The 5th International Meetings of Mirecourt

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Composer
Edith Canat de Chizy
Pianists
Silke Avenhaus
Dana Ciocarlie
Violonists
Christian Altenburger
Marianne Piketty
Violist
Françoise Gnéri
Cellists
Patrick Demenga
Ophélie Gaillard
Double-bassist
Yann Dubost
Under the Artistic Direction of
Marianne Piketty
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From 19th to 24th November 2013
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The Spirit of the Meeting by Marianne Piketty
Artistic Director
Let's imagine a musical festival which would interact with Mirecourt’s historical background and
which would have a common sense in the French musical environment - and even more widely, at
the European level. This was the original concept for these International Meetings of Mirecourt. The
aim is to gather on a yearly basis, musicians, violin- and bow-makers, as well as to celebrate
French music of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and finally to discover and promote new talents.
These meetings are split into two great events in alternation each year: an international violin
contest and a festival. Master classes, concerts and conferences are some of the outstanding
moments which enable participants to transmit and share their knowledge and experience.
The 2013 International Musical Meeting will welcome 9 european artists who will reside in Mirecourt
from 19th to 24th November to discover and share the most famous pages of French music beside
rare compositions : Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Milhaud, Poulenc, Samazeuilh, Ravel will resonate
in Mirecourt. The contemporary composer Edith Canat de Chizy will be honored through a creation
and interpretation of many pieces of chamber music. Her piece « Siloël » for string orchestra will
drive a priviledged meeting with music teachers of the Music school of Mirecourt and stringedinstruments making students.
Therefore, 2013 will highlight over the borders the diversity and wealth of an often unknown register
of music. This year will also reinforce the link between artists and violin makers in Europe and
Mirecourt.
The Sense of the Meeting by Martine Jung
President
This project was designed for Mirecourt regarding it’s world knowed Heritage and where since the 18th
century the most famous violin makers are originated from, where still today new generations of violin
makers are trained and finaly due to it’s economic activity linked to both violin and bow making.
It was like an evidence that unique synergies could happen nowhere else than Mirecourt: meetings
between young instrument creators and those who wake them up when playing them, connection of
young violin making students with famous masters through the instruments carried by the virtuosi who
are their gardiens, union of the 4 essential et supplementary ingredients that are violin- and bowmakers, composers and musicians, contacts between young musicians and virtuosi,…
Rare intimacy and unvaluable experience driven by these exchanges are the kind of things we wish to
promote through the International Meetings of Mirecourt to enable anyone to grow thanks to close
contacts with the others and to reinforce worldwide and through the ages the gleam of Mirecourt, place
of exception.
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9 artists will reside in Mirecourt
from 19th to 24th Novembre 2013
Tuesday 20th and Thursday 21st November, 6pm to 9pm – Music School of Mirecourt
Master Classes
Friday 22nd November, 3pm to 5pm – National Stringed-Instruments Making School
The artists residing in Mirecourt meet with the students and teachers
Friday 22nd November, 8:30pm – Cinema Rio
Free verse to Yann Dubost
Scelsi
Le Réveil profond
Canat de Chizy
Danse de l'aube
Chauris
Ripples I
Vasks
Bass Trip
Rossini
Duetto for Cello and double-bass
Canat de Chizy
Siloël for string orchestra
Bottesini
Big Duo for violin, double-bass and orchestra
Saturday 23rd November, 3pm – Cinema Rio
Conference Canat de Chizy, illustrated by
Canat de Chizy
Falaises, String Quintet and Tiempo, String Trio
Saturday 23rd November, 4pm – Cinema Rio
Canat de Chizy
En bleu et or for Viola and Piano
Françoise Gnéri and Silke Avenhaus
Samazeuilh
Fantaisie Elégiaque
Poulenc
Sonata
Marianne Piketty and Dana Ciocarlie
Milhaud
Visages Op.238
La Californienne, The Wisconsonian, La Parisienne
