A French Touch - Orchestre de chambre de Paris

A French Touch
in the chamber orchestra world !
A French Touch
in the chamber orchestra world !
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris…
• the leading chamber orchestra in France
with 43 musicians;
• an artistic team with Thomas Zehetmair
principal conductor, Sir Roger Norrington
first guest conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann
associate artist, and Philippe Manoury
associate composer
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• a selection of prestigious guest artists:
Misha Maisky, Kun Woo Paik, Olga Peretyatko,
Douglas Boyd, Gautier Capuçon and John Nelson
among others;
• special attention given to the vocal
repertoire and oratorio including an artistic
partnership
with
the
accentus
choir
and Laurence Equilbey.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris has also planned several tours abroad for the 2014-2016 period:
Azerbaijan (Bakou), Turkey (Istanbul), Romania (Bucharest), tours in South America (Brazil and Argentina: Saõ Paulo and Buenos
Aires), a tour in Germany, a tour in Japan in partnership with the Public Establishment of the Museum and National Estate of
Versailles. To support these tours, different forms of partnerships are being developed with companies who are willing to gain
more visibility or to organize public relation events from France or from the country that hosts the tour.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris and its international projects are supported by the City of Paris, the French Ministry of Culture, and the
corporate sponsors of the Crescendo Association and the Cercle des Amis.
The orchestra pays tribute to Pierre Duvauchelle, the creator of the brand Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and thanks Alexandre Tharaud for
agreeing to transfer the ownership of this brand on amicable terms.
Orchestre de chambre
de Paris
Since its foundation in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris,
with its 43 permanent musicians, has established itself as the
leading chamber orchestra in France.
The originality of its concerts, its intimate chamber music
approach to repertoires, the search for new venues and
challenges as well as some civic initiatives towards new
audiences: all this undertaking confers an original identity
to the Orchestre de chambre de Paris in the Parisian
musical landscape.
To enhance its unconventional profile, the orchestra
adopted the name “Orchestre de chambre de Paris” in
2012. This evolution gives the orchestra a clear identity
while ensuring its inclusion in the network of major
international chamber ensembles.
Following successive collaborations with renowned artists
such as Jean-Pierre Wallez, Armin Jordan, Jean-Jacques
Kantorow, John Nelson (appointed Honorary Music
Director) or Joseph Swensen, an artistic team who shared
the same commitment and chamber music approach to
repertoire was brought on board: Thomas Zehetmair as
principal conductor and artistic advisor, Sir Roger
Norrington as first guest conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann as
associate artist, the accentus chamber choir and Laurence
Equilbey, and Philippe Manoury as associate composer.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris also works with leading
artists such as Christian Zacharias, Emmanuel Pahud,
Stephen Kovacevich, Michel Portal, Fazil Say and Gautier
Capuçon, to name a few.
The orchestra performs at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées,
Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Cité de la Musique, Salle Pleyel,
the Théâtre du Châtelet and at the Philharmonie de Paris
from 2015 onwards. In addition to this Parisian season, the
orchestra’s reputation continues to grow both in and
outside France, with its program including tours (in Europe,
Japan, South America, Russia, etc.); participations in
leading festivals (the Folles Journées, the Festival of SaintDenis, Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Schleswig-Holstein
Festival, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Belgrade or Bratislava
Festivals, etc.). Over the past 10 years, the Orchestre de
chambre de Paris has also made a name for itself in the
studio with over 20 recordings bearing eloquent testimony
to its voice, oratorio, chamber orchestra and
contemporary music repertoires.
Some records illustrate this concern for diversity, such as Bach’s Mass in B minor performed at the Paris Notre-Dame
Cathedral (DVD); Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with François-René Duchâble at the Opéra royal de Versailles (DVD);
Beethoven’s complete symphonies directed by John Nelson (CD); Saint-Saëns’s concertos with Brigitte Engerer and Henri
Demarquette (CD); Chopin’s piano concertos with Boris Berezovsky (CD), Mendelssohn’s Christus and Cantatas with the
accentus chamber choir and Laurence Equilbey. The latest releases include a recording of Paganini’s works featuring violinist
Laurent Korcia and a CD of Ravel and Debussy with Thomas Zehetmair.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris embraces an ethical and socially responsible outlook based on four perspectives: the
territory, solidarity, occupational integration and education through cultural actions and artistic residencies in the city of Paris
and throughout the country. Solidarity with audiences who have difficulties accessing cultural events is also one of its missions
in France as well as in the Middle East. Last of all, the orchestra’s concern to improve occupational integration and
professional training finds its expression in the development of the international “Paris Play-Direct” Academy and in the
collaboration with students from the music conservatories.
