Program concert :
1ere partie ( 33 minutes)
– A. Dvorak, Trio avec piano « Dumky » op.90 en mi mineur
2eme partie ( 40 minutes)
– S. Rachmaninov, Trio Elegiaque nº1 en Sol mineur ( 15 minutes)
– J. Brahms, Trio avec piano nº2 op.87 en Do majeur ( 25 minutes)
LUMINESCENCE trio
The Luminescence Trio is a young French trio founded in 2020 by Raphaël Garac (violin) and Albert Kuchinski (cello), joined in 2024 by Sophie Bouchea (piano). All three are Master’s students at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), the trio obtained a chamber music license (with first class honors) in Claire Désert’s class. They are currently perfecting their skills in the Trio Wanderer class as part of the concert cycle of the CRR de Paris.
The trio recently participated in the Vienna/Grafenegg session of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) where they benefited from the teaching of teachers such as Johannes Meissl, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, and Hatto Beyerle. They also had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with renowned artists such as Romain Descharmes and Marc Coppey.
The Luminescence Trio performs regularly in France but also in cities such as Belgrade, Budapest, Ljubjana and Vienna. They recently performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto several times with the Chatillon Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Stanislas Kuchinski. From August 17 to 27, 2023, as part of the “Chaise Dieu Generation”, the trio will benefit from a residency at the Chaise Dieu Festival as well as numerous concerts, including one at the Auditorium Cziffra where they will have the honor to perform with violinist Pierre Fouchenneret and violist Lise Berthaud.
The Luminescence Trio often works on period instruments to develop its imagination and construct historically informed interpretations. Thus, Raphaël devotes his Master’s thesis to the interpretation of J. Haydn’s piano trios on period instruments under the direction of Stéphanie-Marie Degand.
The Trio has been selected to participate in the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2023.
Raphaël GARAC was born in Paris into a family of musicians.
He started playing the violin at the age of three alongside his mother and trained with Lucie Bessière, Thierry Huchin, Carole Saint-Michel, Suzanne Gessner and Alexandre Brussilovsky.
In 2019, he unanimously won First Prize at the Vatelot-Rampal Competition and brilliantly entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Olivier Charlier’s class. He obtained his bachelor’s degree (DNSPM) with Honors in 2022 and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the same institution.
Raphaël is selected to participate in prestigious academies, notably the Académie Musicale de Villecroze where he benefits from the teaching of Tedi Papavrami.
Since 2022, François Salque has regularly invited him to play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a soloist alongside Manon Galy (Musicales de la Vallée aux Loups, Music Festival in Saint-Maur and Saint-Mandé). He also participated in the Cellofan festivals in Callian, Plage musicale in Belle-lle-enmer and the Festival des Forêts.
He plays regularly in Victor Julien-Laferrière’s Consuelo orchestra.
Raphaël was concertmaster of the Paris Conservatory orchestra to perform, among other things, Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night under the direction of Marc Coppey and to accompany the great pianist François Frédéric-Guy.
He is a member of the Luminescence Trio with whom he obtained a Chamber Music Degree with Honors at the CNSM in Paris in Claire Désert’s class. The trio is currently being taught by the Wanderer Trio in the Concert Cycle at the CRR in Paris and has performed in several countries (France, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Norway, etc.) and had the chance to play the Triple Concerto as a soloist. by Beethoven in December 2021 in Chatillon.
Born in 2002 in Paris, Albert Kuchinski began playing the cello at the age of 6. He studied with Thomas Duran before joining the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) where he is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Marc Coppey’s class.
He meets and receives advice from many renowned musicians such as cellists François Salque, Philippe Muller, Louis Rodde and Lluis Claret during masterclasses and participates in several festivals in France and around the world (Festival Présence de Radio France 2022, Festival de la Chaise God 2023, Trondheim International Festival 2023, Ensemble Festival 2023…).
A versatile and curious musician, Albert Kuchinski plays in various groups ranging from small ensembles to symphony orchestras, from early music to musical creation. He joins the academy of the Paris Chamber Orchestra for the 2023-2024 season, he regularly collaborates with young composers and plays the works of important personalities of the contemporary musical world such as Tristan Murail, Frederic Durieux, Gerard Pesson, Philippe Manoury, Unsuk Chin or Steve
Reich both as a soloist and as an ensemble.
Throughout 2022-2023, he is also carrying out research and interpretation work on the Sequenza XIV by the Italian composer Luciano Berio for solo cello, a major work in the cello repertoire, completed in 2002, pushing the limits of the instrument, mixing avant-garde and traditional music from Sri Lanka. Albert is making a recording of this piece in March 2023 and plans to design his master’s thesis around this subject by 2025.
Also passionate about the chamber music repertoire, Albert Kuchinski created in 2020 alongside the violinist Raphaël Garac and the pianist Antonin Bonnet the Trio Luminescence, which is admitted to the class of the Trio Wanderer, but which is also invited as an ensemble in residency at the Festival de la Chaise Dieu in 2023, which allows them to play alongside violinist Pierre Fouchenneret, violist Lise Berthaud and pianist Romain Descharmes. The Trio is regularly invited to musical and cultural events.
Albert Kuchinski performs as a soloist with orchestra with his trio (Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in 2021) or solo (Lalo’s Cello Concerto, Fauré’s Elégie, first movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto). He plays a Damien Rosenstiel cello completed in 2022.
Albert Kuchinski is invited by the Paris Chamber Orchestra to play as a soloist in January 2024 a creation by Augusta Read-Thomas for bass-baritone, cello and orchestra, alongside baritone Laurent Naouri, as well as Fauré’s Elegy. Two concerts are scheduled in the large hall of the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Sophie Boucheau started playing the piano at the age of 3. She studied at the CRR in Versailles in Michaël Guido’s class and obtained her DEM with honors. At the age of 18, she then unanimously entered the CNSM in Paris with Marie-Josèphe Jude, where she is currently in the third year of her degree.
At the same time, she is passionate about chamber music and forms a duo with the violinist Eve Gillieron, who will enter a Chamber Music Degree at the CNSM in Paris in 2023 with Haruko Ueda and Jean Sulem. She also joined the Trio Luminescence in 2024, currently in the Concertist Cycle in the Trio Wanderer class at the CRR in Paris. Sophie has participated in numerous masterclasses and was able to benefit from the advice of Jean François Heisser, François Dumont, Jonas Vitaud, Sébastien Vichard, Clément Lefebvre, Zhu Xiao Mei, Pierre-Yves Hodique…
In 2019, Sophie won 1st prize unanimously from the jury at the Versailles Interpretation Competition. In 2024, she won 2nd prize in the Piano Campus competition as well as three special prizes (Pontoise Baroque Festival prize, Classica prize and prize for the best interpretation of the competition’s performance).
She performed in concert at the age of 10 at the Silk Road Festival in Xi’an (China) and at the Philharmonie de Paris as part of the 101 pianists concert. More recently, she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Trianon in Versailles, the Guimet Museum, the Museum of Romantic Life, the Temple du Luxembourg, the Théâtre des Louvrais in Pontoise, the CRR in Paris and Versailles, at the China Cultural Center in Paris but also in Belgium (University of Louvain) and in Italy (Chamois Festival).
Guillem VEGA GONZALES
Guillem began studying the cello at the age of seven at the professional conservatory in Catarroja (Valencia), Spain. He continued at the same conservatory until he obtained his professional studies diploma with unanimous congratulations from the jury in 2019. He was then admitted to the Conservatorio Real Superior de Música de Madrid in the class of Fernando Arias, where he was unanimously awarded 1st prize for cello. He has been admitted to the CNSMDP for the start of the 2020 academic year.
At the same time, he trained with Adrian Van Dongen, and since 2016 with Maria de Macedo in Madrid. Since 2017, he has been working regularly with Marc Coppey and Lluís Claret at the Fundaçao Franz Schubert (Oporto, Portugal).
