BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1688@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20261204T133000Z DTEND:20261204T133000Z DTSTAMP:20261101T104018Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/arties-festival-31st-edition/ SUMMARY:Artie’s Festival - 31st edition DESCRIPTION:Nathan Mierdl\, violin\nEmma Gibout\, violin\nViolaine Despeyro ux\, viola\nRalph De Souza\, viola\nGauthier Herrmann\, cello\n\nIn associ ation with Alliance Française de Pune\n\nProgramme 4th December\nIn a pro gramme of Beethoven: String quartet Op. 18 No. 6\; Beethoven: String quart et Op. 95 and Brahms: String quintet Op. 111\n\nNathan Mierdl started his violin apprenticeship in Germany. He was then admitted to the Conservatoir e à rayonnement régional de Dijon (France) and subsequently studied unde r Christophe Poiget. He obtained his Master’s degree in 2018 at Conserva toire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse where he studied under Ro land Daugareil. After studying at the Academy of the Orchestre Philharmoni que de Radio France and the Academy of the Orchestre de Paris\, he became a member of the Orchestre National de France and this was followed promp tly by a position as assistant concertmaster with the Orchestre Philharmo nique de Radio France. He was appointed concertmaster in January 2023. Nat han has won various International prizes. In 2018 he won the Second Senio r Prize at the prestigious Menuhin Competition along with the Arte Concer t Online Prize\, the Composer Award (prize for contemporary music composed just for the competition) and the Jonathan Moulds Award for Outstanding P otential.\n\nEmma Gibout began playing the violin at the Pau Conservatory with Claire Zarembowitch where she obtained a first prize for violin with honours in 2015. She then studied at the CRR in Boulogne-Billancourt with Christophe Poiget before returning to the CNSM in Lyon in the class of Mar ianne Piketty\, Manuel Solans\, Dominique Lonca and Jennifer Gilbert. She obtained a DNSPM license there in 2019 and is currently pursuing her maste r’s studies at the Hochschule ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin with Ulf Wall in. Emma Gibout is the winner of several International competitions: she w on 3rd prize in the ‘Marie Cantagrill’ competition in 2012 then 1st pr ize in the ‘Arthur Grumiaux’ International competition in Brussels in 2018. Passionate about the orchestra\, she joined the Orchestre Français des Jeunes in 2014 and 2016\, then the Verbier Festival Orchestra in 2017\ , of which she became concertmaster from 2018 which allows her to play und er the baton of the greatest conductors such as Simon Rattle\, Valery Gerg iev\, Manfred Honeck\, Esa-Pekka Salonen\, Daniel Harding\, Antonio Pappan o. Recently\, she has been appointed concertmaster of Orchestre National d u Capitole de Toulouse.\n\nViolaine Despeyroux: ‘I consider music as a j ourney\, a moment suspended in time\, which is different with each interpr etation. The listeners will be guided simply into a story that we create t ogether.’ This conception of musical interpretation as a unique and imme rsive moment of sharing is the basis of Violaine Despeyroux’s artistic p ractice. This young viola player\, much sought after as a chamber musician and soloist\, stands out on stage\, with her personality and energy\, bot h precise and electrifying.\n\nViolaine Despeyroux has been awarded the 1s t prize at the National Competition for Young Violists and the 2nd prize a nd prize for the best Bach performance at the International Competition of viola Cecil Aronowitz in Birmingham amongst others. With passion and tena city\, she can be found in the prestigious European and International musi c halls: the Victoria Hall in Geneva\, the Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood (USA)\, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris or the Palais des Beaux -arts in Brussels\, alongside renowned partners like Renaud Capuçon\, Gar y Hoffman\, Claire Désert\, Suyoen Kim\, Alexandra Soumm and the Smoking Josephine Ensemble. As a soloist\, Violaine Despeyroux has performed in Fr ance\, Italy and Belgium with conductors such as Vahan Mardirossian and Ia n Fountain.\n\nTraveller\, entrepreneur\, ultra-trailer\, Gauthier Herrman n isn’t your typical musician. A cellist with a passion for small ensemb les and chamber music\, Gauthier is laureate of International competitions in Florence (Italy)\, Heerlen (Netherlands)\, Illzach\, Vibrarte\, Fnapec (France). He is also a finisher of crazy races\, such as La Diagonale des fous in La Reunion\, the 100km of Millau\, the Oisons Trail Tour… In 20 01\, Gauthier discovered India. It was from this moment on that Artie’s adventures were born\, a slightly crazy project that could be summarized a s follows: music\, kindness\, curiosity and enterprise. Around Gauthier\, a plethora of musician friends crystallized\, who would travel the world\ , under his leadership and his artistic direction. Gauthier has had the pl easure of performing in more than 50 countries and in particular of develo ping recurring projects in India\, China\, Saudi Arabia\, Kuwait\, Vietnam \, Indonesia\, Kazakhstan\, Nepal and of course Europe. In 2012\, Gauthier founded a production company\, LdB-prod (or Louis de Beethoven)\, a Fren ch tribute to his musical idol. LdB-prod imagines and offers seasons of ch amber music with an assumed ambition: to reestablish intimacy between the room and the stage\, to bring the artists closer to their audience. Gauthi er plays a magnificent cello by the Italian maker Giuseppe Rocca (Turin\, 1853)\, placed in his hands by the Eisenberg Fund.\n\nRalph de Souza was b orn in Bombay and began violin lessons from an early age with his father\, and later with Melbourne Halloween. His father\, a doctor\, was a self-ta ught violin fanatic who gave impromptu violin lessons to any little childr en who come ringing his doorbell\, and whose other distinguished pupil was Ralph’s brother Harvey. Ralph’s mother could not stand the sound of t he violin\, not only because there were violins and bows cluttering up all corners of their home\, but mainly because she “lost” both her sons t o musical careers in the West. Ralph was brought up speaking English as it was the only language in common between his Chinese mother and Indian fat her. His father chose the name to give his mother plenty of practice with the difficult consonants R and L! Ralph was put on a plane by himself at t he age of ten to go to the Yehudi Menuhin School\, where he found himself sharing a room with Messrs. Garfield Jackson and Nigel Kennedy. Having sur vived this culture shock he then went to the Curtis Institute in the USA t o study with Ivan Galamian and Jaime Laredo.\n\nIn 1977 he won the Royal O verseas League Competition in London\, and his solo career included appear ances with Yehudi Menuhin. In 1985\, Ralph spent the summer playing chambe r music at Marlboro and became determined to turn to professional quartet- playing. By coincidence\, very soon after\, there came out of the blue the phone call which led him eventually to join the Endellion String Quartet in 1986 (and return to a cricket-playing country). He has been a sought-af ter chamber musician\, and has had a close association with the Internatio nal Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove\, starting in his student days wh en he was deeply influenced by Sándor Végh. He also returned to the Menu hin School for several years as a teacher. Keen to offer something back to India\, he was involved as co-artistic director with the ‘Sangat’ Mus ic Festival in Mumbai and now returns regularly to work with members of th e SOI Chamber Orchestra\, encouraging them to play Chamber Music.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2024/03/Violaine-Despeyroux-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Chamber Music LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Dastur Primary School\, 2 Lt. Col. Tarapore Road\, Op p. Ladies Club\, Pune Camp\, \, Pune\, Maharashtra\, 411001\, India GEO:18.519885;73.878245 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Dastur Primary School\, 2 L t. Col. Tarapore Road\, Opp. Ladies Club\, Pune Camp\, \, Pune\, Maharasht ra\, 411001\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.519885,73 .878245 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR