Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/Oct/2023
Genre - Chamber Music
Mathilde Borsarello Herrmann, violin
Augustine Herrmann, violin
Gauthier Herrmann, cello
Indiya Herrmann, piano
Ionah Maiatsky, piano
In association with Alliance Française de Pune
In a programme of A. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 19 « Sonata-Fantasia »; F. Schubert: Violin and Piano Sonata D 574; A. Scriabin: Sonata No. 5 Op. 53 and Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano trio Op. 1 No. 3
Photo: Thomas Baltes
Traveler, entrepreneur, ultra-trailer, Gauthier Herrmann isn’t your typical musician. A cellist with a passion for small ensembles 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 2001, Gauthier discovered India. It was from this moment on that Artie’s adventures were born, a slightly crazy project that could be summarized as 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 pleasure of performing in more than 50 countries and in particular of developing 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 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. Gauthier plays a magnificent cello by the Italian violin maker Giuseppe Rocca (Turin, 1853), placed in his hands by the Eisenberg Fund.
Mathilde Borsarello-Herrman
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 J S 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. Her passion for chamber music led her to perform with partners such as Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, the Ebène quartet, Roland Daugareil, Henri Demarquette, Romain Descharmes, Olivier Patey, Shani Diluka …
With the perfectionism that characterizes her, Mathilde wanted to explore in depth the repertoire of the piano trio by creating in 2002 the Trio Estampe with pianist Claudine Simon and cellist Caroline Boita. Supported by the Meyer Foundation, they record a CD “young soloist” in 2010, then in 2012 an album around the trio opus 5 of Max Bruch for the label Artie’s Records, distribution Harmonia Mundi.
For this insatiable music, to deprive oneself of the symphonic repertoire was unthinkable. Mathilde was a member of the Orchestre National de France from 2007 to 2017 under the direction of Maestro Daniele Gatti. During these 8 years in this formation, 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. Currently, she is the first violinist of the Psophos Quartet.
Indiya Herrmann, aged 12 is a marvellous musician, playing the piano and singing all day. She was named Indiya because of her parents’s love for the most colourful country in the world ! Born in a musical family, she won her first international award at the INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FRIBOURG in 2022 (2nd prize and special prize). In 2023, she won the first prize at the JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION in Orleans. Not only playing classical music, Indiya is very much involved in pop music as well and she will of course perform her own composition for this first Indian tour.
Augustine Herrmann, aged 10 is following her sister’s trail with passion and talent. Everything seems easy when she is taking her violin and not only playing her mother’s instrument, she is learning drums as well… The whole family had to change the house recently, not to become crazy with all this music played 24/24.
Born in 2001, Ionah Maiatsky, pianist of Franco-Russian origin, has already distinguished himself in international competitions: in 2021, he was selected for the prestigious Clara Haskil competition and received first prize at the Albert Roussel competition in Paris. Trained while first in Lausanne in piano, organ, improvisation and chamber music, he entered the CRR in Paris in 2014, where he studied for four years with Billy Eidi, who would decisively influence his career. It was in 2018, at the age of 16, that Ionah joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris where he perfected his skills with Marie-Josèphe Jude and Jonas Vitaud. He has since completed a bachelor’s and master’s course in chamber music, allowing him to work with masters such as Claire Désert, François Salque, Jérôme Pernoo and Itamar Golan. He had the chance to work in master classes with renowned musicians, such as Jean-François Heisser, Michel Beroff, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Akiko Ebi, Olivier Cazal, and others, but also with chamber musicians, such as members of the Ébène and Modigliani quartets. Passionate about both the solo piano repertoire and chamber music, he regularly performs on stage at festivals such as the Ravel festival, Spiriades, Musiques d’un siècle, Nice Classic Live, les 4isons and more. others. In November 2021, he participated in the Générations France Musique show, presented by Clément Rochefort. Since 2018, he has formed the Ermitage duo with cellist Paul-Marie Kuzma.
