Professors
Roustem Saitkoulov
PIANO
Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne
Born in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Roustem Saitkoulov settled in France in 1994.
He has won numerous major international prizes, including the Rome Competition and the Monte-Carlo Piano Masters.
He has played in the world's greatest concert halls: Pleyel, the Théâtre du Châtelet and Philharmonie in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Philharmonie in Saint Petersburg, the Metropolitan Art Space and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Sydney Opera House, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, as well as at the festivals of Bologna, Rimini, Merano, Montreux, La Roque d'Anthéron, Toulouse, Montpellier and Edinburgh.
Roustem Saikoulov has performed with major orchestras: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the RAI Orchestra of Turin, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Municipal Orchestra of São Paulo, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo New City Orchestra. He has toured Europe and Asia several times with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov.
Roustem Saitkoulov has recorded numerous CDs, both recitals and with orchestras. Since 2020 he has been recording for the label Ad Vitam Records. His recent recording of Frédéric Chopin's Ballades has earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the ‘Choc’ from Classica magazine.
For over 20 years, Roustem Saitkoulov has regularly given masterclasses throughout Europe, notably at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Rolle, Switzerland, the London Performing Academy of Music in the United Kingdom, and in Tokyo, Japan.
In September 2024, Roustem Saitkoulov was appointed professor of piano at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne.
Paola Tumeo
VIOLIN
Paola Tumeo was born in Morocco, where she began her musical studies at the age of five. She moved to Italy in 1973 and graduated with honors in violin in 1983 at the N. Paganini Conservatoire in Genoa under the guide of the famous soloist Prof. Renato De Barbieri, while at the same time attending the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg.
She has attended courses at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Franco Gulli gaining a diploma of merit, and for chamber music has studied with Dario De Rosa of the Trio di Trieste and Salvatore Accardo.
Paola Tumeo has won numerous first prizes in both national and international violin competitions (Vittorio Veneto Rassegna 1975 - second prize- 1977 & 1978 – first prize; Pescara 1977; Mozarteum Akademie Competition 1981; M.Abbado 1984) and as principal player in the orchestras of the Arena di Verona, Comunale dell’Opera di Genova and Teatro alla Scala.
In 1984 Paola Tumeo was chosen to represent Italy in Claudio Abbado’s ECYO, European Community Youth Orchestra, with Leonard Bernstein as guest conductor.
In 1985, in piano and violin Duo with Marco Rapetti she won the RAI (Italian Radio & Television Corporation) Chamber Music Competition held to celebrate the European Year for Music, that was followed by a series of acclaimed recordings for the Italian company Fonit-Cetra in 1987: the complete works for duo to celebrate the anniversary of Maurice Ravel and also the sonatas of Cesar Franck and Gabriel Faure' op.13.
From 1987 to 1991 she was Principal Player with the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra in Milan, where she was chosen by M° Riccardo Muti, and since 1988 in the same capacity she has played in Filarmonica della Scala with Muti, Giulini, Morricone, Sawallisch, Ozawa, Mehta, Maazel, Chung, Gergiev, Bob McFerrin, Tan Dun and Dudamel; in 2004 under Riccardo Muti in several occasions amongst others at Bosra in Syria for the ‘Vie dell’Amicizia’ concerts organised by Ravenna Festival and in the Far East at Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Goyang Concert Hall (Taipei), Dewan Filarmonik Petronas (Kuala Lumpur); in 2006 on a tour in the United Kingdom with Riccardo Chailly; in 2008 and 2009 she made several tours both in chamber ensembles and as guest co-leader of the Filarmonica della Scala with Daniel Barenboim, Myung-Whun Chung and Daniele Gatti in France, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Poland and Norway.
Paola Tumeo is one of the few soloists in the world invited to play Niccolo' Paganini’s world famous Guarneri del Gesu' violin, known as ‘Il Cannone’ (European Gold medal for performance, art and culture 1989; Christopher Columbus Celebrations 1992 and the Renato De Barbieri commemorative concerts in 1993 and in 2001 in Trento).