2014-2015 season highlights
“Sir Roger Norrington visits Prague”
Vanhal/ Mozart/ Dvořák
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
September 17th, 2014
“A Parisian ballad”
Roussel/ Chopin / Gounod
John Nelson, conductor
Kun Woo Paik, piano
Guillaume Paoletti, cello
Valeria Kafelnikov, harp
October 16th, 2014
“A night in Madrid”
Arriaga/ Rodrigo/ De Falla
Roberto Forés Veses, conductor
Miloš Karadaglić, guitar
October 31st, 2014
“At the Bach family’s house in Leipzig with
Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu”
Bach
Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu, violins
December 17th, 2014
“Nathalie Stutzmann sings Schubert”
Manoury/ Schubert
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Philippe Manoury, conductor in Instants Pluriels
Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto
January 13th, 2015
“The Creation at the Philharmonie”
Haydn
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Sunhae Im, soprano
Werner Güra, tenor
Florian Boesch, barytone
accentus
January 23rd, 2015
“Venetian concertos with Giuliano Carmignola”
Vivaldi
Giuliano Carmignola, violin and conductor
February 4th, 2015
“A tour of Berlin with Thomas Dausgaard
and Daniel Hope”
Bruch/ Beethoven/ Mendelssohn
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Daniel Hope, violin
February 18th, 2015
“A Hungarian night with Nelson Goerner”
Kodály, Liszt, Bartók
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Nelson Goerner, piano
April 7th, 2015
“Seen from London…”
Britten & Purcell
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
Ian Bostridge, tenor
May 26th, 2015
“Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at the Philharmonie de Paris”
Dvořák
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
Sara Mingardo, alto
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor
accentus
June 6th, 2015
2015-2016 season highlights
“Viennese school and video”
Haydn Morning Symphony
Berg Violin Concerto, chamber version (arr. Pr. D
Jarman)
Webern Five pieces for orchestra
Schönberg Verklärte Nacht with video by Netia Jones
Douglas Boy, conductor
NN, violin
“Schubert and Schumann”
Schubert Symphony No.8 in B minor “Unfinished”
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Schubert Symphony No. 4 in C minor “Tragic”
Douglas Boyd, conductor
NN, piano
“A tribute to Yehudi Menuhin”
Vivaldi “The Summer” from the Four Seasons
Glass “Echorus”
Pärt “Darf ich”
El-Khoury Unfinished Journey
Vivaldi Violin Concerto RV522
Takemitsu Nostalgia
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor
Daniel Hope, violin and conductor
“The Bach Family with the Nemtanu sisters”
W.F. Bach Sinfonia in F major
J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in E major BWV1042
J.S. Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043
C.P.E. Bach Symphony in C major
J.S. Bach Violin concerto in A minor BWV1041
Schnittke Concerto Grosso No.3 for 2 violins
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor
Deborah and Sarah Nemtanu, violins
“A festival with Reinhold Friedrich”
Beethoven Leonore III, overture
Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Michael Haydn Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in C major
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major “Eroica”
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
“Music in Marie-Antoinette’s times »
Chevalier Saint-George L’Amant Anonyme, overture
Gluck Arias from Iphigenia in Aulis, in Tauris, Orpheus
and Eurydice, Alceste
Méhul Symphony No. 4 in E major
Grétry L’Amant Jaloux, overture
Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major “Paris”
Hervé Niquet, conductor
Véronique Gens, soprano
The orchestra’s concert halls
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Théâtre des Champs-Elysées © D.R.
Le CENTQUATRE – Paris © Estelle Poulalion
Cité de la musique © P.E. Rastoin
La Philharmonie de Paris © Arte Factory
Théâtre du Châtelet © D.R.
