2022 / 13th Edition
Music
Festival
Festival
from July 16
to August 20
to August 20
2022 / 13th Edition
Music Festival
from July 16
to August 20
to August 20
FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE
Compositeurs vivants
Friday, 17 June, 18h
Place rose
Place rose
En avant-première du Festival, aux portes de l’église s’il fait beau temps, un quatuor de musique contemporaine propose de la musique décoiffante, rythmée et surtout accessible de compositeurs vivants.
Discover the concert program.
Nuriia Khasenova
flute
Nuriia Khasenova
flute
Nuriia Khasenova
flute
Nuriia Khasenova born in Kazakhstan, raised in Russia, based in Switzerland since 2012.
Passionate about exploration and curious of what is unknown to her – what brings her towards new experiences and collaborations.
Received classical education in Geneva and Zurich, in parallel dove into different directions and started to explore other fields.
Her priority is to be able to transmit emotions and a quality performance to the public. Hence, meeting artists from different disciplines, exchanging and sharing their knowledge and artistic cultures is essential. It is through the variety of experiences, the exploration of styles and the mixing of various art forms she wishes to develop.
Currently, Nuriia branches her practices between classical music and transdisciplinary practices. She also explores techniques of contemporary music, musical theatre, free improvisation, folk music, performance and video editing.
As a flute player, she continues to pursue different musical festivals: solo to chamber music and takes part in various interdisciplinary/ transdisciplinary collaboration projects.
Since 2015 she is a member of Kollektiv International Totem. Together with curator and saxophonist Kay Zhang and composer Leo Collin. They create music theatre projects combining different disciplines within research and documentary platforms.
Their work have been presented at Gessnerallee, Hyperlokal and Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich,as well as, featured in various festivals in Europe and overseas.
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann, born in Geneva, is one of the most famous clarinetists of his generation. Winner of more than twenty national and international competitions, he performed on some of the prestigious stages in Europe and Asia. His performances and his play are regularly hailed by the press who defines him as "a musician who has achieved grace, ease and prodigious freedom, and who paradoxically knows how to pass from a phrasing of extreme gentleness to an ardor carrying even the minds the most numb "(24H, 2017).
Damien Bachmann studied with internationally renowned soloists and teachers such as François Benda in Basel, Paolo Beltramini in Lucerne, Harri Mäki in Helsinki, Michel Westphal, Thomas Friedli and René Meyer in Geneva. He had the opportunity to improve with Andreas Sunden, Wenzel Fuchs and Bernhard Röthlisberger. Since 2018 he has been in Studies: “Master of virtuosity” (Konzert Exam) at the Musikhochschule-Freiburg (Germany) with Kilian Herold.
Damien Bachmann won several first prizes at the "Cluj International Music Competition for Clarinet 2015" in Romania, the "1st Béla Kovacs International Clarinet Competition" in Hungary, and the "38th National Competition of Musical Execution" of Riddes in Switzerland. In September 2019 he won at the 3rd Berliner International Musique Competition the Golden Medal in the category “Wind: Professional.”
He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Sinfonie Orchester Basel, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Züricher Kammerorchester, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Argovia Philharmonics. He won several prices such as the Migros, Friedl-Wald, Schenk, Dienemann, Marescotti, Nicati and Hirschmann awards, as well as the prestigious "Förderpreis" 2016 from the BOG Foundation in Basel and a second prize at the "Kiefer Hablitzel 2018 Music Competition".
Passionated about chamber music, Damien Bachmann is regularly invited to play with established artists of his generation, such as the pianists Christian Chamorel, Nikita Mndoyants, Florian Noack and François-Xavier Poizat, with the violinist Aleksey Igudesman, the cellists Lionel Cottet, Nadège Rochat, Christoph Croisé, Astrig Siranossian, but also with the Ebène String Quartet, the Casal String Quartet, the Aviv String Quartet, the Gehrard String Quartet, the Terpsycordes String Quartet and the Geneva String Quartet. He has performed in recital or solo concerts in China's famous concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, in Switzerland at the Tonhalle Zürich and Victoria Hall in Geneva, but also in France, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary. He’s a founder member of the Basilea Wind Quintet.
He is part of the CHAARTS Chamber Artists as solo clarinet and regularly plays as a guest with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland.
In recent years, invited as a jury member of several competitions, he is also teaching and gave already masterclasses in Switzerland, China and Romania.
As the clarinet could play different repertoires, Damien Bachmann collaborates also with musicians from other horizons. He is involved in the creation of shows for children such as "On a perched tree” created in 2017 in the tradition of the educator Jacques-Dalcroze, or the project "Heimat - Apartment House recomposed" of the multi-disciplinary collective Mycelium. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Puplinge Classique Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in the summer of 2019.
Damien Bachmann is a Buffet Crampon Artist playing with Tosca and Prestige instruments.
Christoph Croisé
cello
Christoph Croisé
cello
Christoph Croisé
cello
Lauded for ‘delicate yet virtuosic’ playing (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘seamless subtleties of tone colour’ with ‘plenty of edge’ (The Strad), Swiss-French-German cellist Christoph Croisé is quickly building an international reputation as one of the most captivating young concert soloists to emerge in recent years.
At the age of 17, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall, where he has performed on several occasions since. He also appears regularly in further world-renowned concert halls including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall London, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Residenz Munich, the Capella St. Petersburg, the Philharmonia St. Petersburg and the State Philharmonia Baku.
As a soloist, he has appeared under the batons of conductors such as M. Sanderling, M. Venzago, D. Boyd, L. Gendre, K. Griffiths, A. Guliyev, A. Ardal, M. Dones, G. Bria and D. Botinis with various orchestras including the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra Baku, Azerbaijan, the Camerata Switzerland, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Camerata Zurich, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance, the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, the State Capella Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg, Russia, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Tirana, the Bavarian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Michoacan, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra Budejovice.
Several of his concerts, such as the Schumann concerto with the Munich Radio Orchestra, have been broadcast live on radio and television by the Bavarian Radio, the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, WQXR, BBC, RTS, RSI, SRF, WMFT and others.
Christoph Croisé is regularly invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the Festival “Musical Olympus” in St. Petersburg, New York, and Baku, the Lucerne Festival, the Radio France Festival Montpellier, the Davos Festival “Young Artists in Concert”, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden, the Schwarzwald Music Festival, the Klosters Music Frestival, the Festival de Sully, the Belfast International Arts Festival, the Emilia-Romagna Festival and the Festival de Musique de Wissembourg.
As a chamber musician, he has performed with Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Mayuko Kamio, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Isabelle van Keulen, Andrey Baranov, Sergey Ostrovsky, Kirill Troussov, Alexander Zemtsov, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Marie Chilemme, Christoffer Sundqvist, Anna Fedorova, Oliver Schnyder, Oxana Shevchenko, Nikita Mndoyants, Lorenzo Soulès and Alexander Panfilov.
He has been laureate of several first prizes at international competitions including the Schoenfeld International String Competition Harbin/China (2016), the “2nd Berliner International Music Competition 2018” (First Grand Prize), the Manhattan International Music Competition (2016), the International “Salieri-Zinetti” Competition in Verona/Italy (2016), the International Johannes Brahms Competition (2015), the International Competition “Ibla Grand Prize” in Sicily (2010), the International Competition “Petar Konjović” in Belgrad (2009), the Migros-Kulturprozent in Zurich (2015 and 2016), the International Carlos Prieto Competition Morelia/Mexico (3rd Prize, 2016) and the First Berliner International Music Competition (Golden Medal with honors, 2017) . In 2017 Christoph Croisé was awarded the Swiss Ambassador’s Award. In 2018 Christoph Croisé was awarded the “Prix Jeune soliste 2019 des Médias francophone publics”.
His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics. In February 2017 his second album was released on Genuin Records containing Othmar Schoecks’ cello concerto. His debut album with Oxana Shevchenko was released in May 2015 on Quartz Classics. In February 2017 his second album was released on Genuin Records containing Othmar Schoecks’ cello concerto. His third album with both Haydn cello concertos was released on AVIE Records in March 2019 and won the Supersonic Award from the Pizzicato Magazine and the „Clef D’Or“ for the best concerto album of 2019 from the ResMusica Magazine. His fourth CD „The Russian Album“ was released on November 1st 2019 on AVIE Records together with the pianist Alexander Panfilov.
Christoph is often involved in baroque projects as a complement to modern performance. He has worked extensively in the field, performing as soloist with the “Il Pomo d’Oro” baroque orchestra and working with Maurice Steger and Nicolas Altstaedt. In 2020 and 2021 he released a CD and video of the complete set of Viola da Gamba sonatas and the six Cello Suites by J. S. Bach with a 1720 Guarneri ‘Filius Andrea’ baroque cello.
Aside from performing, Christoph is passionate about helping young cellists develop as musicians and has given international masterclasses in prestigious venues such as the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the “Festival of young European soloists” of El Sistema in Venezuela and the “Masterclass de Musica“ in Granada/Spain.
In addition, Christoph composes his own pieces, of which he expresses his emotions and ideas influenced by different styles, from baroque and classical to Jazz and electronic music.
Christoph Croisé is the artistic director of the Niederlenzer Musiktage, a classical and electronic music festival, which takes place every year at the end of May in Switzerland.
Christoph Croisé began playing the cello at the age of seven under the tutelage of Katharina Kühne. Since 2007, he has been studying with Alexander Neustroev and, as of 2013, with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Berlin University of Arts. as of 2013, with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Berlin University of Arts. He has additionally benefited from major artistic advice from Steven Isserlis, Michael Sanderling, David Geringas, Walter Grimmer, and Frans Helmerson.
Christoph Croisé plays on a rare Italian master cello, crafted in 1680.
Christoph Croisé is very thankful for the multiple scholarships granted to him over the last past years by the Lyra Foundation.
Till Lingenberg
percussionist
Till Lingenberg
percussionist
Till Lingenberg
percussionist
Né en 1996, Till Lingenberg suit ses premiers cours de percussion 5 ans plus tard au Conservatoire cantonal du Valais, à Sion, et remporte très jeune de nombreux prix lors de Concours cantonaux et nationaux. En 2012, il entre à la Haute école de musique de Genève, où il étudie auprès de Prof. Yves Brustaux, de Claude Gastaldin, Christophe Delannoy, François Desforges et Philippe Spiesser. Il y obtient un Master en interprétation musicale spécialisée, orientation soliste. Affectionnant particulièrement l’orchestre, il intègre des formations telles que le Verbier Festival Orchestra, le Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, le Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra ou encore l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Il joue par ailleurs avec les ensembles de percussions Eklekto, à Genève, et Decibells, à Bâle, et est cofondateur du Percussion CYTi Duo. Till Lingenberg s’intéresse en outre à la production de musiques électroniques et au Vibraphone Jazz.
Entrée libre
CONCERTOS EN MIROIRS
Inauguration de l’Orchestre du Festival
Saturday, 16 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Grande nouveauté cette saison : la création de l’orchestre du Festival, formé de jeunes professionnels de la région, ici dans un programme de doubles concertos annonçant le thème de l’édition.
Concert dedié aux sponsors
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Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
L’Ensemble PuplinGE Classique est une des grandes nouveautés de la 13ème édition du Festival Puplinge Classique. Cet ensemble, formé par de jeunes musiciens professionnels étudiants dans les Hautes-Écoles de Musique suisses, se produira à trois occasions. Pour le concert d’ouverture, dans le thème « Miroirs » de cette édition, ils joueront des doubles concertos de Vivaldi, Bach et Mozart. Une soirée très classique en milieu de festival, avec un Concerto pour piano de Mozart et l’arrangement du célèbre quatuor « La jeune fille et la mort » de Schubert, aura lieu avant un concert entièrement dédiés à des compositeurs suisses : Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch et Daniel Schnyder. De quoi faire une première apparition remarquée et ambitieuse, grâce à un répertoire d’envergure et aux concours de solistes talentueux !
Rennosuke Fukuda
violin
Rennosuke Fukuda
violin
Rennosuke Fukuda
violin
Rennosuke Fukuda, a Japanese violinist born in 1999.
International prizes that Rennosuke has awarded the 2014 Menuhin Competition for young violinists in Austin, TX, USA, 4th prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover 2018, 1st prize at the 33rd Valsesia Musica 2017.
Rennosuke has performed of note including those with the Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra and among others.
In 2017, Rennosuke was awarded the Ivry Gitlis Prix as an active young violinist in the world.
Rennosuke is a scholar of le prix d'études du Pour-cent culture Migros in 2019 and 2020.
Rennosuke has studied the violin with Chihiro Kudo, Machie Oguri, Keiko Urushihara, Pavel Vernikov and Svetlana Makarova.
Rennosuke is currently studying under Prof. Janine Jansen at the Heute École de Musique de Lausanne.
In 2020, Rennosuke became the Artistic Director and the Concertmaster of The MOST(Magical Orchestra of Special Talents)
Rennosuke has his first album 「Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2」released from Nippon Columbia.
Adalberto Vital
violin
Adalberto Vital
violin
Adalberto Vital
violin
Adalberto Vital débute ses études musicales à l’âge de 10 ans dans un projet d’action sociale à Salvador-Bahia au Brésil. Il détient aujourd’hui un double Master en performance et en enseignement instrumental de la Haute École de Musique de Genève. Il a été lauréat du prix Szeryng à deux reprises et se produit régulièrement en tant que musicien remplaçant à l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Il a joué comme soliste et chef d’attaque avec la Sinfonietta de Genève, et a été invité comme soliste à l’Orchestre de l’Université fédérale de Bahia, ainsi que pour donner des masterclass aux étudiants de la même université. Entre autres activités pédagogiques, Adalberto Vital collabore activement avec les institutions genevoises que sont le Conservatoire de Musique de Genève et le Conservatoire Populaire de Musique Danse et Théâtre. Son répertoire s’étend de la période baroque jusqu’à la musique actuelle telle que le jazz, notamment manouche et latin. En ce qui concerne la musique de chambre, il a eu l’occasion de parfaire sa formation avec de grands noms tels que Gàbor Takàcs-Nagy, et Patrick Genet du fameux Quatuor Sine Nomine.
Johannes Moehrle
viola
Johannes Moehrle
viola
Johannes Moehrle
viola
Né à Genève, Johannes Moehrle commence l’alto à l’âge de 4 ans avec Prof. Laurent Rochat et poursuit son parcours musical auprès de Prof. Noémie Bialobroda jusqu’à l’obtention de son certificat en 2017. La même année, il est admis au Eton College, où il se développe tant sur le plan académique que musical auprès de Prof. Andriy Viytovych. Il est lauréat de plusieurs Concours des Jeunesses Musicales Suisses et Allemandes et, en 2017, accède aux demi-finales du concours Brahms. Membre de plusieurs orchestres de jeunes, il s’est notamment produit au sein de l’orchestre des jeunes Allemands, de l’Académie Ozawa et du Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. Ces expériences lui ont permis de jouer sous la baguette de Sir Simon Rattle et de Daniel Harding à plusieurs reprises et de donner des concerts à travers l’Europe ainsi qu’au Japon. Actuellement étudiant dans la classe de Prof. Tabea Zimmermann à l’Académie Hanns Eisler de Berlin, il mène en parallèle des études de littérature à Oxford.
Martin Egidi
cello
Martin Egidi
cello
Martin Egidi
cello
Born in Lausanne, versatile cellist Martin Egidi, appears at various festivals in Switzerland and abroad. He can be heard in various formations, notably in a duo with the percussionist Augustin Lipp or with the Opalio Quintet, which performs regularly at the Davos Festival. In addition to his regular practice of the orchestra, he devotes himself largely to the contemporary and baroque repertoires. He has appeared in ensembles and baroque orchestras such as the Ensemble de l'Encyclopédie, the Turicum Ensemble, the BalthasarNeumann Ensemble and the Kammerorchester Basel. Martin Egidi studied with Patrick Demenga, Danjulo Ishizaka and Christophe Coin. He also studied with internationally renowned musicians such as David Geringas, Marko Ylönen, Lionel Cottet, Gustav Rivinius and Stephan Forck. In 2019, he won the Migros Cultural Percentage and is part of the concert placement of this same institution.
Loïc Zufferey
cello
Loïc Zufferey
cello
Loïc Zufferey
cello
Dès l’âge de 6 ans, Loïc Zufferey commence le violoncelle chez Prof. Tatjana Valleise. Quelques années plus tard, il intègre le conservatoire de Genève dans la classe de Prof. Daniel Haefliger, poursuivant l’enseignement de André Navarra. Il participe alors au Concours suisse où il obtiendra respectivement un deuxième (2010) et premier prix (2016). Pour découvrir d’autres horizons, il part pendant une année en Angleterre suivre l’enseignement de Prof. Paul Cox avant de commencer des études de droit à l’Université de Genève, qu’il achèvera avec succès en 2017. Il intègre alors la classe de Prof. François Guye à la Haute école de musique de Genève puis celle de Prof. David Pia.
Loïc a également la possibilité de travailler avec d’autres professeurs de renom tels que Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt, Marcio Carneiro, Martina Schucan, ou Christian Poltera. Adepte de la musique de chambre, il étudie notamment avec Gábor Takács-Nagy, James Alexander et Antoine Marguier.
Tarifs : 35.-CHF / 30.-CHF / 15.-CHF
SOIRÉE CORÉENNE
Voyage aux confins de l’Asie
Sunday, 17 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Composé de musiciens coréens et japonais (un fort symbole de réconciliation), cet ensemble nous embarque dans un programme virtuose, avec une touche extrême-orientale reflétée notamment par la présence d’un instrument traditionnel coréen.
Concert dédié aux équipes du Staff
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CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble
CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble
CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble
Founded in 2008, CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble is consists of Korean and Japanese players based on Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea and Fukuoka, Japan. Coni is an abbreviation for Corea (Korea) and Nippon, and plays a variety of works by CoNi-NiCo when playing in Korea, NiCo-CoNi when playing in Japan.
It plays a variety of works and performed with Violist Richard YongJae O`Neill, Baritone Kim Dong-gyu, Pianist Im Dong-chang, Violinist Lee Kyung-sun, Han Soo-jin, Kim Dami, Madoka Sato, Trombonist Berry Webb and Flutist Philip Junt. In particular, Vienna,Tokyo and Fukuoka in Japan it played also a Gayageum concerto and applauded reviews along with the introduction of traditional Korean instruments. In 2016, resident Chamber Ensemble at the Jinhae Art Center of the Changwon Cultural Foundation, and in 2020, it performed its opening performance at the Changwon International Chamber Music
Hyang-Mi Baek
Hyang-Mi Baek
Hyang-Mi Baek
Graduated Kyungnam University (BM)
Donizetti Academia Milano, Italy
Part leader in Changwon-City Chorus, Korea
Chun-Hee Choi
conductor
Chun-Hee Choi
conductor
Chun-Hee Choi
conductor
Graduted The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Gnessin State Music College
President of Kyungnam Music Foundation
Adjunct faculty member in Changwon University
Louis Liu
flute
Louis Liu
flute
Louis Liu
flute
Louis Liu is aged fourteen and from New Zealand, started flute at the age of seven. He has won the Australian Flute Festival Young Artist Competition (under 18 category), the San Francisco international online flute competition, been awarded the Outstanding Junior Performer at the Galway flute festival (“junior rising star”), & he performed in the gala concert of the Guangzhou international flute competition. Recently having won two competitions upon arrival at Switzerland for two months. Them being the CNSE Champion du Vent of Neuchatel and having won First Prize with Special Mention at the CSMJ, the national Swiss competition. Louis Liu studies in the pre college class of Prof. Philipp Jundt at the Conservatoire de Musique Neuchatel.
Byung Won Lim
violin
Byung Won Lim
violin
Byung Won Lim
violin
Graduated Seoul National Univeristy (DM, MM)
The Peabody Conservatory of Music (GPD)
Faculty in Kyun Sung University
Concert master in CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble
Artistic Director in Busan Chamber Oerchestra
Jeong Yun Choi
cello
Jeong Yun Choi
cello
Jeong Yun Choi
cello
Graduated Manhattan School of Music (BM), New York University (MM)
Principal cellist in CoNi-NiCo Chamber Ensemble and Seoul Symphony Orchestra
Ji-Young Yi
gayageum
Ji-Young Yi
gayageum
Ji-Young Yi
gayageum
She began to learn Korean traditional performing arts, such as gayageum, traditional song, and dance, at the age of five. Her musical experience in Korean traditional arts along with teaching Korean traditional music from young age has made her perform the greatest traditional music. She obtained both BA and MA in gayageum performance from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Ewha Womans University. She was the first Ph.D. in gayageum performance in Korean music history.
She was a notable soloist of the National Center of Korean Traditional Performing Arts from 1988 to 1993. In 1991, she became the youngest member of the ‘Jeongnongakhoe,’ the most prestigious Korean classical music ensemble in Korea, and she now is a Candidate for Important Intangible Cultural Property No. 23 ingayageum sanjo (solo instrumental folk genre) and gayageum byeongchang (folk song accompanied by gayageum).
Since her professional debut, she has performed numerous solo recitals in Korea, the U.S., Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden etc. She has performed with numbers of world-renowned orchestras and ensembles including Shanghai Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Orchestra, Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlas Ensemble, KNM Berlin Ensemble, Del Sol String Quartet, and Lydian String Quartet. In addition, she has been recognized as the most frequently invited Korean musician to international music festivals including the Edinburgh Festival, Kuhumo Festival, ISCM, Asian Composer's League, Otherminds Contemporary Festival, Pacific Rim Music Festival, MIDEM.
In 2003, she was awarded "The Best Young Musician" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which is granted to the most prominent young musicians.
She is now serving as a professor of Gayageum Performance in the Department of Korean Music in the College of Music at Seoul National University and also a music director of Gimhae Municipal Gayageum Orchestra. She is also the representative of CMEK (Contemporary Music Ensemble of Korea) which consists of musicians who perform both Korean traditional musical instruments and Western classical instruments.
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CHANTS SANS PAROLES
Mélodies et danses
Wednesday, 20 July, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Soirée interdisciplinaire par excellence au cours de laquelle le directeur artistique Guillaume Hersperger fait cohabiter musique, théâtre et danse. Concert en collaboration avec le Week-End Musical de Pully.
Concert dédié aux membres donateurs
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Guillaume Hersperger
piano
Guillaume Hersperger
piano
Guillaume Hersperger
piano
Swiss pianist, born in Lausanne, Guillaume Hersperger has studied music since the age of five. From his music-loving parents he received, like his sister and two brothers, a taste and curiosity for various musical genres and artistic forms. In 1980, he began studying piano at the Conservatoire de Lausanne with Denyse Rich, a rigorous and wise pedagogue who recommended him to Christian Favre whom he would follow during all his professional studies, culminating in a first prize for virtuosity (1997). Subsequently from 1998 until 2000 he followed the teaching of Ulrich Koella at the Musikhochschule Zürich-Winterthur, accompanying the Lied and chamber music.
Very quickly the piano imposed itself upon him as an ideal means of encounters and new experiences, in contrast to the image of a solo instrument that is generally attributed to it. At the same time, he discovered a vocation for teaching: another form of exchange related to the piano to which he devotes a large part of his professional activity. He has taught at the Conservatoire de Lausanne, where he also holds the position of Dean of the piano, organ and harpsichord classes since 2017.
During the course of his career he has performed on stage with his brother Etienne, baritone, with cellist Constantin Macherel, bassist Marc-Antoine Bonanomi and violinist Alexander Grytsayenko, as well as with various chamber music ensembles. In 2010 he recorded a series of early works for solo piano of Brahms. He collaborates as pianist-accompanist with the HEMU of Lausanne, the Musik Akademie Basel, as well as with many renowned musicians such as Nikolai Gedda, Christoph Prégardien or Ivan Monighetti.
He organizes various musical events, engaging in original projects or opening bridges to other arts: open air “opera de poche”, silent movie accompaniment, contemporary music, theater, photography, reading and oenology. He is the artistic director of the Week-End Musical de Pully, a festival that he cofounded in 2013. He also takes over the artistic direction of the Lavaux Classic festival in early 2021.
Dorian Rossel
staging
Dorian Rossel
staging
Dorian Rossel
staging
Né en 1975, Dorian Rossel est diplômé de l'Ecole Serge Martin à Genève (1993-96). Il est actif depuis une dizaine d'années au cinéma et au théâtre, en tant que comédien et metteur en scène. Après l'expérience du collectif Demain on change de nom, où il co-signe différentes créations unissant danse et théâtre, comme la série des HLM (Bâtie, 2002), il choisit de s'investir dans des projets personnels. Il fonde la Cie STT, où il s'entoure de collaborateurs réguliers (entre autres Delphine Lanza, Carine Corajoud, Xavier Fernandez-Cavada). Ses premières créations sont Les Jours heureux (Arsenic 2004), Gloire & Beauté, liquidation totale (Arsenic 2006), Panoramique intime (L'Echandole 2007), Je me mets au milieu mais laissez-moi dormir (Théâtre de l'Usine 2007) et Libération sexuelle (Arsenic 2008). Puis, Quartier lointain (2009) et Soupçons , à la Comédie de Genève.
Kseniya Maliutina
dance
Kseniya Maliutina
dance
Kseniya Maliutina
dance
Née le 8 octobre 2003 à Kiev en Ukraine, Kseniya Maliutina étudie la danse à l’Académie d’État du Ballet de Kiev dans la classe de L. I. Soboleva de 2014 à 2022. Depuis 2017, elle parfait son expérience professionnelle au sein du Grand Kiev Ballet. Ses performances ont été plusieurs fois récompensées par des prix, comme la 3ème place du « Thought flow » en Ukraine, le prix « Domenico Modugno » en Italie ou encore le Youth America Grand Prix à deux reprises, en 2018 et 2019.
Delphine Lanza
actress
Delphine Lanza
actress
Delphine Lanza
actress
Née à Annecy, elle vit et travaille à Genève. D’abord comme comédienne, elle joue tant au théâtre qu’au cinéma. Au théâtre elle est engagée, entre autres, par Rezo Gabriaze, Mathias Langhoff, Patrice Kerbrat, Andrea Novicov, Christian Geffroy-Schlitter, Valentin Rossier, Robert Sandoz…
Au cinéma avec Claude Goretta, Michel Deville, Pierre Maillard, Jacob Berger, Nicole Borgeat, David Chidlow, Stéphanie Chuat et Véronique Reymond, Romed Wyder. Elle reçoit le prix d’interprétation féminine du cinéma Suisse pour son rôle dans Attention aux chiens de François-Christophe Marzal.
Avec Dorian Rossel, elle fonde en 2004 la Cie STT (Super Trop Top). Elle y travaille comme comédienne, à la collaboration artistique et à la mise en scène.
Jonathan Gerstner
cello
Jonathan Gerstner
cello
Jonathan Gerstner
cello
Jonathan Gerstner is a Swiss cellist born in 2003 in Ecublens. He started playing the cello at the age of 5 with Aude Pivôt, then continued his studies with Martin Reetz, and is currently studying with Patrick Demenga at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne. He is the founder of the multi-genre ensemble of 9 cellos "LimonCelli" and member of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SJSO).
Tarifs : 25.-CHF / 20.-CHF / 10.-CHF
RÉCITAL DE PIANO
L’eau et le feu
Saturday, 23 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Le directeur du Festival offre un récital d’œuvres virtuoses sur le thème de l’eau et du feu, éléments en miroirs inversés et inspiration séculaire pour nombre de compositeurs.
Concert dédié au comité de l’Association
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François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
Born in 1989 with Swiss, French and Chinese origins, pianist François-Xavier Poizat graduated from the Geneva and Hamburg Conservatory and from the Juilliard School in New York with the teaching of Alexeï Golovin, Evgeni Koroliov, Nelson Goerner and Matti Raekallio. In his quest for new input and ideas, he pursues further studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo. It is Martha Argerich who propelled him on the international stage by inviting him when he was 12 years old to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, recognizing his “deep lyricism and remarkable virtuosity”. This marked the beginning of a career that has brought him to perform in already 27 countries in Europe, Asia and America, in venues like the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, the Seoul Art Center, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory or the Carnegie Hall in New York.
His journey is sprinkled with collaborations with big orchestras such as the Suisse Romande and Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, the National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Lithuanian and Armenian National Chamber Orchestras, the Zürich Chamber Orchestra and the Poznan Philharmonic, among others. He has performed under the baton of Philippe Béran, Thierry Fischer, Neeme Järvi, Lukasc Borowicz, Bernard Labadie or Frédéric Chaslin, in prestigious festivals (the Roque d'Anthéron in France, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Schubertiade in Porrentruy or the Septembre Musical in Montreux in Switzerland).
He has won prizes in significant competitions : Grand Prix at the 2004 International Competition for the Youth in Kassel, Germany, the 2007 Young Soloist Prize of the Radios Francophones Publiques, 1st Prize at the 2009 International Competition for the Youth of Oldenburg and at the 2009 Elise Meyer Competition in Hambourg in Germany, the Jury Special Prize at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the 2012 Soloist Prize of the Migros Cultural Percentage in Zürich, before being a finalist at the 2013 Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland.
His large solo and chamber music repertoire includes 500 years of music and more than thirty concertos, as well as all works with piano by Maurice Ravel, his favorite composer.
Beside his principal activity as a performer, he is currently the director of the International Puplinge Classique Festival in Geneva, a position he has held for the past 12 years, and has recorded 4 CDs with the Naxos, Ars Produktion and Piano Classics labels. Laureate of the Leenaards and Migros scolarships, and regularly recharges himself by playing jazz and studying martial arts, which he has done for 20 years.
Tarifs : 25.-CHF / 20.-CHF / 10.-CHF
SOIREE ARMÉNIENNE
Mélodies profondes et virtuosité diabolique
Sunday, 24 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Désormais indissociable du Festival pour la 10e année consécutive, la Soirée Arménienne mêle mélodies folkloriques et grand répertoire, cette fois-ci en formation de trio.
Concert dédié aux membres de l’Association
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David Haroutunian
violin
David Haroutunian
violin
David Haroutunian
violin
Born in Yerevan (Armenia), David Haroutunian received early tuition from his father, a professional violinist and pupil of Leonid Kogan. He went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Music School under Petros Haykazyan, graduating with honours in 1995. In the same year, he was an award winner in the Amadeus Competition. At the age of thirteen, he gave his first solo performance with orchestra, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G major K216. This was soon followed by concerts in Armenia and Russia, and recordings for radio.
In September 1995, he began his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, obtaining the Premier Prix de Violon in 1998. In 1999, he embarked on the postgraduate course at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where he was taught by Jean-Jacques Kantorow.
In 1996, Rouben Aharonian (now first violinist of the Borodin Quartet) invited him to perform the double violin concertos by Bach and Vivaldi. The following year, he met Boris Belkin, whose role in the development of the young musician would be pivotal. In the same year, he gained an honours certificate from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. During his studies, David Haroutunian benefited from the expertise of musicians including Olivier Charlier, Zachar Bron, Donald Weilerstein and Christian Ivaldi. Since then, his performing career has expanded to include solo appearances with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Graduates Orchestra, and with members of Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the SWR Sinfonieorchester. Concert tours have taken him as far afield as the former USSR, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Estonia, Ukraine, Argentina, Morocco and Algeria. His interest in the music of all eras ranks him amongst the most eclectic violinists of his generation. A chamber musician of repute, he is regularly invited to play at music festivals of all kinds.
David Haroutunian has given solo and chamber recitals in concert halls including the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Salle Cortot, Budapest Philharmonic, Moscow’s Hall of Columns, Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Siena, with partners including Paul Badura-Skoda, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Itamar Golan, François-Frédéric Guy, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Vahan Mardirossian, Henri Demarquette, Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Gérard Poulet. In December 1999 he recorded a live recital for Radio Budapest. The disk received great critical acclaim in Hungary.
David Haroutunian has participated in various radio broadcasts on stations including France Musique, Radio Classique, Armenian National Radio and Hungarian National Radio. He is artistic director of the chamber music festivals ‘Les Variations Musicales de Saint-Estèphe’, the ‘Festival de Bormes-les-Mimosas’ and as of 2017, ‘Musique(s) en Emeraude’ in Saint-Malo.
In 2016, he formed the Armenian music ensemble Toumanian Mek. Passionate about teaching and music outreach, David Haroutunian has taught at the ‘Conservatoire Erik Satie’ in Paris since 2018. He has also given numerous masterclasses in Argentina, Greece and Armenia.
David Haroutunian est également le directeur artistique de trois festivals : « Les Variations Musicales de Saint-Estèphè », le « Festival de Bormes-les-Mimosas » ou encore « Musique(s) en Emeraude » à Saint-Malo.
He plays a Lorenzo Carcassi violin made in Florence in 1753.
Mikayel Hakhnazaryan
cello
Mikayel Hakhnazaryan
cello
Mikayel Hakhnazaryan
cello
Cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan is known as a versatile musician in the world of classical music – as a member of the Kuss Quartet, with which he is performing worldwide in all concert halls like the Philharmonie Berlin, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, Musikverein Vienna and at festivals as Rheingau Festival, Salzburg and Lucerne, to name a few.
Regular chamber music partners are Miklós Perényi, Mischa Maisky, Paul Meyer, Mojca Erdmann and Sarah Maria Sun.
Born into a musical family, Mikayel continued his studies after graduation from the State Conservatory in Armenia with Tibor Varga and Marcio Carneiro in Sion and completed them at the Musikakademie Basel with Prof. Ivan Monighetti.
He was deeply inspired by Steven Isserlis, attending his master classes numerous times and calls him his mentor.
During his studies in Switzerland he appeared regularly as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Tibor Varga and with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Armenia.
At that time he was a member of the Basel String Quartet and the Zurich String Trio.
Chamber music is the most central element in Mikayel’s career, after being part of the Open Chamber Music Festival of IMS Prussia Cove for years, he played in numerous festivals wordwide.
Mikayel was Guest Principal Cello at the Basque National Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and is regularly invited by Camerata Bern, Camerata Salzburg, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Kammerorchester Basel, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Cappella Andrea Barca, among others.
Since 2014 he is Principal Cello of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and regularly guest at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and their chamber music groups (12 Cellists/ Scharoun Ensemble).
He is giving chamber music masterclasses at the Jeunesses Musicales, Royal Birmingham Conservatory, Suntory Hall Tokyo and other institutions.
In the past years Mikayel performed as solist with the Armenian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Georgian Chamber Orchester Ingolstadt.
Mikayel plays on a cello by Andrea Castagneri from 1735.
Sofya Melikyan
piano
Sofya Melikyan
piano
Sofya Melikyan
piano
Hailed for “an exquisite artistic sensibility” (Mundoclasico), Armenian-born pianist Sofya Melikyan toured throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Cuba, China, Japan and Australia with performances at such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Palace of Festivals in Santander, Monumental Theatre in Madrid, Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, Armenian Philharmonic Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Izumi Hall in Osaka, Salle Cortot in Paris, Historisches Kaufhaus in Freiburg, among many others. She appeared as a soloist with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Spain, Cordoba Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, New Europe Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Andalucía, Spanish National Youth Orchestra.
Winner of numerous international piano competitions, Melikyan's performances have been broadcast by the National Radio and Television of Spain, National Radio and Television of Armenia, National Radio of Catalonia, Melbourne ABC Classic FM Radio Station, Chicago WFMT Radio station, Mezzo French Television Station, New York WXQR Radio Station.
Recent performance highlights include recitals at the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, American Liszt Society in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Guangzhou Opera House in China, Bulgaria Concert Hall in Sofia, Santiago de Compostela Auditorium in Spain, "Chopin+" Festival in Luxembourg, Spanish tour with Master Symphony Orchestra, as well as debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba in Havana, North Shore Symphony Orchestra in Chicago and Vancouver Symphony in USA.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sofya Melikyan began her musical formation at the Tchaikovsky Special School of Yerevan with Prof. Anahit Shajbazyan. She completed her further training at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid with Prof. Joaquin Soriano (graduated with Honors), Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris with Prof. Ramzi Yassa (graduated with Honors) and Manhattan School of Music in New York with Prof. Solomon Mikowsky. Other pianists who have mentored her are Brigitte Engerer and Galina Eguiazarova.
Aside from her extensive career as a soloist, Sofya Melikyan is also a passionate and highly sought-after chamber musician. She has collaborated with such artists as Amaury Coeytaux, Gary Hoffman, Torleif Thedeen, Tanja Becker -Bender, Silvia Simionescu, Lise Berthaud, Kim Kashkashian, Karen Ouzounian, Philippe Graffin among others. As a member of former New York based Sima Trio, Melikyan was a Gold Medal winner at the New England International Chamber Music Competition in Boston.
Sofya has just released her two new CDs: "Women" with works by contemporary female composers on IBS Classical, as well as “Spanish Piano Music” on Etcetera Records. Both CDs have received enthusiastic responses from experts and critics.
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SOIRÉE GITANE
À la croisée des mondes
Tuesday, 26 July, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Pari fou ce soir avec des géants de la guitare gitane, accompagnés d’un ensemble à cordes bien connu du public genevois. Un mélange de couleurs bien audacieux !
Concert dédié au public
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Ensemble Microcosme
Ensemble Microcosme
Ensemble Microcosme
L’Ensemble Microcosme est un ensemble de chambre à géométrie variable lancé en octobre 2017. Son effectif varie du quatuor à cordes à l’orchestre de chambre de 18 musiciens.
L'Ensemble Microcosme voit le jour sous l’impulsion de son directeur artistique et violoniste Franck-Edouard Bernard, passionné de musique d’ensemble sous toutes ses formes, pour qui le partage de sa passion musicale à la fois avec un public le plus large possible, mais également avec les musiciens avec lesquels il joue, est une évidence.
La rencontre et le soutien immédiat de Claire Haugrel, agent artistique et organisatrice de concerts, lui donnent l’opportunité de rassembler autour de ce projet des amis rencontrés au cours de sa vie musicale, et partageant cette même vision de la musique.
Tous très talentueux, diplômés de conservatoires supérieurs, les musiciens constituant l’Ensemble Microcosme ont une riche expérience en musique de chambre et en orchestre.
La résidence aux Musicales de Compesières (Suisse), offerte à l’Ensemble Microcosme dès sa création, est une chance formidable puisqu’elle lui donne la possibilité depuis cinq ans maintenant d’assurer au moins trois programmes par saison.
Dans le cadre de cette résidence, Microcosme est parrainé entre 2017 et 2021 par le violoniste de renom Patrice Fontanarosa. Dès l’automne 2022, François-Frédéric Guy, pianiste et chef d’orchestre à la carrière internationale, deviendra directeur musical de l’Ensemble Microcosme pour 3 saisons.
Microcosme est également invité au Festival Puplinge Classique (Suisse), aux Rencontres Musicales de Champéry (Suisse), aux Fêtes Musicales de Savoie…
L’Ensemble a ainsi déjà eu la chance de se produire avec des invités de renoms : Patrice Fontanarosa (violon), Marielle Nordmann (harpe), Nicolas Chalvin (direction), Alexandra Conunova (violon), Geneviève Laurenceau (violon), Christian-Pierre La Marca (violoncelle), David Kadouch (piano), Théophile Alexandre (contre-ténor), François-Frédéric Guy (piano)…
Une volonté forte de l’Ensemble Microcosme est aussi de dépasser le format classique habituel de l'ensemble de chambre et de ses concerts, en cherchant à s’ouvrir à d’autres esthétiques et à créer des passerelles avec d'autres arts. C'est dans cette optique qu’il propose les projets originaux « Fiesta Latina » avec l'accordéoniste Pascal Contet autour du tango, et « Voyage en Russie » avec le virtuose de la balalaïka Alexeï Birioukov.
A l’automne 2020, l’Ensemble Microcosme s’associe au pianiste Nima Sarkechik pour la création du spectacle « Urban Beethoven », qui mélange la musique de Beethoven, le hip-hop, le rap et la réalisation d’une toile en direct par un peintre…
L’été 2022 verra le lancement d’une tournée de concerts « A la croisée des mondes », en compagnie du groupe Gipsy del Mundo, dans lesquels s’associeront les univers de la musique gitane et de la musique classique.
Ensemble Gypsy del Mundo
Ensemble Gypsy del Mundo
Ensemble Gypsy del Mundo
Bik Régis et ses deux fils, Mario et William dit "Chouchou", forment le groupe Gipsy del Mundo. Ils sont les héritiers directs d'illustres musiciens gitans comme Paco de Lucia ou Manitas de Plata qui a transmis le flambeau officiellement à Mario il y a quelques années. Ce sont des virtuoses de la guitare qui enflamment les salles de concert du monde entier depuis de nombreuses années . Leurs influences musicales mixent le flamenco, la bossa nova, le jazz et la guitare classique donnant ses lettres de noblesse à une musique gitane authentique et vivante. Bik Régis est l'auteur-compositeur incontournable de succès comme Pobre Vagabundo ou Voyage, sa fibre artistique et sa technique sont mises au service de la sensibilité.
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RÉCITAL DE PIANO
Grand répertoire
Thursday, 28 July, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Admiré du public helvétique depuis sa victoire au Concours Clara Haskil en 1999, Finghin Collins nous propose des monuments du répertoire et aussi de belles découvertes plus contemporaines.
Concert dédié à Yamaha Europe, Piano Workshop et Piano Services
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Finghin Collins
piano
Finghin Collins
piano
Finghin Collins
piano
One of Ireland's most celebrated musicians and significant musical ambassadors, Finghin Collins was born in Dublin in 1977 and, following initial lessons with his sister Mary, studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. His international career was launched by winning first prize at the Clara Haskil Competition in Switzerland in 1999. He has performed in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe and the United States, as well as in the Far East and Australia.
Collins has performed with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, garnering consistent praise from critics and public alike. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Hans Graf, Emmanuel Krivine, Nicholas McGegan, Gianandrea Noseda, Sakari Oramo, Tadaaki Otaka, Heinrich Schiff, Vassily Sinaisky, Leonard Slatkin and Gábor Tákacs-Nagy.
Performances across Europe have included such prestigious venues as Symphony Hall Birmingham, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Barbican and Cadogan Hall, London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (both halls), De Doelen Rotterdam (both halls), Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Cortot Paris, Salle Molière Lyon, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Palao de la Musica Valencia, Gulbenkian Hall Lisbon, Sala Verdi Milan, Teatro Manzoni Bologna, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Vienna, Franz Liszt Academy Budapest, Philharmonic Hall Warsaw and the Auditorium Stravinski Montreux. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, New York and the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, as well as at both Ravinia and Gilmore Festivals in the USA. Further festival appearances include the Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron (France), Klavier-Festival Ruhr and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), Lockenhaus Festival (Austria), Delft International Chamber Music Festival and Storioni Festival (The Netherlands), Chopin Festival (Poland), Musical Olympus Festival (Russia), Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad (Switzerland), the Wuhan International Piano Festival (China) as well as the Mostly Mozart Festival and Ryedale Festival (UK).
Chamber music plays a significant role in his musical life and he has collaborated with London Winds and the Aviv, Callino, Chilingirian, ConTempo, Cremona, Ebène, Goldner, Navarra, Shanghai, Skampa, St Petersburg, Vanbrugh, Vertavo and Vogler String Quartets. Chamber music partners have included violinists Tasmin Little, Kristóf Bárati and Ilya Gringolts, cellists Han-Na Chang, Marc Coppey, István Várdai, clarinettists Emma Johnson, Michael Collins, Sharon Kam and Romain Guyot, sopranos Ailish Tynan and Lenneke Ruiten, tenor James Gilchrist and baritone Maarten Koningsberger, as well as his sister pianist Dearbhla Collins and many others.
The 2021/22 season also includes engagements in France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and elsewhere. Collins is also a member of the jury of the 2022 Dublin International Piano Competition and will chair the jury of the Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Switzerland in 2023 and 2025. During the 2022/23 season Collins will perform at the Piano aux Jacobins festival in Toulouse, the Festival de Zermatt, the Concerts JS Bach in Lutry, the National Concert Hall in Dublin with the Quatuor Ebène and will give the world premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra in Galway and Dublin of a new piano concerto by Jane O’Leary to mark 40 years of Music for Galway.
Chamber music has always played an important part in Collins’ musical activity and over the years he has performed with some of the leading quartets, instrumentalists and singers.
Over the past two decades Collins has developed a close relationship with Claves Records in Switzerland, recording two double CDs of Schumann’s piano music (which won numerous awards including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice in 2006), followed by a recording of works for piano and orchestra by Charles V. Stanford with the RTÉ NSO / Kenneth Montgomery (Editor's Choice, May 2011). In May 2013 RTÉ lyric fm launched his recording of four Mozart piano concertos directed from the keyboard with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. A Chopin recital CD was released in 2017, a co-production between RTÉ lyric fm and Claves Records, while in spring 2020 Claves released Collins’ latest release: a recording of the Mozart Piano Quartets with Rosanne Philippens (violin), Máté Szücs (viola) and István Várdai (cello).
