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5th International Meetings of Mirecourt From 19th to 24th November 2013

Composer Edith Canat de Chizy Pianists Silke Avenhaus Dana Ciocarlie Violonists Christian Altenburger Marianne Piketty Violist Françoise Gnéri Cellists Patrick Demenga Ophélie Gaillard Double-bassist Yann Dubost

Under the Artistic Direction of Marianne Piketty

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The Sense of the Meeting by Martine Jung President

The 5th International Meetings of Mirecourt

The Spirit of the Meeting by Marianne Piketty Artistic Director

Let's imagine a musical festival which would interact with Mirecourt’s historical background and which would have a common sense in the French musical environment - and even more widely, at the European level. This was the original concept for these International Meetings of Mirecourt. The aim is to gather on a yearly basis, musicians, violin- and bow-makers, as well as to celebrate French music of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and finally to discover and promote new talents. These meetings are split into two great events in alternation each year: an international violin contest and a festival. Master classes, concerts and conferences are some of the outstanding moments which enable participants to transmit and share their knowledge and experience. The 2013 International Musical Meeting will welcome 9 european artists who will reside in Mirecourt from 19th to 24th November to discover and share the most famous pages of French music beside rare compositions : Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Milhaud, Poulenc, Samazeuilh, Ravel will resonate in Mirecourt. The contemporary composer Edith Canat de Chizy will be honored through a creation and interpretation of many pieces of chamber music. Her piece « Siloël » for string orchestra will drive a priviledged meeting with music teachers of the Music school of Mirecourt and stringed-instruments making students. Therefore, 2013 will highlight over the borders the diversity and wealth of an often unknown register of music. This year will also reinforce the link between artists and violin makers in Europe and Mirecourt.

This project was designed for Mirecourt regarding it’s world knowed Heritage and where since the 18th century the most famous violin makers are originated from, where still today new generations of violin makers are trained and finaly due to it’s economic activity linked to both violin and bow making. It was like an evidence that unique synergies could happen nowhere else than Mirecourt: meetings between young instrument creators and those who wake them up when playing them, connection of young violin making students with famous masters through the instruments carried by the virtuosi who are their gardiens, union of the 4 essential et supplementary ingredients that are violin- and bow- makers, composers and musicians, contacts between young musicians and virtuosi,… Rare intimacy and unvaluable experience driven by these exchanges are the kind of things we wish to promote through the International Meetings of Mirecourt to enable anyone to grow thanks to close contacts with the others and to reinforce worldwide and through the ages the gleam of Mirecourt, place of exception.

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9 artists will reside in Mirecourt from 19th to 24th Novembre 2013


Tuesday 20th and Thursday 21st November, 6pm to 9pm – Music School of Mirecourt Master Classes Friday 22nd November, 3pm to 5pm – National Stringed-Instruments Making School The artists residing in Mirecourt meet with the students and teachers Friday 22nd November, 8:30pm – Cinema Rio Free verse to Yann Dubost Scelsi Le Réveil profond Canat de Chizy Danse de l'aube Chauris Ripples I Vasks Bass Trip Rossini Duetto for Cello and double-bass Canat de Chizy Siloël for string orchestra Bottesini Big Duo for violin, double-bass and orchestra Saturday 23rd November, 3pm – Cinema Rio Conference Canat de Chizy, illustrated by Canat de Chizy Falaises, String Quintet and Tiempo, String Trio Saturday 23rd November, 4pm – Cinema Rio Canat de Chizy En bleu et or for Viola and Piano Françoise Gnéri and Silke Avenhaus Samazeuilh Fantaisie Elégiaque Poulenc Sonata Marianne Piketty and Dana Ciocarlie Milhaud Visages Op.238 La Californienne, The Wisconsonian, La Parisienne Françoise Gnéri and Silke Avenhaus Saturday 23rd November, 6pm – Cinema Rio Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello Christian Altenburger and Patrick Demenga Canat de Chizy Formes du vent Ophélie Gaillard Chausson Quatuor in A major Op.30 Christian Altenburger, Françoise Gnéri, Patrick Demenga and Silke Avenhaus Saturday 23rd November, 8:30pm – Cinema Rio Ravel Ma mère l’Oye Dana Ciocarlie and Silke Avenhaus Fauré Elégie Poulenc Sonata for cello and piano Ophélie Gaillard and Silke Avenhaus Canat de Chizy Creation ordered for the International Meetings of Mirecourt Marianne Piketty and Dana Ciocarlie Ravel Trio Marianne Piketty, Ophélie Gaillard and Dana Ciocarlie Sunday 24th November, 11am – Cinema Rio Debussy Sonata for cello and piano Patrick Demenga and Dana Ciocarlie Ravel Sonata for violin and piano Christian Altenburger and Dana Ciocarlie Fauré Quatuor n°1 in C minor Op.15 Marianne Piketty, Françoise Gnéri, Ophélie Gaillard and Silke Avenhaus


The Composer Edith Canat de Chizy


Her independent language and freedom of style have enabled her to create a singular sound world where her imagination holds sway. She obtained exceptionnal distinction for her cello concerto Moïra at the Prince Pierre de Monaco competition (1999). In 2000, she was nominated at the Victoires de la Musique for her violin concerto Exultet. Her viola concerto Les Rayons du jour, commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, premiered in February 2005 by Ana Bela Chaves under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach met a huge success with the public and the critics. Her most famous works have been ordered by the State, Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, IRCAM, Musicatreize, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Sequenza 9.3, Accentus, TM+ and they include vocal pieces, string writings like her three quatuors and symphonic writings like Omen, created in October 2006 by Orchestre National de France and Pierre d’Eclair created in March 2011 by Orchestre National de Lyon. She was often a composer in residence like at the Festival de Besançon where her piece for Times Grand Orchestra has been imposed during the final of the Young Conductors International Competition in 2009 and has been created by BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs, Prize for her orchestral work Yell (1990); the SACEM Hervé Dugardin (1987) and Georges Enesco (1990) prizes; the Paul-Louis Weiller prize (1992); the SACD “Jeune talent musique” Prize (1998) and she is crowned in 2004 by the SACEM Great Symphonic Prize. She was made Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1994 and Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2012; Elected in 2005 at the french Beaux-Arts Académie, Edith Canat de Chizy (born on 26 March 1950) is the first woman composer to enter the Institut de France. She is teacher of composition at CNR Paris since 2007. In January 2008, Edith Canat de Chizy has been made Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Having obtained a degree in Art, Archeology and Philosophy at the Sorbonne University, she then studied music in the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, where she was awarded, in turn, first prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration and composition. At the same time she worked on electroacoustics with Guy Reibel both at the Conservatoire and with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. She studied first under Ivo Malec and then, in 1983, came the decisive meeting with Maurice Ohana. Edith Canat de Chizy’s training as a violonist means she is very familiar with string writing. She has an obvious sense of timbre and sound matter which is particularly in evidence in her orchestral works.


The Violonist Marianne Piketty



“Density, spirit, virtuosity, depth, generosity”. This is how the press acclaimed the violinist Marianne Piketty; an artist whose eclectic career ranges from Bach to Piazzolla and for whom solo concerts, recitals, chamber music, unique duos, the major repertoire, little known works and the music of our time all feature side by side. Marianne Piketty made her solo debut at the Salle Pleyel in Paris at the age of seven. At twelve, she enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique, where she obtained First Prizes for Violin and Chamber Music. She then joined Dorothy DeLay’s famed soloist class at the Juilliard School in New York and regularly performed in master classes for Itzhak Perlman. She went on to win the Artists International Competition and make an auspicious debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. Upon her return to France, she won First Prize at the Young Soloist Competition in Bordeaux and was awarded the Prix de la Sacem. Her encounter with Yehudi Menuhin proved decisive as she was asked to perform the Brahms concerto under his direction and to become a soloist with his Foundation. Her career as a soloist has led her to perform in Paris and with orchestras such as Saint Petersburg National Orchestra, the Lille National Orchestra, the Lorraine National Orchestra, Orchestre Lamoureux, orchestre de chambre de Toulouse, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Manchester Sinfonia, the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Caracas, Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne.

In Kiev, she gave the first performance of Renaud Gagneux’s Concerto for Violin with the Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra. She regularly performs at festivals, including those of Radio-France and Montpellier, the Flâneries musicales de Reims, Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux, Nancyphonies, Festival Messiaen de la Meije, Les Violons de la Paix at Boulogne sur Mer, C’est pas classique in Nice, Les Rencontres musicales de Haute-Provence, Festival international de Besançon, Festival « Musica » in Strasbourg, and the Istanbul International Festival. A chamber music enthusiast, Marianne Piketty has also had the privilege of including amongst her musical partners the likes of Dana Ciocarlie, Eric Le sage, Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Ophélie Gaillard, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Antje Weithaas, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Paul Meyer, Philippe Berrod, Chen Halevi. In 2006, the unique violin-accordion duo she forms with Pascal Contet will be performing in numerous cities and festivals this season with their repertoire of transcriptions of classics, recent works by Bernard Cavanna, Joëlle Léandre, Sophia Goubaidulina and new works by Graciane Finzi, Laurent Mettraux and Javier Torres Maldonado. ... Their CD Night’s Dream has received warm critics ... “A unique event... Together they clear the way, transcribe or commission new works... Marianne Piketty and Pascal Contet make us travel and dream. It is so unusual today that one cannot thank them enough...” Arte. Her latest recording for Integral Classic, Bohemia, with the pianist Dana Ciocarlie, is particularly noteworthy: “... an unsurpassed duo. Marianne Piketty’s violin has a touch of Paganini at the tip of the bow and Romani musical genes inside the strings.” Le Monde Marianne Piketty is professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon and frequently gives Master Classes in both France and abroad. Since 2009, she is also artistic director of the International Meetings of Mirecourt, the Solistes de la Villedieu and Musique aux 4 Horizons in Ronchamp.. Marianne performs on a violin by Carlo Tononi, dated 1685.

The Violonist Christian Altenburger



Christian Altenburger studied at the University of Music in his hometown of Vienna and with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York. At 19, he made his debut as a soloist at the Vienna Musikverein. This was soon followed by engagements with top international orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworchester Amsterdam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, Dennis Russel Davies, Christoph von Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Václáv Neumann, Sir Roger Norrington, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Franz Welser- Möst and others. In addition to his appearances as a soloist, chamber music has become an important aspect of his artistic work. His chamber music partners include: Bruno Canino, Patrick Demenga, Heinz Holliger, Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Reinhard Latzko, Michele Lethiec, Melvyn Tan, Lars Anders Tomter and Lars Vogt. He is also involved in the organization of famous musical projects. From 1999 to 2005, he is the artistic director of the Mondseetage Festival with the actress Julia Sternberber. Since 2003, Christian Altenburger has been Artistic Director of the Schwäbische Frühling Music Festival whose

architecturally attractive concert venues in southern Germany offer an ideal ambiance for chamber music as well as Symphony Orchestra concerts. In 2006 Altenburger became Artistic Director of the Loisiarte Festival in Langenlois, Austria. The festival takes place in the extraordinary surroundings of the Loisium designed by architect Steven Holl. For many years, Christian Altenburger held a professorship at the Hannover University of Music. In 2001, he was appointed a professorship at the Vienna University of Music. In 2012, he is member of the second International Violin Competition of Mirecourt.

The Violist Françoise Gnéri



Françoise Gnéri was appointed as a viola teacher to the CNSM of Lyon in 2009. Soloist at the Opera of Paris until 1992, she is a musician with an eclectic & original course, who distinguishes herself by her passionnate commitment in the most varied projects, both on a pedagogical & on a musical level. Her intense activity as a chamber music player & her deep knowledge of the 20th century music bring her to be invited on the most important french stages (Châtelet, Radio-France, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Beaubourg, etc...) as well as foreign ones (Brême, Lisbonne, Tokyo, New-York,...) on which she performs with artists such as Philip Hirschorn, Christoph Henkel, Roland Pidoux, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Maxim Vengerov, Bruno Pasquier, François Salque, Olivier Chalier, Marianne Piketty, Svetlin Roussev. A privileged collaboration binds her to the pianist Denis Pascal, with whom she has recorded Brahms sonatas & the sonata for violin & piano in A minor by Shumann, transcribed for the viola, a record for which she won the best appreciations. Regularly requested by Jean-François Zygel to take part in his musical courses & in his classical cabaret, she shares with him this taste for establishing a dynamic relation between the audience & the musicians and puts her talent in the service of original events, mixing new audiences, performing in unusual places, in a desire to share & communicate. She has been the artistic director of the international academy of music of Houtin-Médoc & of the association TetraKys, in Touraine, since 2010.

The Cellist Ophélie Gaillard



An insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk, an immoderate appetite for the whole of the concerted cello repertoire, complete disregard of limits and petty quarrels: those are no doubt the features that have always set this brilliant Franco- Swiss musician apart. Voted “Revelation: Solo Instrumentalist of the Year” at the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires) in 2003, she has appeared since then at many prestigious venues: Concertgebouw Bruges and Amsterdam; Bozar and Flagey, Brussels; the theatres of Bordeaux, Avignon, Poissy, Aix-en-Provence; Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; Oji Hall, Tokyo; London’s Wigmore Hall; and so on.

Ophélie Gaillard is a child of Baroque. She specialised in the Baroque cello from a very early age and for ten years shared the stage with Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm and the Amarillis ensemble, amongst others. Then in 2005 she founded Pulcinella, a “collective” of virtuoso soloists. Sharing her passion for performance on period instruments, they have been her regular accomplices ever since. Her recordings of Vivaldi’s Cello Sonatas and Concertos and the Cello Concertos of Boccherini received the highest distinctions. In 1998 she was the winner of the J. S. Bach International Cello Competition third prize in Leipzig, and in 2000 she recorded Bach’s complete Cello Suites for Ambroisie, a recording that was highly acclaimed by the international press. Then in 2011 she repeated the exploit, this time for Aparté, a recording that earned her distinctions from Diapason (Diapason d’Or) and The Strad Magazine. She also performs works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has recorded, for instance, Britten’s complete Cello Suites and Pierre Bartholomée’s Oraison for solo cello. Also very fond of the Romantic repertoire, which she plays as a soloist with orchestras of repute, she has recorded to great acclaim the complete cello works of Schumann, Fauré and Chopin (Ambroisie), while the solo album Dreams (Aparté), made in 2009 at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, proved to be a great public success. Much sought-after as a teacher, she regularly gives master-classes in Asia and in Latin and Central America. In 2010 she was invited to sit on the jury for the ARD International Cello Competition in Munich. She appears regularly on radio (France Musique, France Culture, France Inter, Radio Classique, BBC Radio 3, Espace 2) and television (France 2, Mezzo, Arte). Ophélie Gaillard plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (1737), generously loaned by CIC, and also an anonymous Flemish violoncello piccolo.

