Program :
François Borne (1840-1920) Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) Le Barbier de Séville pour deux flûtes
Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) Fantaisie sur Le Freischütz
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) / Jean-Christophe Maltot (1978-)
Fantaisie sur Madame Butterfly pour deux flûtes et piano
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky (1840-1893) (arr. Mihi Kim)
« Aria de Lenski » (extrait d’Eugène Onéguine)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) / Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
La mort d’Isolde pour piano
Léo Delibes (1836-1891) / Jean-Christophe Maltot (1978-)
Fantaisie sur Lakmé pour deux flûtes et piano
Mihi Kim, flute
Born in Korea, Mihi Kim began studying the flute at a young age. She was noticed at ten years old by Alain Marion and she traveled to Europe to continue her studies with him, as well as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Andras Adorjan, Aurèle Nicolet, Paul Meisen and Pierre-Yves Artaud at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. , at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich (Master), and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Doctorate) where she also obtained the Certificate of Aptitude (CA) as a national teacher for his instrument, followed by the recent distinction of Professor of Artistic Education (PEA) Hors Classe (tenure).
His distinctions in international competitions include prizes at the Bayreuth International Music Competition and the Jean-Pierre Rampal International Flute Competition in Paris. Ms. Kim continues her career as an international soloist in Europe, America (North and South) and Asia, and regularly gives masterclasses in France and abroad. She is currently a professor at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot for the flute and holds a professorship at the Conservatoire National (CRD) of Issy-Vanves in the Paris region.
An explorer of musical genres, she moved from a fervent interest in contemporary music to a passion for jazz. Cultivating her roots, her connection to Korea continues to shape her artistic journey, fostering a strong affiliation with the Hallyu (Korean Wave) movement. In this context, she remains actively engaged in the development of innovative concepts in performance and teaching.
Mihi Kim has been an international Miyazawa artist since 2003, playing a solid 900/000 platinum flute, and proud owner of a brand new Miyazawa CRESTA Platinum flute released in 2022 (unique piece).
Jennifer Fichet, piano
An enthusiastic pioneer of numerous repertoires, Jennifer Fichet seeks to serve music with depth and integrity.
Alongside the piano, she obtained her first prizes at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) in Lille in accompaniment, chamber music, analysis, writing, musical culture, harpsichord and early music. She continued at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in piano, chamber music, accompaniment and analysis.
Winner of national competitions as well as the international Chopin competitions in Brest and Mérignac, she was selected in 2005 by Kun Woo-Paik to close the Dinard Young Talent Festival.
She performs regularly in France or abroad (Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Nigeria, Türkiye, etc.).
A chamber musician of choice, she has performed with the most prestigious French and foreign partners. With choir or orchestra, she has notably played under the direction of Lionel Sow, Mark Foster, Philippe Caillard and Ricardo Muti and collaborated with numerous composers, willingly creating their works.
After a brilliant career as an accompanist, she currently devotes herself to teaching piano at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental (CRD) in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Furthermore, she has worked with the cinematographic world as a coach and pianist for various films including At the End of Fingers by Ludovic Bernard.
A disc of music with clarinet by Johannes Brahms recorded with Jean-Marc Fessard and Diana Ligeti will soon be released under the Soond label, and his first solo album dedicated to the composer Amy Beach has just been published under the Hortus label.
Laëtitia Brault, flute
A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) in Paris in the flute class of Philippe Bernold and holder of the Certificate of Aptitude, the French Laëtitia Brault leads a triple career.
After ten years spent in Belgium, as co-solo flautist of the Royal Opera of Wallonia-Liège, during which she shared the stage with world-renowned singers such as Jodie Devos, Marc Laho, Lionel Lhote and even the American diva Nadine Sierra, Laëtitia Brault now teaches flute at the Argenteuil Conservatory and gives masterclasses.
While continuing her various collaborations within orchestras such as the Royal Opera-Ballet Vlaanderen and the Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg, she founded and directs a new publishing house, the Rencontre Littéraire du Flûtiste whose editorial activity focuses on the works of her husband, the flautist and arranger Jean-Christophe Maltot. Together, they arrange, compose, write the prefaces, produce and perform in concert numerous fantasies on operas, which have also won various international prizes, allowing them to acquire international recognition. In 2022, the Fantasy on Tosca was awarded a Golden Prize in the composition category as well as a Grand Prize at the World Classical Music Awards in London, while the Paraphrase on Eugene Onegin, the Fantasy on Lakmé and the Fantasy on La Bohème were distinguished during the 2023 and 2024 editions of the Newly Published Competition (National Flute Association, USA). La Fantaisie sur La Bohème was also chosen as the 2024 competition piece at the CNSM in Lyon.
The specialized press (La Traversière Magazine, Nederlands Fluit Genootschap, Flute Space) regularly devotes articles and interviews to these two artists whose fantasies have already won the hearts of famous flautists: Julien Beaudiment, Hélène Boulègue, Joséphine Olech, Mihi Kim or Nicole Esposito again…
Invitation à l’Opéra
- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) / J.Ch. Maltot (1978-)
Fantaisie sur Madame Butterfly pour 2 flûtes et piano
- Paul Taffanel (1844-1908)
Grande fantaisie sur Mignon
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Le barbier de Séville pour 2 flûtes
- I. Tchaïkovski (1840-1893) / arr. Mihi Kim
Aria de Lenski (Eugène Oneguine)
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) / Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
La mort d’Isolde pour piano
Pause
- Christophe Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Orphée et Eurydice : Scène des Champs Élysées pour flûte et piano
- Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Ouverture de la Chauve-Souris pour piano seul
- Paul Taffanel (1844-1908)
Fantaisie sur Le Freischütz
- Léo Delibes (1836-1891) / J.Ch. Maltot (1978-)
Fantaisie sur Lakmé pour 2 flûtes et piano
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Selection de West Side Story*
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
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Allegro non troppo
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Allegretto
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Andante con moto
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Gracioso, poco allegro
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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.