Paola Tumeo has performed both in violin and piano duo and as soloist or guest of top orchestras in famous venues such as: Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Yubinchokin NHK television Hiroshima (Peace Concert 1985); Auditorium Foro Italico in Rome; Royal Albert Hall, London; Kunsthaus Luzern; Salle Pleyel, Paris; Musikverein & Staatsoper, Vienna; Teatro Piccolo Regio & Auditorium del Lingotto, Turin; Teatro San Carlo, Naples; Tivoli Theatre, Copenhaghen; Sportshall, Athens; Waldbuhne, Berlin; Palazzo Labia in Venice; Auditorium NRK Oslo; Ciaikovski Hall, Moscow; Expo Auditorium, Seville; Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels; Palais des Congrés, Montreux; Megaron e Erode Atticus, Atene; Palazzo Nazionale Cultura, Sofia; Parco della Musica a Roma, Teatro Greco, Taormina, Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Bridwater Hall, Manchester; St. David's Hall, Cardiff; Philarmonie Lussemburgo; Teatro Wielki, Varsavia; Lufit Kirdar Convention Centre, Istanbul; Thessaloniki, Megaron; Theatre Paris Chatelet et Champs Elysées, Paris; Opera House, Vilnius; National Concert Hall, Dublino; Teatro Bolshoi, Mosca; Teatro Mariinsky, S.Pietroburgo.
She has made radio and TV recordings with RAI, ORF (Austria), NHK (Japan), NRK (Norway).
Paola Tumeo was awarded the Liguria Region prize ‘Promessa del Concertismo’ 1977 and the Prize ‘Vivere Donna’ of the Municipality of Genoa in 1985.
Alongside her activity as a soloist and Guest co-Concermaster at Filarmonica della Scala , she holds Master Classes and advanced courses in Italy and abroad (Conservatoire de Musique J.P.Rameau, Paris; Accademia di Perfezionamento del Teatro alla Scala etc…) Since 1984 Paola is professor at the Violin Faculty of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Turin. Since 2010 she is regularly invited to hold Master Classes in Tokio and in Yokohama.
In 2013 Paola Tumeo becomes a Faculty Member of the Cremona International Music Academy and Competition; the Academy includes many world-wide most renowned teachers.
In 2019 she was invited to hold two Masterclasses in the USA, Longy School of Music, Boston Cambridge, and Andover Phillips Academy. In 2023 she was invited by the Académie du Royaume du Maroc - her native country - to collaborate with the EIMD (Ecole Internationale de Musique et Danse) for lessons and Masterclasses as part of the Mazaya program for the education of young people from rural areas.
In 2024 she was member of the Jury of the International Violin Competition, organized by Orchestre Philarmonique du Maroc and held in the theatres Mohammed V in Rabat and Mohammed VI in Casablanca.
Her very active performance career as soloist and in chamber music went along with a passion for teaching which has now received equivalent high-level endorsement to that of her playing. Several students of her achieved considerable international success in Europe, Asia and America, which makes her in much demand world-wide for Masterclasses and as a Member in International Juries.
Paola Tumeo plays a Montanari violin of 1988 and a Yamaha Artida 500S violin, of which she became testimonial in 2012, following the Concertmaster of the Wiener Philarmoniker Rainer Kuchl.
More information can be found on her website.
Virginie Robilliard
VIOLIN
Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne
A brilliant winner at the age of 17 of the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition and the Indianapolis International Competition in 1990, Virginie Robilliard pursued an international solo career from a very young age, which led her to perform with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra , the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra, the National de Lyon, le Capitole de Toulouse, l'orchestre Simon Bolivar , le philarmonique de Bogota, l'orchestre symphonique d'Indianapolis...sous la direction de Yuri Temirkanov, Raymond Leppard, Sergiu Comissiona, Pierre Dervaux, Stanislaw Skrowaczewsky, Yutaka Sado, François Xavier Roth, Emmanuel Krivine, Fabio Mechetti among others.