Though on paper the music has an almost military precision, the supple, direct technique of the performer carries the listener throught the movements with the fluidity of a mountain stream. Edito, Emmanuel Dupuy / Diapason, May 2011

The Cellist Patrick Demenga



Born in 1962, the musician studied at the Bern Conservatory, in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow as well as with Harvey Shapiro in New York and is one of today`s most sought after cellists. Patrick Demenga appears regularly at the most renowed festivals and music centres throughout Europe, South Africa, the U.S., Canada, South America, Australia and Asia. He frequently collaborates with musical personalities such as Heinz Holliger, Mario Venzago, Dennis Russel Davies, Leif Segerstam, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Howard Griffith, Christoph Poppen, Leonidas Kavakos, Alexander Lonquich, Isabelle Faust, Natalia Gutman, and many others, as well as with orchestras like the Zurich Tonhalle Orchester, Symphonieorchester Basel, RSO Vienna, Camerata Bern, Münchner Kammerorchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Kremerata Baltica, Ensemble Modern etc. His many radio and television recordings as well as numerous LPs and CDs (Novalis, Accord Musidisc, ECM, Sony Classical), have made him known to the international public. Patrick Demenga teaches a concert class at the Lausanne Conservatory and also teaches at diverse international master-classes. For several years, he directed the cello festival Viva Cello in Liestal/Basel. He is artistic director of the Vier Jahreszeiten-Konzerte in Blumenstein near Berne, and of the Musikfestwoche Meiringen. Patrick Demenga obtained the award «Der Goldene Bogen» (Golden bow) in 2001. As a musician, Patrick Demenga is keen to move in the field of tension around great composers – great works and contemporary music. It is precisely in this constellation that he senses the arousal of the musical debate and where he finds his exceptional expressive strength.

The Double-Bassist Yann Dubost



Musician with an eclectic cours, Yann Dubost is surpising his public by his sensibility and sonority and became one of the most sought-after double-bassist. Born in Lyon in 1983, Yann DUBOST chose playing the double bass at the age of 12 after playing the violin since he was 5 years old. He studied at the Conservatory of Grenoble with Philippe Guaingoin and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon with Bernard Cazauran. He was awarded 1st prize at the 8th International Competition of Wattrelos (France) in 1999, 1st prize in the Haverhill Soloist Competition (England) in 2004, and 1st prize of the “International Society of Bassists (ISB) Solo Competition” (USA) in 2005. He is also laureate of the Premio Valentino Bucchi (2008, Rome), the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation (2008), the Cziffra Foundation (2007) and the Declic of CulturesFrance Program. He participated 3 times to the Chamber Music Summer Academy of Seiji Ozawa in Switzerland (IMAS), where he takes classes with S. Ozawa, P. Frank, N. Imai and S. Harada. At age 19, he joins the Paris Orchestra where he performs during 9 seasons under the direction of C. Eschenbach, P. Järvi, P. Boulez, V. Gergiev, B. Haitink, E.P. Salonen… He is invited in 2006 as solo double-bassist by the London Symphony Orchestra, he is named solo double-bassist of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in November 2011, conducted by M.W. Chung.

Chamber Music takes a privileged place for Yann Dubost who performs with Frank Braley, Bertrand Chamayou, Christoph

Eschenbach, Adam Laloum, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Olivier Charlier, Svetlin Roussev, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Yan Levionnois, Roland and Raphaël Pidoux, Jérôme Pernoo, Christophe Coin, Philippe Bernold, Philippe Berrod, the Moraguès Quintet, the Ensemble Initium, the quatuors Ardeo, Debussy, Diotima, Fine Arts, Modigliani, Thymos... His concerts drove him to Paris (Pleyel, Châtelet, Radio France, Musée d'Orsay, Opéra Comique), Lyon (salle Molière), Toulouse (Capitole), Aix (Grand Théâtre de Provence), Luxembourg (Philharmonie), Geneva (Victoria Hall), but also all over Europe, to India, to the USA, to Japan... Yann regularly takes part in several festivals such as Deauville, Cordes-sur-ciel, Les Arcs, Les musiques in Marseille, Cziffra Festival, La Folle Journée of Nantes, the International Festival of Besançon, the Epau Festival, the Printemps des Arts of Monte-Carlo, Capalest (Slovakia), ModFest (USA), Festivals of Schleswig-Holstein and Ultraschall (Berlin)... He created in 2008 the trio Les Tromano with Yorrick Troman (violin) and Daniel Troman (accordion) and in 2009 the trio Morpheus with Marion Tassou (soprano) and Yannaël Quenel (piano), with whom he addressed a more eclectic program. He takes regularly part to the Sirba Octet concerts (Yiddish music). Soilist of the Itinéraire ensemble and loving contemporary music, he performed numerous creations and worked with composers like György Kurtag, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Michaël Levinas, Franck Bedrossian, Marc-André Dalbavie. From his meetings with avec Ondrej Adamek, Yves Chauris, Carlos Roque-Alsina, Benjamin Taylor, Richard Wilson are borned some pieces for double-bass which have enriched the solo repertoire of this instrument. He often plays sonatas with Yannaël Quenel, Yann Ollivo, or Vincent Balse. In 2007, he was invited to perform the opening recital of the International Society of Bassists Convention in Oklahoma City which has been followed in June 2009 by a USA Tour (New-York, Penn State University and Baltimore) with Vincent Balse. He recorded pieces for solo double-bass from Richard Wilson (Albany records), Teresa Procaccini (Edipan) and also Lucien Durosoir with the quatuor Diotima (Alpha), Georges Onslow with the Ensemble Initium (Timpani), Gabriel Fauré with Karine Deshayes and the Ensemble Contraste (Zig-Zag Territoires) and Félicien David in a quintet with Christophe Coin (Laborie). Yann Dubost is teaching at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux and at the Pôle d'Enseignement Supérieur Bretagne - Pays de la Loire, in Rennes.

The Pianist Dana Ciocarlie



The first source of Dana Ciocarlie's piano- playing was the Romanian piano school wherefrom also have emerged Clara Haskil and Dinu Lipatti. After a first degree in Bucarest, she then later studied in Paris with Victoria Melki at the Ecole Normale de Musique and attended Dominique Merlet's and Georges Pludermacher's classes at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique. Her meeting with the German pianist Christian Zacharias was a decisive factor for her career, stimulating her to delve deeply into Franz Schubert’s piano music. Endowed with a quick-witted and mercurial temperament, combined with generosity and commitment, Dana Ciocarlie has a vast repertoire ranging from Johann-Sebastian Bach to contemporary composers. Some of these, including Karol Beffa, Frédéric Verrières, Nicolas Bacri and Helena Winkelman have written specially for her. She is also recognized as one of the major interpreters of Horatiu Radulescu. Her experience and her talent were rewarded with numerous prizes in prestigious competitions: a second prize at the Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, the Sandor Vegh Special Prize at the Geza Anda Competition in Zurich, the Pro Musicis International Prize, the Young Concert Artist European Auditions Award in Leipzig, and a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Italy. Her numerous recitals and concerts with orchestras throughout the world have taken her to the United States, Canada. Indonesia and China. She has performed in most European countries and in France -- her country of residence— , concerts have taken her to the Salle Gaveau, the Cité de la Musique, the Orsay Museum, the Auditorium du Louvre and others. Among her favorite musical partners figure the violonists Gilles Apap, Jean-Marc Philips, Nicolas Dautricourt, Laurent Korcia and Marina Chiche, the violist Arnaud Thorette, the violoncellists Sébastien van Kuijk and Alexandre Kniazev, french horn player David Guerrier and the string quartets Psophos and Tallich. Since 2001, she is a much appreciated guest of the Radio France where she has a regular emission going with musicologist Jean François Derrien: It is on the works of Schumann. Her numerous recordings were highly acclaimed by the specialised musical press who recognized in her the humility of the great and compared her musicality even to that of Wilhelm Kempff and Clara Haskil. Her maturity, simplicity of tone, and natural expression caught the attention of the monthly magazine Le Monde de la Musique, which commented in an article about the "2000 generation" that she was a promising young artist, soon likely to be top of the bill. At the moment she is about to record all Schumann piano works for the label “La Dolce Volta”.

