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Philippe Bigar is the Managing Director of Tristan Enterprises LLC, a private investment company that takes minority interests in various companies including real estate and agricultural fields. However, Philippe’s true passion is writing Classical Chamber music and bringing joy to people through his music. Likewise, Tristan Enterprises is also involved in promoting and organizing concerts in which Philippe can display his music to the public. His music has been performed at Barge Music, Carnegie Hall, and various private clubs in New York City and Palm Beach, as well as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C. and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.
High-spirited and uncompromising, talented and inspiring, Cindy Castillo has been raising her visibility on the international organ scenethrough distinctiveprogrammes that explore the possiHigh-spirited and uncompromising, talented and inspiring, Cindy Castillo has been raising her visibility on the international organ scenethrough distinctiveprogrammes that explore the possible dialogues between the organ and other artistic expressions such as dance, video or electronic music. Along these lines she conceived « Offrande »(Offering), presenting Carl Dreyer’s silent movie « The Passion of Joan of Arc » accompanied on the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach’s « The Musical Offering ». Or also « À contre-courants » (Against the current), which develops an auditory and visual adventure with video director Lise Bruyneel, based on the chorale « An Wasserflüssen Babylon ».
Her activities as a recitalist have led her from Tokyo to New York and many European countries, without neglecting Africa (Lubumbashi cathedral). Thus she has already played or will do so in the near future in the Bozar series and at the Ars Musica Festival (both in Brussels), at the Philharmonic Hall in Liège, the Festival de Sablé and the Festival Toulouse les orgues (both in France), as well as the Metropolitan Arts Center and Suntory Hall (Tokyo).ble dialogues between the organ and other artistic expressions such as dance, video or electronic music. Along these lines she conceived « Offrande »(Offering), presenting Carl Dreyer’s silent movie «
High-spirited and uncompromising, talented and inspiring, Cindy Castillo has been raising her visibility on the international organ scenethrough distinctiveprogrammes that explore the possible dialogues between the organ and other artistic expressions such as dance, video or electronic music. Along these lines she conceived « Offrande »(Offering), presenting Carl Dreyer’s silent movie « The Passion of Joan of Arc » accompanied on the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach’s « The Musical Offering ». Or also « À contre-courants » (Against the current), which develops an auditory and visual adventure with video director Lise Bruyneel, based on the chorale « An Wasserflüssen Babylon ».
Her activities as a recitalist have led her from Tokyo to New York and many European countries, without neglecting Africa (Lubumbashi cathedral). Thus she has already played or will do so in the near future in the Bozar series and at the Ars Musica Festival (both in Brussels), at the Philharmonic Hall in Liège, the Festival de Sablé and the Festival Toulouse les orgues (both in France), as well as the Metropolitan Arts Center and Suntory Hall (Tokyo).he Passion of Joan of Arc » accompanied on the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach’s « The Musical Offering ». Or also « À contre-courants » (Against the current), which develops an auditory and visual adventure with video director Lise Bruyneel, based on the chorale « An Wasserflüssen Babylon ».
Her activities as a recitalist have led her from Tokyo to New York and many European countries, without neglecting Africa (Lubumbashi cathedral). Thus she has already played or will do so in the near future in the Bozar series and at the Ars Musica Festival (both in Brussels).
Fougueuse et intransigeante, talentueuse et inspirante, Cindy Castillo se distingue sur la scène internationale de l’orgue avec des programmes qui explorent les croisements possibles entre l’orgue et d’autres langages artistiques tels que la danse, la vidéo ou la musique électronique. Elle a ainsi conçu « Offrande » qui propose le film muet de Carl Dreyer « la Passion de Jeanne d’Arc » accompagné à l’orgue par « l’Offrande Musicale » de Johann Sebastian Bach. Ou encore « À contre-courants » qui développe autour du choral « An Wasserflüssen Babylon » une aventure sonore et visuelle avec la vidéaste Lise Bruyneel.
Son activité de concertiste la mène de Tokyo à New-York en passant par Lubumbashi, ainsi que dans de nombreux pays d’Europe. Elle a ainsi joué ou jouera prochainement à Bozar, Ars Musica (Bruxelles), Salle philharmonique de Liège, Festival de Sablé, Festival Toulouse les orgues, Metropolitan Arts Center et Suntory Hall (Tokyo).ls), at the Philharmonic Hall in Liège, the Festival de Sablé and the Festival Toulouse les orgues.
Premiers Prix des Conservatoires de Bruxelles et de Paris, Master en Musique à Namur et diplôme de Spécialisation à Strasbourg, ses maîtres sont Benoît Mernier, Jean Ferrard, Christophe Mantoux, Michel Bouvard et Olivier Latry. Lauréate des Fondations Rotary, de la Vocation, Wernaers et de Lacour, Premier prix du Concours National Axion Classics 2000 (Belfius), elle a été désignée « artiste en résidence » en 2008-2009 au Sapporo Concert Hall.
Parallèlement à son activité de concertiste, Cindy Castillo est programmatrice et présentatrice à Musiq3, la radio classique francophone belge. Elle enseigne l’orgue aux côtés de Benoît Mernier à l’IMEP (Namur) dans le cadre d’un nouveau projet pédagogique baptisé « OrgueStudio ». Elle est organiste titulaire à la Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Bruxelles.oth in France), as well as the Metropolitan Arts Center and Suntory Hall (Tokyo).
Corinne Page
Après des études de piano au Conservatoire de la Chaux-de-Fonds, Corinne Page se tourne vers le chant. Elle obtient son diplôme en 2004, dans la classe de Charles Ossola. Elle se perfectionne ensuite auprès d’Heidi Wolnerhanssen à Bâle ainsi que de Tiny Westendorp.
Elle donne régulièrement des concerts en Suisse (Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Zurich, etc) ainsi qu’à l’étranger (France, Italie, Bulgarie, Pays-Bas).
Elle participe à plusieurs Festivals (Bois qui Chante, Grieg, etc) et son répertoire passe par la musique contemporaine (création de Mélodies de Bertrand Roulet, Oleg Bezborodko ou Jean-Claude Charrez) ou encore le Lied (Schumann, Duparc, Dvorak, Grieg) sans oublier l’oratorio (Petite Messe Solennelle) ou les airs d’opéra.
Elle a notamment donné un récital de musique suisse avec Reto Reichenbach à la prestigieuse salle Cecilia Meireles à Rio et participe régulièrement au festival de Rencontres d’Enhaut.
Theresa was born in London and spent her youth in India and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. She has been singing and playing guitar since the age of 10. At 18, she joined a college band and they were hired to record an album of country music. In 1992, she started writing her own songs.
Jermaine Jackson first heard Theresa Rhodes sing "Save Tomorrow" in 1993. He liked the song and its message and offered to sing it with her. The duet was first performed in public at a charity concert in England where Theresa appeared as Jermaine's guest artist.
In 2004, we recorded and released the album "The Other Side" and gave a series of concerts, notably in Paris at the "New Morning" and at the Arena in Geneva where we played the first act before Lionel Richie.
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Reto Reichenbach was born in 1974 and grew up in Gstaad, Switzerland. He was awarded the Eduard Tschumi Prize for the best graduation of the year. He continued his studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at Yale University. His artistic activities as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist take him him to numerous European countries, as well as to the USA, Canada, China and Japan.
Reto Reichenbach is the prizewinner of the 6th International 20th century Piano Competition in Orléans, France as well as of the International piano competition of the city of Cantú, Italy. For his artistic accomplishments he was awarded the Seepark culture prize by the Swiss Bank Corporation and the “Outstanding Young Person Award” by the Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce. Scholarship awards by the Stanley Johnson, Kiefer-Hablitzel, Ernst Göhner and Josef Pembaur foundations have furthered his career.
A solo CD with spiritual works by Mendelssohn, Bach-Busoni, Liszt and Messiaen was released by the Swiss label VDE Gallo in 2010.
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Jean Louis Steuerman naît à Rio de Janeiro au sein d’une famille de musiciens. Il commence ses études à l’âge de quatre ans et fait ses débuts avec le Brazilian Symphony Orchestra alors qu’il n’a que quatorze ans. Il réalise son premier voyage en Europe après avoir obtenu une bourse d’études au Conservatoire de Naples en 1967, puis remporte le Concours JS Bach de Leipzig en 1972. Il est rapidement reconnu comme soliste et récitaliste dans toute l’Europe.
En tant que soliste, il se produit avec le London Symphony sous la direction de Claudio Abbado, et avec le Royal Philharmonic sous la direction de Lord Menuhin et Vladimir Ashkenazy (avec qui il a joué le Concerto de Britten au Festival d’Athènes). Il fait des débuts brillants aux BBC Proms de Londres en 1985, en jouant le Concerto en ré mineur de Bach avec le Polish Chamber Orchestra.
Cette saison, Mr. Steuerman retourne à l’Orquestra Simfonica Brasileira et fait ses débuts avec le Brevard Festival Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra et le Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Mr. Steuerman a débuté l’année dernière avec l’Utah Symphony (Maestro Carlo Rizzi) et retourne à l’Orquestra Simfonica de Estado de Sao Paulo avec son ami de longue date et collaborateur musicien Roberto Minczuk. Il est également apparu avec le Mexico City Philharmonic en complément de concerts à Athènes, Cannes, Monterrey, et d’autres villes internationales.