Notre-Dame de Paris © Gilbert Bochenek
The artistic team
Thomas
Zehetmair
Principal conductor and artistic advisor
Thomas Zehetmair is a violinist, conductor and chamber musician who is well-known
on the international stage. He is the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
At the start of his musical career as a violinist, he performed in the leading European venues including
the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Kölner Philharmonie and the Munich
Philharmonic, and then pursued a career as conductor with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester and the Stavanger Symphony
Orchestra. In 2002, he was named Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia in England, and since 2010,
he has been “Artistic Partner” of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the United States.
His recordings of the major works for violin have won a number of internationally recognized awards,
including three Gramophone Awards and three Diapason d’Or de l’Année. His recording of Mozart’s
concertos for violin with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the baton of maestro Frans
Brüggen is regarded as a reference.
In 2005, he received the German Record Critics’ Award for the versatility of his artistic work. He also
holds an honorary doctorate from the Music Academy Franz Liszt in Weimar and in 2012, the Newcastle
University awarded him an honorary doctorate too.
Sir Roger Norrington is a well-known conductor on the international stage and
shows a keen interest in period performance practices.
For almost five decades, he has been working with orchestras on Baroque and classical music
repertoires. As the conductor of the London Classical Players, which he founded in the 1980’s, and
more recently of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg, he has
encouraged musicians to express themselves while returning to the original characteristics of this
music. This made him pay special attention to the positioning and size of the orchestra, as well as
the tempo, phrasing, the articulation and the sound.
Performances in renowned venues include the Kent Opera House, Covent Garden, the English
National Opera, La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and the Wiener Staatsoper. He is a regular
guest conductor with leading orchestras such as the Berlin, Vienna and London Philharmonics, the
Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Concertgebouw, the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
He was the principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2011. With
this ensemble, he conducted a remarkable series of recordings of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler on period instruments, illustrating how modern
orchestras can make period music their own. He is currently the music director of the Zurich
Chamber orchestra.
Sir Roger
Norrington
First guest conductor
As the perfect example of a complete musician, Nathalie Stutzmann started
her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, chamber music and
conducting. She began her vocal training with her mother, the distinguished
soprano Christiane Stutzmann, and later at the Ecole d’Art Lyrique de l’Opéra
de Paris focusing on lieder with the great Hans Hotter. She regularly sings with
the world’s greatest conductors and orchestras, including the Berlin
Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre
de Paris, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
After studying conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula
and mentored by Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann founded
her own chamber orchestra, Orfeo 55 in 2009.
Nathalie Stutzmann
Contralto and conductor
Associate artist
Nathalie Stutzmann is considered to be one of
the most outstanding musical personalities of
our time, with parallel careers as both a
contralto and an orchestral conductor.
During the next two seasons, Nathalie Stutzmann will conduct classical and
romantic repertoire with the Valencia Orchestra, l’ Orchestre National de
Lyon, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Saõ Paulo Symphony Orchestra, among
others. She will conduct her first opera, Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, at the
Monte Carlo Opera house in February 2014.
Decorated with the "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres” and "Chevalier de l’Ordre
National du Mérite” insignas by the French state, she also gives masterclasses
around the world and is a singing teacher at the Haute Ecole de Musique de
Genève.
Deborah Nemtanu was born in a family of passionate musicians and chose to
play the violin at the age of four. Her career is the perfect example of
precocious success and manifold talent.
After winning the Conservatoire de Paris Prize in 2001 (awarded by
unanimous vote) in Gérard Poulet’s class, she is awarded the fourth prize at
the Jacques-Thibaud International Contest, and is then selected to join the
prestigious Perlman program in the United States. In 2008, she is awarded the
second prize at the Benjamin Britten International Contest in London. Since
2005, she has been solo violin and concertmaster at the Orchestre de
chambre de Paris. She is curious, passionate and does not limit herself to her
role as solo violin: she goes further and conducts the orchestra herself.
Deborah Nemtanu plays on a 1740 Domenica Montagnana violin, graciously
lent by the Monceau Assurance Company.