The Pianist Silke Avenhaus



Emotion paired with sensitivity, creativity and curiosity - these are the qualities attributed by music critics to the pianist Silke Avenaus for her international concert appearances and for her more than 20 CD productions. Her solo concerts and her much-in-demand appearances in chamber music ensembles have taken Silke Avenhaus thoughout Europe, the USA and South East Asia. She has appeared in concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Brahms-Saal of the Wiener Musikverein, in the Philharmonie in Cologne, Munich and Berlin as well as in the Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. She has accepted invitations to the Marlboro Music Festival, to the Chamber Musuc Festivals in Prussia Cove and Moritzburg, to the Berliner Festwochen and to the Rheingau Music Festival, to the Salzburg Festspielen, the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and to the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Silke Avenhaus has made guest appearances with the NDR Sinfony Orchestra Hamburg, the Berlin Radio Sinfony Orchestra, the German Radiophilharmonie and with the Munich Chamber Orchstra. Born in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, Silke won a number of competitions at an early age, studied with Bianca Bodalia

and Klaus Schilde (University of Music and Performing Arts Munich), György Sebök (Indiana University, Bloomington) and with Sandor Végh and Andras Schiff. Silke Avenhaus performs together with artists such as Tabea Zimmermann, Thomas Zehetmair, Benjamin Schmid, Christoph Poppen, Isabelle Faust, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Jörg Widmann, Clemens Hagen and with Sabine Meyer in the Ensemble Collage. An especially close musical affinity brought her together with Quirine Viersen and Antje Weithaas, with both of whom she has produced several CDs. Various composers have written works for which she has given first perfomances, for example Wilfried Hiller, Jörg Widmann, Magnar Aam, Akikazu Nakamura, Helmut Eder and Detlef Glanert. In only a few years Silke Avenhaus recorded more than 20 CDs with solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces, among others for EMI, ECM, Koch, Tudor, cpo, Berlin Classics, CAvi and harmona mundi. Included in these are works for Violin and Piano by Szymanowski (with Thomas Zehetmair), Beethoven Cello sonatas (with Quirine Viersen), Schumann Violin sonatas (with Isabelle Faust), the "Quartett vom Ende der Zeit" (with the Munch-Trio and Charles Neidich), Mozart's concert aria "Ch' io mi scordi di te" (with Juliane Banse and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Christoph Poppen), the "Concertino von Triebensee" (with the German Kammerphilharmonie), piano trios by Beethoven, Hiller and Mendelssohn (with the Munch-Trio). The CD "leggiero, pesante", recorded together with the Rosamunde Quartett and Anja Lechner and with chamber music by Silvestrow, was nominated for the Grammy Award 2003. She recorded the Brahms Piano Quintett with the Arcanto Quartett. More recently, various CDs have appeared with solo works: First recordings of Alexander von Zemlinsky (Naxos), the "Buch der Sterne" by Wilfried Hiller as well as piano pieces by Robert Schumann and Peter Tschaikowsky. The CD-Edition consisting of Anthologies from Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn and French composers, produced together with Antje Weithaas on the CAvi label, is being continued. Silke Avenhaus teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich and as a regular lecturer at the Villa Musica. For Silke Avenhaus, bringing "classical music" to children and young people is of special importance, whether it be with audio books for children, via workshops or taking part in the "Rhapsody in School" project initiated by Lars Vogt.

2012 – 2nd International Violin Competition

2011 – 2nd Musical Meeting

Retrospective of the Internationales Meetings of Mirecourt

2012 was the year of the 2nd International Violin competition of Mirecourt. The President of the Jury was Roland Daugareil (France) and the members of the Jury were Kyoko Takezawa (Japan), Marianne Piketty (France), Christian Altenburger (Austria) and Marco Rizzi (Italy). In Mirecourt and Thaon-les-Vosges for the finale, almost 1500 people attended the different rounds of the contest, the master-classes hold by the members of the Jury, the conference hold by Françoise Gnéri and the concert given by the Ardeo Quatuor. The 2012 Competition was of an outstanding level with 40 candidates under 25 years old registered. The finale highlighted four young talents who interpretated the Mendelssohn and Tchaïkowsky concertos accompanied by the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy conducted by Jonathan Schiffman in front of an audience of more than 650 music lovers. The 2012 laureates are: • OKADA Shuichi, 1st Prize and Prize CORELLI AUBERT LUTHERIE BIGOT for the most

