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;
• a new music director, the conductor
Douglas Boyd, and an artistic team with the
conductor Sir Roger Norrington, Deborah
Nemtanu, concertmaster, Nathalie
Stutzmann, associate artist, and the
composer Philippe Manoury;
• a selection of prestigious guest artists:
Fazil Say, Gautier Capuçon, Carolyn Sampson,
Julia Lezhneva, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel
Hope, Natalie Dessay, François Leleux among
others;
• special attention given to the vocal
repertoire and oratorio including an artistic
partnership with the accentus choir
and Laurence Equilbey.
• concerts at the Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées, the Philharmonie de Paris, NotreDame Cathedral, Théâtre du Châtelet and
tours in France and around the world.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris has also planned several festivals and tours abroad for the 2015-2016
period:
Festival George Enescu (Bucarest-Romania), Festival Mozart@Augsburg, Wurzburg Mozartfest 2016,
Stuttgart, Cologne (Allemagne), Istanbul (Turkey). 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.
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 at the Philharmonie
de Paris and in the Parisian musical landscape.
Following successive collaborations with renowned artists
such as Jean-Pierre Wallez, Armin Jordan, Jean-Jacques
Kantorow, John Nelson, Joseph Swensen or Thomas
Zehetmair, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris has a new
music director, the conductor Douglas Boyd. The Orchestra
surrounds itself with an artistic team: the conductor Sir
Roger Norrington, Deborah Nemtanu, concertmaster and
the contralto and conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann, as
associate artist. The orchestra continues its fruitful
partnership with the chamber choir accentus and Laurence
Equilbey and honors its associate composer Philippe
Manoury.
As well as its concerts at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées,
Notre-Dame Cathedral, and the Théâtre du Châtelet, the
Orchestra will be performing this season at the
Philharmonie de Paris. In addition to these Parisian venues,
the orchestra’s program includes tours in France and
around the world and participations in leading festivals.
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 and Saint
Matthew Passion performed at the Paris Notre-Dame
Cathedral or at the basilica of Saint-Denis (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, a recording of SaintSaëns’s and Fauré’s works featuring Thomas Zehetmair and Deborah Nemtanu, a recording of Paganini’s works featuring
violinist Laurent Korcia and a CD of Ravel and Debussy with Thomas Zehetmair as conductor and solo violin. The latest releases
include a recording of Félicien David’s Le Désert with Laurence Equilbey and accentus, a recording of Rossini’s Petite Messe
solennelle and a recording of Bach’s violin concertos with Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu.
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 focusing on the
North-East of the capital. 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, in Paris and beyond.
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.
2015-2016 Season Highlights
“From Mozart to Fazil Say”
Mozart / Say
Roger Norrington, conductor
Fazil Say, piano
September 15th, 2015
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
“Vienna, night and day”
Haydn / Mahler / Webern /
Schönberg
Douglas Boy, conductor
Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto
Netia Jones, video
September 22nd, 2015
Philharmonie de Paris
“Bach in India”
J.S. Bach / Dr L. Subramaniam
Josep Vicent, conductor
Dr L. Subramaniam, violin
Amandine Beyer, violin
October 4th, 2015
Philharmonie de Paris
“From Mozart to Manoury”
Stravinski / Manoury / Mozart
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Deborah Nemtanu, violin
October 14th, 2015
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
“Haendel’s Messiah”
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Allan Clayton, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
accentus
December 22nd, 2015
Philharmonie de Paris
“A tribute to Menuhin”
Vivaldi / El-Khoury / Chostakovitch /
Takemitsu / Mendelssohn
Daniel Hope, conductor and violin
Deborah Nemtanu, violin
March 22nd, 2016
Philharmonie de Paris
“Pure Bach”
Bach
Sebastian Knauer, conductor and piano
Deborah Nemtanu, violin
Marina Chamot-Leguay, flute
April 5th, 2016
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
“Recital, from France to Russia”
Rachmaninov / Tchaïkovski / RimskyKorsakov/ Minkov / Fauré / Delibes /
Duvernoy / Chabrier…
Claire Levacher, conductor
Natalie Dessay, soprano
Stella Grigorian, mezzo-soprano
April 14th, 2016
Philharmonie de Paris
“Legends, from Gounod to Liszt”
Gounod / Liszt
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
Stanislas de Barbeyrac, tenor
Cyrille Gautreau, bass
accentus
June 22nd, 2016
Philharmonie de Paris
And many other great concerts with
Javier Perianes, Reinhold Friedrich,
Julia Lezhneva, Jean-Guihen Queyras,
Viktoria Mullova…
The orchestra’s concert halls
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées © D.R.
La Philharmonie de Paris © Arte Factory
Théâtre du Châtelet © D.R.
Le CENTQUATRE – Paris © Estelle Poulalion
Notre-Dame de Paris © Gilbert Bochenek
Opéra Comique © D.R.
The artistic team
Douglas Boyd
Music director - conductor
Douglas Boyd began his career as an oboist
and moved on to become an internationally
acclaimed conductor. As of the 2015/2016
season, he will serve as music director of the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
He is a founding member of the Orchestre de chambre d’Europe and has
taken an active part to this musical ensemble first as a musician then as a
conductor for over 20 years. During his career, he has held prestigious
offices as chief conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur orchestra,
artistic director of the Garsington Opera, music director of the
Manchester Camerata, principal guest conductor of the Colorado
Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia and « artistic
partner » of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. His apppointments have
led him to conduct the most famous orchestras in Great Britain, including
the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra, the
Birmingham and Bournemouth symphony orchestras, the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Northern
Sinfonia. In Europe, he has been for example invited by the Gürzenich
Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Tonhalle
Orchestra Zurich and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg.
As an internationally recognized musician, he has conducted the Nagoya
Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan and has enjoyed great success in
Australia with the Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras,
including Beethoven's complete symphony cycle.
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Schubert’s
Symphonies
Nos 4 and 8 with the Saint Paul Chamber
orchestras
around
the world.
Orchestra.
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
Associate artist - conductor
Sir Roger Norrington is a well-known
conductor on the international stage and
shows a keen interest in period
performance practices.
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
Concertmaster
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 NézetSéguin.
Nathalie Stutzmann
Associate artist- Contralto and conductor
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.
As she studied 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 has received immediate re-invitations after
débuts with leading orchestras including Opera de Monte Carlo:
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore in 2014 and returning for Wagner’s
Tannhäuser in 2017.
She has an ongoing relationship São Paolo Symphony where she has conducted Mozart’s Requiem with re-invitations for future
seasons. Chamber Orchestra, Valencia Symphony and to Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Valladolid where she was the
first woman to conduct the orchestra, in Mahler’s 4th Symphony in 2014.
Decorated as "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres” and "Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite” by the French state, she also gives
masterclasses around the world and is a singing teacher at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.
Her exploration of the symphonic repertory has seen her
conducting the orchestras of Lyon, Bucharest, Warsaw,
Café Zimmermann, Brussels Philharmonic, Akademie für
alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Camerata Salzburg,
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the philharmonic
orchestras of Liège, Leipzig, Francfort, etc.
She has recently conducted Britten’s Albert Herring (at
the Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie and the Opéra
Comique), Weber’s Freischütz (Opéra de Toulon), Sous
apparence (Opéra de Paris) and Reynaldo Hahn’s
Ciboulette (Opéra comique).
She regularly conducts the orchestra of the Opéra de
Rouen Haute-Normandie (Mendelssohn’s Athalie in
2015). Since 2009, she has been working with accentus as
an associate artist of the Paris Chamber Orchestra and will
be joining up with them again in 2015 for Reynaldo Hahn’s
Ciboulette at the Opéra Comique and Dvořák’s Stabat
Mater at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Laurence Equilbey
Associate artist - conductor
Conductor and musical director of Insula orchestra
and accentus, Laurence Equilbey is today
acknowledged for her demanding, yet open-minded
approach to her art.
