BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1578@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20220927T190000Z DTEND:20220927T190000Z DTSTAMP:20220922T125250Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/sayaka-soji-henri-demarquette-and-jean-f rederic-neuburger/ SUMMARY:Demarquette-Neuburger-Shoji Trio DESCRIPTION:Sayaka Shoji\, violin\nHenri Demarquette\, cello\nJean- Frédé ric Neuburger\, piano\n\nIn a programme of Schubert: Notturno in E-flat Op . 148 D. 897\, Trio in B-flat Op. 99 D. 898 and Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101\n\nIn association with the Alliance Française de Pune\ n\n[caption id="attachment_14168" align="alignleft" width="247"] Photo: La ura Stevens[/caption]\n\nSayaka Shoji has become internationally recognise d for her unique artistic versatility and development of an extensive repe rtoire. Her remarkable insight into musical languages comes from her mix o f European and Japanese backgrounds. Born in Tokyo\, Shoji moved to Siena\ , Italy when she was three. She studied at Accademia Musicale Chigiana and Cologne’s Musikhochschule and made her European debut with Lucerne Fest ival Strings and Rudolf Baumgartner at the Lucerne Festival and then at th e Musikverein\, Vienna at the age of fourteen.\n\nSince winning first priz e at the Paganini Competition in 1999\, Sayaka Shoji has been supported by leading conductors such as Zubin Mehta\, Lorin Maazel\, Semyon Bychkov\, Mariss Jansons and Yuri Temirkanov to name a few. She has also worked with renowned orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic\, Philharmonia Orch estra\, London Symphony Orchestra\, Berlin Philharmonic\, Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics\, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia\, Czech Philharmonic\, Wiener Symphoniker\, The Mariinsky Orchest ra and NHK Symphony Orchestra.\n\nRecent highlights include successful deb uts at the BBC Proms with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko and the Blossom Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra\, a recital tour wi th Víkingur Ólafsson\, a UK tour with Philharmonia Orchestra/Ashkenazy\, as well as Bernstein’s 100th gala at Vienna Musikverein with Tonkünstl er-Orchester/Sado which was recorded and released by Tonkünstler label.\n In the upcoming seasons\, Shoji will focus on various projects with her du o partner\, Gianluca Cascioli and a collaboration with dancer/choreographe r Saburo Teshigawara performing Bach and Bartók’s solo works at the Phi lharmonie de Paris. She will also appear with the Enescu Philharmonic/Bebe selea\, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra/Shui\, Brussels Philharmonic/On o\, and make a return to Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Graf.\n\nAlongside h er usual concert activities\, Shoji has created an experimental visual-mus ic project\, ‘Synesthesia’ in 2007\, and exposed oil-paintings and vid eo-art works. Her first video work (Shostakovich Prelude coll. with P.Fram ent) was chosen in a group exposition “Au-delà de mes rêves” in 2014 among the most renown artists such as Y.Kusama\, S.Calle\, R.Longo. Shoji has also collaborated with Tadao Ando\, Hiroshi Sugimoto\, and Saburo Tes higawara in numerous occasions.\n\nA prolific recording artist\, Shoji has released eleven albums on Deutsche Grammophon including Prokofiev\, Sibel ius and Beethoven Violin Concertos with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orc hestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov. With Gianluca Cascioli she has record ed the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin and a recital album with Menahem Pressler.\n\nShoji won the Mainichi Art Award in 2016\, one of Japan’s most prestigious awards\, presented to those who have had a s ignificant influence on the arts. In 2012\, she was named one of “The 10 0 Most Influential People for Japan in future” by Nikkei Business.\nSaya ka Shoji plays a Stradivarius ‘Recamier’ c.1729 kindly loaned to her b y Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry Ltd.\n\n \;\n\n“An enthusiastic music ian with a multi-faceted personality\, Henri Demarquette plays the cello a s if setting a deep forest ablaze\; not a single stroke of his bow leaves the listener indifferent because he awakens music’s subconscious” O. B ellamy (Le Monde de la Musique)\nAs a young\, brilliant musician Henri Dem arquette attended the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Pari s at the age of thirteen and studied with Philippe Muller and Maurice Gend ron. His talent was quickly noticed and he was unanimously awarded the Con servatoire’s first prize which led him to work with Pierre Fournier and Paul Tortelier in Paris\, and Janos Starker in Bloomington\, USA.\n\nAlrea dy familiar with the stage\, Demarquette made his concert debut at sevente en in a recital at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He caught the attentio n of Lord Yehudi Menuhin\, who invited him to play Dvořák’s Cello Conc erto with him in Prague and Paris. His career then took an international t urn and he was invited to perform across the world with some of the greate st French and international orchestras: most recently Orchestre National d e France\, London Philharmonic\, Weiner KammerOrchester\, Ensemble Orchest ral De Paris\, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra\, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aqui taine\, Sinfonia Varsovia\, and Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. He also appea red with his favourite piano-partners Boris Berezovsky\, Michel Dalberto\, Jean-Bernard Pommier\, Fabrizio Chiovetta and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. In 2015 he co-founded a string quartet with Augustin Dumay\, Svetlin Rouss ev\, and Miguel da Silva.\n\nExtremely creative and passionate\, Henri Dem arquette is involved in many parallel projects. In 2014 he performed in an eclectic programme with music from Bach to Galliano in a duet with the Fr ench accordionist Richard Galliano\, and premiered Contrastes for accordio n\, cello and orchestra with Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. That same year\, together with L’Ensemble Vocal Sequenza 9.3.\, he created “Vocello”\, an original ensemble for cello and a cappella choir conduc ted by Catherine Simonpietri.\n\nHenri Demarquette teaches at Ecole Normal e de Musique Cortot in Paris.\nHe plays a Goffredo Cappa cello dated 1700. \n\n \;\n\nBorn in Paris\, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger received an inten se and varied musical education in piano\, organ and composition before jo ining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Pari s. On graduating from the CNSM with Five « Premier Prix » he went on to study orchestral conducting and composition with Michael Jarrell in Geneva . As a concert pianist\, he has been invited notably by the NHK Symphony O rchestra\, the New-York Philharmonic\, the San Francisco Symphony\, Orches tre de Paris\, London Philharmonic\, Bamberger Symphoniker. He as conducte d Sinfonia Varsovia in Wagner and Haydn and Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestr a. He also dedicates a large part of his performing activities to contempo rary music : he has premiered Philippe Manouryʼs concerto for piano and e lectronics with the Orchestre de Paris\, Philippe Maintzʼs Concerto with the Luxembourg Philharmonic\, as well as many new works by young composers .\n\nAs a composer\, his work follows the path of the French composers of twentieth century\, with a strong interest for timbral evolution and orche stration. He is commissioned by festivals and musical institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln\, Radio-France \, Evian Festival and numerous festivals and musical institutions. His wor ks are performed by the Chorus and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Franc e\, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Boston Symphony Orchestra unde r conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi\, Alexander Briguer\, Pascal Rophé\, FrançoisXavier Roth\, Jonathan Stockhammer.\n\nPublished by Dura nd (Universal Music Publishing) since 2012\, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger rec eived the Lili and Nadia Boulanger prize from the Académie des Beaux Arts and the Hervé Dugardin Prize from the Sacem in 2015.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2022/07/Sayaka-Shoji-Laura-Stevens11.jpg CATEGORIES:Ensembles LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR