Programme

Debussy – Nuit d’étoiles, C’est l’extase

Debussy – Clair de lune (piano solo)

Schubert – Nacht und Traume, Erlkonig

Schumann – Fabel, Traumes Wirren (piano solo)

Bellini – Casta Diva

Chopin – Nocturne opus 27 n. 1 (piano solo)

Verdi – Air d’Ernani

Liszt – Rêve d’amour (piano solo)

Dvorak – Air de Russalka

Entracte

Moussorgsky – Rêve (piano solo)

De Falla – Nana

Granados – Berceuse (piano solo)

Sibelius – Chant du soir (piano solo)

Grieg – Il était une fois (piano solo)

Poulenc – Le Sommeil, la Reine de cœur

Poulenc – Nocturne n. 7 (piano solo)

Satie – Le Feu d’artifice (piano solo)

Fauré – Après un rêve

Valentine Martinez

Endowed with a unique sense of interpretation, Valentine participates ardently in the evolution of the lyrical art. She is also supported by the Générations SPEDIDAM.

In the space of a year, Valentine Martinez, Soprano, trained at the CNSMDP, is noticed following the International Competition of Mâcon which she won in 2016; her numerous prizes at the International Competitions of Béziers, Bordeaux, UPMCF as well as her year as a laureate of the Academy of the Opéra-Comique. She is also a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont since 2018.

Among other roles, from Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohême to Rosalinde in Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, via Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and Glück’s Iphigénie en Tauride, she has been invited to work with great names in the opera world such as Minkowski, Campellone, Masmondet, Chauvin, Mantovani, Deschamps, Alexandre, Fau, Borie, Vittoz…
Her passion for the stage and her desire to mix genres led her to found the Compagnie Grand Ec’Art in 2011, for which she has written and directed several shows that have met with great success, including Le Syndrome de Blanche Neige (2017) and En voix! (Creation 2019). She is currently directing her new project: La Valse de l’Hippocampe.

This year, Valentine will be Petergirl in Reims in November 2020 in Offenbach’s Monsieur Chouffleuri, she will also perform the role of Prince Caprice in Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune at the Calais Opera in March 2021. She will take up the sublime choreographic show by Clémence Camus: D’Ame(s) de cœur on tour from January. She is also invited by the puppeteer Lucile Beaune for the original creation of EXIsTENCEs which will be developed throughout this year.

French pianist and winner of the Long-Thibaud competition in 2007 and finalist of the Chopin competition on historical instruments in 2018, Antoine de Grolée was born in Picardy and started playing the piano at the age of 6, thanks to a musician grandmother.

He began his musical career at the National School of Music in Saint-Quentin with the Polish pianist Irène Kutin, whose advice he continues to receive. At the age of 17, he entered the CNSMD of Lyon in the class of Pierre Pontier, assisted by Marie-Paule Aboulker and Svetlana Eganian. In 2005, he obtained the Diplôme national d’études supérieures musicales with the congratulations of the jury. He then worked with the pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Boris Petrushansky at the Piano Academy of Imola (Italy). He also attended Isabelle Duha’s keyboard harmony classes.

He has received advice from great pianists and teachers such as Zoltan Kocsis, Anne Queffélec, Evgueni Moguilevski, Thérèse Dussaut, Laurent Cabasso, Sergio Perticaroli, Tuija Hakkila, Billy Eidi and Christine Marchais-Sieffert. In chamber music, he has had the opportunity to be taught by Valentin Erben, Paul Katz, Miguel Da Silva, Claire Désert, Christian Ivaldi, Emmanuel Strosser, Olivier Charlier, Louis Fima, Régis Pasquier, the members of the Trio Wanderer and the Quatuor Ysaÿe… He has also been part of the ensembles in residence at La Roque d’Anthéron.

In 2018, he was a finalist in the Warsaw Chopin Competition, which featured historical pianos for the first time. Previously, he won the 5th Prize of the Long-Thibaud International Competition in 2007, as well as the 1st Prizes of the Teresa Llacuna Competition in 2005 and Flame Competition in 2000. He is a laureate of the Fondation d’entreprise Groupe Banque Populaire, of the Fondation Charles Oulmont and of the international ProMusicis prize in chamber music.

For several years, he has been invited to numerous festivals: La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle journée de Nantes, the Festival des Arcs, Classique au Vert, Prima la Musica in Vincennes, Chopin in Bagatelle, Festival de Menton, les Moments musicaux de Gerberoy, les Musicales de Croissy, les Vacances de M. Haydn in La Roche-Posay, les Inouïes, Festival Couperin in Champs-sur-Marne, les Heures Musicales du Haut-Anjou, Festival du Haut-Limousin, Piano à Riom, Festival de Sagonne, La Charité-sur-Loire, Piano en Saintonge, les Rencontres musicales de Noyers-sur-Serein, the Salon de Musique de Franche-Comté, the Festival de Richelieu, the Moments musicaux de Chalosse, the Pianos Folies du Touquet, Eclats de Voix in Auch, the Festival international de musique de chambre en Poitou, Tarbes en Tango, Places aux artistes in Albi, 1,2,3 Musique in Talence…

He has given recitals and chamber music concerts in Paris (Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Fondation Singer-Polignac, Hôtel de Soubise, Temple St Marcel…), Lyon (Salle Rameau, Salle Molière, Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra…), at the Auditorium St. Germain, in Paris and in the Paris region. ), at the Auditorium St-Pierre-des Cuisines in Toulouse, at the Auditorium du Grand Cahors, at the Grande Scène du Chesnay, at the Ferme de Villefavard, at the Carré Lamartine in Amiens, at the Theatres of Colmar, Saint Quentin, Arras, Besançon, Dole, Quimper, Néris-les-Bains, Valence…

He has also played at the Sofia and Vilnius Philharmonic, in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Rome (Teatro Marcello), London (Austrian Cultural Centre), in Moscow (Great War Museum), in Albania (Different Trains Festival), in Morocco (Institut Français de Rabat, Printemps des Alizés in Essaouira, Musicales d’Agadir… ), Spain (Prince of Asturias Festival), Moldavia (Chisinau Piano Nights), Austria, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Argentina…

Passionate about chamber music, his partners have included Svetlin Roussev, Tedi Papavrami, Eléonore Darmon, Michel Dalberto, François Salque, Hildegarde Fesneau, David Guerrier, Ayako Tanaka, Julie Sévilla-Fraysse, Pierre Fouchenneret, Laurent Cabasso, Léo Marillier, Irène Duval, Alexis Galpérine, Amaury Coeytaux, Lise Berthaud, Florent Charpentier, Hélène Clément, Virgil Boutellis, Guillaume Chilemme, Xavier Gagnepain, Julien Beaudiment, Elsa Grether, Saténik Khourdoian, the Joachim, Elysée, Varèse, Akilone, and Girard quartets.

He has performed as a soloist with various ensembles including the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms’ Concerto No. 2, the Moldavian Chamber Orchestra, the Warsaw Opera Orchestra, the Lyon Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as with the Orchestre National de France during the Long-Thibaud Competition.

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