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.
Virginie Robilliard
VIOLIN
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.