remarkable personality – a bow from Sylvain BIGOT, • MASAOKA Eri, 2nd Prize • BORTOLOTTO Laura, 3rd Prize, Prize of the Public, Prize of the stringed-instrument making

school of Mirecourt, Prize Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre de musique romantique français for the best interpretation of the french sonata during the semi finale

• KIM Seayoung, 4th Prize


During the 3rd International Meeting / 2nd Musical Meeting, 500 music lovers attended two concerts: • « Le salon romantique » played by Dana Ciocarlie (piano), Marianne Piketty (violin), Cécile Agator

(violin), Caroline Donin (viola) and Ophélie Gaillard (cello),

and • the Symphony concert « Musique Française » played by the Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux

conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow , with the violinist David Castro-Balbi (Winner of the 1st Mirecourt International Violin Competition) and the pianist Alexandre Kantorow.

The recital « Le violoncelle buissonnier » has been played by the cello player Ophélie Gaillard and a conference was lead in the stringed instrument Making Museum by the bow maker Nelly Poidevin. Twenty students from the music school have also had the opportunity to attend master classes hold by Marianne Piketty and Ophélie Gaillard.

The International Meetings of Mirecourt created in 2009, show in alternation each year the International Violin Competition and the International Musical Meetings.

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2010 – 1st International Violin Competition

2008 – The Genesis

2009 – 1st Musical Meeting

Retrospective of the Internationales Meetings of Mirecourt

The 2nd Musical Meeting was organized around the 1st International Violin Competition of Mirecourt. The President of the Jury was Jean-Jacques Kantorow (France) and the members of the Jury were Michaël Frischenschlager (Austria), Marianne Piketty (France), Tomotada Soh (Japan), Oscar Yatco (Germany). Almost twenty worldwide candidates registered. An attentive public followed all the rounds and the young candidates were also able to attend master classes hold by the Jury members. 900 persons attended the concert given in Mirecourt by the violinist soloist Svetlin Roussev accompanied by the local orchestra “Sinfonietta Bel’arte” conducted by Jean-Marie Quenon, as well as the final concert in Thaon-les-Vosges where the contest winner, David Castro Balbi played accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lorraine conducted by Jacques Mercier. The employees of the Town of Mirecourt, the students and teachers from the Lycée Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (National stringed-instrument Making School) and a team of local volunteers invested their energy to organize the event. The young candidates were hosted in families from Mirecourt. The 2010 laureates are : • CASTRO-BALBI David (France), 1st Prize, • LEE Kun Wha (Korea), 2nd Prize, • MARQUISE GILMORE Benjamin (Austria), 3rd Prize, • DUVAL Irène (France), Prize of the most remarkable personality • GJEZI Kristi (France), Prize of the Stringed-instrument making School of Mirecourt


The 1st Musical Meeting of Mirecourt have been scheduled in November 2009. Concerts, conferences and master classes brought together confirmed artists around Marianne Piketty. An audience of six hundred music lovers and around twenty students from the music school together for the master classes, have built the success of this first edition.

In 2008, Marianne Piketty (violonist) and Jean-Paul Houvion (President of the Jeunesses Musicales de France de Lorraine) met with the Mayor of Mirecourt to talk about the possible creation of an International Violin Competition in the town of the violin makers. Easely convinced, the municipality and its culture departement jointly with the Jeunesses Musicales de France de Lorraine and under the artistic management of Marianne Piketty, organized the 1st Musical Meeting of Mirecourt in November 2009.

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