Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/Nov/2014
Genre - Festivals
Arties festival has built a deep relationship with its musicians and is proud of their diversity. Its popularity has grown over the years, and it brings the finest young musicians to India to perform for a varied audience.
Pierre Fouchenneret was accepted by the Paris Conservatoire at the early age of 12. He performs around the world along with renowned musicians and is a member of the group Ensemble Contraste, Trio Magellan and Quatuor Raphaël.
Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann started studying the violin from the age of five with her father. After being awarded the first prize in Suzanne Gessner’s class, she later studied chamber music with Paul Boufil and joined the violin class of Patrice Fontanarosa and Jean-Jacques Kantarow at the Paris Conservatoire.
François Salque is recognised as one of the most stunning cellists of his generation. In France, he won the First Prize of the “Hommage to Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gendron” International Competition and the Pierre Fournier Prize. He has already performed as a soloist and in chamber music in over fifty countries with some of the world’s most renowned artists.
Traveller, entrepreneur, adventurer, Gauthier Herrmann is an atypical musician. A cellist passionately turned towards chamber music, founder and director of Arties Festival, he has travelled the globe for over ten years in the company of his family – the merry band of Arties musicians brought together by great musical repertoire and loyalty to each other. He has won numerous prizes and plays a Benoit Fleury instrument of 1754, belonging to a private sponsor.
Yann Dubost is an award winner of the Cziffra Foundation for 2007. His talent and his originality established him as one of the most promising young double bassist of the young generation. He has won many awards. Fond of contemporary music, he premiered and recorded several pieces for solo bass and has been member of the Ensemble Itinéraire since 2002.
Son of a famous French oboe teacher, Sébastien Giot began his musical studies by learning simultaneously violin and oboe. He has won several prizes at the national and international oboe competitions. As the only woodwind player selected for the final round, Giot received the second prize at the “International Young Concerts Artists” in New York. Giot also played in several music chamber formations, including the Erasme woodwind quintet with other soloist from the Orchestre National Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
Winner of several national and international competitions including the prestigious ARD Munich Florent Pujuila occurred with many orchestras in France and abroad. He is regularly asked to compose chamber music pieces or sets the boundaries of conventional aesthetic, contemporary and jazz. In 2013 he wrote the music of “Opera Fireworks” Gilgamesh, King of Uruk with a libretto by Philippe Meunier with fireworks and Margot Patrick Auzier. He is the artistic director of the Music Festival Dels Monts – and the International Academy of Music Dels Monts.
Emmanuel Christien is one of France’s most diverse young pianists who is in great demand. Emmanuel graduated in piano, chamber music and vocal accompaniment. He won several awards in International competitions for piano, like Casagrande (Italy) and Perlemuter (France).
Marie Chilemme started playing the viola at the age of three. In 2004, she graduated in Viola, Chamber Music and Music Theory at the Conservatoire National de Toulouse. Marie performs as soloist and in chamber music groups, in several festivals in Europe. Currently, she is studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin (Germany) in the class of Tabea Zimmermann.
Aude Giuliano started learning the accordion at the age of 5 and studied music at the Conservatoire de Nice. She received the International Grand Prix of Castelfidardo (Italy), first French to win this competition since its inception in 1987, and repeatedly got International Grand Prix Klingenthal (Germany) in classes under 12, and under 15 years of 18 years and the Junior World Trophy in Lorient (France).
Joël Lasry was born in 1988 in Amiens, where he began studying the horn at the local conservatory in 1994 with Mr. Eric Brisse. Joël Lasry is the 1st prize winner at the Città di Porcia french horn competition in Czech Republic. Joël Lasry is one of the brightest horn players of the Laetonium Horn Quartet. The Laetonium Horn Quartet was founded in 2006.
Lola Descours started bassoon at the age of 11 in the class of J. F. Angelloz in Reims, where she obtained first prize in bassoon along with a first prize in piano in the class of Médous Julien. Since 2007, she is the bassoonist in the Orchestre de Paris, where she plays especially under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach and Paavo Jarvi. She has appeared as the principal bassoonist with the various European orchestras.
Fleur Grüneissen studied flute at an early age with Chrystel Delaval NRC to Lille. In 2002, she studied at the Paris Conservatory where she obtained brilliant degrees for flute and piccolo in the class of Pierre Yves Artaud and Florence Souchard. In 2004, she won the AIDA scholarship from the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. She pursues her career as a chamber musician and collaborates with a wide range of musicians.
