PROGRAMME

FURIOSO

ELFRIDA ANDRÉE (1841-1929)
Quintet with piano

VALBORG AULIN (1860-1928)
Tre Fantasiestycken op. 30
for piano

AMANDA MAIER (1853-1894)
Quartet with piano

DISTRIBUTION

RAPHAËLLE MOREAU, violin
ALEXANDRE PASCAL, violin
LÉA HENNINO, viola
HÉLOÏSE LUZZATI, cello
TANGUY DE WILLIENCOURT, piano
CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID, piano

RAPHAËLLE MOREAU

Nominated in the Revelations category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards in 2020, she won First Grand Prize at the XVIth Postacchini Competition and is a laureate of the Nicati-de-Luze, Or du Rhin and Banque Populaire foundations, as well as the Marcel Bleuestein-Blanchet Foundation for Vocation. After studying with Rodica Bogdanas and Suzanne Gessner, she was admitted unanimously to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. In 2018, she obtained a Master’s degree as a soloist in Renaud Capuçon’s class in Switzerland. Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at the age of twenty-one, she has worked with Herbert Blomstedt, Jonathan Nott, Vladimir Jurowski and Lorenzo Viotti, and has performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. As a soloist, she has appeared with many orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn and the Georgia Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung, Renaud Capuçon, Marzena Diakun, Bastien Stil and Simone Young, among others. Raphaëlle performs a wide repertoire, ranging from the great classics to forgotten female composers and contemporary works. She has premiered works by Camille Pépin, Clara Olivares, Thierry Hersant and Grégoire Rolland. She plays a Carlo Tononi violin from Bologna, generously loaned by Michael Guttman.

ALEXANDRE PASCAL

Born in Paris into a family of musicians, the young violinist Alexandre Pascal studied violin with Suzanne Gessner at the CRR de Paris and then with Olivier Charlier at the CNSMDP, where he brilliantly obtained his master’s degree with the unanimous approval of the jury. Alexandre Pascal is an active soloist and chamber musician. He has performed at prestigious international festivals such as the Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André, Musique à l’Emperi, Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands, Saint-Yrieix, the Flâneries de Reims, the Festival de La Prée, L’Epau, the Festival de Cordes-sur-ciel, the Festival Tons Voisins in Albi, the Tanglewood Music Festival in the United States, and also in prestigious venues such as the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées accompanied by the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Grand Théâtre in Aix-en-Provence, the Seine Musicale in Paris, the Nouveaux Siècles in Lille, NCPA in Mumbai and the Philharmonie de Paris. He shares the stage with prestigious soloists such as Daishin Kashimoto, Eric Le sage, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser, Romain Descharmes, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Pierre Fouchenneret, Marie Chilemme, Lise Berthaud, Lorenzo Gatto, Victor Julien-Laferrière, and of course Aurélien Pascal, Denis Pascal and Marie-Paule Milone. Alexandre has a degree in musicology and studied conducting at the CNSMDP. He has also participated in the Seiji Ozawa Academy for several years. Nominated Adami Classical Revelation 2018, Alexandre plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin from 1852.

LÉA HENNINO

Born in 1991, Léa Hennino obtained her DEM with honours in Carole Dauphin’s class in 2008. A prizewinner in 2013 at the CNSMD in Paris, where she studied with Sabine Toutain and Christophe Gaugué, Léa also spent a year working with Japanese violist Nobuko Imai in Geneva. She spent two years perfecting her skills with the English violist Lawrence Power in Zurich. Recognised as one of the most promising violists of her generation, Léa Hennino has performed on major international stages alongside such renowned artists as Renaud Capucon, Alina Ibragimova, Hanna Weinmeister, Gérard Caussé and Clemens Hagen. Léa is a regular guest with ensembles such as Les Dissonnances, I Giardini and the Aurora Orchestra in England. As a soloist, she has performed Martinü’s Concerto with the Hradec Kralové Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic and Mozart’s Symphonie concertante with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. Selected to take part in international academies in Poland, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, England, Sweden and Spain, she performs in various ensembles in concerts and master classes with great masters. Léa has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions and is a laureate of several foundations.

HÉLOÏSE LUZZATI

TANGUY DE WILLIENCOURT 

Tanguy de Williencourt has performed in France and abroad: Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium de Radio France, Collège des Bernardins, Grand Théâtre de Provence, Philharmonie de Saint-Petersbourg, Philharmonie de Berlin, Opéra de Bonn, Palazzetto Bru Zane, and at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Chopin Festival in Nohant, Radio France Festival in Montpellier, La Chaise-Dieu, Les Chorégies d’Orange, La Roque d’Anthéron… His discography includes an album of solo and orchestral works by César Franck (CHOC Classica), as well as two complete Beethoven Bagatelles and Wagner/Liszt piano transcriptions. He is recording his fourth CD with cellist Bruno Philippe for Harmonia Mundi, a label with which he has also recorded a Berlioz album with mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac, as well as the CD Debussy: the late works, which won the BBC Music Magazine Award and the Gramophone Award in 2019. After brilliant studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the piano (Roger Muraro), chamber music (Claire Désert), accompaniment (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) and voice conducting classes, he received support from the Blüthner and Banque Populaire Foundations, ADAMI (Classical Revelation) and SPEDIDAM. In 2016, he was awarded the double Prix du Jury et du Public by the Société des Arts de Genève, and the following year he won the Paris Play-Direct Competition at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Tanguy de Williencourt has been teaching piano at the CNSMDP since 2021 and was appointed vocal coach by Gustavo Dudamel at the Paris Opera in 2022.

CÉLIA ONETO BENSAID 

DOMAINE DE VILLARCEAUX