Finghin Collins makes a significant contribution to the musical landscape of his native Ireland, where he resides. Since 2013, he has been Artistic Director of Music for Galway, which was tasked with presenting the major classical programme of Galway 2020, European Capital of Culture. The centrepiece of that programme, the cello festival Cellissimo, was delivered successfully online in March 2021. He is also the founding Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival as well as the founding co-Artistic Director of the International Master Course at the National Concert Hall.
In October 2017, the National University of Ireland conferred on him an honorary Degree of Doctor of Music.
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SOIRÉE CROATE
Quatuor de guitares
Saturday, 30 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Tout droit venus de Croatie, ces quatre guitaristes nous offrent un programme classique et moderne avec de délicieux compositeurs à découvrir. En miroir du concert manouche, celui-ci mettra à l’honneur la guitare classique.
Concert dédié aux prestataires du Festival
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Split Guitar Quartet
Split Guitar Quartet
Split Guitar Quartet
The Split Guitar Quartet was founded in 2010. The Quartet is formed by prizewinning Croatian guitarists: Kajo Milišić, Josip Dragnić, Goran Cetinić Koća and Martin Andrijašević. During their continuous presence on the Croatian musical scene Quartet has held numerous concerts in Croatia and abroad.
During the years of their continuous activity the Split Guitar Quartet has achieved a respectable international concert activity. The Quartet has held concerts in Germany at the International guitar festival in Augsburg, three concerts in Luxembourg, among these the most important one was held in January 2017 within the prestigious cycle of classical music concerts „Les concerts du Foyer Europeen“. At the beginning of 2018 Split Guitar Quartet held a European tour with concerts in Luxembourg, Spain (International chamber music festival in Torreperogil – Andalusia) and in the Sofia Philharmonic Hall in Bulgaria at the festival Europe Music 2018 organized in the occasion of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In July 2018 Quartet has played a concert within 30th Imago Sloveniae Festival in Ljubljana that was recorded by Slovenian National Radio. In April 2019 Quartet had first Italian concert tour and in December same year second concert tour in Spain in regions Castilla- Leon and again Andalusia. After year and half break caused by the pandemic, in July 2021 Quartet played a concert in Poland within 10th Euro chamber music festival in Gdansk.
Quartet was awarded for the best classical music concert at Makarska summer festival in 2015 and with special prize for great contribution to the Split's musical scene awarded by City of Split and Croatian Musicians Union in 2016.
Quartet's music has been played in various radio shows at Croatian National Radio – First Channel, Third Channel, Voice of Croatia, Radio Split and Slovenian National Radio – Third Channel.
Quartet's repertoire consists of transcriptions, works originally written for guitar quartet as well as works composed by Croatian composers, which is in line with the tendency to support work of Croatian composers.
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SOIRÉE HELVÉTIQUE
Compositeurs suisses
Sunday, 31 July, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Célébrée pour ses montres et ses fromages, l’Helvétie, patrie à la lisière de l’Europe centrale, recèle également de fabuleux compositeurs. Romantiques du siècle dernier ou virtuose déchaîné au style intercontinental, ces compositeurs sont à consommer sans modération !
Concert dédié à la mémoire d’André Rochat
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François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
Born in 1989 with Swiss, French and Chinese origins, pianist François-Xavier Poizat graduated from the Geneva and Hamburg Conservatory and from the Juilliard School in New York with the teaching of Alexeï Golovin, Evgeni Koroliov, Nelson Goerner and Matti Raekallio. In his quest for new input and ideas, he pursues further studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo. It is Martha Argerich who propelled him on the international stage by inviting him when he was 12 years old to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, recognizing his “deep lyricism and remarkable virtuosity”. This marked the beginning of a career that has brought him to perform in already 27 countries in Europe, Asia and America, in venues like the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, the Seoul Art Center, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory or the Carnegie Hall in New York.
His journey is sprinkled with collaborations with big orchestras such as the Suisse Romande and Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, the National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Lithuanian and Armenian National Chamber Orchestras, the Zürich Chamber Orchestra and the Poznan Philharmonic, among others. He has performed under the baton of Philippe Béran, Thierry Fischer, Neeme Järvi, Lukasc Borowicz, Bernard Labadie or Frédéric Chaslin, in prestigious festivals (the Roque d'Anthéron in France, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Schubertiade in Porrentruy or the Septembre Musical in Montreux in Switzerland).
He has won prizes in significant competitions : Grand Prix at the 2004 International Competition for the Youth in Kassel, Germany, the 2007 Young Soloist Prize of the Radios Francophones Publiques, 1st Prize at the 2009 International Competition for the Youth of Oldenburg and at the 2009 Elise Meyer Competition in Hambourg in Germany, the Jury Special Prize at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the 2012 Soloist Prize of the Migros Cultural Percentage in Zürich, before being a finalist at the 2013 Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland.
His large solo and chamber music repertoire includes 500 years of music and more than thirty concertos, as well as all works with piano by Maurice Ravel, his favorite composer.
Beside his principal activity as a performer, he is currently the director of the International Puplinge Classique Festival in Geneva, a position he has held for the past 12 years, and has recorded 4 CDs with the Naxos, Ars Produktion and Piano Classics labels. Laureate of the Leenaards and Migros scolarships, and regularly recharges himself by playing jazz and studying martial arts, which he has done for 20 years.
Dimitri Soudoplatoff
conductor
Dimitri Soudoplatoff
conductor
Dimitri Soudoplatoff
conductor
Conductor, Composer, Arranger, Dimitri Soudoplatoff graduated from the HEM of Geneva in Orchestral Conducting, as well as the CNSMDP in Musical Writing (composition, arrangement, orchestration). He developed a deep passion for musical creation under the guidance of known composers Thierry Escaich, Guillaume Connesson, Fabien Waksman, Marc André Dalbavie. As a former cellist, he was soon attracted towards instrumental writing and orchestral scoring. He wrote for prestigious institutions and artist such as the Orchestra Santa Cecilia, Alexandre Tharaud, Ophélie Gaillard, Miroirs Etendus, Entresilences, Ponticello, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Dcadences. His love for Jazz and New Music brought him to work with artists such as Melody Gardot, Fred Pallem, Art Zoyd, Fiona Monbet, Petru Guelfucci. Described as a charismatic and enthousiastic conductor, eager to collaborate with new music composers, he has conducted several creations of contemporary composers such as Jérémie Rhorer’s Opera “Tinsoldat” at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 2021, concerts being unfortunately cancelled due to Covid Restrictions. Laureate of the prestigious Leenaards Foundation (https://www.leenaards.ch/bourse/dimitri-soudoplatoff/), he worked with and conducted many high-class Europeans Orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Metz, Pärnu City Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra. Dimitri Soudoplatoff teaches Musical Theory at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU)
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
L’Ensemble PuplinGE Classique est une des grandes nouveautés de la 13ème édition du Festival Puplinge Classique. Cet ensemble, formé par de jeunes musiciens professionnels étudiants dans les Hautes-Écoles de Musique suisses, se produira à trois occasions. Pour le concert d’ouverture, dans le thème « Miroirs » de cette édition, ils joueront des doubles concertos de Vivaldi, Bach et Mozart. Une soirée très classique en milieu de festival, avec un Concerto pour piano de Mozart et l’arrangement du célèbre quatuor « La jeune fille et la mort » de Schubert, aura lieu avant un concert entièrement dédiés à des compositeurs suisses : Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch et Daniel Schnyder. De quoi faire une première apparition remarquée et ambitieuse, grâce à un répertoire d’envergure et aux concours de solistes talentueux !
Tarifs : 35.-CHF / 30.-CHF / 15.-CHF
L’AMOUR DE LA MUSIQUE
Concert des élèves
Saturday, 6 August, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Après une semaine de stage intensif sous la férule de professeurs exigeants, les élèves montent sur scène le temps d’un concert. En cette occasion rêvée et pourtant si intimidante, ils ont besoin de vos encouragements !
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Élèves de l’académie pour amateurs de Puplinge
Élèves de l’académie pour amateurs de Puplinge
Élèves de l’académie pour amateurs de Puplinge
Entrée libre
PLACE À L’ORCHESTRE
Grands classiques
Sunday, 7 August, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Emmené par un quatuor prometteur ainsi que par un merveilleux pianiste dirigeant de son instrument, l’orchestre du Festival éclot dans deux œuvres du plus grand répertoire viennois, dans lequel se reflèteront le « Jeunehomme » et la « Jeune fille ».
Concert dédié à la Mairie de Puplinge
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Christian Chamorel
piano
Christian Chamorel
piano
Christian Chamorel
piano
Pianiste « vif et éloquent » (Diapason), « parfait styliste » au jeu « jubilatoire et orchestral » (Classica), Christian Chamorel est l’un des rares pianistes suisses romands dont le rayonnement dépasse les frontières du pays. Son engagement pour le lied et la musique de chambre en fait un partenaire artistique très recherché, avec en prime un sens aigu du partage et de la communication salué par tous les publics.
Invité de festivals prestigieux (Menuhin Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad en Suisse, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Schloss Elmau en Allemagne, Musicales du Golfe, Lisztomanias, Festival de Musique de Menton en France, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti à Rome), il se produit également aux Etats-Unis, au Canada, au NCPA de Pékin, aux Musashino Hall et Kioi Hall de Tokyo, au Konzerthaus de Berlin, au Prinzregententheater de Munich, à la Tonhalle de Zurich, au Wigmore Hall de Londres et au Victoria Hall de Genève.
Lauréat de plusieurs concours internationaux (« Gian Battista Viotti » à Vercelli, Beethoven de Vienne), il joue avec des phalanges telles que l’Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois, l’Orchestre Symphonique de Berne, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, les Frankfurter Solisten ou l’Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville (Québec).
Ses enregistrements dédiés à Liszt, Mendelssohn ou récemment Mozart ont été salués par la presse internationale, avec notamment deux nominations comme meilleur CD de l'année aux « International Classical Music Awards » pour les gravures réalisées avec la violoniste Rachel Kolly d’Alba.
Christian Chamorel est le membre fondateur et directeur artistique du « Mont Musical », un festival de Lied et de musique de chambre au Mont-sur-Lausanne (Suisse) dont les thématiques fortes ont immédiatement séduit un public enthousiaste.
Quatuor Elmire
conductor
Quatuor Elmire
conductor
Quatuor Elmire
conductor
Fondé en 2017, le Quatuor Elmire remporte le 3ème Prix ainsi que le Prix Spécial pour la meilleure interprétation de l'oeuvre contemporaine imposée au Concours International Carl Nielsen à Copenhague en 2019.
Ils obtiennent le 2ème Prix du Concours Européen de la FNAPEC à Paris ainsi que le 2ème Prix et le Prix Spécial « Adolfo Betti » au Concorso di Musica da Camera Virtuoso e Belcanto, à Lucca, en 2018.
Cette même année, ils obtiennent le Prix « Rheingau Music Festival » aux « 63ème Jeunesses Musicales-International Chamber Music Campus » à Weikersheim.
Dès lors, le Quatuor est invité dans divers festivals tels que le Festival de Wissembourg, le Festival des Arcs, les Rencontres Musicales d’Evian ou encore les Folles Journées de Nantes, Tokyo et Ekaterinburg.
Durant son parcours, le Quatuor Elmire bénéficie de l’enseignement de leurs maîtres : Philippe Bernhard du Quatuor Modigliani, Luc-Marie Aguera du Quatuor Ysaÿe. Ils étoffent leur jeu en participant à plusieurs masterclass avec les Quatuors Ébène, Berg, Danel, Casals, Keller ou encore avec l’altiste Tabea Zimmerman.
Ils sont artistes résidents à la Fondation Singer-Polignac , ProQuartet, le Dimore Del Quartetto et soutenu par la Fondation Banque Populaire depuis 2021. Ils sont nommés « Artistes Génération Spedidam » pour les années 2022-2024.
Curieux d’explorer différents horizons, ils collaborent avec le guitariste Samuel Strouk pour l'enregistrement d'un album mêlant Jazz et Classique intitulé « Nouveaux Mondes » sous le label WDS Records, distribué par Universal. Le Quatuor, en partenariat avec La Belle Saison verra la sortie de son premier album à l’automne prochain.
Ils sont directeurs artistiques du Festiv’Elmire, à la Salle Cortot à Paris qui connaîtra sa troisième édition en 2022.
Cyprien Brod joue un violon de Nicolas Lupot fait à Paris en 1817, gracieusement prêté par Xavier et Joséphine Moreno.
Rémi Carlon joue un violoncelle de Nicolas Lupot fait à Paris en 1804, gracieusement prêté par la famille Adelus.
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
Ensemble PuplinGE Classique
L’Ensemble PuplinGE Classique est une des grandes nouveautés de la 13ème édition du Festival Puplinge Classique. Cet ensemble, formé par de jeunes musiciens professionnels étudiants dans les Hautes-Écoles de Musique suisses, se produira à trois occasions. Pour le concert d’ouverture, dans le thème « Miroirs » de cette édition, ils joueront des doubles concertos de Vivaldi, Bach et Mozart. Une soirée très classique en milieu de festival, avec un Concerto pour piano de Mozart et l’arrangement du célèbre quatuor « La jeune fille et la mort » de Schubert, aura lieu avant un concert entièrement dédiés à des compositeurs suisses : Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch et Daniel Schnyder. De quoi faire une première apparition remarquée et ambitieuse, grâce à un répertoire d’envergure et aux concours de solistes talentueux !
Tarifs : 35.-CHF / 30.-CHF / 15.-CHF
PLACE À L’ORCHESTRE
La musique pour tous
Wednesday, 10 August, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Habitué du Festival, l’orchestre au nom évocateur offre un programme qui séduira le grand public, avec notamment le célèbre concerto de Mendelssohn sous l’archet d’un grand violoniste.
Concert dédié aux membres hôtes
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Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe
Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe
Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe
L’Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe rassemble des jeunes solistes et chambristes européens résidant actuellement en France et qui partagent une approche musicale et une exigence technique exceptionnelles.
Créé en 2003 par Nicolas Krauze, l’OCNE s’est produit plus de 400 fois dans certains des plus prestigieux festivals et certaines des plus grandes scènes françaises.
A l’étranger, il a effectué ces cinq dernières années 35 concerts en Chine, deux tournées au Brésil, une tournée en Corée du Sud et des concerts en Allemagne, Italie, Suisse et Belgique.
Des solistes internationaux s’y joignent régulièrement et certains des plus éminents représentants du monde musical lui apportent leur soutien artistique et humain.
De 15 à 40 musiciens selon les programmes, L’Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe joue exclusivement sur instruments modernes et avec une approche contemporaine mais toujours réfléchie selon les répertoires.