Françoise Gnéri and Silke Avenhaus
Saturday 23rd November, 6pm – Cinema Rio
Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Cello
Christian Altenburger and Patrick Demenga
Canat de Chizy
Formes du vent
Ophélie Gaillard
Chausson
Quatuor in A major Op.30
Christian Altenburger, Françoise Gnéri, Patrick Demenga and Silke Avenhaus
Saturday 23rd November, 8:30pm – Cinema Rio
Ravel
Ma mère l’Oye
Dana Ciocarlie and Silke Avenhaus
Fauré
Elégie
Poulenc
Sonata for cello and piano
Ophélie Gaillard and Silke Avenhaus
Canat de Chizy
Creation ordered for the International Meetings of Mirecourt
Marianne Piketty and Dana Ciocarlie
Ravel
Trio
Marianne Piketty, Ophélie Gaillard and Dana Ciocarlie
Sunday 24th November, 11am – Cinema Rio
Debussy
Sonata for cello and piano
Patrick Demenga and Dana Ciocarlie
Ravel
Sonata for violin and piano
Christian Altenburger and Dana Ciocarlie
Fauré
Quatuor n°1 in C minor Op.15
Marianne Piketty, Françoise Gnéri, Ophélie Gaillard and Silke Avenhaus
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The Composer
Edith Canat de Chizy
Having obtained a degree in Art,
Archeology and Philosophy at the
Sorbonne University, she then
studied music in the Conservatoire
Supérieur de Paris, where she was
awarded, in turn, first prizes in
harmony, fugue, counterpoint,
analysis,
orchestration
and
composition.
At the same time she worked on
electroacoustics with Guy Reibel
both at the Conservatoire and with
the Groupe de Recherches
Musicales. She studied first under
Ivo Malec and then, in 1983, came
the decisive meeting with Maurice
Ohana. Edith Canat de Chizy’s
training as a violonist means she is
very familiar with string writing.
She has an obvious sense of
timbre and sound matter which is
particularly in evidence in her
orchestral works.
Her independent language and freedom of style have enabled her to create a singular sound world where her imagination
holds sway.
She obtained exceptionnal distinction for her cello concerto Moïra at the Prince Pierre de Monaco competition (1999). In
2000, she was nominated at the Victoires de la Musique for her violin concerto Exultet. Her viola concerto Les Rayons du
jour, commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, premiered in February 2005 by Ana Bela Chaves under the direction of
Christoph Eschenbach met a huge success with the public and the critics.
Her most famous works have been ordered by the State, Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, IRCAM, Musicatreize,
Nederlands Kamerkoor, Sequenza 9.3, Accentus, TM+ and they include vocal pieces, string writings like her three
quatuors and symphonic writings like Omen, created in October 2006 by Orchestre National de France and Pierre d’Eclair
created in March 2011 by Orchestre National de Lyon.
She was often a composer in residence like at the Festival de Besançon where her piece for Times Grand Orchestra has
been imposed during the final of the Young Conductors International Competition in 2009 and has been created by BBC
Symphony Orchestra.
She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs, Prize for
her orchestral work Yell (1990); the SACEM Hervé Dugardin (1987) and Georges Enesco (1990) prizes; the Paul-Louis
Weiller prize (1992); the SACD “Jeune talent musique” Prize (1998) and she is crowned in 2004 by the SACEM Great
Symphonic Prize.
She was made Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1994 and Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2012; Elected in 2005 at
the french Beaux-Arts Académie, Edith Canat de Chizy (born on 26 March 1950) is the first woman composer to enter the
Institut de France.
She is teacher of composition at CNR Paris since 2007. In January 2008, Edith Canat de Chizy has been made Chevalier
de la Légion d’Honneur.
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The Violonist
Marianne Piketty
“Density, spirit, virtuosity, depth, generosity”. This is how
the press acclaimed the violinist Marianne Piketty; an artist
whose eclectic career ranges from Bach to Piazzolla and
for whom solo concerts, recitals, chamber music, unique
duos, the major repertoire, little known works and the
music of our time all feature side by side.
Marianne Piketty made her solo debut at the Salle Pleyel
in Paris at the age of seven. At twelve, she enrolled at the
Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique, where
she obtained First Prizes for Violin and Chamber Music.
She then joined Dorothy DeLay’s famed soloist class at
the Juilliard School in New York and regularly performed in
master classes for Itzhak Perlman. She went on to win the
Artists International Competition and make an auspicious
debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. Upon her return to France,
she won First Prize at the Young Soloist Competition in
Bordeaux and was awarded the Prix de la Sacem. Her
encounter with Yehudi Menuhin proved decisive as she
was asked to perform the Brahms concerto under his
direction and to become a soloist with his Foundation.
Her career as a soloist has led her to perform in Paris and
with orchestras such as Saint Petersburg National
Orchestra, the Lille National Orchestra, the Lorraine
National Orchestra, Orchestre Lamoureux, orchestre de
chambre de Toulouse, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the
Manchester Sinfonia, the Simon Bolivar Symphony
Orchestra of Caracas, Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne.
In Kiev, she gave the first performance of Renaud Gagneux’s Concerto for Violin with the Ukrainian National Philharmonic
Orchestra. She regularly performs at festivals, including those of Radio-France and Montpellier, the Flâneries musicales
de Reims, Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux, Nancyphonies, Festival Messiaen de la Meije, Les Violons de la Paix at
Boulogne sur Mer, C’est pas classique in Nice, Les Rencontres musicales de Haute-Provence, Festival international de
Besançon, Festival « Musica » in Strasbourg, and the Istanbul International Festival.
A chamber music enthusiast, Marianne Piketty has also had the privilege of including amongst her musical partners the
likes of Dana Ciocarlie, Eric Le sage, Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Ophélie Gaillard, Jean-Guihen Queyras,
Antje Weithaas, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Paul Meyer, Philippe Berrod, Chen Halevi.
In 2006, the unique violin-accordion duo she forms with Pascal Contet will be performing in numerous cities and festivals
this season with their repertoire of transcriptions of classics, recent works by Bernard Cavanna, Joëlle Léandre, Sophia
Goubaidulina and new works by Graciane Finzi, Laurent Mettraux and Javier Torres Maldonado. ... Their CD Night’s
Dream has received warm critics ... “A unique event... Together they clear the way, transcribe or commission new
works... Marianne Piketty and Pascal Contet make us travel and dream. It is so unusual today that one cannot thank them
enough...” Arte. Her latest recording for Integral Classic, Bohemia, with the pianist Dana Ciocarlie, is particularly
noteworthy: “... an unsurpassed duo. Marianne Piketty’s violin has a touch of Paganini at the tip of the bow and Romani
musical genes inside the strings.” Le Monde
Marianne Piketty is professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon and frequently gives Master
Classes in both France and abroad. Since 2009, she is also artistic director of the International Meetings of Mirecourt, the
Solistes de la Villedieu and Musique aux 4 Horizons in Ronchamp..
Marianne performs on a violin by Carlo Tononi, dated 1685.
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The Violonist
Christian Altenburger
Christian Altenburger studied at the University of Music in
his hometown of Vienna and with Dorothy DeLay at the
Juilliard School in New York.
At 19, he made his debut as a soloist at the Vienna
Musikverein. This was soon followed by engagements with
top international orchestras such as the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony
Orchestra, Concertgebouworchester Amsterdam, Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphonic
Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, Dennis Russel Davies,
Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, James Levine,
Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Václáv Neumann, Sir Roger
Norrington, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser- Möst and
others.
In addition to his appearances as a soloist, chamber music
has become an important aspect of his artistic work. His
chamber music partners include: Bruno Canino, Patrick
Demenga, Heinz Holliger, Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian,
Reinhard Latzko, Michele Lethiec, Melvyn Tan, Lars
Anders Tomter and Lars Vogt. He is also involved in the
organization of famous musical projects. From 1999 to
2005, he is the artistic director of the Mondseetage
Festival with the actress Julia Sternberber.
Since 2003, Christian Altenburger has been Artistic Director of the Schwäbische Frühling Music Festival whose
architecturally attractive concert venues in southern Germany offer an ideal ambiance for chamber music as well as
Symphony Orchestra concerts.
In 2006 Altenburger became Artistic Director of the Loisiarte Festival in Langenlois, Austria. The festival takes place in
the extraordinary surroundings of the Loisium designed by architect Steven Holl.
For many years, Christian Altenburger held a professorship at the Hannover University of Music. In 2001, he was
appointed a professorship at the Vienna University of Music.
In 2012, he is member of the second International Violin Competition of Mirecourt.
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The Violist
Françoise Gnéri
Françoise Gnéri was appointed as a viola teacher to the CNSM of Lyon in 2009.
Soloist at the Opera of Paris until
1992, she is a musician with an eclectic & original course, who distinguishes herself by her passionnate commitment in
the most varied projects, both on a pedagogical & on a musical level.
Her intense activity as a chamber music player & her deep knowledge of the 20th century music bring her to be invited
on the most important french stages (Châtelet, Radio-France, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Beaubourg, etc...) as well
as foreign ones (Brême, Lisbonne, Tokyo, New-York,...) on which she performs with artists such as Philip Hirschorn,
Christoph Henkel, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Maxim Vengerov, Bruno Pasquier, François Salque, Olivier
Chalier, Marianne Piketty, Svetlin Roussev.
A privileged collaboration binds her to the pianist Denis Pascal, with whom she has recorded Brahms sonatas & the
sonata for violin & piano in A minor by Shumann, transcribed for the viola, a record for which she won the best
appreciations.
Regularly requested by Jean-François Zygel to take part in his musical courses & in his classical cabaret, she shares
with him this taste for establishing a dynamic relation between the audience & the musicians and puts her talent in the
service of original events, mixing new audiences, performing in unusual places, in a desire to share & communicate.
She has been the artistic director of the international academy of music of Houtin-Médoc & of the association TetraKys,
in Touraine, since 2010.
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The Cellist
Ophélie Gaillard
Though on paper the music has an almost military
precision, the supple, direct technique of the performer
carries the listener throught the movements with the
fluidity of a mountain stream. Edito, Emmanuel Dupuy /
Diapason, May 2011
An insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk, an immoderate
appetite for the whole of the concerted cello repertoire,
complete disregard of limits and petty quarrels: those are
no doubt the features that have always set this brilliant
Franco- Swiss musician apart.
Voted “Revelation: Solo Instrumentalist of the Year” at the
French Classical Music Awards (Victoires) in 2003, she
has appeared since then at many prestigious venues:
Concertgebouw Bruges and Amsterdam; Bozar and
Flagey, Brussels; the theatres of Bordeaux, Avignon,
Poissy, Aix-en-Provence; Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; Oji
Hall, Tokyo; London’s Wigmore Hall; and so on.
Ophélie Gaillard is a child of Baroque. She specialised in the Baroque cello from a very early age and for ten years
shared the stage with Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm and the Amarillis ensemble, amongst others. Then in
2005 she founded Pulcinella, a “collective” of virtuoso soloists. Sharing her passion for performance on period
instruments, they have been her regular accomplices ever since. Her recordings of Vivaldi’s Cello Sonatas and
Concertos and the Cello Concertos of Boccherini received the highest distinctions.
In 1998 she was the winner of the J. S. Bach International Cello Competition third prize in Leipzig, and in 2000 she
recorded Bach’s complete Cello Suites for Ambroisie, a recording that was highly acclaimed by the international press.
Then in 2011 she repeated the exploit, this time for Aparté, a recording that earned her distinctions from Diapason
(Diapason d’Or) and The Strad Magazine.
She also performs works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has recorded, for instance, Britten’s complete
Cello Suites and Pierre Bartholomée’s Oraison for solo cello.
Also very fond of the Romantic repertoire, which she plays as a soloist with orchestras of repute, she has recorded to
great acclaim the complete cello works of Schumann, Fauré and Chopin (Ambroisie), while the solo album Dreams
(Aparté), made in 2009 at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, proved
to be a great public success.
Much sought-after as a teacher, she regularly gives master-classes in Asia and in Latin and Central America. In 2010
she was invited to sit on the jury for the ARD International Cello Competition in Munich.
She appears regularly on radio (France Musique, France Culture, France Inter, Radio Classique, BBC Radio 3, Espace
2) and television (France 2, Mezzo, Arte).
Ophélie Gaillard plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (1737), generously loaned by CIC, and also an anonymous
Flemish violoncello piccolo.
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The Cellist
Patrick Demenga
Born in 1962, the musician studied at the Bern Conservatory, in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow as well as with
Harvey Shapiro in New York and is one of today`s most sought after cellists.
Patrick Demenga appears regularly at the
most renowed festivals and music centres throughout Europe, South Africa, the U.S., Canada, South America, Australia
and Asia.
He frequently collaborates with musical personalities such as Heinz Holliger, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russel Davies,
Leif Segerstam, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Howard Griffith, Christoph Poppen, Leonidas Kavakos, Alexander Lonquich,
Isabelle Faust, Natalia Gutman, and many others, as well as with orchestras like the Zurich Tonhalle Orchester,
Symphonieorchester Basel, RSO Vienna, Camerata Bern, Münchner Kammerorchester, Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Kremerata Baltica, Ensemble Modern etc.
His many radio and television recordings as well as numerous LPs and CDs (Novalis, Accord Musidisc, ECM, Sony
Classical), have made him known to the international public.
Patrick Demenga teaches a concert class at the Lausanne Conservatory and also teaches at diverse international
master-classes. For several years, he directed the cello festival Viva Cello in Liestal/Basel. He is artistic director of the
Vier Jahreszeiten-Konzerte in Blumenstein near Berne, and of the Musikfestwoche Meiringen. Patrick Demenga
obtained the award «Der Goldene Bogen» (Golden bow) in 2001.
As a musician, Patrick Demenga is keen to move in the field of tension around great composers – great works and
contemporary music. It is precisely in this constellation that he senses the arousal of the musical debate
and where he
finds his exceptional expressive strength.
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The Double-Bassist
Yann Dubost
Musician with an eclectic cours, Yann Dubost is surpising his
public by his sensibility and sonority and became one of the
most sought-after double-bassist.
Born in Lyon in 1983, Yann DUBOST chose playing the double
bass at the age of 12 after playing the violin since he was 5
years old.
He studied at the Conservatory of Grenoble with Philippe
Guaingoin and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique in Lyon with Bernard Cazauran. He was awarded 1st
prize at the 8th International Competition of Wattrelos (France) in
1999, 1st prize in the Haverhill Soloist Competition (England) in
2004, and 1st prize of the “International Society of Bassists (ISB)
Solo Competition” (USA) in 2005. He is also laureate of the
Premio Valentino Bucchi (2008, Rome), the Swiss Global Artistic
Foundation (2008), the Cziffra Foundation (2007) and the Declic
of CulturesFrance Program. He participated 3 times to the
Chamber Music Summer Academy of Seiji Ozawa in Switzerland
(IMAS), where he takes classes with S. Ozawa, P. Frank, N. Imai
and S. Harada. At age 19, he joins the Paris Orchestra where he
performs during 9 seasons under the direction of C.
Eschenbach, P. Järvi, P. Boulez, V. Gergiev, B. Haitink, E.P.
Salonen… He is invited in 2006 as solo double-bassist by the
London Symphony Orchestra, he is named solo double-bassist
of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in November
2011, conducted by M.W. Chung.
Chamber Music takes a privileged place for Yann Dubost who performs with Frank Braley, Bertrand Chamayou, Christoph
Eschenbach, Adam Laloum, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Olivier Charlier, Svetlin Roussev, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Yan
Levionnois, Roland and Raphaël Pidoux, Jérôme Pernoo, Christophe Coin, Philippe Bernold, Philippe Berrod, the Moraguès Quintet,
the Ensemble Initium, the quatuors Ardeo, Debussy, Diotima, Fine Arts, Modigliani, Thymos...
His concerts drove him to Paris (Pleyel, Châtelet, Radio France, Musée d'Orsay, Opéra Comique), Lyon (salle Molière), Toulouse
(Capitole), Aix (Grand Théâtre de Provence), Luxembourg (Philharmonie), Geneva (Victoria Hall), but also all over Europe, to India,
to the USA, to Japan... Yann regularly takes part in several festivals such as Deauville, Cordes-sur-ciel, Les Arcs, Les musiques in
Marseille, Cziffra Festival, La Folle Journée of Nantes, the International Festival of Besançon, the Epau Festival, the Printemps des
Arts of Monte-Carlo, Capalest (Slovakia), ModFest (USA), Festivals of Schleswig-Holstein and Ultraschall (Berlin)...
He created in 2008 the trio Les Tromano with Yorrick Troman (violin) and Daniel Troman (accordion) and in 2009 the trio Morpheus
with Marion Tassou (soprano) and Yannaël Quenel (piano), with whom he addressed a more eclectic program. He takes regularly
part to the Sirba Octet concerts (Yiddish music). Soilist of the Itinéraire ensemble and loving contemporary music, he performed
numerous creations and worked with composers like György Kurtag, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Michaël Levinas, Franck
Bedrossian, Marc-André Dalbavie. From his meetings with avec Ondrej Adamek, Yves Chauris, Carlos Roque-Alsina, Benjamin
Taylor, Richard Wilson are borned some pieces for double-bass which have enriched the solo repertoire of this instrument. He often
plays sonatas with Yannaël Quenel, Yann Ollivo, or Vincent Balse. In 2007, he was invited to perform the opening recital of the
International Society of Bassists Convention in Oklahoma City which has been followed in June 2009 by a USA Tour (New-York,
Penn State University and Baltimore) with Vincent Balse.
He recorded pieces for solo double-bass from Richard Wilson (Albany records), Teresa Procaccini (Edipan) and also Lucien
Durosoir with the quatuor Diotima (Alpha), Georges Onslow with the Ensemble Initium (Timpani), Gabriel Fauré with Karine
Deshayes and the Ensemble Contraste (Zig-Zag Territoires) and Félicien David in a quintet with Christophe Coin (Laborie).
Yann Dubost is teaching at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux and at the Pôle d'Enseignement Supérieur Bretagne - Pays
de la Loire, in Rennes.
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The Pianist
Dana Ciocarlie
The first source of Dana Ciocarlie's piano- playing was the Romanian piano school wherefrom also have emerged Clara
Haskil and Dinu Lipatti. After a first degree in Bucarest, she then later studied in Paris with Victoria Melki at the Ecole
Normale de Musique and attended Dominique Merlet's and Georges Pludermacher's classes at the Conservatoire
National Superieur de Musique. Her meeting with the German pianist Christian Zacharias was a decisive factor for her
career, stimulating her to delve deeply into Franz Schubert’s piano music.
Endowed with a quick-witted and mercurial temperament, combined with generosity and commitment, Dana Ciocarlie
has a vast repertoire ranging from Johann-Sebastian Bach to contemporary composers. Some of these, including Karol
Beffa, Frédéric Verrières, Nicolas Bacri and Helena Winkelman have written specially for her. She is also recognized as
one of the major interpreters of Horatiu Radulescu. Her experience and her talent were rewarded with numerous prizes
in prestigious competitions: a second prize at the Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, the Sandor
Vegh Special Prize at the Geza Anda Competition in Zurich, the Pro Musicis International Prize, the Young Concert
Artist European Auditions Award in Leipzig, and a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy.
Her numerous recitals and concerts with orchestras throughout the world have taken her to the United States, Canada.
Indonesia and China. She has performed in most European countries and in France -- her country of residence— ,
concerts have taken her to the Salle Gaveau, the Cité de la Musique, the Orsay Museum, the Auditorium du Louvre and
others. Among her favorite musical partners figure the violonists Gilles Apap, Jean-Marc Philips, Nicolas Dautricourt,
Laurent Korcia and Marina Chiche, the violist Arnaud Thorette, the violoncellists Sébastien van Kuijk and Alexandre
Kniazev, french horn player David Guerrier and the string quartets Psophos and Tallich. Since 2001, she is a much
appreciated guest of the Radio France where she has a regular emission going with musicologist Jean François Derrien:
It is on the works of Schumann. Her numerous recordings were highly acclaimed by the specialised musical press who
recognized in her the humility of the great and compared her musicality even to that of Wilhelm Kempff and Clara
Haskil. Her maturity, simplicity of tone, and natural expression caught the attention of the monthly magazine Le Monde
de la Musique, which commented in an article about the "2000 generation" that she was a promising young artist, soon
likely to be top of the bill. At the moment she is about to record all Schumann piano works for the label “La Dolce Volta”.