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Programme musical
Reinhold Glière 1874 - 1956
4 duos Op. 39 pour violon et violoncelle
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1791
Ch’io mi scordi di te?
Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897
Andante Op. 60
Ernest Chausson 1855 - 1899
Chanson perpétuelle
Erik Satie 1866 - 1925
Trois mélodies sur des textes de J.P. Contamine de la Tour
1. Les anges
2. Élégie
3. Sylvie
Astor Piazzolla 1921 - 1992
Primavera porteña
Pablo de Naverán began studying cello at the age of 11 with Mihai Besedovschi, being selected at 17 in the prestigious 'International Menuhin Music Academy' in Gstaad, where he studied with Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy and Radu Aldulescu, an experience which profoundly influenced his career. He joined latter the class of Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where he completed his academic degree and obtained the highest distinction. He was awarded numerous prizes in international competitions such as the "International Cello Competition Gaspar Cassadó", National Spanish Chamber Music Competition for Young Musicians, or the interpretation Award of the College of Spain in Paris.
Since then Pablo de Naverán has performed in recitals and as soloist in venues like the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires ), Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Hall, Victoria Hall (Genève), Tonhalle (Zürich), Philharmonie (Berlin), Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao), or Mozarteum (Salzburg). In his particular interest in chamber music he has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the Cello-Fest (Belgrade), Festival de Radio-France (Montpellier), Menuhin Festival (Gstaad), Salzburg Festival, Midis-Minimes (Bruxelles ) Prussia Cove (England), Festival do Estoril (Portugal), Festival of Torroella (Spain), Festival Lysy (Argentina), Incontri Musicali (Siena), Festival Ibérico (Spain), Festival di Pompei (Italy) or Schubert Festival (Austria).
He is currently the Head Cello Teacher at the International Menuhin Academy in Switzerland.
Valentyna Pryshlyak comes from Lviv, Ukraine.
She graduates the “Lviv National Music Academy of M.Lysenko” with Bachelor in Music Degree in the class of professor Dmytro Komonko.
Starting from 2006 until 2011 she was member of "INSO-Lviv" Symphony Orchestra, and was regularly playing as a soloist with this orchestra.
From 2011, she becomes a student of the International Menuhin Music Academy, where she gets lessons from Ivan Vukcevic, Johannes Eskar, Sophia Reuter, Ettore Causa, Liviu Prunaru and Maxim Vengerov. She was a member of the Quatuor "Lumière", in which she won the 1st Prize of the "Gianni Bergamo Classic Award" in 2012, chamber music category (Lugano), 3rd Prize of the "International Mozart Competition" (Salzburg) in 2014, and Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland Prize of the “ Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition” in 2015.
From 2014, she is a guest player in L’Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. From September 2016-2017, she was doing academy in Orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur.
At the moment she is a student in Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, in the class of professor Alexander Zemtsov.
Oleg Kaskiv
Oleg Kaskiv was born in 1978 in the small Ukrainian village Kremenetz into a family of musicians. He began playing violin at the age of 7 under the guidance of his violinists parents and later entered M.Lysenko National Academy of Music in Lviv.
In 1996, Oleg won a scholarship to study in Switzerland at the famous “International Menuhin Music Academy” (IMMA), which was founded by Lord Yehudi Menuhin in 1977. At the Academy, Oleg's great mentor was Professor Alberto Lysy, who got his education directly from Lord Yehudi Menuhin and was his only pupil. Therefore the tradition of the great romantic violin playing was passed on to Oleg.
Today, Oleg Kaskiv is a soloist and main violin professor at the IMMA. As a soloist, Oleg Kaskiv regularly performs with great success in his native country with the National Symphony of Ukraine, Odessa Philharmonic and Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras and worldwide: with the Camerata Lysy, Camerata de Lausanne, Symphonisches Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden.
He is a laureate of many prestigious violin competitions such as Queen Elisabeth International Music
Competition (Belgium); International Oistrakh Competition (Ukraine); International Kotorovych Violin
Competition (Ukraine), International Spohr Competition (Germany); International Montreal Competition
(Canada); International Premio Lipizer (Italy), International Niredgazi Violin Competition (Japan),
International Dvarionas Violin Competition (Lithuania) and International Molinari Competition
(Switzerland).
He plays a violin from Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, one of the greatest violinmakers in the music history, which is lent to him to recognize his high class as a violinist and a musician.
