Programme

• Robert Lindley, 2e Duo pour violon et violoncelle en si bémol majeur

Allegro, Andante, Rondo 

• Eugène Ysaÿe, 3e sonate « Ballade » pour violon seul
• Maria Theresia von Paradies, Sicilienne pour violon et violoncelle

Entracte

• J.S. Bach, 1ère Sonate pour violoncelle seul en do majeur

Prélude, Allemande, Courante

• Zoltan Kodaly, Duo pour violon et violoncelle

Allegro serioso non troppo

• Maurice Ravel, Sonate pour violon et violoncelle M73

Vif, avec entrain

• Johan Halvorsen, Passacaillepour violon et violoncelle d’après la Suite en sol mineur pour clavecin de Haendel [

Eléonore Darmon‘s performance is like her red mane: volcanic and shimmering. A flamboyant and diverse musician, she flourishes as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician.
At 5 years old, Éléonore Darmon listened to her gypsy violin records over and over again. At 10 years old, she knew it: she would be a violinist. Her ardor and enthusiasm were also spotted by Ivry Gitlis when she participated in the Fan School… Introduced to music by her pianist mother, Éléonore entered the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris (CNSM) at the age of 14, where she won first prizes in violin and chamber music in the classes of Michael Hentz and Daria Hovora. She continued her training with Pavel Vernikov in Florence and Vienna, enriching her playing with influences from the Russian violin school. “My violin is my voice,” she says.

Winner of international prizes, as well as the Banque Populaire, Cziffra and Or du Rhin foundations, Éléonore began her concert career at the age of 16 in Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E minor performed with the Nancy Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Sebastian Lang -Lessing, as stunned as the audience by “this prodigious young violinist”. His career developed with concerts alongside various orchestras, such as the National Orchestra of Ukraine (Sibelius Concerto), the Baden Sinfonietta in Austria (Beethoven Concerto), the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Morocco (Brahms Concerto and Double-Concerto with Alexey Zhilin on cello), the Aurora Symphony Orchestra in Sweden (Concerto No. 1 by Paganini)… She also maintains a collaboration with long time with the Paul Kuentz Orchestra, with whom she has performed more than a hundred times as a soloist in major works of the repertoire.
Soloist, chamber musician, in front of or in the orchestra, Éléonore Darmon sees music as an act of sharing and communion: “Everything is chamber music! In front of the orchestra or in the orchestra, with piano or in a quartet, the violinist must demonstrate the same quality of listening towards the other musicians. » In perpetual research, the violinist loves nothing more than sharing the intimacy and emotion of a work with other artists.
A sought-after orchestral musician, she held the position of concertmaster of the Orchester de l’Alliance in Paris from 2013 to 2016. With this orchestra, she also performed as a soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D major during a concert filmed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, available in full on YouTube. Since 2015, she has been regularly invited as concertmaster or second violin by ensembles such as the Orchester national du Capitole de Toulouse, the National Orchestras of Lille, Montpellier, and Bordeaux.
In 2018-2019, Éléonore held the position of Konzertmeister with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, performing among others the complete Brahms symphonies. Marc Soustrot, musical director of the orchestra, underlines its musicality and its playing essential to the success of the concerts. In 2022, she is invited by the Aarhus Orchestra as soloist in the Brahms Double Concerto, alongside Jonathan Swensen and under the direction of Hartmut Haenchen.
She also plays in the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of France, the Conductorless Ensemble “Les Dissonances”, the Paris Chamber Orchestra and the “Consuelo” Orchestra. . In 2024, she is conductor of the second violins for a concert at the Berlin Philharmonie, and performs at the Cité de la Musique as concertmaster of the Orchester de Paris. This diversity of roles within different orchestras gives him a deep understanding of orchestral dynamics.
In 2023, she was named Super-soloist of the Orchestra of the National Opera of Lorraine, a position in which she was tenured the following year.
An authentic and appreciated musician, Éléonore Darmon has had a passion for chamber music since a young age. She had the opportunity to perform and develop her experience with partners such as Mischa Maisky and Frans Helmerson (Eilat Music Festival), Martha Argerich (Pietrasanta in Concerto), Gordan Nikolic (Chamber Music in Giverny), Lawrence Power , Emmanuel Rossfelder… His duo with Antoine de Grolée, formed in 2011, is praised for the intensity of its interpretations, and their first album, Tea Time, was released at the end 2018.
She also gave master classes in Malaysia and participated in a musical cruise on the Danube alongside François Chaplin, Jérémy Garbag, and Pierre Génisson.
As artistic director, Éléonore organized a chamber music season in Paris between 2013 and 2015, and since 2014, she has directed the Sagonne Festival, in the heart of Berry.
Éléonore Darmon plays an 18th-century Italian Gianbattista Grancino violin and a French Eugène Sartory bow.