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The Pianist
Silke Avenhaus
Emotion paired with sensitivity, creativity and curiosity these are the qualities attributed by music critics to the
pianist Silke Avenaus for her international concert
appearances and for her more than 20 CD productions.
Her solo concerts and her much-in-demand appearances
in chamber music ensembles have taken Silke Avenhaus
thoughout Europe, the USA and South East Asia. She has
appeared in concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall in
London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in the Salle
Gaveau in Paris, the Brahms-Saal of the Wiener
Musikverein, in the Philharmonie in Cologne, Munich and
Berlin as well as in the Carnegie Recital Hall, New York.
She has accepted invitations to the Marlboro Music
Festival, to the Chamber Musuc Festivals in Prussia Cove
and Moritzburg, to the Berliner Festwochen and to the
Rheingau Music Festival, to the Salzburg Festspielen, the
Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival,
the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and to the Beethovenfest in
Bonn. Silke Avenhaus has made guest appearances with
the NDR Sinfony Orchestra Hamburg, the Berlin Radio
Sinfony Orchestra, the German Radiophilharmonie and
with the Munich Chamber Orchstra.
Born in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, Silke won a number of competitions at an early age, studied with Bianca Bodalia
and Klaus Schilde (University of Music and Performing Arts Munich), György Sebök (Indiana University, Bloomington)
and with Sandor Végh and Andras Schiff. Silke Avenhaus performs together with artists such as Tabea Zimmermann,
Thomas Zehetmair, Benjamin Schmid, Christoph Poppen, Isabelle Faust, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Jörg Widmann,
Clemens Hagen and with Sabine Meyer in the Ensemble Collage. An especially close musical affinity brought her
together with Quirine Viersen and Antje Weithaas, with both of whom she has produced several CDs. Various composers
have written works for which she has given first perfomances, for example Wilfried Hiller, Jörg Widmann, Magnar Aam,
Akikazu Nakamura, Helmut Eder and Detlef Glanert. In only a few years Silke Avenhaus recorded more than 20 CDs with
solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces, among others for EMI, ECM, Koch, Tudor, cpo, Berlin Classics, CAvi
and harmona mundi. Included in these are works for Violin and Piano by Szymanowski (with Thomas Zehetmair),
Beethoven Cello sonatas (with Quirine Viersen), Schumann Violin sonatas (with Isabelle Faust), the "Quartett vom Ende
der Zeit" (with the Munch-Trio and Charles Neidich), Mozart's concert aria "Ch' io mi scordi di te" (with Juliane Banse and
the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen), the "Concertino von Triebensee" (with the German
Kammerphilharmonie), piano trios by Beethoven, Hiller and Mendelssohn (with the Munch-Trio). The CD "leggiero,
pesante", recorded together with the Rosamunde Quartett and Anja Lechner and with chamber music by Silvestrow, was
nominated for the Grammy Award 2003. She recorded the Brahms Piano Quintett with the Arcanto Quartett. More
recently, various CDs have appeared with solo works: First recordings of Alexander von Zemlinsky (Naxos), the "Buch
der Sterne" by Wilfried Hiller as well as piano pieces by Robert Schumann and Peter Tschaikowsky. The CD-Edition
consisting of Anthologies from Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn and French composers, produced together with Antje
Weithaas on the CAvi label, is being continued. Silke Avenhaus teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in
Munich and as a regular lecturer at the Villa Musica.
For Silke Avenhaus, bringing "classical music" to children and young people is of special importance, whether it be with
audio books for children, via workshops or taking part in the "Rhapsody in School" project initiated by Lars Vogt.
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Retrospective of the
Internationales Meetings of Mirecourt
The International Meetings of Mirecourt created in 2009, show in alternation each year the
International Violin Competition and the International Musical Meetings.
2012 – 2nd International Violin Competition
2012 was the year of the 2nd International Violin competition of Mirecourt. The President of the
Jury was Roland Daugareil (France) and the members of the Jury were Kyoko Takezawa (Japan),
Marianne Piketty (France), Christian Altenburger (Austria) and Marco Rizzi (Italy).
In Mirecourt and Thaon-les-Vosges for the finale, almost 1500 people attended the different rounds
of the contest, the master-classes hold by the members of the Jury, the conference hold by
Françoise Gnéri and the concert given by the Ardeo Quatuor.
The 2012 Competition was of an outstanding level with 40 candidates under 25 years old
registered. The finale highlighted four young talents who interpretated the Mendelssohn and
Tchaïkowsky concertos accompanied by the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
conducted by Jonathan Schiffman in front of an audience of more than 650 music lovers.
The 2012 laureates are:
• OKADA Shuichi, 1st Prize and Prize CORELLI AUBERT LUTHERIE BIGOT for the most
remarkable personality – a bow from Sylvain BIGOT,
• MASAOKA Eri, 2nd Prize
• BORTOLOTTO Laura, 3rd Prize, Prize of the Public, Prize of the stringed-instrument making
school of Mirecourt, Prize Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre de musique romantique français for the
best interpretation of the french sonata during the semi finale
• KIM Seayoung, 4th Prize
2011 – 2nd Musical Meeting
During the 3rd International Meeting / 2nd Musical Meeting, 500 music lovers attended two concerts:
• « Le salon romantique » played by Dana Ciocarlie (piano), Marianne Piketty (violin), Cécile Agator
(violin), Caroline Donin (viola) and Ophélie Gaillard (cello),
and
• the Symphony concert « Musique Française » played by the Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux
conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow , with the violinist David Castro-Balbi (Winner of the 1st
Mirecourt International Violin Competition) and the pianist Alexandre Kantorow.
The recital « Le violoncelle buissonnier » has been played by the cello player Ophélie Gaillard and a
conference was lead in the stringed instrument Making Museum by the bow maker Nelly Poidevin.
Twenty students from the music school have also had the opportunity to attend master classes hold by
Marianne Piketty and Ophélie Gaillard.
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Retrospective of the
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2010 – 1st International Violin Competition
The 2nd Musical Meeting was organized around the 1st International Violin Competition of
Mirecourt.
The President of the Jury was Jean-Jacques Kantorow (France) and the members of the Jury were
Michaël Frischenschlager (Austria), Marianne Piketty (France), Tomotada Soh (Japan), Oscar Yatco
(Germany).
Almost twenty worldwide candidates registered. An attentive public followed all the rounds and the
young candidates were also able to attend master classes hold by the Jury members.
900 persons attended the concert given in Mirecourt by the violinist soloist Svetlin Roussev
accompanied by the local orchestra “Sinfonietta Bel’arte” conducted by Jean-Marie Quenon, as well as
the final concert in Thaon-les-Vosges where the contest winner, David Castro Balbi played accompanied
by the Orchestre National de Lorraine conducted by Jacques Mercier.
The employees of the Town of Mirecourt, the students and teachers from the Lycée Jean Baptiste
Vuillaume (National stringed-instrument Making School) and a team of local volunteers invested their
energy to organize the event. The young candidates were hosted in families from Mirecourt.
The 2010 laureates are :
• CASTRO-BALBI David (France), 1st Prize,
• LEE Kun Wha (Korea), 2nd Prize,
• MARQUISE GILMORE Benjamin (Austria), 3rd Prize,
• DUVAL Irène (France), Prize of the most remarkable personality
• GJEZI Kristi (France), Prize of the Stringed-instrument making School of Mirecourt
2009 – 1st Musical Meeting
The 1st Musical Meeting of Mirecourt have been scheduled in November 2009.
Concerts, conferences and master classes brought together confirmed artists around Marianne Piketty.
An audience of six hundred music lovers and around twenty students from the music school together for
the master classes, have built the success of this first edition.
2008 – The Genesis
In 2008, Marianne Piketty (violonist) and Jean-Paul Houvion (President of the Jeunesses Musicales de
France de Lorraine) met with the Mayor of Mirecourt to talk about the possible creation of an
International Violin Competition in the town of the violin makers.
Easely convinced, the municipality and its culture departement jointly with the Jeunesses Musicales de
France de Lorraine and under the artistic management of Marianne Piketty, organized the 1st Musical
Meeting of Mirecourt in November 2009.
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