At the age of 19, she made her debut in New York in Bartòk's 2nd concerto at Avery Fisher Hall, a concert unanimously recognised by The New York Times. Her interest in the music of this century has enabled her to create works dedicated to her, notably by Paul Desenne. (a sonata for solo violin and a concerto for violin and chamber orchestra) and by her brother Bruno Robilliard (Obsession for violin and piano).
Born into a family of musicians, she gave her first concert at the age of 5. At the age of 17, she was unanimously awarded first prize with honours by the jury at the CNSM in Lyon in Jacques Ghestem's class. She also graduated in 1993 from the famous Juilliard School in New York in the class of Dorothy DeLay. Her first teacher was Huguette Lombard at the CNR in Lyon. Virginie Robilliard, passionate about teaching, created a violin school in 2000 with the support of Elizabeth Marechal and the Mozarteum Foundation in Venezuela, where she lived for 10 years.
She is currently a professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne HEMU and actively participates in the Online Master-Classes with I-Classical Academy. Virginie Robilliard has recorded the trios of Brahms and Dvorak with Hungaroton alongside Peter Szabo and Frédéric-Vaysse-Knitter. With her brother Bruno Robilliard she presents the sonatas of Franck, Debussy and Fauré published by Hortus.
Virginie Robilliard regularly plays in a trio with David Louwerse and François Daudet. A complete musician, she is also passionate about improvisation and traditional music, hence the creation of ‘Choc et Fusion’ for violin and African percussion. This unique duo with the exceptional Thomas Guei is particularly close to her heart, creating a connection between cultures so that differences become a strength. Sensitive to injustice and respect for the planet, Virginie Robilliard is committed to giving concerts for humanitarian causes in the hope of creating a better world through her art.
Andrej Bielow
VIOLIN
Born in 1981 in the Ukraine, violinist Andrej Bielow has developed as one of the leading ukrainian - born musicians of his generation. As a soloist and chamber musician he has recorded over 20 CD albums for Naxos, CPO, Avi-Music, Hänssler Classics, Hänssler-Profil, Guttingi, Solo Musica, Genuin, Hyperion and Rakete Media.
As a soloist he collaborated with such renowned orchestras as the New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestra National de Radio France, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic and Münchner Kammerorchester under the baton of established conductors such as Kurt Masur, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gianandrea Noseda, Miguel Gomez-Martinez, Christian Arming, Agnieszka Duzcmal, Junichi Hirokami und Christoph Poppen, Enrique Mazzola, Andrea Sanguineti, Mihkel Kütson, Sebastien Rouland, Volker Schmidt- Gertenbach, to name a few of them.
His repertoire includes over 30 concertos and all the major sonatas. He has recently performed the Korngold Violin Concerto in Konstanz with SWD Philharmonie Konstanz and the Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto at the Ryedale Festival with the orchestra of Opera North under Martin Andre. He gave his first successful London recital at Wigmore Hall in 2009 and performed Malcolm Arnold´s concerto for two violins at Cadogan Hall in October 2012.
He received his first violin lessons at the age of five and in 1993 attended the special music boarding school in Kiev. Having recognized his talent, Prof. Michael Kuznetsov took the eleven-year-old boy into his family and guided his further musical education. Already at an early age, Andrej started to perform at carefully selected concerts in Europe and USA.
At the age of 15, Andrej settled in Germany to study with Prof. Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the University of Music and Drama in Hannover. Further study followed with Gerard Poulet in Paris, Herman Krebbers, Ida Haendel, Silvia Marcovici, Ana Chumachenko and since 2011 Alfred Brendel.
Andrej Bielow won major prizes at the international competitions such as the Long-Thibaut Paris, ARD Munich, Joseph Joachim Hanover , Citta di Brescia, Konzertgesellschaft München and others. Due to his extraordinary talent and musical qualities he was awarded various scholarships from the cultural institutions such as the Ukrainian Culture Foundation, Gundlach Foundation, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Förderpreis of the Lower Saxony.
Andrej Bielow has devoted much of his career to chamber music, of which he is a passionate advocate. He has appeared at the following Festvals: Schleswig-Holstein, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Rheingau, Kuhmo, Young Euro Classic Berlin, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Ryedale, Macau, Lundsgaard Goods, Concertando Roma, Virtuoso & Belcanto and many others.
At the Kronberg Academy he performed with Gidon Kremer, Juri Bashmet and the Beaux Arts Trio. In 2011 he joined Kit Armstrong and Adrian Brendel to form a piano trio. Future projects include a complete cycle of Beethoven and Mozart violin sonatas with Kit Armstrong. He joined the Szymanowski Quartett as leader from 2005 until 2014. More recently he has recorded with the distinguished English pianist Christopher Glynn, with whom a new CD of sonatas written during the first World War will soon be released.
2014- 2018 Andrej joined the violin faculty at the University of Arts in Graz and since 2016 he became Professor of Violin at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. He regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Asia and USA. In 2005, together with jazz-guitarist Johan Weiss, he founded the „MBF“ Foundation (Musik braucht Freunde) which has provided financial support for over 300 needy students at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover. Since 2013, Andrej Bielow has become a regular visiting teacher delivering classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London'.
Andrej plays the G.B. Guadagnini violin build in 1755 as a generous loan from the Gundlach Foundation
Claire Oppert
CELLO
Musica Mundi School (Waterloo, Belgium)
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Born in Paris and a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Claire Oppert is a prize winner of international competitions in France, Italy, Germany and South Africa
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She has performed alongside artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Boris Berezovski, Ilya Grubert, Olivier Charlier, Alexandre Brussilovsky and Brigitte Engerer, and has taken part in numerous festivals, including Les Folles Journées de Nantes, the Radio France Montpellier Festival, the Présences Festival (Maison de la Radio, Paris) and the Moscow Autumn Festival
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As a member of the Hélios Ensemble (flute and string trio), she has premiered more than thirty contemporary works by composers such as Thierry Escaich, Philippe Hersant, Nicolas Bacri, Alain Louvier, Paul Méfano, Jindřich Feld, Michaël Gavazzi and Graciane Finzi. She has recorded several CDs, including the world premiere recording of the quartets of Ferdinand Ries, which was warmly received by critics. In a duo with pianist Roustem Saitkoulov and in a trio with violinist Clara Saitkoulov, she has performed in most European countries as well as in Asia, Africa and Australia. She has recorded several CDs devoted to Schumann, Strauss and Shostakovich, and with the Saitkoulov Trio she won first prize for the best sound recording (CIMES, Paris, 2014).
She has performed as a soloist with various orchestras, including the Kazan Symphony Orchestra, the Saratov Symphony Orchestra, the Antwerp Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble Instrumental de Grenoble, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra and the Johannesburg National Orchestra. She has also regularly played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest cellist.
Very committed to training young talent, Claire Oppert has taught at the Claude Debussy Departmental Conservatory in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. She is a guest professor at the Zahar Bron School of Music in Zurich and, since 2021,
resident professor at the Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium. She regularly gives masterclasses in France and Europe (International Menuhin Music Academy in Rolle, Switzerland, and the London Permorming Academy of Music in the United Kingdom). Her students include many winners of international competitions.
Alongside her musical career, Claire Oppert has a passion for philosophy and obtained a degree in philosophy from Sorbonne-Paris IV, before specialising in aesthetics and philosophy of art.
A graduate of the Faculty of Tours in art therapy, she now teaches this discipline at the Sorbonne University and in the medical faculties of Paris, Lille, Tours and Reims. She works as a ‘cellist-carer’ with young autistic people and people with Alzheimer's disease, as well as for patients at the end-of-life patients in several palliative care units.
Her research into the links between music and care leads her to give regular lectures and present her work at international medical conferences in Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Prague, New York, Montreal, Jerusalem, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Her book Le Pansement Schubert, published by Éditions Denoël in 2020, has been a great success with the French and international media and press. Already translated into many languages, it received the 2021 Musicians' Literary Prize.