Au-delà, l’Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe a vocation à donner un nouveau souffle de fraicheur à la musique classique, dans une approche jeune, très dynamique et charismatique.
Avec plus de 5 millions de vues sur sa chaine Youtube, l’OCNE se place comme l’orchestre français indépendant de loin le plus vue dans le monde sur internet.
Notons pour la saison à venir 2021/2022/2023 une trentaine de concerts en France et trois tournées internationales en Chine, Corée du Sud et Amérique Latine.
Nicolas Krauze
conductor
Nicolas Krauze
conductor
Nicolas Krauze
conductor
Nicolas Krauze is Principal Guest Conductor of Ukraine’s National State Philharmony in Kiev.
He is also Music Director of the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe in Paris.
He has accomplished most of his musical studies in the United States, France and Russia. Studying first as a violinist, then conducting, he has studied mostly at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Moscow Gnessin Institute.
Among others, his conducting professors and advisers have been Prof. Nicolas Brochot, Zsolt Nagy and Christoph Eschenbach.
Nicolas Krauze has been recently invited to conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (France), the Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (France), the Orchestre et Opéra Avignon-Provence (France), the Orchestre National d’Île de France (France), the Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), the Lamoureux Symphonic Orchestra (France), the Paris Symphonic Orchestra (France), the Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles (France), the Wiener Concert-Verein(Austria), the Arena di Verona Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Lecce Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Bari Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Palermo, Italy), the Athens State Symphony Orchestra (Greece) the Györ Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), the Sankt-Petersburg, Samara, Barnaul & Voronezh symphony orchestras (Russia), the Almaty Symphony Orchestra (Kazakhstan), the National State Orchestra of Kazakhstan, the Guayaquil, Loja & Cuenca National Orchestras (Ecuador), the Szczecin Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Lomza Chamber Philharmony (Poland), the Kielce Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Bialystok Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Lublin Symphony Orchestra (Poland), the Wroclaw Chamber Philharmony (Poland), the Wroclaw Opera (Poland), the Gdansk Opera (Poland), the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra (Romania), the Sibiu Symphony orchestra (Romania), the Olomouc Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic), the National Orchestra of Moldavia, the Kiev National Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine) and the Lviv State Philharmonic (Ukraine).
He has also conducted over 400 concerts with the Nouvelle Europe chamber orchestra ( www.orchestre-nouvelle-europe.com ) based in Paris, France, and for which he is principal conductor and artistic director.
He’s recently conducted soloists such as Alexandre Kantorow, Henri Demarquette, Nemanja Radulovic, Sergeï Nakariakov, Lise de la Salle, Vadym Kholodenko, Alena Baeva, Gérard Caussé, Remi Geniet, Alexandra Soumm, Edgar Moreau, Svetlin Roussev, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Plamena Mangova, Aylen Pritchin, Rémi Geniet, David Grimal, François-René Duchâble, Nicolas Dautricourt, Jean-François Zygel, François-Joël Thiollier, Sandor Javorkaï, Maja Bogdanovic, Romain Leleu, Marc Laforet, François Dumont, Yan Levionnois, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Julian Trevelyan ou encore Denis Kozhukhin.
In the lyric field, he has conducted around Europe various productions (among others Gounod’s Faust, Verdi’s Aïda, Massenet’s Thaïs, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, La fille du régiment and Don Pasquale, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Oscar Strauss’s Three Waltz, Lehar’s Merry Widow and Offenbach’s Vie Parisienne) for a total of over 100 representations.
During the 2022/2023 season, he will conduct about 50 concerts worldwide, including invitations with major orchestras in France, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Russia, and will conduct two international symphonic tours in China and South America.
Fabrizio von Arx
violin
Fabrizio von Arx
violin
Fabrizio von Arx
violin
Suisse et Napolitain, Fabrizio von Arx débute ses études de violon à l’âge de 5 ans sous l’égide de G. Leone.
Diplômé du Conservatoire de San Pietro a Majella de Naples, il gagne très jeune le concours de Vittorio Veneto ainsi que de nombreux concours nationaux pour jeunes talents.
Il se perfectionne ensuite à Genève où il obtient le 1er prix du diplôme de Virtuosité avec Corrado Romano, puis celui de Perfomer aux États-Unis à la School of Music de l’Université d’Indiana à Bloomington avec Franco Gulli et Nelli Skolnikova.
Il travaille également à Berlin avec Ruggiero Ricci et à Cremona avec Salvatore Accardo.
Ses débuts à l’âge de 16 ans avec l’orchestre de la RAI de Naples l’ont projeté vers une intense activité à un niveau national et international.
Il est depuis lors l’invité des saisons de concerts, comme :
- Le Serate Musicali de Milan,
- l’Association Scarlatti de Naples,
- le Ravenna Festival,
- les Concerts de la RadioRai3 au Quirinale à Rome,
- la Cité de la Musique de Paris,
- le Festival de Bellerive,
- les Grands Interprètes de Neuchâtel,
- la Tonhalle de Zürich,
- la Wigmore Hall de Londres,
- la WienerSaal de Salzburg,
- Philharmonie de Berlin.
Fabrizio von Arx est régulièrement invité à se produire avec de grands orchestres sous la baguette de chefs de renom tels que :
- l’Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto,
- l’Orchestre de Chambre de Prague,
- le Prague Sinfonia Orchestra avec Christian Benda,
- Ies Solistes de Moscou avec Yuri Bashmet,
- la Japan Royal Chamber Orchestra avec Shunsaku Tsutsumi,
- le Symphonisches Orchester de Zürich avec Alexander Vedernikov,
- les Berliner Symphoniker avec Lior Shambadal.
Il se produit également en tournée aux États-Unis, en France, en Allemagne, en Belgique, en Chine et en Suisse.
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QUATUORS ROMANTIQUES
Mahler, Fauré, Beethoven
Friday, 12 August, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Nous rejoignant depuis l’autre rive de l’Atlantique, un pianiste américain et un quatuor canadien se rencontrent à Puplinge autour de quelques chefs-d’œuvre du grand répertoire.
Concert dédié aux partenaires institutionnels
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Reed Tetzloff
piano
Reed Tetzloff
piano
Reed Tetzloff
piano
“A musician of great authority.” — Richard Goode
Pianist Reed Tetzloff, “an artist of broad musical tastes and individuality,” (South Florida Classical Review) has been praised for his “richly communicative” performances (The Cincinnati Enquirer). He came to international attention at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition, where he was dubbed “the lyric hero of the competition.” (Сноб Magazine). He has excited audiences in tours of China, Europe, and the United States, in recitals met with universal critical acclaim, ever since making his Lincoln Center concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2012.
He has performed concerti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He gives annual multi-city recital tours in Belgium, playing to critical acclaim at major venues including De Singel (Antwerp), Flagey (Brussels), the Miry Concertzaal (Ghent), and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Waterloo). In the summer of 2022, he debuts at the Puplinge Festival in Switzerland and the Wissembourg Festival in France, and his upcoming season also includes a tour of major German cities.
Tetzloff has received career grants from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi and from the Center for Musical Excellence, which sponsored his debut album, Sounds of Transcendence, on the Romeo Records label. Reviewing the album, Patrick Rucker of Gramophone Magazine praised his version of Charles Griffes’ Piano Sonata as “ranking easily with the recordings of Garrick Ohlsson and Stephen Beus as the finest available,” in addition to extolling his “kaleidoscopic colors” and “fervent rapture” in music of Franck and Scriabin. His second album, featuring piano works of Robert Schumann, was released in 2021 on the Master Performers label, and hailed for its “originality and uncommon perceptiveness.” (Voix des Arts)
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tetzloff began his studies with Dr. Paul Wirth. He went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Mannes College in New York, studying at the storied Upper West Side campus with Pavlina Dokovska. Within his first year and a half of undergraduate study, he had won the school’s two largest awards: the Concerto Competition and the Nadia Reisenberg Competition.
Reed Tetzloff is also an accomplished writer. Huntley Dent in Fanfare Magazine praised Tetzloff’s essay on Robert Schumann for how it “explores (the music’s) intricacies deeper than any other pianist I’ve heard commenting on the piece, rising almost to Charles Rosen’s exalted intellectual level.” Tetzloff is currently at work on a collection of essays on music and musical performance.
Quatuor Voxpopuli
Quatuor Voxpopuli
Quatuor Voxpopuli
The Montreal based string quartet acts as the permanent formation of the concert society Concerts Voxpopuli and tours across Québec, Europe and the Americas. In solo and with first rank national and international musicians, its lived performances have gained a reputation for their artistic achievements as well as for being outrageously relaxed.
Concentrating on what the scores actually say instead of what they are supposed to mean, the Quatuor proposes a refreshing view of the repertory. It also strongly defends new creations and has established a strong relation with the composer Patrick Mathieu.
Quatuor Voxpopuli :
Antoine Bareil, 1st violin, Uliana Drugova, 2nd violin, Lambert Chen, viola and Ioav Bronchti, cello.
Tarifs : 35.-CHF / 30.-CHF / 15.-CHF
SOIRÉE HONGROISE
Paysages sonores déroutants
Saturday, 13 August, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Grande patrie musicale dont la liste d’illustres compositeurs ne cesse de s’étendre, la Hongrie nous propose des couleurs folkloriques alliées à une grande complexité rythmique : l’occasion d’un voyage auditif, dépaysant et sans pareil.
Concert dédié à la mémoire de Jean-Pierre Schwarz
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Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann, born in Geneva, is one of the most famous clarinetists of his generation. Winner of more than twenty national and international competitions, he performed on some of the prestigious stages in Europe and Asia. His performances and his play are regularly hailed by the press who defines him as "a musician who has achieved grace, ease and prodigious freedom, and who paradoxically knows how to pass from a phrasing of extreme gentleness to an ardor carrying even the minds the most numb "(24H, 2017).
Damien Bachmann studied with internationally renowned soloists and teachers such as François Benda in Basel, Paolo Beltramini in Lucerne, Harri Mäki in Helsinki, Michel Westphal, Thomas Friedli and René Meyer in Geneva. He had the opportunity to improve with Andreas Sunden, Wenzel Fuchs and Bernhard Röthlisberger. Since 2018 he has been in Studies: “Master of virtuosity” (Konzert Exam) at the Musikhochschule-Freiburg (Germany) with Kilian Herold.
Damien Bachmann won several first prizes at the "Cluj International Music Competition for Clarinet 2015" in Romania, the "1st Béla Kovacs International Clarinet Competition" in Hungary, and the "38th National Competition of Musical Execution" of Riddes in Switzerland. In September 2019 he won at the 3rd Berliner International Musique Competition the Golden Medal in the category “Wind: Professional.”
He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Sinfonie Orchester Basel, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Züricher Kammerorchester, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Argovia Philharmonics. He won several prices such as the Migros, Friedl-Wald, Schenk, Dienemann, Marescotti, Nicati and Hirschmann awards, as well as the prestigious "Förderpreis" 2016 from the BOG Foundation in Basel and a second prize at the "Kiefer Hablitzel 2018 Music Competition".
Passionated about chamber music, Damien Bachmann is regularly invited to play with established artists of his generation, such as the pianists Christian Chamorel, Nikita Mndoyants, Florian Noack and François-Xavier Poizat, with the violinist Aleksey Igudesman, the cellists Lionel Cottet, Nadège Rochat, Christoph Croisé, Astrig Siranossian, but also with the Ebène String Quartet, the Casal String Quartet, the Aviv String Quartet, the Gehrard String Quartet, the Terpsycordes String Quartet and the Geneva String Quartet. He has performed in recital or solo concerts in China's famous concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, in Switzerland at the Tonhalle Zürich and Victoria Hall in Geneva, but also in France, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary. He’s a founder member of the Basilea Wind Quintet.
He is part of the CHAARTS Chamber Artists as solo clarinet and regularly plays as a guest with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland.
In recent years, invited as a jury member of several competitions, he is also teaching and gave already masterclasses in Switzerland, China and Romania.
As the clarinet could play different repertoires, Damien Bachmann collaborates also with musicians from other horizons. He is involved in the creation of shows for children such as "On a perched tree” created in 2017 in the tradition of the educator Jacques-Dalcroze, or the project "Heimat - Apartment House recomposed" of the multi-disciplinary collective Mycelium. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Puplinge Classique Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in the summer of 2019.
Damien Bachmann is a Buffet Crampon Artist playing with Tosca and Prestige instruments.
Aleksandrs Prants
violin
Aleksandrs Prants
violin
Aleksandrs Prants
violin
Aleksandrs Prants est né à Riga en Lettonie. Issu d’une famille de musiciens, sa grande mère étant violoniste, pianiste et cheffe de choeur russe, il a commencé le violon à l’âge de 5 ans, et dès son début a été distingué par les meilleurs professeurs du pays, chez qui il a étudié dans les deux écoles de musique les plus prestigieuses de Lettonie. Orienté vers le violon très jeune, il a remporté plus d’une dizaine de prix à des concours nationaux et internationaux. En France, à son arrivée en 2011, il commence à étudier auprès de Chantal Rodier au CRR du Grand Avignon, où il obtient à l’âge de 14 ans le Diplôme d’Études Musicales, puis continue sa formation dans la classe de Suzanne Gessner au CRR de Paris où il décroche un Prix de Perfectionnement. En 2017, Aleksandrs commence ses études supérieures à la Haute École de Musique de Genève dans la classe de Svetlin Roussev, où il reste étudiant à ce jour. Cherchant à approfondir ses connaissances musicales, à perfectionner sa technique et musicalité, mis à part l'influence de son professeur, il bénéficie de conseils des personnalités musicales comme Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Josef Spacek, Sarah Nemtanu, Gábor Tákacs-Nagy, Miguel Da Silva, Diana Ketler et d’autres. Aleksandrs souhaite poursuivre ses études en Suisse, envisageant autant une carrière de soliste, que celle de chambriste, de pédagogue et du musicien d’orchestre, au service d’une grande polyvalence musicale.
Anna Minten
cello
Anna Minten
cello
Anna Minten
cello
Originaire de Geneve, Anna Minten, obtient en juin 2015 un Master de soliste avec distinctions dans la classe de Francois Guye, a la Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve. Elle a egalement etudie dans la prestigieuse classe de Jean-Guihen Queyras a la Musikhochschule de Freiburg im Breisgau et s’est formee a la Hochschule der Kunste de Bern dans la classe de Conradin Brotbek pour un master de pedagogie qu’elle obtient en 2017. Elle s’est parallelement perfectionnee aupres d’Enrico Dindo a la Pavia Cello Academy entre 2015 et 2017.
Ses qualites musicales sont reconnues depuis son plus jeune age lors du Concours suisse de musique pour la jeunesse en 2008 et 2010 ou elle recoit a deux reprises un premier prix avec distinctions et deux prix speciaux. Le Prix Anne et Marthe Torcapel, pour le meilleur bachelor de cordes, lui est decerne en 2013 et elle obtient aussi le Prix special Denis de Marignac, remis au meilleur master de soliste de violoncelle, a la Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve en 2015. Durant l’annee 2016, Anna MINTEN est boursiere du pour- cent culturel Migros.