Sébastien Renaud began playing cello at the Rueil-Malmaison conservatory, then entered the class of Jean-Marie Gamard at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2003, from where he graduated in 2007. In 2010 he joined the prestigious Académie de the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which allows him to play in contact with the greatest soloists and conductors. After working with orchestras such as the Gewandhaus of Leipzig or the Bamberger Symphoniker, he returned to France where, in addition to numerous chamber music concerts, he played regularly with the Opéra National de Paris or the Yellow Socks Orchestra. , an orchestra specializing in film music.
Since September 2024, Sébastien Renaud has been Principal Cello of the Orchester Colonne, one of the oldest independent Parisian groups.

Program :

Ravel : Trio

1. Modéré

2. Pantoum

3. Passacaille

4. Final

Saint-Saëns : Trio n° 2 op. 92

1. Allegro non troppo 
   

2. Allegretto

3. Andante con moto

4. Gracioso, poco allegro 
   

5. Allegro

Biography of the Nebelmeer trio

Inspired by the great romantic pages reserved for their formation, Arthur Decaris, Florian Pons and Loann Fourmental chose the name of their trio in reference to Caspar David Friedrich and his emblematic “Traveler above the sea of ​​clouds” (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer).

Trained with the Wanderer Trio, Claire Désert and Louis Rodde, the three musicians had the chance to also benefit, in their studies and during academies, from the teaching of the Ébène and Modigliani quartets, but also from Johannes Meissl, Olivier Charlier, Emmanuel Strosser and Lise Berthaud…

The three musicians were quickly noticed by their warm and expressive sound and invited to play in major festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journe de Nantes, Les Folles Journes en Région des Pays de la Loire and La Folle Journe de Varsovie .

Since September 2022, the trio has been an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium under the direction of Corina Belcea, Miguel da Silva and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden.

Supported by the Caen theater and conservatory, their first CD, dedicated to Chausson and Saint-Saëns, was released in spring 2023 by Mirare and is praised by French and German critics.

In 2024, the trio will make their debut at the large Bozar hall in Brussels for the “Bozar Next Generation” program.

They won first prize at the international competition Premio Trio Di Trieste in 2024 and will perform in Italy in 2025 and 2026.

The Nebelmeer trio are laureates of the Banque Populaire Foundation.

Arthur Decaris plays a Pressenda violin loaned by Ms. Cougoul, at the initiative of the TALENTS & VIOLON’CELLES endowment fund.

Florian PONS plays an 18th century cello attributed to Ambroise de Comble, a disciple of Stradivarius.

Program :

PUCCINI : Crisantemi

MONTGOMERY : Strum

SIRMEN : Quatuor N°2 en si bémol majeur

1 – Andantino   2 – Allegro

Pause

SCHUBERT Quatuor N°14 « La jeune fille et la Mort » en ré mineur

1 – Allegro  2 – Andante con moto  3 – Scherzo – Allegro molto – Trio  4 – Presto

The Varèse quartet

« (…) The ravel quartet unleashes enthusiasm. The four musicians compete in subtlety and, with a perfect taste, make this ravelian kaleidoscope beautifully, oscillating between tenderness and precision, passion and narration (…) »
Christian Lorandin, Resmusica.com

Mineral and spontaneous – galvanizing energy;
The evocative power of sound, its language, its elegance …
The Varèse quartet devotes its talents to the service of the large repertoire of the string quartet. Having received the inheritance of great masters of his discipline and with his experience of the scene, the quartet has acquired real recognition across borders by distinguishing itself in the biggest international quartet competitions.

In June 2014, the Varèse quartet received the 3rd prize in the Paolo Borciani competition from Reggio Emilia as well as the special prize for the interpretation of a contemporary work, welcoming its performance in « Arcadiana » by Thomas Adès.
In February 2014, the quartet obtained the 2nd prize in the Mozart International Competition in Salzburg as well as the Special Prize rewarding the best interpretation of a work by W.A. Mozart.
The whole also received many distinctions in particular in 2012, where he brilliantly won the 1st prize of the Hans Schaeuble Foundation competition in Zurich, the 3rd Prize of the Franz Schubert competition and the music of modernity in Graz (Austria), And the youth talent 2012 prize in Paris. He was assigned the Grand Prix of the Ravel Academy in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 2011 as well as the special string quartet prize at the Ensemble Music Competition in Paris. In 2009, he obtained the 2nd Adami Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Lyon and the Lions Rotary Prize.

