un public n’ayant pas la possibilité de se rendre à des concerts classiques.

Soutenue par plusieurs fondations (Fondation Safran pour la musique, Mécénat Musical Société Générale…) et par l’Institut Français pour des tournées à l’étranger, Marie Vermeulin a su imposer en peu de temps un jeu remarqué pour sa témérité technique, sa finesse de timbres et sa maturité.

En novembre 2014, l’ensemble de sa carrière est récompensé par l’Académie des Beaux-Arts et le Prix d’Interprétation de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, de l’Institut de France.

Marie Vermeulin est l’invitée de nombreux festivals et salles de premier plan, tels que l’Opéra de paris, la Philharmonie, le théâtre des Champs-Elysées, la Scala-Paris, le théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, l’Opéra de Limoges, l’Opéra de Saint-Etienne, la Salle Molière à Lyon, le Centre Pompidou-Metz, Nouveau Siècle de Lille, plusieurs Scènes nationales (Tarbes, Cherbourg, Arras, Evry, Besançon, Châteauroux…), ou encore les festivals Musica à Strasbourg, Messiaen au pays de la Meije, Piano Folies, Nohant festival Chopin, Lisztomanias, Chambord, Lille Pianos Festival…

À l’étranger, Marie Vermeulin se produit en Espagne – à Madrid (Circulo de Bellas Artes/Teatro Real), à l’invitation de Gérard Mortier, mais aussi à Barcelone (Palau de la Musica) – ainsi qu’en Italie (festivals de Monopoli et Bari), en Allemagne (Kulturkreis Gasteig de Munich), en Chine, en Turquie, en Lituanie, en Algérie, en Moldavie, au Monténégro, au Liban, en Asie du sud-est (Vietnam, Indonésie, Philippines), à New York (consulat de France) ou à Londres (Wigmore Hall).

Marie Vermeulin a interprété notamment les Oiseaux Exotiques de Messiaen avec l’Ensemble Intercontemporain (direction Pierre Boulez), le concerto de Clara Schumann avec l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Toulon (direction Debora Waldman), le concerto K453 de Mozart avec l’Orchestre de chambre de Wallonie (direction Sir Paul Goodwin), le concerto en sol de Ravel avec l’orchestre Symphonique de Mâcon (direction Eric Geneste), le cinquième concerto de Beethoven et le deuxième concerto de Brahms avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Liban (direction Walid Moussallem),… Elle se produira en 2019 avec l’Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche Comté et l’Orchestre Lamoureux.

Passionnée par la musique contemporaine, elle travaille en étroite collaboration avec des compositeurs d’aujourd’hui tels Tristan Murail, François Meïmoun, Thierry Pécou, Alain Louvier, George Benjamin, François-Bernard Mâche, Marco Stroppa, Jérôme Combier, Pierre Boulez…

En 2008, Universal/Deutsche Grammophon demande à Marie Vermeulin de participer à son intégrale Messiaen. En 2013 paraît son premier disque solo, très remarqué : consacré à Olivier Messiaen, ce CD (label Paraty) a reçu notamment un ffff de Télérama (Gilles Macassar). Le dernier disque de Marie Vermeulin, sorti en 2016 et consacré à Debussy (label Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo), est lui aussi salué unanimement par la presse spécialisée (Pianiste, Diapason, Resmusica, **** de Classica…). Son dernier CD consacré à Clara et Robert Schumann (Label Paraty) est paru au printemps 2019, et a reçu le clic de Classicnews, ainsi que les ***** de rbb Kultur en Allemagne.

https://www.marievermeulin.com

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Marie Vermeulin

Claire Laballery — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:13:10 +0000

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Bruno Procopio

Audrey Prud'Homme — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:15 +0000

Bruno Procopio is rapidly becoming one of the most prominent harpsichordists of the new generation.

Born in Brazil in 1976, Mr. Procopio began his musical studies in Rio de Janeiro with Marcello Fagerlande and Pedro Personne. In 1994, his exceptional talent brought him to France, where he entered the harpsichord class of Noëlle Spieth, at the Conservatoire National Régional de Paris, obtaining his diploma soon after. In 1996 he gained admission to the prestigious Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied the harpsichord with Christophe Rousset and Pierre Hantaï, chamber music with Blandine Ranou and Kenneth Weiss, and pianoforte with Patrick Cohen. He graduated in 2001 with first prizes in harpsichord and continuo performance.

In 2004 Mr. Procopio created the ensemble Les Solistes du Palais Royal. One of his primary objectives is to promote the works of major Brazilian composers of the colonial period. He collaborates actively with musicologists in his native country to create original, exciting programs which reunite the lesser known masterpieces of the new world with those of their celebrated European contemporaries.

Bruno Procopio is the artistic director of the Early Music Festival of Paraty in Brazil.

Bruno Procopio founded the Paraty label in 2006, with the support of Intégral Distribution, in order to explore, on period instruments, the rich repertory of baroque and classical music.

The first release for the label is vol. 2 of the Bach Partitas, continuing a project started by Bruno Procopio in 2004. The first volume of the Partitas was very well received by music critics, with five stars from Diapason magazine, and a critic from Fanfare magazine listing it as one of the five best Baroque CDs of the year in USA.

Paraty’s second release, scheduled for fall 2007, will present the complete sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, with Emmanuelle Guigues, gamba, and Bruno Procopio, harpsichord.
This CD Winner of the Choc Award (Le Monde de la Musique).