En tant que soliste elle se produit avec l'Orchestre de Chambre de Zurich, l'Orchestre Philarmonique de Baden-Baden, l'Orchestre de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve, la Sinfonietta de Geneve, le Bergensemble Arosa, l’Orchestre St-Pierre Fusterie, l’Ensemble instrumental romand et l'ensemble Amalgame. Tres interessee par la musique contemporaine, elle cree le concerto pour violoncelle de Artur Aksheylan avec l'Orchestre de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve dans le cadre d'une coproduction avec des danseurs du CNSM de Lyon, au BFM a Geneve.
Durant la saison 2012-2013 elle est choisie comme violoncelle solo a la Sinfonietta de Geneve. Remplacante a l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a l’Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, au Sinfonieorchester Basel ainsi qu’a l’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne depuis plusieurs annees, Anna MINTEN a egalement ete membre du Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester entre 2013 et 2016, fait partie depuis 2015 de l’ensemble genevois Proteus et est membre de l'European Philarmonic Of Swizerland.
Passionnee de musique de chambre, elle fait partie du quatuor a cordes Emrys avec lequel elle s’est formee aupres du celebre Gabor Takacs Nagy a Geneve, se produit regulierement en duo avec la pianiste Natasha Roque Alsina et au sein des I solisti di Pavia et est membre de l'Ensemble Soundtrieb.
La transmission de la musique a travers l'enseignement est egalement un pilier central dans sa maniere de partager sa passion. Elle enseigne depuis 2018 au Conservatoire populaire de musique danse et theatre de Geneve.
Gabriel Michaud
percussionist
Gabriel Michaud
percussionist
Gabriel Michaud
percussionist
Gabriel Michaud began percussion at the age of 7 in an associative music school before joining the Nantes Conservatory. Very invested in the practice of jazz, he played in several formations during his years in Nantes (ODC 5tet, Rémi Pardigol Trio...) in particular with the Tryptyk trio since 2017. In 2020 he obtained a DEM in percussion and a DEM in jazzvibraphone. In the same year, he joined the Geneva University of Music in percussion, where he is currently studying contemporary and orchestral repertoire with Philippe Spiesser, Christophe Delannoy and François Desforges, but also drums and tablas with Claude Gastaldin. In 2021, he obtained a 3rd prize at the International Marimba Festival Competition in Bamberg, a 2nd prize at the Swiss Percussion Competition in the RecitalPerformance category as well as a 1st prize at the International Marimba Competition in Pollença.
Veronika T.-Potzner
percussionist
Veronika T.-Potzner
percussionist
Veronika T.-Potzner
percussionist
The award winning percussion artist, Veronika T.-Potzner (1996) was born and raised in, Hungary. She began her musical education in the Zoltán Kodály Music School with playing the piano. After 6 years of basic studies her interest for classical percussion instruments started to grow and she decided to change majors. Besides, Veronika studied jazz piano and attended the local dance school for 11 years. Graduating from Music High School, she was admitted to the Zürich University of Arts, where she currently finished her master studies. Some of her teachers were Klaus Schwärzler, Raphael Christen, Benjamin Forster, Rainer Seegers and Martin Grubinger. Veronika won several prizes on international and swiss competitions, also she was one of the award winners of Migros Kulturprozent 2020. As a percussionist she worked with several famous artists, such as Keiko Abe, G. Stout, Theodor Milkov, P.Cheung, (etc.) and is supported by Rahn Kulturfonds, Stiftung Lyra, Zaczkowski Stiftung, and others.
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
François-Xavier Poizat
Piano
Born in 1989 with Swiss, French and Chinese origins, pianist François-Xavier Poizat graduated from the Geneva and Hamburg Conservatory and from the Juilliard School in New York with the teaching of Alexeï Golovin, Evgeni Koroliov, Nelson Goerner and Matti Raekallio. In his quest for new input and ideas, he pursues further studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo. It is Martha Argerich who propelled him on the international stage by inviting him when he was 12 years old to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, recognizing his “deep lyricism and remarkable virtuosity”. This marked the beginning of a career that has brought him to perform in already 27 countries in Europe, Asia and America, in venues like the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Tonhalle in Zürich, the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin, the Seoul Art Center, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory or the Carnegie Hall in New York.
His journey is sprinkled with collaborations with big orchestras such as the Suisse Romande and Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, the National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Lithuanian and Armenian National Chamber Orchestras, the Zürich Chamber Orchestra and the Poznan Philharmonic, among others. He has performed under the baton of Philippe Béran, Thierry Fischer, Neeme Järvi, Lukasc Borowicz, Bernard Labadie or Frédéric Chaslin, in prestigious festivals (the Roque d'Anthéron in France, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Schubertiade in Porrentruy or the Septembre Musical in Montreux in Switzerland).
He has won prizes in significant competitions : Grand Prix at the 2004 International Competition for the Youth in Kassel, Germany, the 2007 Young Soloist Prize of the Radios Francophones Publiques, 1st Prize at the 2009 International Competition for the Youth of Oldenburg and at the 2009 Elise Meyer Competition in Hambourg in Germany, the Jury Special Prize at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the 2012 Soloist Prize of the Migros Cultural Percentage in Zürich, before being a finalist at the 2013 Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland.
His large solo and chamber music repertoire includes 500 years of music and more than thirty concertos, as well as all works with piano by Maurice Ravel, his favorite composer.
Beside his principal activity as a performer, he is currently the director of the International Puplinge Classique Festival in Geneva, a position he has held for the past 12 years, and has recorded 4 CDs with the Naxos, Ars Produktion and Piano Classics labels. Laureate of the Leenaards and Migros scolarships, and regularly recharges himself by playing jazz and studying martial arts, which he has done for 20 years.
Benedek Horváth
piano
Benedek Horváth
piano
Benedek Horváth
piano
Hungarian pianist Benedek Horvath’s new Liszt album with Prospero Classical was released in early October 2020 and eagerly welcomed by critics. The program includes Concerto No.1 and Totentanz with the Symphony Orchestra Basel, conducted by Meistro Hans Drewanz and Liszt’s most important piano work, the B Minor Sonata. Benedek is preparing for his next project in the upcoming months, in co-production with SRF, to record Bach’s masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations.
In 2017 Benedek debuted at New York’s Merkin Hall performing Liszt’s 2nd Concerto. Since his debut, other performance highlights include Mozart's Piano Concerto K459 together with Theodor Guschlbauer and the Musikkollegium Winterthur, at the Tonhalle Zurich as well as Liszt's "Totentanz" at the Stadtcasino Basel with the Basel Symphony Orchestra.
Performing as a soloist, Benedek has worked together with the Montenegro Symphony Orchestra, the Real Filharmonía of Galicia, and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, naming just a few. Benedek’s recitals took him to China, the US, and various European cities, including Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna (broadcasted live on ORF Radio), Gstaad Festival, Milan, Rome, Krakow, Tirana, Podgorica, and many more.
Benedek is the first prize winner of both the Kiefer Hablitzel Competition (Bern) and Rahn Musikpreis (Zürich). He won the Laureate prize at the Klara Haskil Competition in 2016 and the highly prestigous Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition as well.
In 2018, Benedek was awarded the ‘Junior Prima’ prize in Budapest. It is one of the most important prizes for young artists in Hungary; only few receive it every year.
Benedek performs not only as a soloist, but he is a passionate chamber musician as well. In Summer 2019, he debuted with his trio, Trio Eclipse, at the prestigious Lucerne Festival. Trio Eclipse’s first CD, ‘Spheres,’ was released in 2020 with Prospero Classical presenting works by Gershwin, Nino Rota, Thomas Demenga and more. They are also prize winners of the esteemed International Osaka Chamber Music Competition and the Migros Kulturprozent Wettbewerb. Additional chamber music highlights include playing with internationally renowned Casals String Quartet and Zakar Bron.
Benedek holds a Soloist Diploma from Basel Music Academy and has worked together with numerous renowned artists such as András Schiff, Dimitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Ferenc Rados and Zoltán Kocsis.
At the age of 13, Benedek recorded his first CD with the MATAV Symphony Orchestra, performing two piano concertos by the Armenian-American composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, who later dedicated several pieces to him. In 2016, he recorded his first solo album with works by Liszt and Bartók for the French label Artalinna.
In addition to the piano, Benedek also plays the violin and various percussion instruments. As a teenager, he also performed in a band to expand his knowledge in different segments of music. He also has an avid interest in photography and videography and a keen photographer himself.
Tarifs : 25.-CHF / 20.-CHF / 10.-CHF
SOIRÉE ÉTATS-UNIS
Instruments en miroirs
Monday, 15 August, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Fief du Jazz, mais aussi de la musique minimaliste et d’un renouveau contemporain complexe mais accessible, les USA n’ont pas fini de nous fasciner. Avec cinq instruments à percussions, ces musiciens rythmeront la soirée, de Gershwin à Philip Glass.
Concert dédié au Pour-Cent Culturel Migros
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Dinu Mihailescu
piano
Dinu Mihailescu
piano
Dinu Mihailescu
piano
In 2009 he moved to Switzerland in order to study under Prof. Dominique Weber and Cédric Pescia at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. During his studies in Geneva, Dinu received two special awards for best academic results (Prix Francois Dumont and Prix Georges Filipinetti) and had the chance to develop his musical qualities with world renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri Bashkirov, Julian Martin and many others.
In parallel to his studies, Dinu has played alongside main Romanian Philharmonic Orchestras (Timisoara, Sibiu, Cluj, Arad) and had the chance to perform under the direction of internationally renowned conductors (Nader Abbassi, Alexandre Myrat, Oliver Diaz, Gheorghe Costin, Remus Georgescu).
In 2005, Dinu marked his international debut when he was invited to play in the Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals with the Gijon Festival Orchestra in Candàs (Spain), led by Spanish conductor Oliver Diaz. In 2009, he was invited to perform, as a soloist, the W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.12.
Over the years, Dinu has shown a constant passion for music and artistic development. His musical qualities and dedication have earned him many Prizes in Piano Competitions, among the most important are : 2nd Prize at the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition (Hungary, 2017) and the 2nd Prize at the Nice International Piano Competition (France, 2016). He is also the Winner of the W. A. Mozart Piano Concerto Award (Spain, 2009) and the Piano Section in the Orange Corporation Romania music competition Searching for Enescu in Bucharest (Romania, 2006). Other distinctions include Special Cultural Merits in Romania awarded by the Lion’s Club and Rotary Club Timisoara.
As a soloist and chamber music partner, Dinu has appeared in renowned European International Music Festivals such as Millennium Piano Festival (Spain), Les estivales de Megève (France) and Puplinge Classique (Switzerland). His recent engagements as a chamber music performer include concerts at the Studio Ansermet and Victoria Hall in Geneva, as well as Forum Menuhin Hall in Bern.
Since 2017, Dinu started a piano-duo collaboration with Swiss pianist Philippe Boaron. This project led to a series of professional audio and video recordings, including pieces for 4 hands by W. A. Mozart, S. Rachmaninov and the two piano version of I. Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps.
In June 2019, Dinu was appointed as piano teacher at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, Danse et Théâtre in Geneva.
Philippe Boaron
piano
Philippe Boaron
piano
Philippe Boaron
piano
Musicien genevois formé au sein des Hautes Ecoles de Suisse-romande auprès de Prof. Paul Coker, Fernando Rossano et Pascal Godart, titulaire des Master of Arts in Music Performance et Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy, Philippe Boaron se produit régulièrement en Suisse et à l'étranger en tant que soliste ou dans différentes formations de musique de chambre. Interprète curieux et toujours à la recherche d'une cohérence et d'une diversité susceptibles de toucher l'auditeur dans le choix des programmes présentés lors de ses apparitions sur scène. Il forme depuis 2017 le Duo OxyMore avec le pianiste Dinu Mihailescu : ensemble, ils multiplient les récitals à deux pianos ou à quatre mains, parfois dans des salles prestigieuses comme le Victoria Hall de Genève ou le Théâtre Mihai Eminescu de Oravita en Roumanie, et collaborent à plusieurs productions mêlant la musique à d'autres formes d'art, comme la danse ou les arts visuels. Les deux musiciens enregistrent leur premier disque – "OXY MORE" – à deux pianos au Rosey Concert Hall au printemps 2021 (In Between Productions). Philippe se produit par ailleurs fréquemment avec le violoniste Rémy Walter, dans des programmes thématiques qui rencontrent des échos très favorables parmi le public, et s'associe ponctuellement à des auteurs de la région lors de concerts-lectures ayant pour vocation de tisser des liens entre matière musicale et expression littéraire. Il complète ces activités de concertiste en enseignant depuis plusieurs années le piano aux jeunes générations, en qualité de professeur au Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, Danse et Théâtre de Genève (CPMDT).
Trio Colores
percussion trios
Trio Colores
percussion trios
Trio Colores
percussion trios
Energetic, multifaceted, innovative. This is how the TrioColores presents itself, consisting of Matthias Kessler (*1997), Luca Staffelbach (*1996) and Fabian Ziegler (*1995). The young musicians share a long-standing passion for percussion and an endless joy of playing.
Kessler, Staffelbach and Ziegler cultivate a broad spectrum of percussive literature. Their knowledge about classical and contemporary music combined with their creativity the create new and uniquely conceived concert programs.
Focusing on classical arrangement as well as commission new pieces they were already guests at many well-known classical music festivals and in 2021 had their debut in the chamber music hall of the Berliner Philharmonie.
In the past TrioColores has won prestigious competitions such as the Jury and Audience Prize at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition 2022 in Easton (USA) and in the chamber music competition from “Migros Kulturprozent” 2019 among other competitions worldwide.
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PLACE A L’ORCHESTRE
Concertos virtuoses
Wednesday, 17 August, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Par le biais d’œuvres concertantes françaises, russes, britanniques et américaines, cet orchestre romand nous embarque pour un tour du monde musical en compagnie de merveilleux solistes.
Concert dédié à l’église de Puplinge
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Orchestre Nexus
Orchestre Nexus
Orchestre Nexus
Fondé en 2010, l’Orchestre Nexus est une formation dont la vocation première est
d’offrir un cadre de développement aux musiciens professionnels de demain, en lien avec la Suisse romande.
Afin de répondre aux exigences et à la compétitivité du marché du travail, l’Orchestre Nexus s’efforce de créer un cadre pédagogique de haute qualité et s’attache les services réguliers de membres expérimentés de divers orchestres permanents de Suisse romande (OSR, OCL, OCG…). Ces musiciens d’exception transmettent leur savoir lors de séances de travail collectives ou individuelles, favorisant ainsi l’apprentissage du métier de musicien d’orchestre.
Guillaume Berney
conductor
Guillaume Berney
conductor
Guillaume Berney
conductor
Chef d'orchestre, violoncelliste, compositeur et théoricien, Guillaume Berney a étudié à Zurich, Genève et Lausanne auprès de Prof. Johannes Schlaefli, Marc Jaermann, Aurélien Azan-Zielinski, Philippe Béran et Hervé Klopfenstein. Il s’est formé auprès de chefs tels Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, David Zinman, Paavo et Neeme Järvi ou encore Douglas Bostock.