Deborah Nemtanu
Solo violin - Concertmaster
As a conductor and music director of accentus and Insula
orchestra, Laurence Equilbey is well-known for her
demanding artistic standards. She occupies a unique place
among symphony conductors who are experts in the
symphonic, oratorio and opera genres. Laurence Equilbey is
an associate artist of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
She is also a guest conductor of the Grand Théâtre
de Provence as well as artistic and educational
director of the Department for Young Singers at the Paris
Regional Conservatory.
Her important opera conducting projects included Rossini’s
La Cenerentola at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Pascal
Dusapin’s Medeamaterial at the Musica Festival. In 2012-2013, she
conducted Sous apparence, a choreographic creation by MarieAgnès Gillot at the Opéra de Paris and Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn
at the Opéra-Comique. In 2010, Laurence Equilbey conducted
Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Brussels
Philharmonic and accentus at the Cité de la musique. Her other
orchestral conductings include a collaboration with the orchestras
of Lyon, Nice, Picardie, Lille, Pays de la Loire, Bucharest, Warsaw,
Café Zimmermann and Concerto Köln, among others. In July 2012,
she was invited to the Salzburg Festival to conduct Camerata
Salzburg and accentus in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
accentus
Chamber choir
Associate artist
Laurence Equilbey
Conductor
Associate artist
accentus is a professional chamber choir dedicated to a cappella
works as well as to contemporary repertoire, oratorios and operas.
Founded by Laurence Equilbey, the choir has appeared at the most
renowned French and international venues and festivals.
The ensemble works with the most prestigious conductors and orchestras
(Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble
Intercontemporain, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie,
Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Insula orchestra).
It also takes part in lyrical productions, for example at the Opéra de Paris
or at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
All its discographic recordings (Naïve) are largely acclaimed by the music
press, for example « Transcriptions » (Disque d’or) and « Haydn, Les Sept
Dernières Paroles du Christ en croix ».
accentus was awarded the « Ensemble de l’année » Prize at the French
Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la musique classique) in 2002, 2005
and 2008.
Pieter-Jelle de Boer has been the principal associate conductor of
accentus since the 2011-2012 season.
Philippe Manoury is a composer and a teacher, but
also a researcher and organizer of musical life.
He occupies a unique place in the evolution
of the music of our time.
He started composing quite early in life as a self-taught composer.
Subsequently, he studied composition at the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique de Paris. His first creation Cryptophonos was
given at the Metz Festival in 1974.
After giving lectures and conferences on contemporary music in
various Brazilian universities, he has been invited by Ircam, a
research institute in acoustics, as a guest researcher. Since then, he
has taken part in the activities of the Institute as a composer and
teacher. In collaboration with the mathematician Miller Puckette, he
has carried out research in the field of real-time interaction between
acoustic instruments and new technologies related to computer
music.
He has been head of education with the Ensemble
Intercontemporain before teaching composition and electronic
music at the Conservatory of Lyon. Since 2004, he has taught
composition at the University of California in San Diego and he has
also been teaching at the Conservatory of Strasbourg since 2013. He
is also a resident composer at the Lucerne Festival.
His work covers all genres: solo pieces, mixed electronic music,
chamber music, works for choir and orchestra, operas, including La
Nuit de Gutenberg, created at the Opéra national du Rhin in
Strasbourg and for which he was awarded the "Composer of the
year" Prize at the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la
musique classique) in 2012.
Philippe Manoury
Associate composer
Reviews
« The calibre of the musicians is well displayed in a
wonderfully crystalline performance of Fauré’s
Pelléas et Mélisande Suite. […] Nemtanu captures
well the intimacy of Saint-Saëns’s youthful First
Violin Concerto and she’s equally comfortable in
that virtuoso standard, the Introduction and Rondo
capriccioso, lending an almost vocal intensity to the
sinuous lines of the slower music. »
Harriet Smith commenting on the Saint-Saëns &
Fauré CD, Gramophone, May 2013
« A beguiling disc »
« The French style in all its splendor »
Christian Merlin, Figaro.fr, about the SaintSaëns and Fauré CD by Deborah Nemtanu in
« Musique Classique: the weekly top 3 », 8
March 2013
“…These performances are especially strong on style and
character, finding a delicate balance between restraint and
radiance.”