In 2024, Claire Oppert was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit.
David Pia
CELLO
Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève
David Pia is a renowned Swiss cellist and professor at the Geneva University of Music. He combines tradition and innovation, enriching the classical repertoire while constantly exploring new artistic horizons.
Early in his career, he gained international recognition as a prize winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where he also received the prize for the best performance of the compulsory piece. As a soloist, he has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata de Lausanne, the Essen Philharmonic and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
He has held the position of principal cello in several ensembles, including the Munich Radio Orchestra Radio Munich, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated on an ad hoc basis with world-renowned ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Basel, the OCL Lausanne and the OSR Geneva.
In chamber music, he has worked with renowned artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Kit Armstrong, Daishin Kashimoto, Menahem Pressler and Antoine Tamestit. He has performed at prestigious festivals, including ‘Young Artists in Concert’ in Davos, ‘Septembre Musical’ in Montreux, the Ravinia Festival and ‘Chamber Music connects the World’ in Kronberg. In 2015, he received the Swiss Ambassador's Award, followed by a tour of the United Kingdom, with a concert at Wigmore Hall in London.
David Pia studied with Antonio Meneses at the Basel School of Music and with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He was principal cello of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, working under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt and Philippe Jordan. He later assisted Antonio Meneses at the Bern University of the Arts and collaborated with Jean-Guihen Queyras in Freiburg im Breisgau. He has also given masterclasses at renowned institutions and festivals around the world.
In his artistic work, David Pia weaves a unique link between tradition and innovation. The grandson of the legendary Bach interpreter Karl Richter, he perpetuates an exceptional musical heritage. He plays the famous Stradivarius cello ‘De Kermadec Bläss’ from 1698, as well as an instrument by Giovanni Grancino dating from 1697.
Joël Marosi
CELLO
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Joel Marosi, born in Zurich . Studies with Nancy Chumachenco in Zurich, Heinrich Schiff in Basel, Claus Kanngiesser in Cologne and Arto Noras at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. 1996 degrees in Solo and Chambermusic with distinction. Masterclasses with Janos Starker, Yo Yo Ma, Harvey Shapiro, David Geringas, Ralph Kirschbaum. Numerous awards in competitions both nationally and internationally. Lausanne 1991, Berlin Mendelssohn Competition 1992, Osaka 1996.
.Joel Marosi serves regular as principal with the Camerata Bern and Camerata Salzburg . Guest principal in numerous Orchestras such as DSO Berlin, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester etc. 2000-2003 principal in the Sinfonieorchester Basel and since 2005 principal in the “Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne”. Since 2019 Joel Marosi is also principal in the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.
As a Solist Joel Marosi performed with numerous Orchestras which include the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Göttinger Sinfonieorchester, Hannoversche Orchestervereinigung, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Athens State Symphonie Orchestra with Conducters such as Ton Koopman,
Heinrich Schiff, Christoph Mueller, Christian Zacharias, Hannu Lintu, Thomas Zehetmair, Mario Venzago and Loukas Karytinos Joel Marosi is a dedicated chamber musician. Many concerts with a.o. Gabor Takacs, Ursula Holliger, Jürg Dähler, Irene Abrigo, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Ilya Gringolts, Davide Bandieri, Li Wei Quin, Isabelle van Keulen, Renaud Capuçon, James Ehnes and Pablo
Sainz-Villegas.
Joel Marosi is a founding member of the Zurich Piano Trio. The Trio played its debut concert on invitation from Isaak Stern at Carnegie Hall in 1997 and has been pursuing an international career.
From 2018-2023 Joel Marosi joined the Swiss Piano Trio , which formed its international career in its more then 20 years of existence.
Joel Marosi records widely for Claves, Audite , Harmonia Mundi, Warner Music Korea, Prospero Classical. The latest is a Album with the complete Works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn for Cello and Piano with the Pianist Esther Walker. It was produced in 2021 by First Hand Records, London, and got acclaimed critics internationally.