Il assiste régulièrement le chef américain John Nelson lors des ses venue en Europe. Il a été assistant de Gabor Takacs-Nagy et Jesus Lopez-Cobos au Verbier Festival et de Fanco Trinca à l’Opéra de Chambre de Genève.
Parmi les orchestres avec lesquels il a travaillé, citons le Lucerne Festival Strings Orchestra, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, l’Argovia Philharmonic, le Musikkollegium Winterthur, l'Orchestre symphonique de Karlsbad, le Philips Symphony Orchestra, la Philharmonie de Hradec-Kralove, le Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, l'Ensemble Arc-en-Ciel, l’Akademisches Orchester Zurich ainsi que l’Orchestre de Miskolc.
Il a collaboré avec plusieurs solistes de qualité tels Barabara Hendricks, Sergey Ostrovsky, Lionel Cottet, Andrey Baranov, Christian Chamorel, Nadège Rochat, Estelle Revaz, Mélodie Zhao, Gilles Cachemaille ou encore l’acteur Thierry Romanens.
Guillaume est directeur musical de le Fondation Nexus, de l’emsemble Proteus et de l’Orchestre Saint-Pierre-Fusterie
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann
clarinet
Damien Bachmann, born in Geneva, is one of the most famous clarinetists of his generation. Winner of more than twenty national and international competitions, he performed on some of the prestigious stages in Europe and Asia. His performances and his play are regularly hailed by the press who defines him as "a musician who has achieved grace, ease and prodigious freedom, and who paradoxically knows how to pass from a phrasing of extreme gentleness to an ardor carrying even the minds the most numb "(24H, 2017).
Damien Bachmann studied with internationally renowned soloists and teachers such as François Benda in Basel, Paolo Beltramini in Lucerne, Harri Mäki in Helsinki, Michel Westphal, Thomas Friedli and René Meyer in Geneva. He had the opportunity to improve with Andreas Sunden, Wenzel Fuchs and Bernhard Röthlisberger. Since 2018 he has been in Studies: “Master of virtuosity” (Konzert Exam) at the Musikhochschule-Freiburg (Germany) with Kilian Herold.
Damien Bachmann won several first prizes at the "Cluj International Music Competition for Clarinet 2015" in Romania, the "1st Béla Kovacs International Clarinet Competition" in Hungary, and the "38th National Competition of Musical Execution" of Riddes in Switzerland. In September 2019 he won at the 3rd Berliner International Musique Competition the Golden Medal in the category “Wind: Professional.”
He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Sinfonie Orchester Basel, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Züricher Kammerorchester, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Argovia Philharmonics. He won several prices such as the Migros, Friedl-Wald, Schenk, Dienemann, Marescotti, Nicati and Hirschmann awards, as well as the prestigious "Förderpreis" 2016 from the BOG Foundation in Basel and a second prize at the "Kiefer Hablitzel 2018 Music Competition".
Passionated about chamber music, Damien Bachmann is regularly invited to play with established artists of his generation, such as the pianists Christian Chamorel, Nikita Mndoyants, Florian Noack and François-Xavier Poizat, with the violinist Aleksey Igudesman, the cellists Lionel Cottet, Nadège Rochat, Christoph Croisé, Astrig Siranossian, but also with the Ebène String Quartet, the Casal String Quartet, the Aviv String Quartet, the Gehrard String Quartet, the Terpsycordes String Quartet and the Geneva String Quartet. He has performed in recital or solo concerts in China's famous concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, in Switzerland at the Tonhalle Zürich and Victoria Hall in Geneva, but also in France, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary. He’s a founder member of the Basilea Wind Quintet.
He is part of the CHAARTS Chamber Artists as solo clarinet and regularly plays as a guest with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland.
In recent years, invited as a jury member of several competitions, he is also teaching and gave already masterclasses in Switzerland, China and Romania.
As the clarinet could play different repertoires, Damien Bachmann collaborates also with musicians from other horizons. He is involved in the creation of shows for children such as "On a perched tree” created in 2017 in the tradition of the educator Jacques-Dalcroze, or the project "Heimat - Apartment House recomposed" of the multi-disciplinary collective Mycelium. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Puplinge Classique Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in the summer of 2019.
Damien Bachmann is a Buffet Crampon Artist playing with Tosca and Prestige instruments.
Marika Riedl
harp
Marika Riedl
harp
Marika Riedl
harp
Marika Cecilia Riedl received her first harp lessons at the age of 6 with Ms. Tabitha Nicolas. From 2010 she studied as a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Ms. Cristina Bianchi and in 2014 she transferred to the Zurich University of the Arts to Ms. Sarah O'Brien. There she completed the Master of Pedagogy and the Master of Specialized Soloist. An exchange semester led her to Lausanne to Ms. Letizia Belmondo. Marika Cecilia Riedl received further guidance in masterclasses with Luisa Prandina, Prof. Isabelle Moretti, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Emmanuel Ceysson and Nicolas Tulliez.
She has been awarded numerous national and international prizes. In 2018 and 2020, she won study grants from the Migros-Kulturprozent and acceptance into their concert agency. In July 2019, she became a prize winner at the world's most prestigious harp competition, the USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington (Indiana) and in 2017 she won the Concours International Félix Godefroid in Tournai (Belgium). Her awards include also special prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich (2016) and at the Suoni d'Arpa Competition (Italy, 2017), as well as Second Prize at the Franz Josef Reinl International Competition as the youngest participant in 2013.
In addition, she convinced several foundations with her playing. These include the Lyceum Club Zurich, the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation Lucerne, the Lyra Foundation, the Zangger-Weber Foundation and the Richard Wagner Association Munich. The Kiwanis Club Zurich-Enge took on a sponsorship of several years and she was presented with the Cultural Sponsorship Award of the Sudeten Deutschen Landsmannschaft.
As a soloist with and without an orchestra, Marika Cecilia Riedl maintains an active concert schedule. She has played solo concerts with the Georgischen Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, the Zürcher Symphonikern, the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker, the Medizinerorchester Bern and the Musik-Collegium Schaffhausen.
Marika Cecilia Riedl is also a sought-after orchestral harpist. She plays as a substitute in the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Philharmonia Zürich (Opernhaus Zürich), the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. In 2020/2021 she held an internship with the Berner Symphonieorchester and won the audition for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
She currently resides in Switzerland.
Nikita Mndoyants
piano
Nikita Mndoyants
piano
Nikita Mndoyants
piano
Nikita Mndoyants, born in 1989, studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, in the classes of Nikolay Petrov and Alexander Mndoyants for the piano and of Alexander Tchaikovsky for the composition. He is the winner of the famous Cleveland International Piano Competition 2016 (1st Prize) as well as the 2007 Paderewsky International Piano Competition (1st Prize).
This young pianist has been collaborating for several years with eminent conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Rudin, Vassily Sinaisky
etc., at the head of prestigious orchestras: Cleveland, Mariinsky, Saint Petersburg, Svetlanov Orchestra and others. He was acclaimed at Carnegie Hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Cortot Hall and the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, the Bozar Center for Fine Arts (Brussels), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), etc.
Nikita Mndoyants has recorded for Classical Records, Melodiya and Praga Digital labels.
Nikita Mndoyants also holds a teaching post in orchestration at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He has been in residence in Wissembourg (Alsace) since 2012 for Festival International de Musique.
“...There comes a time when a rising talent comes onto the scene so polished that there isn’t much to say other than to simply applaud it.”
— Pianist Magazine
“...excellent pianist as well as a wise and thoughtful musician.”
— Grammophone
“...Mndoyants also showed in his Beethoven performance that he could become one of the leading Beethoven interpreters.”
— Pianist Magazine
Nikita Mndoyants is First Prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, First prize winner of the 2007 Paderewsky International Piano Competition.
As a composer, Mr. Mndoyants received first prize at the 2014 Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers (Moscow, Russia) and 2016 Prokofiev International Competition of Composers (Sochi, Russia)
Mndoyants has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Vassily Sinaysky, Eri Klas, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Bramwell Tovey, Philipp Tchizhevsky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Alexander Rudin, Mario Venzago, Valentin Uryupin, Konstantin Orbelyan and others.
He performed with Cleveland Orchestra, Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra,
Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Gangnam Symphony Orchestra and others.
Nikita performs in most prestigious venues, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Mariinsky Concert Hall, the Great Hall of St Petersbourg Philharmonic, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Salle Cortot and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Rudolfinum in Prague, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul and many others.
He has performed in major festivals and concert series, including the Klavier-Ruhr Festival (Germany), Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland), Mariinsky International Piano Festival (St. Petersburg), International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York), Brevard Music Festival (USA), International Piano Series in Fribourg (Switzerland), Gilmore Keybord Festival (USA). Mr. Mndoyants also has become an artist in residence at the Festival International de Musique de Wissembourg (France) since 2012, where he has overseen the performance of his own compositions and performed solo works, chamber music, and concerti.
Giving his first chamber performance with the Borodin Quartet in 2004, he has continued to cultivate his passion for chamber music, working with such ensembles as the Brentano, Eben, Zemlinsky, Escher and Szymanowsky Quartets.
Among his chamber music partners are pianists Alexander Ghindin and Vyacheslav Gryaznov, violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Andrej Bielow and Valeriy Sokolov, cellists Lev Sivkov, Evgeny Rumyantsev and clarinetist Patrick Messina.
Well established as an accomplished composer Mndoyants holds a teaching position in orchestration at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. His piano and chamber works are made available by publishing houses Composers, Muzyka, and Jurgenson, and have been performed by Alexander Vinnitsky, Alexander Rudin, Daniel Hope, Nicolas Stavy, the Szymanowski and Zemlinsky Quartets, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva Orchestra and others.
Mr. Mndoyants has released solo and chamber recordings on the Classical Records, Melodiya and Praga Digitals labels. A new recording on the Steinway & Sons label, featuring works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Schumann, has been released in June 2017. He recorded his first CD (of a live performance in Helsinki) at age ten.
Nikita Mndoyants received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Central Music School in Moscow, where he studied piano with Tamara Koloss and the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, where he studied composition with Professor Alexander Tchaikovsky and piano with Professor Nikolay Petrov and Professor Alexander Mndoyants.
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OCTUOR EN OR
De Mozart à Paul Juon
Thursday, 18 August, 20h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Autour de grandes pièces du répertoire classique et romantique, huit musiciens aux carrières bien établies se réunissent pour une soirée de musique de chambre en grand format.
Concert dédié à nos partenaires médiatiques
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Angela Golubeva
violin
Angela Golubeva
violin
Angela Golubeva
violin
The violinist Angela Golubeva has played since 1998 with the Swiss Piano Trio. The Swiss Piano Trio is the 2005 first-prize winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria. In 2003, the ensemble won another first prize at the distinguished International Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta. In March 2005, the trio was given the Swiss Ambassador's Award at the world-famous Wigmore Hall in London. This success in international competitions, along with a series of worldwide concerts, helped make the Swiss Piano Trio one of the leading chamber music ensembles of its generation. Valuable artistic direction has been given to the Swiss Piano Trio by Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, by the Wiener Altenberg Trio, by Valentin Berlinsky from the Borodin Quartet of Moscow and by members of the Amadeus Quartet. Since its foundation in 1998, the ensemble has given concerts in more than 40 countries on all continents.
Grigory Maximenko
viola
Grigory Maximenko
viola
Grigory Maximenko
viola
Grigory Maximenko was born in Leningrad in 1988 and began his studies at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. He then moved on to the University of the Arts in Bern (Master of Performance and Specialized Master of Performance). He also receives a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, and participates in the intensive music weeks there.
The young viola player has also expanded his musical horizons by attending masterclasses held by Yuri Bashmet, Jerzy Kosmala, Nobuko Imai, Jean Sulem, Veronika Hagen, Kim Kashkashian, Hatto Beyerle, Jürgen Kussmaul, Antonello Farulli, Huus Jugendkrup and Sandro Repetto.
Grigory Maximenko has been awarded prizes at numerous international competitions, for example 3rd prize at the “International Competition for Young Musicians” in Moscow (2006), 3rd prize at the “International Competition for Young Musicians” in Toljatti (2007), 3rd prize at the “International Youth Competition in Memory of E. A. Mravinsky” in St. Petersburg (2008), 3rd prize at the “Rahn Musikpreis” competition in Zürich (2014) and 1st prize at the “International Music Competition and Festival for Soloists and Chamber Groups Svirél” in Slovenia (2014).
The young musician has already gained considerable professional experience playing in various orchestras including the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra among other. He also worked as an assistant to the viola class at Bern University of the Arts in 2015.
Since 2014, the violist has been principal of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra.
Claude Hauri
cello
Claude Hauri
cello
Claude Hauri
cello
Born in 1976 in Lugano, he graduated from Zurich College of Music with Raphael Wallfisch after studying at the Lugano Conservatory with Taisuke Yamashita. Since then, Claude Hauri has played as principal cellist in the Youth World Orchestra, and is cello solo in the Ensemble Prometeo in Parma. In chamber ensembles he has played concerts in Europe, Australia and in South America, for festivals such as the Marta Argerich Festival in Lugano, the Amici della Musica di Palermo, the Unione Musicale di Torino, the National Academy Melbourne, Musica Insieme di Bologna, the Biennale di Venezia, Nuova Consonanza Rom, Spazionovecento Cremona, IGNM Zurich, Associazione Musicale Lucchese, in the Teatro El Círculo in Rosario and the Fundación Kinor in Buenos Aires. As a soloist, he has collaborated with conductors as Denise Fedeli, Mario Ancillotti, Piero Gamba, Kevin Griffiths, Luis Gorelik and Reinaldo Zemba. He has a great interest in the collaboration with contemporary composers as Salvatore Sciarrino, Paul Glass, Mario Pagliarani, Sylvano Bussotti, Luis De Pablo and Dieter Ammann. His recordings were released by the labels Emi, Nuova Era, Jecklin, Radio Svizzera Italiana, Novecentomusica and Amadeus. He plays a splendid Gian Battista Zanoli cello, dated 1740. He is Cellist of the Trio des Alpes.
Silvia Zabarella
oboe
Silvia Zabarella
oboe
Silvia Zabarella
oboe
Silvia Zabarella vient de Suisse et a étudié avec Prof. Andrè Lardrot à l’Académie de musique de Bâle et avec Prof. Thomas Indermühle à la Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich. Elle a été lauréate du Concours international de Markneukirchen et boursière du Pour-cent culturel Migros et de l’Ernst Göhner Foundation. Elle s’est produit en tant que soliste avec le Sinfonieorchester Basel, l’Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, l’Orchestra Accademica di Milano et l’Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur . Elle a été invitée en tant que hautboïste solo avec le Skyline Symphony Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra. De 1994 à 2012, elle a été hautboïste solo au Musikkollegium Winterthur.