She is also an associate artist of the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence and a companion of the Phillharmonie de
Paris.
With accentus, Laurence Equilbey continues to focus on the great vocal music repertoire, while also supporting contemporary
creation. The extensive recorded work of accentus (on the naïve label) has received wide critical acclaim. She is also Artistic
Director and Director of Education at the Department for Young Singers at the Paris Conservatory.
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.
accentus
Associate artist- chamber choir
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 ».
The disk from accentus, “Janacek, Brumes d’enfance (Mists of Childhood)”, conducted by Pieter-Jelle de Boer, was released in August
2013. The latest disk – Mozart’s Requiem – was released in September 2014. For 2015 the choir plans to record vocal works by
Mantovani and a record of Gluck’s Orfeo and Euridice with Franco Fagioli.
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
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.
Philippe Manoury
Associate composer
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 will also
be teaching at the Conservatory of Strasbourg in 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.
Reviews
« The Paris Chamber Orchestra led by the excellent
Gareth Valentine shows once again its incredible
versatility and its smartness in every kind of diverse
repertoire »
Sylvain Fort, Forumopéra.com, commenting on
the performance Singin’ in the rain at the
Théâtre du Châtelet, March 2015
« The Paris Chamber Orchestra reaffirmed there
its powerful rise, reacting with flexibility to
Alarcon’s baton with heartful drive. »
Jacqueline Thuilleux, Concertclassic.com,
about tthe concert on 4 March 2015 at the
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, Mars 2015
« The show is pretty to look at and easy on the ear, and
the Chamber Orchestra of Paris, conducted by Gareth
Valentine, sounds terrifically full-bodied »
Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, commenting
on the performance Singin’ in the rain at the
Théâtre du Châtelet, March 2015
« Once again the Paris Chamber Orchestra treats the audience with
a high standard concert with a fresh touch and its own intimate “je
ne sais quoi” in a rich and interesting program where beauty is the
only protagonist. Exciting! »
« I believe that flooding
out the individual sparkle
while playing in the
orchestra is the same
thing in music and
football »
Douglas Boyd,
l’Equipe, February
2015
Sabino Pena Arca, Classiquenews.com, about the concert on
18 february by Thomas Dausgaard and Daniel Hope at the
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, February 2015
«…In front of « her » orchestra – the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris -, Deborah
chairs like the queen bee. Standing upright
in a long black gown with honey-coloured
dots, she commands her hive string
fellows’ respect »
« The Orchestre de chambre de Paris has presented its new
young audience concert. A musical match based on sport and
music. An ingenious way for children to initiate themselves into
classical music. »
Victor Tribot Laspière, France Musique, concerning the
concert on the 4th of December at the Salle Pleyel,
December 2014.
Pierre Gervasoni, Le Monde, concerning
the concert « A Leipzig chez les Bach
avec Sarah et Deborah Nemtanu », at the
Théâtre
des
Champs-Elysées,
December 2014
« This chamber orchestra is greatly involved with children
[…] They give outreach programs in community venues
and always with a view to break boundaries between
people and music, they also put together visits in prisons »
Charlotte Latour, RTL, concerning OCP’s social
(citizen) actions, may 2014.
« A high standard exchange
between the two bassoons of
this
orchestra
exquisitely
played by Fany Maselli et Henri
Roman »
L’Est républicain concerning
the concert “Sir Roger
Norrington visite Prague”, on
the 17th of September 2014
at the Théâtre des ChampsElysées, September 2014
Discography: last releases
Rossini
Petite Messe solennelle
Julia Lezhneva, soprano
Delphine Galou, contralto
Michael Spyres, tenor
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
accentus
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
2015, Naïve
Félicien David
Le Désert
Cyrille Dubois, tenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Jean-Marie Winling, reciter
accentus
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
2015, Naïve
Bach - Schnittke
Sarah Nemtanu, violin
Deborah Nemtanu, violin and viola
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Sascha Goetzel, conductor
2014, Naïve
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