Quatuor Ardeo XIII

XIII

JOHAN FARJOT Childhood

CHILDHOOD

Cori Spezzati / Olivier Opdebeeck FRANCK VILLARD Tenebrae

TENEBRAE

Jean Daufresne / Mathilde Nguyen MIROIR

MIROIR

Laurianne Corneille ROBERT SCHUMANN L'Hermaphrodite

                                                          L'HERMAPHRODITE

Noëmi Waysfeld / Guillaume de Chassy EINE WINTERREISE

                                                            EINE WINTERREISE

Théophile Alexandre / Guillaume Vincent ADN BAROQUE

The countertenor Théophile Alexandre and the concert-pianist Guillaume Vincent dare baring baroque music in Piano-Voice. In 21 pieces, like the 21 grammes of human soul, the artists dive us into the heard of mankind emotional DNA, exposing unheard facets of baroque essence : an audacious contemporary réinvention exploring the strengths and vulnerabilities of mankind through the powerful intimacy of piano-voice. Included : 4 duets with the sopranos Chantal Santon & Marion Tassou.

Quatuor Psophos CONSTELLATIONS

Winners of the Grand Prix at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2001, the Psophos Quartet was founded by students of the Conservatoire national supérieure de Paris. Trained and mentored in Basel by the great Walter Levin, the quartet was strongly influenced by his passion commitment and musical rigour.
The Quartet was the first French quartet chosen to be part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 ‘New Generation Artists’ scheme from 2005-2007 and was also named ‘Best Ensemble of the Year’ at the 2005 Victoires de la musique.

The quartet has performed in prestigious halls and festivals all over Europe including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall, London and its trajectory has been further enriched by appearances at the Folle Journée festivals in Nantes, Tokyo, and Lisbon, at the BBC the Proms and many other renowned festivals. These performances have given the quartet the opportunity to share the stage with musical personalities including Renaud and Gauthier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Bertrand Chamayou, Cédric Tiberghien, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Emmanuelle Bertrand and Nemanja Radulovic.

In 2009 the quartet welcomed two new members, Eric Lacrouts (violin) and Guillaume Martigne (cello), a change that has proved to be enriching both artistically and on a human level. The balance provided by these new forces gives the ensemble a new serenity that perpetuates its maturity and its high standards.
Driven by a wide-ranging artistic curiosity, the quartet works with leading artists from diverse fields. A collaboration with Jean-Marie Machado and Dave Liebman brought them to the jazz world with Painting notes in the air and they have performed at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris and Lyon Opera with choreographer Philippe Decouflé.
For three years the Psophos Quartet was Quartet in Residence at the Theatre Athénée Louis Jouvet in Paris, where is presented its own series of chamber music concerts inviting such artists as Bertrand Chamayou, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Jean-Marc Luisada, Nils Moenkemayer et Jörg Widmann.

Hélène Devilleneuve / Rikako Murata DUTILLEUX - DESTENAY - POULENC - SANCAN - BOZZA

The French oboist Hélène Devilleneuve, famous worldwide as soloist and also First Oboe solo of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France since 1995, has selected some works from the French repertoire of which a good proportion comes out of the usual. Because if one gives often enough the Sonata de Poulenc, sometimes that of Dutilleux, we strictly never hear those of Eugene Bozza, Pierre Sancan and still less - which is not to say little - the Trio for Oboe , Clarinet and piano by Edouard Destenay. Bozza, however, was crowned with a First Grand Prix of Rome, and his style happily accepts all the influences of his time, from Stravinsky to Milhaud through jazz as well as, much further, the polyphonic rigor of Bach; Pierre Sancan, it is true better known as a great pianist and pedagogue, delivers here a delicious Sonata, with touches to the Debussy and some incursions modernist perhaps factious. As for Edouard Destenay (1850-1924), one does not know much of his life as a musician, especially since he made a career in the highest ranks of the French Army. Hélène Devilleneuve is accompanied on the piano by Rikako Murata, winner of the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona.

Julie Sevilla-Fraysse / Antoine De Grolée FOLKLORE

A French cellist born in 1988, Julie is among today’s young soloists and recently performed the Concerto by Saint-Saëns with the Antwerp-based orchestra deFilharmonie at the Flagey concert hall in Brussels and L. Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in B-flat major with the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia In 2013 she was the laureate of the Fondation Natexis Banque Populaire and performed Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations at the Festival des Rencontres de Violoncelle de Bélaye broadcast on France Musique.Passionate about chamber music, Julie has performed alongside artists such as Emmanuelle Bertrand, Augustin Dumay and Gérard Caussé in the Flagey concert hall and in trio with Régis Pasquier and Abdel Rahman El Bacha. Julie was notably part of the Werther trio until 2010, with which she performed at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron. The trio won the Prix de la Presse at the International Chamber Music Competition of Lyon in 2011. She was also a guest at the Chamber Music Festival of Rome and at the Festival des Violons de Légende à Beaulieu-sur-Mer in 2013 and at the Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival in the Netherlands in 2014.Julie studied at the Conservatoire de Nice then at the Académie Rainier III de Monaco in the class of Frédéric Audibert. At the age of 17 she integrated the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Roland Pidoux, then the Juilliard School of New York. Julie has just recorded her first album on the theme of Central Europe on the Klarthe label. It includes Zoltan Kodaly’s Cello Sonata and will be released in 2016.She obtained a grant from the Princess Grace of Monaco Foundation to take part in the International Cello Competition of the Naumburg Foundation that will take place in October in New York.