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Quatuor Métamorphoses

Gaëlle Delahaye — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:57:25 +0000

The Metamorphoses Quartet was born out of a strong desire to explore the repertoire of the string quartet and to share its demanding expressive strength and depth with an ever- widening audience, all united in one musical breath. The result is a series of metamorphoses, similar to those recounted by Ovid in his masterpiece to which the Quartet wished to pay homage: fleeting, perpetual, invisible, and above all plural. This art of living- together and playing-together transports performers and listeners in a large movement which goes far beyond their imagination and understanding; because a quartet is a four- headed beast, an ever-changing multifaceted instrument “human, too human”, to quote Nietzsche. Finally, metamorphosis is a form of variation, the sculpting process of silence and time by the musical element; variation is an ever underlying red thread throughout the whole history of music, for which metamorphosis would thus act as an etiological principle. This rigorous artistic vision was developed and nurtured through contact with their teachers: after graduating from a master’s degree in chamber music in the class of François Salque (Ysaÿe Quartet) at the CNSMDP, they were lucky enough to study several years with Hatto Beyerle, a founding member of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, within the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), of which the quartet has been a nominated member since 2018. In 2023, they completed their chamber music postgraduate studies at the Vienna Music University (MDW Wien) with Prof. Johannes Meissl, and became artists in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo (Belgium) under the direction of Corina Belcea, Miguel Da Silva and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. The quartet is also currently studying with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, as well as with the Modigliani String Quartet in Paris. They also benefited from the advice of many other great chamber musicians of our time, such as the Ebène Quartet at the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Kronos Quartet at Paris Philharmonie String Quartet Biennale, Ori Kam (Jerusalem Quartet) at the Ravel Academy, as well as Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet), Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Christophe Coin (Mosaïques Quartet), Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Alfred Brendel, Itamar Golan and Patrick Jüdt. The Metamorphoses Quartet won the ProQuartet prize at the FNAPEC European competition and the Tremplin for young quartets at the Philharmonie de Paris. They are also laureates of the Ravel Academy, as well as the Royaumont and Villefavard Abbey foundations. This career path has led them to perform in the most prestigious concert halls with renowned chamber musicians: Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Franz Liszt Academy Budapest, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, the Prades Festival, Quatuors à Bordeaux, the Potager du Roi in Versailles (at the invitation of Gérard Caussé and the Quatuor Modigliani), Cordes-sur-Ciel Festival, Festival des Arcs, Radio Classique Festival, Nuit du Quatuor next to the Hermès and Zaïde String Quartets, together with Nemanja Radulovic, Pierre Génisson, Laure Favre-Kahn, François Salque, Alexis Descharmes, Emmanuelle Bertrand, as well as Roman Borisov, Aurélien Pontier and Paul Zientara. The repertoire of the Metamorphoses Quartet ranges from the great masters of the genre to the exploration of the most contemporary repertoires, from Haydn to Camille Pépin, and endeavors to bring to light several little-known works through innovative projects, such as their show “Du coq à l’alouette” entirely written by the Quartet and created in 2022, or “Une pièce bien à elles » (« A piece of their own »), entirely devoted to women composers, that they are committed to play in all types of places through their regular interventions at the SAMU social, in schools everywhere in France, in residential care homes (EHPAD)… The quartet is currently artist in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo, Belgium).

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Trio Hélios

Claire Laballery — Thu, 09 May 2019 22:13:26 +0000

Immergés dans la musique de chambre depuis leur enfance, Luka Ispir (violon), Raphaël Jouan
(violoncelle) et Alexis Gournel (piano) forment un ensemble qui s’est imposé au cours des années sur les scènes françaises et internationales.

Basé à Paris, le trio se produit dans des salles prestigieuses telles que le Wigmore Hall, la Philharmonie de Paris, la salle Cortot, le Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, le Phoenix Hall d’Osaka et est régulièrement invité dans des festivals tels que le Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, les Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, le Festival des Arcs, le Festival Pablo Casals de Prades, le Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron ou encore la Folle Journée de Nantes, Varsovie, et Tokyo.

Le Trio Hélios s’est illustré dans de nombreux concours internationaux : il a notamment remporté le deuxième prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Trondheim (2019), le deuxième prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon (2018), le Kammermusikpreis du Festival ISA à Reichenau en Autriche (2019), ainsi que le Prix spécial Franz Liszt au Concours Joseph Joachim de Weimar (2019). En 2024 ils sont lauréats du Kammermusikpreis Hasselburg, de la Fondation Stahlberg.

« D’un matin de printemps », leur premier album salué par la critique regroupant des oeuvres de Saint-Saëns, Ravel et Lili Boulanger paraît en 2021 chez le label Mirare. Leur deuxième album « Bohemia” associant les compositeurs tchèques Smetana, Novàk et Fibich, sort en 2023 et se voit décerner un CHOC du magazine Classica.

Diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, le Trio Hélios a bénéficié régulièrement de conseils de personnalités telles que le Trio Wanderer, les quatuors Ebène, Talich et Modigliani, Claire Désert, François Salque ou Emmanuel Strosser. Également ensemble Alumni de l’ECMA – European Chamber Music Academy – il s’est perfectionné avec des maîtres tels que Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Patrick Jüdt ou Avedis Kouyoumdjian.

Le Trio Hélios est représenté par l’Agence Claire Laballery. Il est également ensemble en résidence à la Fondation Singer-Polignac.

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