PROGRAMME

LÉGENDES

JULIETTE DILLON (1823 – 1854)
The tales of Hoffmann (extracts)
for piano

JULIETTE FOLVILLE (1870 – 1946)
Poème
for cello and piano

RITA STROHL (1865 – 1941)
Dramatic Sonate « Titus et Bérénice »
for cello and piano

DISTRIBUTION

XAVIER PHILLIPS, cello

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC NEUBURGER, piano

XAVIER PHILLIPS

Xavier Phillips began playing the cello at the age of 6. When he entered the CNSM in Paris, in Philippe Muller’s class, he was only 15 years old! He obtained his diploma in 1989. In the meantime, he was awarded in prestigious international competitions: Musical Youth of Belgrade, Tchaikovsky Competition of Moscow, Helsinki Competition. Finally, he won a 3rd prize at the Rostropovitch Competition and was noticed by the great Russian master who completed his musical training. Rostropovitch would then regularly invite him to play as a soloist under his direction. During his career, Xavier Phillips has performed with the greatest orchestras, such as the Orchestre National and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre de Paris, de la Suisse Romande and de La Scala, under the baton of conductors such as Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti and Marek Janowski. He performs in chamber music with Vanessa Wagner, Régis Pasquier or Schlomo Mintz. The recording repertoire of Xavier Phillips is very eclectic. He has recorded a disc dedicated to Ravel with his brother, the violinist Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian and the pianist Emmanuel Strosser, but also Kodaly, Shostakovich, contemporary music, and Armenian music.
In addition to his solo activities, Xavier Phillips has been a professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Sion, Lausanne site, since 2013. His instrument is a Matteo Gofriller from 1710.

JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC NEUBURGER

Born in Paris in 1986, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger quickly established himself as one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation. As a child, he studied organ, piano and composition at the same time, before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of thirteen, from which he graduated with five first prizes. An outstanding finalist at the Concours International Long-Thibaud in 2004, he then embarked on a major career as a pianist, characterised by the extreme variety of his repertoire, from Bach to 21st-century composers. He has performed with the most prestigious orchestras. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jonathan Nott, Osmo Vänskä and Pierre Boulez, with whom he worked on his Second Piano Sonata. His works for piano and chamber music have been premiered and programmed at numerous festivals: Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Festival des Serres d’Auteuil, Festival Messiaen de la Meije, at the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron, as well as at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Auditorium du Louvre and Radio France, sometimes by the composer himself and by talented performers such as the cellists Tatjana Vassiljeva and François Salque, the pianist Bertrand Chamayou, and the percussionists Daniel Ciampolini and Emmanuel Curt. Most of his recordings have been released by Mirare, and his first scores were published by Editions Durand (Universal Music Publishing).

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