Marion Tassou, soprano
Mathilde Borsarello-Herrmann, violin
Gauthier Herrmann, cello
Nicolas Bourdoncle, piano
In association with Alliance Française de Pune
Programme 4th October
In a programme of G. F. Haendel: «Ouverture» (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), «Piangerò la sorte mia» (Giulio Cesare in Egitto); F. Schubert: «Erlkönig», «Litaney», «Der Jüngling und der Tod», «Der Müller und der Bach», J. Massenet: «Méditation» (Thaïs), «Ah ! Je suis seule… Dis-moi que je suis belle» (Thaïs), «Le dernier sommeil de la vierge» (La vierge), J. Offenbach: «Ah que j’aime les militaires» (La grande duchesse de Geroldstein), «Tu n’es pas riche, tu n’es pas beau» (La Périchole), P. Petit: «Je suis si triste toute seule» (La maréchale sans-gêne), R. Hahn: «Décrets indolents du hasard», «L’heure exquise», «La dernière valse», Barbara: «Dis quand reviendras-tu?» and N. Ferrer: «La Rua Madureira»
Traveller, entrepreneur, ultra-trailer, Gauthier Herrmann isn’t your typical musician. A cellist with a passion for small ensembles and chamber music, Gauthier is a laureate of International competitions in Florence (Italy), Heerlen (Netherlands), Illzach, Vibrarte, Fnapec (France).
In 2012, Gauthier founded a production company, LdB-prod (or Louis de Beethoven), a French tribute to his musical idol.. LdB-prod imagines and offers seasons of chamber music with an assumed ambition: to reestablish intimacy between the room and the stage, to bring the artists closer to their audience. The work remains central but can be discovered in a concert hall or in an apartment. All that matters is the listener’s encounter with the music, and the artists’ pleasure in taking it over. In 2020, an adventure as ambitious as it was fun should have seen the light of day: Artie’s World Tour – Around the World in 80 Concerts: 160 days / 80 concerts / 60 cities / 20 countries / 1 dream.
As a good insatiable traveller, Gauthier has many projects today: seeing his family grow, defending his tribe of musicians, pursuing Artie’s dream, and of course, never stopping entrepreneurship. Gauthier plays a magnificent cello by the Italian violin maker Giuseppe Rocca (Turin, 1853), placed in his hands by the Eisenberg Fund.
A Prize winner of the prestigious Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud competition in 2010, Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann puts her talent at the service of music in all its forms. Her true mother tongue… Music! A total immersion from childhood, a vocation of course, but above all a passion… Violin, piano, voice, sonata, trio, quartet, teaching, orchestra, it is with appetite that she devours a wide repertoire ranging from Bach to Arvo Pärt.
From her beginnings at the CNR in Paris to her two graduate degrees at the CNSMDP, she has a deep appreciation for those who have shaped her musical identity, Suzanne Gessner, Patrice Fontanarosa, Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Roland Daugareil in violin as well as Paul Boufil, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Alain Meunier, Maurice Bourgue and Marc Coppey in chamber music.
She had the opportunity to play in the most prestigious halls (Amsterdam, London, New York, Vienna…) and to be directed by, among others, Maestros Masur, Muti, Ozawa, Järvi, Sokhiev, Bychkov, Haitink in repertoire as varied as they are complete. Her violin, by the Italian luthier Riccardo Genovese (1931), follows in all her adventures. She is currently the first violinist of Psophos quartet and is regularly invited to be part of International concert tours of major French orchestras.
Born in Nantes, Marion Tassou graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon (2008). She has performed in roles as varied as Melanto in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Venus in Le Carnaval et la Folie by Destouches, Eurydice in Orpheus and Eurydice, Ilia in Idomeneo, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, The Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Pauline in La vie parisienne, Mahenu in L’île du rêve (Reynaldo Hahn), and Blanche de La Force in Dialogues des Carmélites on stages such as the Festival de Saint Céré, the Opéra de Tours, the Opéra de Montpellier, and the Hamburg Staatsoper.
After a stint at the Académie de l’Opéra Comique in 2013/14, she took part in three world premieres: L’autre hiver by Dominique Pauwels and Beach Bosch by Vasco Mendonça with the LOD Muziektheater company in Ghent, as well as Le Mystère de l’écureuil bleu by Marc-Olivier Dupin at the Opéra Comique. In 2019/20, she made her debut at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Parsifal).
Marion Tassou has collaborated with conductors such as Alexis Kossenko, Hervé Niquet, Matthias Pintscher, François-Xavier Roth, and Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Born in Aix-en-Provence in 1998, Nicolas Bourdoncle began studying Piano at an early age at the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory with Michel Bourdoncle. He continued his studies in Paris, Geneva and Madrid Superior Conservatories with Roger Muraro, Nelson Goerner, Galina Eguiazarova and Denis Lossev. He is currently attending Artist Diploma degree in Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music. He is also a student of Bernard d’Ascoli.
Nicolas made his debut as a soloist in the Philharmonies of Odessa and Chisinau at the age of ten. Since then, he has performed in more than twenty countries in recital, chamber music and concerts with orchestras such as the City of Granada Orchestra, the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Radio Orchestra of Bucharest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Monterrey Symphony Orchestra…
He is a prize-winner of the Hanoi International Piano Competition in 2012, the International Piano Competition Premio Jaen in 2019, the Animato-Chopin International Piano Competition in 2023 and the Citta di Cantu Concerto Competition in 2024.