Joel Marosi gives regular Masterclasses in Europe and Asia and held a Interims Professorship for Chamber Music at the Music Akademie Geneva- Neuchatel from 2019-2021. In 2023 a new collaboration started with the Underground Youth Orchestra in Athens wich includes regular Masterclasses and coaching Projects. Joel Marosi was appointed Professor for Cello in 2023 at the Music University of Lucern.
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula
CHAMBER MUSIC
Concert Pianist
Jean-Selim is a versatile musician from Switzerland, both pianist and composer. He plays in halls such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Hall (London), the Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), the Koerner Hall (Toronto), the Sendesaal (Bremen), the Carnegie Hall, 92Y Buttenwieser Hall (New York), the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), and festivals such as Lucern Festival, Lavaux Classics, Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Düsseldorf Schumannfest and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorprommen.
He is the recipient of many awards in both piano and composing including the first prizes at the 2012 Edvard Grieg International Composer Competition in Oslo, 2013 Lausanne Concours d'Interprétation Musicale and 2016 Premi de Musica de Cambra Montserrat Alavedra, the third prize at the 2015 Ciurlionis International Piano Competition in Vilnius, the 2015 Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize in London and the 2018 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award in Boston. Since 2017, he is represented by the YCAT agency.
He holds the 2014-15 Rebanks Family Piano Fellowship at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, and is invited by András Schiff to give solo recitals across Europe as part of his 2016 Building Bridges concert series.
His works are played by musicians including Heinz Holliger, Antje Weithaas, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sylvia Nopper, Gilles Colliard, and Einar Steen-Nokleberg, and ensembles like the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the Swiss Chamber Soloists, the Camerata Bern, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, the Sine Nomine Quartet and the Ensemble Séquence.
He is an alumni of Lausanne HEMU and Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied with pianists Christian Favre and Ronan O'Hora and composer Julian Anderson. He has played in masterclasses with Gyorgy Kurtag, Ferenc Rados, Andras Schiff, Denes Varjon, Mitsuko Uchida, Imogen Cooper, Stephen Hough, Angela Hewitt, Richard Goode and Leon Fleisher, and has been advised on composition by Heinz Holliger and George Benjamin. From September 2018, he will be one of the two students of the Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
He has been supported by the Leenards Foundation, the city of Nyon, the Fritz Bach foundation, the Rotary Club, and the Denereaz foundation.
Aurore Grosclaude
CHAMBER MUSIC
Conservatory of Lausanne
Born in 1998, Aurore Grosclaude completed her training at the Lausanne Conservatory in Magali Bourquin's class. Aurore Grosclaude joined Christian Favre's class at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne at the age of 15, where she obtained a Bachelor's and then a Master's in pedagogy with distinction. She then perfected her skills as a soloist at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Michel Dalberto and Claire-Marie Le Guay, and with Claudio Martínez Mehner in Basel and Cologne. Passionate about artistic research, she is currently completing a PhD in musical interpretation as part of the Collège Doctoral Européen (Université de Strasbourg and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg). Aurore Grosclaude has also benefited from the teaching of leading personalities such as Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Pascal Rogé, Lilya Zilberstein, Vincent Coq, Eldar Nebolsin, Anton Kernjak, Florent Boffard, Cédric Pescia, Steven Isserlis, François Salque and Renaud Capuçon and frequently works with artists from different horizons. She has created productions combining music, dance, poetry and theater, and often collaborates with contemporary composers.
Aurore has won several prizes and distinctions as a soloist: she twice won first prize with congratulations from the jury at the finals of the Swiss Youth Music Competition (2011 and 2015), won third prize at the Lausanne the Concours d'Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne (2015 and 2021), and distinguished herself with special mentions in the final rounds of the Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna (2016) and at the Concours pour Jeunes Interprètes au Val de Travers (2018). She also received support from the Rahn Kulturfonds Zürich in 2021.
