Program :

Béla Bartók : Six Danses populaires roumaines

Robert Lindley : Caprice op. 15 pour violoncelle solo

Maurice Ravel  : Sonate pour violon et violoncelle M73

Eugène Ysaÿe : Sonate pour violon solo (extrait)

Astor Piazzolla : Cinq Tangos pour violon et violoncelle

Haëndel/Halvorsen : Passacaille en sol min pour violon et violoncelle

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.