Guillem has participated́ in several international academies and master classes with Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Claudio Bohorquez, Philippe Müller, Sung-Won Yang, Jeroen Reuling, Adrian Brendel and José E. Bouché, among others. Since 2017, he has won several national and international prizes: the most recent is the 2019 Victoria y Joaquin Rodrigo Foundation Prize.
His three favourite composers
Bach, Schubert, Schumann
His musical project
At the moment, I’m working on mastering my instrument and discovering the whole repertoire, for solo cello, chamber music and orchestra.
An outstanding musical memory
His first course abroad with the cellist Lluís Claret in the magnificent setting of Fontfroide Abbey. He was 12 at the time. At the end of the session, all the participants and their teacher played Pablo Casals’ “Song of the Birds” together… a truly magical and touching moment that made him decide to become a cellist.
What the cello has changed for him
“This beautiful instrument allows me to discover a whole new variety of colours and timbres that were previously inaccessible to me. It responds magnificently, and the more time passes, the more comfortable I feel with it. It gives me the chance to explore different sounds and expand my expressive resources, to overcome instrumental difficulties and grow artistically. I can tackle any kind of repertoire. Whether in a large or small hall, the sound travels, projects, and the timbre becomes
Honoka KOBAYASHI, Piano
Originally from Japan, Honoka Kobayashi is a solo pianist, chamber musician, accompanist and vocal leader.
She studies at the Tokyo Conservatory (Tokyo College of Music) in Solo Piano and Master in Piano Accompaniment.
She then continued her studies at the CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) in piano accompaniment, chamber music and vocal direction classes. She has the opportunity to study with Jennifer Fichet, Guillaume Sigier, Claire Désert, Érika Guiomar, Nathalie Dang, Jean-Fréderic Neuburger and Yumi Otsu.
She also perfected her skills at the HEM in Geneva with Louis Schwizgebel in Master piano concert.
As a solo pianist, she won numerous awards in Japan, such as the Grand Prize of the Asian International Music Competition, the Grand Prize of the Tateshina International Music Competition and the second prize of the Osaka International Music Competition.
Also as a chamber musician, she won the Grand Prix with the unanimity of 17 juries as well as five other prizes at the International Melody Competition in Gordes (France) in 2022. She will also participate in the Aix-en-Provence festival as as singing director as part of the Voix 2024 residency.
She also supports internships, masterclasses, international competitions, in France and abroad.
She taught as an accompanist pianist at the Pôle supérieur d’enseignement artistic and at the CRR (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional) in Boulogne-Billancourt in 2022-2023.
Biography of Delphine Bardin
Born in Tours, Delphine Bardin began studying the piano at the age of five. After being a student of Paule Grimaldi then of Marie-Claude Equoy, she entered the CNSM in Paris where she obtained four First Prizes: Piano, Chamber music, Vocal accompaniment, Piano accompaniment, in the classes of Théodore Paraschivesco, Christian Ivaldi , Anne Grappotte and Jean Koerner.
Continuing her studies in an advanced cycle, she benefited from the advice of Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Winner of the Yvonne Lefébure scholarship at the Orléans International Competition (20th century piano), then of the Natexis Banque Populaire Foundation, in 1997 she won the Clara Haskil Prize in Vevey, Switzerland.
Alongside her activities as a soloist or chamber musician, Delphine Bardin has worked since 2013 on the innovative Pro Musicis project in the field of musical initiation and artistic expression for children with disabilities, through “Children’s” classes. by Bach”
Since 2022, Delphine Bardin has taught at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
His discography includes several titles: -Mozart-Schumann with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Jesus Lopez Cobos (Claves 1998);
-Sung tunes, French and Canadian melodies with soprano Hélène Guilmette (Ambroisie 2008)
-Fauré, the Douze Barcarolles (Alpha), Diapason d’Or 2010
-Liszt, works for cello and piano, with cellist Ophélie Gaillard (Aparte 2012)
– Trios by Mendelssohn, with the Pilgrim trio (Triton 2014)
-Brahms with cellist Béatrice Reibel-Petit (Proclam’Art 2019)
-Chabrier-Séverac piano solo (Galaxie Y, Cabinet of curiosities collection, June 2024)