She performs in recital in Switzerland and abroad, and as soloist with the Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra. Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre Nexus, Orchestre des Jeunes de la Suisse Romande and the Camerata de Lausanne. She also performs regularly at festivals, both as a chamber musician and as a concert artist, such as the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Lavaux Classic, Festival Sine Nomine, Week-End Musical de Pully, Puplinge Classique and the Festival 4 Saisons, with whom she recorded a CD released by Claves Records.
Natsumi Ohno
ACCOMPANIMENT
University of Music and Drama Hannover
The pianist Natsumi Ohno was born in Japan and began studying music in Tokyo with Prof.Kazuko Sumi and Prof.Minoru Nojima. She later completed her Konzertexamen with Prof. Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. In addition to her soloist training, she specialized in song accompaniment in Justus Zeyen's class as well as instrument accompeniment for strings and woodwinds. During her studies, she received stipends from Tokyo College of Music as well as the Yehudi Menuhin foundation "Live Music Now".
Natsumi Ohno is an awardee of the International Chamber Music Competition "Premio Trio di Trieste" (with violinist Kana Sugimura) and of the International Piano Competition "Citta di Sulmona" in Italy.
She has appeared as an official accompanist at a variety of violin competitions, music festivals and masterclasses, including the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Singapore International Violin Competition, Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the International Festival of Young Violin Masters Lindau, the IMAS International Music Academy in Germany, the Morges Music Academy in Switzerland, the Summer Academy Cervo and International Music Academy of Cagliari in Italy, the Strings Concert Academy in San Marino and Gdansk Music Festival in Poland.
Natsumi Ohno is full time faculty at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater and Medien Hannover.
Cornelia Glassl
ACCOMPANIMENT
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Münich
Cornelia Glassl joue régulièrement en tournée en tant que musicienne de chambre et pianiste dans divers concerts et festivals tels le Styriarte Graz, le festival Bruckner Linz, la Triennale de la Ruhr et le festival Orff du Bayerischen Rundfunk. Ses intenses activités de concert l’ont emmenée en Autriche, en Italie, en Hongrie, en République Tchèque et en Suisse.
En juin 2017, parassait son premier CD contenant des oeuvres pour violon et piano sorti sous le label Kaleidos Musikeditionen, par la suite des CD produit par CPO et des enregistrement en direct pour SWR, HR et BMC.
La pianiste a reçu un prix national au concours „Jugend musiziert“ et a reçu le prix„Heinrich-Vetter-Nachwuchsförderpreis“ pour „Lied-Duo“ (avec la Sopraniste Hanna Elisabeth Müller) au début de ses études. Cela a été suivi par un 3ème prix, ainsi que par un Prix Special au Concours international de melodrame en 2014 à Prague.
Pendant ses études auprès du professeur Michael Hauber à Mannheim et du professeur Alfredo Perl à Detmold, elle a bénéficié du soutien de nombreuses fondations (entre autres Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Stiftung Villa Musica, NRW-Stipendium, Richard –Wagner-Verband Bielefeld).
Très tôt la pianiste a découvert sa passion pour la musique de chambre et la l’ accompagnement du lied. C’est pourquoi Cornelia Glassl a completé sa formation dans le domaine de l’écriture musicale chez Prof. Manuel Lange à la suite de ses études de soliste.
En outré, elle a reçu de précieuses impulsions en coopération avec Andras Schiff, KarlHeinz Kämmerling, Ian Fountain, Günter Ludwig, Konrad Elser, Thomas Quasthoff, Ralf Gothoni, Karl-Peter Kammerlander, le quartette de Mandelring et le quartet Auryn.
En plus de ses hombreux concerts, Cornelia Glassl a enseigné de 2012 à 2016 l’écriture de chansons, l’accompagnement et la pédagogie de la musique elémtaire à l’académie de Musique de Detmold. De plus elle est régulièrement accompagnatrice pour des court- métrages internationaux et diverses compétitions. À paritir d’octobre 2018 elle occupe un poste de assistant de corépétitition de cordes à l’Université de Musique et des Arts de Munich.