Fabio Di Càsola
clarinet
Fabio Di Càsola
clarinet
Fabio Di Càsola
clarinet
Born in Lugano in 1967 he won the 1st Prize at the “Concours international d’exécution musicale de Genève” (CIEM) in 1990.
He won also the “Prix Suisse” for contemporary music and the “Prix Patek Philippe”.
In 1998 he was elected “Swiss musician of the year” by the jury in Geneva and by the audience.
Since 1991 Fabio Di Càsola is professor by the University of the arts in Zürich for clarinet and chamber music.
Several CDs recordings as soloist and in chamber music by Sony Classical.
Since 2006 he is the artistic director of the music festival klang
He is member of the “Ensemble Kandinsky” with Andreas Janke, Thomas Grossenbacher and Benjamin Engeli
Konstantin Timokhine
horn
Konstantin Timokhine
horn
Konstantin Timokhine
horn
Konstantin Timokhine was born in 1973 in Kiev (Ukraine). At the early age of seven he was admitted to the Lyssenko Special School for Music where he studied horn, violin and piano. Further studies at the Kiev State Conservatory and at the Geneva Conservatoire Superieure de Musique. There, apart from conducting and chamber music, he studied the horn with Bruno Schneider, achieving the Diploma for Solo Performance with greatest distinction. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zürich with David Johnson, receiving another Diploma for Solo Performance. Additional studies for baroque and natural horn followed with Glen Borling.
Konstantin Timokhine won the first prize of both the International Horn Competition in Minsk (Belarus) and the Competition CNEM Riddes (Switzerland).
At the age of 17 the virtuoso soloist made his debut with the Ukrainian Youth Orchestra on a concert tour in Japan. He continued playing successfully as a horn soloist throughout Europe with various symphonic orchestras, performing horn concertos of W.A. Mozart, J. Haydn, L. Cherubini, R. Glière, E. Bozza and C.M. von Weber. Across the globe Konstantin Timokhine performs with chamber music ensembles such as the Colorado String Quartet (USA), Ensemble Fidelio and Contrechamps Genève, The Yofin Baroque Ensemble Zurich and Il Giardino Armonico. He appears on the side of Cecilia Bartoli on the Stage as a soloist with her Grammy awarded “Sacrificium" Program. Also
After being the solo hornist in the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and hornist in the Zurich Opera Orchestra, he is now the principal horn player in the Basle Chamber Orchestra, touring regularly with internationally renowned soloists and conductors, performing in all the world’s large concert halls.
Habitually he plays as solo hornist in the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan), with the Musiciens du Louvre under Mark Minkowski (France) and the Giardino Armonico (Italy) under Giovanni Antonini.
His extraordinary musicality enthralls audience and press alike.
Konstantin Timokhine has recorded for several prestigious labels such as Sony and Naïve, as well as for various radio stations.
Rui Lopes
bassoon
Rui Lopes
bassoon
Rui Lopes
bassoon
Although Rui Lopes only began studying the bassoon at eighteen, his musical temperament and virtuosity were quickly recognized and received many awards, including first prize in the prestigious Estoril International Competition. One of the most promising bassoonists of his generation, he shares his great passion for music with concert audiences all over the world.
Rui has appeared as a soloist with Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Czech Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Finnish National Opera, Algarve Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Artists Orchestra, Beiras Philharmonia, Collegium Musicum Basel, Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba, Portuguese Symphony and other orchestras.
He performs regularly with outstanding musicians including Konstantin Lifschitz, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Alina Pogostkina, Razvan Popovici, Maximilian Hornung, Nabil Shehata, Marcelo Nisinman, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Sebastian Manz, Ramon Ortega, Nicholas Daniel and Loïc Schneider.
Rui has played at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festival Bohuslav Martinu, SoNoRo Festival, Crusell Festival, Oficina de Música de Curitiba, Lucerne and other festivals and worked with personalities such as Christoph Eschenbach, Jiri Belohlavek, Sakari Oramo, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Wynton Marsalis.
Orchestra
As principal bassoon, he has performed with Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne and Camerata Bern.
Recordings
Rui’s principal recording, with the English Chamber Orchestra, is a CD with pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart, Elgar, Villa-Lobos and Françaix. This very special work, with two world premieres, includes Rui’s own arrangement of Edward Elgar’s Romance for Bassoon and String Orchestra (the original being for Bassoon and Symphony Orchestra) and the Jean Françaix ‘Divertissement pour Basson et Quintette ou Orchestre à Cordes’ which until now had been recorded only in the string quintet version.
From Baroque to Contemporary
A fascination for Baroque and enthusiasm for Contemporary music have led from the study of early music on period instruments with Marc Vallon in Paris to the contemporary with Pascal Gallois and Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival Academy, giving Rui an unusually broad repertoire. He works with the Ancient Music Capriccio Basel as well as contemporary music ensembles such as Music Factory and Ensemble Laboratorium, where he is founding member.
His love for Argentinean Tango and Portuguese Fado styles often informs Rui’s own distinctive arrangements.
Born in Portugal, Rui lives in Basel with Swiss wife Barbara and their two sons. He studied with Hugues Kesteman in Artave and Porto Music Academy, Sergio Azzolini at the Music Academy in Basel (soloist diploma with distinction) and with Marco Postinghel at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Rui taught the bassoon and chamber music at the Aveiro University (2006-2010) and Metropolitana Academy (2010-2012) and teaches masterclasses.
He plays a Peter de Koningh Baroque bassoon ‘after J.H. Eichentopf’ and a Heckel 13227 modern bassoon.
Martin Lucas Staub
piano
Martin Lucas Staub
piano
Martin Lucas Staub
piano
The Swiss Piano Trio with violinist Angela Golubeva, cellist Joël Marosi and pianist Martin Lucas Staub has gathered a remarkable reputation among both experts and the public as an ensemble of outstanding balance and technical perfection whose interpretations electrify with emotional power and their rich and colourful sound. Therefore, there is no surprise that the US-magazine Fanfare recently described the Swiss Piano Trio as „one of the very top piano trio ensembles on today’s stage“.
The Swiss Piano Trio is the 2005 first-prize winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria. In 2003, the ensemble won another first prize at the distinguished International Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta. In March 2005, the trio was given the Swiss Ambassador's Award at the world-famous Wigmore Hall in London. This success in international competitions, along with a series of worldwide concerts, helped make the Swiss Piano Trio one of the leading chamber music ensembles of its generation. Valuable artistic direction has been given to the Swiss Piano Trio by Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, by the Wiener Altenberg Trio, by Valentin Berlinsky from the Borodin Quartet of Moscow and by members of the Amadeus Quartet.
Since its foundation in 1998, the ensemble has given concerts in more than 40 countries on all continents. It has performed in renowned halls such as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, Victoria Hall Geneva, Philharmonie de Liege, National Philharmony of Ukraine Kiev, Teatro Teresa Carreño Caracas, Teatro Coliseo Buenos Aires, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Shanghai Grand Theatre, QPAC Brisbane and many others. The musicians regularly accept invitations to perform at renowned festivals such as the Ottawa Chamberfest, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Esbjerg Chamber Music Festival, Bastad Chamber Music Festival, the Festival of the Sound or the MusicFest Vancouver and give masterclasses in many countries.
In performances of triple concertos, the Swiss Piano Trio performs as a soloists’ ensemble together with orchestras such as the Russian National Orchestra, the Queensland Orchestra Brisbane, the Christchurch Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, and many more.
Numerous broadcast recordings for stations like Radio Suisse Romande, Schweizer Radio DRS, Sudwestdeutscher Rundfunk SWR, Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF, CBC Canada, Australian Radio ABC, the Ukrainian State Radio, Radio Television Hong Kong, the Venezuela State TV and many more document the artistic activities of the ensemble. Their discography includes trios by Mozart and Dvořák, as well as piano trios by the Swiss composers Paul Juon, Frank Martin and Daniel Schnyder. From 2011, the Swiss Piano Trio has issued its recordings on the audite label where the complete piano trios by Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann and Tchaikovsky as well as world premiere recordings of so far unknown romantic piano trios by Eduard Franck were released. All these recordings were received enthusiastically by critics and the public and are getting regularly awards in international magazines. The most recent publication are the complete works for piano trio by Beethoven including the Triple Concerto together with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. This edition got already several awards.
The ensemble is very active and successful in promoting and performing carefully chosen works by Swiss composers all over the world. One example is the Triple Concerto written by Daniel Schnyder and commissioned by the Swiss Piano Trio, which was already performed with various orchestras in Belgium, Ukraine, Switzerland and Australia.
Tarifs : 35.-CHF / 30.-CHF / 15.-CHF
PLACE AUX JEUNES
OJSR et soliste
Saturday, 20 August, 18h
Puplinge Church
Puplinge Church
Symbole de jouvence éternelle, cet orchestre de jeunes clôt le Festival pour la 11e fois (le nombre miroir !) sous la direction bienveillante et dynamique du quatuor sans nom.
Concert dédié aux responsables du Festival
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Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande
Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande
Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande
L’Orchestre des Jeunes de Suisse Romande est un atelier-orchestre à cordes composé de 20 à 25 jeunes musiciennes et musiciens, musiciens amateurs et pré-professionnels, tous issus des Conservatoires et Écoles de musique de la Suisse Romande. Cet ensemble a pour buts de prolonger l’activité musicale des jeunes musiciens par l’exercice du jeu en orchestre, de leur faire découvrir le répertoire d'orchestre et de développer leur sens de l'écoute.
L'activité de l'Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande est possible notamment grâce à un soutien financier des cantons romands et de la Loterie de la Suisse romande.
Fondé en été 2005 par le chef Théophanis Kapsopoulos, à la demande de plusieurs jeunes musiciens, l’Orchestre des Jeunes de Suisse Romande profite du soutien des Conservatoires de Suisse Romande. Les doyens des classes de cordes encouragent leurs élèves à compléter leur formation musicale par diverses expériences musicales et des échanges au niveau romand. L’activité de l'Orchestre des Jeunes de Suisse Romande se déroule sous la forme de répétitions intensives et d'ateliers musicaux, au rythme d'un week-end par mois. L'OJSR se réunit dans le cadre magnifique offert par le Centre de Musique Hindemith, à Blonay, au coeur de la Suisse Romande. En 2008, l'Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande remporte, avec l'Orchestre des Jeunes de Fribourg, le Premier Prix du Concours du Festival d'été Murten Classics.
Depuis juin 2012, la direction artistique est assurée par les membres du Quatuor Sine Nomine. C'est désormais Patrick Genet et François Gottraux, violonistes, Hans Egidi, altiste et Marc Jaermann, violoncelliste, qui succèdent au chef fondateur Théophanis Kapsopoulos. Ces quatre musiciens professionnels donnent un élan nouveau à l'orchestre en apportant toute leur expérience et leur connaissance des ensembles à cordes.
Quatuor Sine Nomine
conductor
Quatuor Sine Nomine
conductor
Quatuor Sine Nomine
conductor
Patrick Genet, violon
François Gottraux, violon
Hans Egidi, alto
Marc Jaermann, violoncelle
Depuis ses succès au concours d’Evian en 1985 et au concours Borciani à Reggio Emilia en 1987, le Quatuor Sine Nomine, établi à Lausanne (Suisse), mène une carrière internationale qui le conduit dans les principales villes d’Europe et d’Amérique, notamment à Londres (Wigmore Hall), à Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) , à New York (Carnegie Hall), ou encore au Mozarteum de Salzburg . Parmi les personnalités qui ont marqué les quatre musiciens, il faut citer Rose Dumur Hemmerling, qui leur a communiqué sa passion et les a sensibilisés à la grande tradition du quatuor à cordes, le Quatuor Melos ainsi que Henri Dutilleux, dont la rencontre, lors de l’enregistrement de son œuvre Ainsi la Nuit chez Erato, a été particulièrement enrichissante.
La vie de l’ensemble s’enrichit constamment grâce à des collaborations régulières avec d’autres musiciens. Des liens étroits se sont noués avec quelques quatuors, dont le Quatuor Vogler à Berlin et le Quatuor Carmina à Zurich.
Le Quatuor Sine Nomine possède un vaste répertoire, de Haydn au 21e siècle, sans négliger des œuvres moins jouées comme l’octuor d’Enesco. Il a créé plusieurs œuvres contemporaines qui lui sont dédiées. À part les grands classiques (l’intégrale de Schubert chez Cascavelle et celle de Brahms chez Claves), les quatuors d’Arriaga et des œuvres de Turina (aussi chez Claves), sa discographie comprend également les quintettes pour piano de Furtwängler (Timpani) et de Goldmark (CPO).
Parallèlement au quatuor, chaque membre développe une intense activité pédagogique dans les Hautes Ecoles de la région (Hemu, hem Ge). De plus, le quatuor assure la direction artistique de l’Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande depuis 2012.
Le Quatuor bénéficie du soutien de la Ville de Lausanne et de l’État de Vaud. Depuis 1994, l’Association des Amis du Quatuor Sine Nomine contribue au développement de sa carrière, notamment à l’étranger. L’ensemble est fondateur et directeur artistique du Festival Sine Nomine depuis sa création en 2001.
Le Quatuor Sine Nomine a choisi d’être appelé “sans nom” pour symboliser son désir de servir tous les compositeurs et les oeuvres qu’il interprète.
Jeremy Bager
bassoon
Jeremy Bager
bassoon
Jeremy Bager
bassoon
Jeremy Bager is a bassoonist of Swiss and English decent, who studied with Carlo Colombo in Lausanne and Giorgio Mondolesi in Zurich. He was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra, and an academist with the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig. Jeremy is also a guest principal bassoonist at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Palermo (Sicily). From Singapore to Boston, he has performed in many countries and in Europe's most important concert halls under the baton of renowned conductors, including Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, François-Xavier Roth and Herbert Blomstedt. An avid chamber musician, he participates in various international festivals, including the British Isles, Verbier and Davos (Young Artist 2022). He is a member of the Camerata Figarella in Corsica and of the ensemble Astera, a woodwind quintet which he created in 2019. He regularly performs in recital with his brother, pianist Frederic Bager, and as a soloist with various Swiss orchestras. Jeremy is generously supported by the Migros Kulturprozent.
Tarifs : 25.-CHF / 20.-CHF / 10.-CHF
PUPLINGE-LES-BAINS
Flamenco à gogo
Saturday, 20 August, 20h
La Moutonnerie
La Moutonnerie
Avant de plier bagage jusqu’en été 2023 et pour nous remettre de toutes ces émotions dans une ambiance festive, rejoignons les couleurs de l’Andalousie avec trois musiciens, une chanteuse et une danseuse de Flamenco.
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NASMA
flamenco quintet
NASMA
flamenco quintet
NASMA
flamenco quintet
NASMA is a traditional flamenco band, with a modern twist. Yolanda Almodovar (voice), Miguel Calatayud (guitar) and Marc Crofts (violin) will be joined by Miguel Rosa (percussion) and the danser Andrea Cebrian, "La Niña del Cabañal". They will interpret some composition from their first album, out this summer, as well as new repertoire, alternating between original music and traditional pieces.
Entrée libre