Gramophone about the Ravel/Debussy CD (V5345) by
Thomas Zehetmair, February 2014
« The wind section has a mellow colour and the orchestra
plays with subtlety»
Jean-Michel Molkhou about the Saint-Saëns & Fauré CD
by Deborah Nemtanu, Diapason, April 2013
« A splendid opening movement enhanced by the brilliant
musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. »
« The lyrical artists were magnificently accompanied by the
impressive Orchestre de chambre de Paris. »
Philippe
« In the Symphony n°104 in D major by Joseph
Haydn […] the instrumental sections are absolutely
brilliant. »
« The musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de
Paris distinguish themselves by their impressive
liveliness and verve. »
Sabino Pena Arcia, commenting on the concert
on 26 April 2013 by Gidon Kremer at the Théâtre
des Champs-Elysées, Classique News, April
2013
« The performance given by the Parisian
Mozartian ensemble […] combined precision and
homogeneity. Especially the strings played with a
brilliance and passion well worthy of the Austrian
conductor, who is one of the most talented
violinists of our time. »
from Bruno Serrou’s blog,
Classique d’aujourd’hui, on the performance
of 5-6 March 2013, The Creation at the
Excerpted
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, March 2013
Thanh
commenting
on
the
performance
Carrousel in March 2013 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, La
Lettre du Musicien, 19 March 2013
« An enthusiastic Orchestre de chambre de Paris »
Philippe Venturini commenting on the Performance
Carrousel in March 2013 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Les
Echos, March 2013
« The sound is perfect and musicians are visibly happy to share
music and they are having fun. »
Bérénice Clerc, about the concert on 21 May 2013 by
François Leleux and Deborah Nemtanu at the Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées, Toutelaculture.com, May 2013
Discography: latest releases
Laurent Korcia
Mister Paganini…
Laurent Korcia, violin
Haruko Ueda, piano
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor
Kreisler
Violin concerto in C major
Albéniz / Kreisler
Malagueña
Kreisler
La gitana
Kreisler
Petite valse pour piano seul
Paganini / Kreisler
La campanella
Ysaÿe
Paganini variations
Paganini
I palpiti, op.13 introductions and variations
2013, Naïve
Ravel & Debussy
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair, violin & conductor
Maurice Ravel
Tzigane
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Claude Debussy
Petite suite
Danse sacrée, danse profane
Sarabande
Danse
2013, Naïve
Fauré & Saint- Saëns
Deborah Nemtanu, violin
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
in A minor, op. 28
Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas and Mélisande, suite op. 80
Prélude - Quasi adagio
Fileuse - Andantino quasi allegretto
Sicilienne - Allegretto molto moderato
The Death of Mélisande - Molto adagio
Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin concerto n°1 in A major, op. 20
Romance for violin and orchestra in C major, op. 48
Gabriel Fauré
Lullaby, op. 16
2013, Mirare
Gabriel Fauré
Rolf Beck, conductor
Chiyuki Okamura, soprano
David Wilson-Johnson, baritone
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chor Lübeck
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Requiem
Cantique de Jean Racine
2011, Hänssler Classic
Felix Mendelssohn
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Markus Butter, baritone
Robert Getchell, tenor
accentus
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
Christus
Cantates Chorales
2011, Naïve
Camille Saint-Saëns
Joseph Swensen, conductor
Henri Demarquette, cello
Brigitte Engerer, piano
Boris Berezovsky, piano
Deborah Nemtanu, Michel Guyot, violins
Serge Soufflard, viola
Eckhard Rudolph, double bass
Marina Chamot-Leguay, flute
Richard Vieille, clarinet
Nathalie Geujon-Gantiez, Ionela Christu, percussions
Cello concerto n°1 in A minor
Carnaval des Animaux, Grande fantaisie zoologique
Sonata for cello and piano n°1 in C minor
Romance for cello and violin
Sérénade of the suite for cello and piano
2010, Mirare
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Gilles Pillet
Head of communication and corporate
development
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