Depuis 2019 elle est co-organisatrice des semaines de la musique de chambre pour les enfants et les jeunes de l’association Allgäuer Tonkünstlerverband.
Anne Grosclaude
YOGA AND AUTO-HYPNOSIS
hypnosis is a modified state of consciousness that enables us to access our inner resources and thereby transform physiological processes. It is one of the tools we have at our disposal for managing stress and performance anxiety; more generally, self-hypnosis aims to help us pay more attention to ourselves and make better use of our resources.
As a psychologist specialising in psychotherapy FSP (Fédération Suisse des Psychologues) and a hypnotherapist Shyps (société suisse d'hypnose clinique), with a wealth of experience in institutions and private practice, I take an integrative approach that includes mind-body aspects through practices such as hypnosis and EMDR. This attention to the link between body and mind has led me to validate a long-standing personal yoga practice with a yoga teaching diploma.
I'm also a music lover and amateur pianist, working in an environment of professional musicians, so I've been able to put my professional experience at the service of young musicians through introductory workshops in self-hypnosis, alongside my work as a psychotherapist in private practice.
The yoga courses are open to French and English speakers, the self-hypnosis courses to French speakers only.
Vanessa Lenglart
FELDENKRAIS METHOD
Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, Danse et Théâtre de Genève
Vanessa Lenglart is a Certified Feldenkrais practitioner, a pianist and piano teacher.
She studied with Eduardo Vercelli (1st Prize in Munich) from the age of 13 to 18 and was then accepted at the HEM in Geneva in the class of Dominique Weber where she got a professional diploma of piano.
She went on with passing an accompaniment diploma in the class of Jean-Jacques Balet.
Then she obtained the Diplôme d’État de France when she was 21.
To go on with her musical training she went to Fribourg where she passed a diploma of virtuosity in the class of Ricardo Castro.
Her sensibility for literature brought her to go to Lille Universitywhere she passed a BA in Modern Letters.
Moreover she soon felt an inner need to learn about various methods of somatic education, looking for a way that would enable her to be in complete harmony, « s’harmoniser », s’accorder », in order to be more able to express herself in music.
In 1999 as she was training with the pianist Denis Pascal, who during that Summer had invited the Great Master Gyorgy Sebök, the Feldenkrais method was mentioned. The seed was sown. Vanessa Lenglart never stopped from then on watering it, getting implied in some professional education at Accord Mobile in Paris where she obtained her diploma under the leadership of Myriam Pfeffer, directly trained by Moshé Feldenkrais.
Vanessa Lenglart teaches the Feldenkrais method at the HEM in Geneva as well as within la Fédération des Ecoles Genevoises de Musique (CMG, CPMDT, Institut Jaques-Dalcroze).
She is also regularly invited to lead sessions on the Feldenkrais method in Further Education for teachers of the Geneva Music Academy and offers workshops for the pupils of the intensive sector of the FEGM as well as the adult sector of the CPMDT.
In 2018 she also led Feldenkrais method workshops as part of the CAS instrumental training at the Haute Ecole de Bern and she will do it again in 2020 for the CAS musical educational profile.
Also invited in 2018 at the symposium « How to develop and train music students to improve their attention », organised by the HEM, Vanessa Lenglart keeps on developing « bridges » between musical practice, musical education and the wonderful vector the body can be.
The conductive thread of her work consists in leading the musicians towards a more adequate gestural organisation, leaving limiting schemes to get to other forms of organisation that are more capable of making them express their artistic potential.
The aim is through the sensory explorations felt during a Feldenkrais class to get to a rich repertoire of various and distinctive sensations, directly and spontaneously accessible to the instrument, making your way of playing more powerful, more subtle, more expressive.
The more sensitive your « body instrument » is, the better you play.
Musically Vanessa Lenglart has been teaching the piano since 2002 at the CPMDT in Geneva. She is also responsible as an internship supervisor for students taking a Master in Education at the HEM in Geneva and is very much appreciated as their tutor for their thesis.
She regularly performs playing chamber music and recital, especially together with the lecturer Claudio Chiacchiari.