Founded in 2006 at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, the Verèse Quartet received the councils of the Quartuors Debussy, Ravel and Danel. He then continued his journey with the ysaÿe quartet and benefited from Proquarte-Cemc and NSKA from privileged contact with renowned musicians such as Heime Müller, Petr Prause, Stefan Metz, Rainer Schmidt and Natalia Procchepenko. More recently, the quartet was perfected with Miguel Da Silva in Geneva. The Instituto Internacional de Música de Cámara de Madrid grants him in 2013 a scholarship to follow the master-classes of Günter Pichler, the first violin of the Alban Berg Quartet.

The quartet performs on many scenes in France and abroad: Staatsbibliothek, Berlin (Germany); Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium); Centro Cultural Caja España-Duero, León (Spain); Algerian national theater, Palais de la Culture, Algiers (Algeria); Caliara Hall, Kilkenny (Ireland); Palazzeto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy); Tokyo, Iwaki (Japan); Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht (Netherlands); Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Quebec); Soubise hotel, Paris …

He is also regularly invited to Stéphane Goldet’s shows, Frédéric Lodéon, Gaëlle Le Gallic, Jean-Pierre Derrien and Arnaud Laporte, broadcast on Radio France and France Musique.

The Varèse quartet is supported by the Banque Populaire Foundation.
The TRAIN-CAMARD Lutherie workshop generously provides a music room for its rehearsals.
The quartet also benefits from the support of the Zilber association which lends it a violin of Giuseppe Peluzzi.
Since September 2016, the quartet has been together in residence at the University of Lyon 1.

Photo by David Levenson

Program :

Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude BMV/639 « Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ »

Brahms Three Intermezzos Op. 117

Haydn Sonata in E Flat Hob. XVI/49

Pause

Chopin     Prelude in C Sharp Minor Op. 45

Nocturne in E Flat Op. 9 No. 2

Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Op. 47

Polonaise-Fantasy in A Flat Op. 61

Scherzo No. 3 in C Sharp Minor Op. 39

Viv McLean

Described by Le Monde as « possessing the genius one finds in those who know how to forget themselves », since winning First Prize at the Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona, British pianist Viv McLean has performed in all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. Viv’s concerto work includes appearances with the RPO, Philharmonia Orchestra, LPO, Halle Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra of St John’s, Northern Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of such conductors as Daniel Harding, John Wilson, Wayne Marshall, John Lubbock, Philip Hesketh, Christopher Warren-Green, Owain Arwell Hughes, Carl Davis, Rebecca Miller, Chloe Van Soeterstede and Marvin Hamlisch.

Viv plays regularly with the Adderbury Ensemble and has also performed with other leading chamber groups such as the Ysaye String Quartet, the Sacconi String Quartet, members of the Elias, Allegri, Carducci, Tippett String Quartets, Leonore Piano Trio, Ensemble 360 and the Leopold String Trio. He has collaborated with musicians such as Natalie Clein, Marianne Thorsen, Daniel Hope, Adrian Brendel, Lawrence Power, Mary Bevan, David Le Page, Guy Johnston and many others. He has performed at numerous festivals including the Cheltenham International Festival, Buxton Festival, Music in the Round Festival, Glossop Festival and Harrogate International Festival in the UK, the International Beethoven Festival, the Mecklenburg Festival and the Kultur Kreis Festival in Germany, the Festival International de Musique Classique d’Aigues-Mortes, the Melle Festival and Festival de Saintes in France, the Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden in Norway and the Musik vid Kattegatt Festival in Sweden.

Viv studied from an early age with Ruth Nye and, after attending Chetham’s School of Music, he went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne. Whilst studying at the Academy he was the winner of the piano competition at the Royal Overseas-League Music Competition, was selected as one of the winners of the National Federation of Music Societies’ Young Artists Competition and made his Wigmore Hall debut through winning the RAM Wigmore Award.

Viv made his BBC Radio 3 recital debut through the BBC Radio 3 Young Artists Forum scheme and has also recorded for Classic FM, WDR Radio in Germany, Radio France, ABC Radio in Australia, NRK Radio in Norway and for the Sky Arts television channel. His commercial releases have included recordings for Sony, Chandos, Signum Classics, Naxos, Nimbus, Lyrita, RPO Records, ICSM Records and his most recent albums are a Chopin recital and a selection of live recordings for Stone Records.