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The 13th Messiaen Festival in La Meije’s program
Saturday July 31th at 5 p.m. – La Grave Church
L’Ame en Bourgeon
Music and poetry around Cecil Sauvage’s poems, and Olivier Messiaen’s Préludes
By Valérie Jeannet (actor), Marie Vermeulin (piano)
Saturday July 31th at 9 p.m. – Le Chazelet Church
Schoenberg: 45 String Trio Opus 45
Schubert : String Trio
Jolas : Trio « Les Heures »
By David Grimal (violin)
Henri Demarquette (cello)
Tomoko Akasaka (viola)
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Sunday August 1st at 5 p.m. – Les Hyères Church
Ligeti : Sonata for alto (1991-1994)
Kurtag: Jelèk for alto (1998-2005)
Bach: Première Suite
By Lise Berthaud (viola)
Sunday August 1st at 9 p.m. – La Grave Church
Messiaen : Vision de l’Amen for 2 pianos
Boulez : Structures, second livre for 2 pianos
Kurtag : Jàtekok – extraits – (1973-1993)
By Deszö Ranki and Edith Klukon (pianos)
Monday August 2nd at 8:30 p.m. – La Grave Church
Webern : Quatre pieces opus 7 for violin and piano
Hurel : Figures libres for flute, clarinets, violin, cello and piano (2000)
Manoury: Michigan Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1992)
Kyburz: Danse aveugle for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1997)
Francesconi: Impulse 2 for clarinet, violin and piano (1985)
By l’Ensemble Court-Circuit
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Tuesday August 3rd at 8:30 p.m. - La Grave ChurchMessiaen : Prélude (1964, posthumous unpublished piece)
Debussy : Six Epigraphes Antiques (version à 2 mains par l’auteur)
Boulez : Sonate N° 3 (Formant 2 : Trope et Formant 3 : Constellation-Miroir)
Messiaen : Le Merle de roche (livre 6 du Catalogue d’oiseauxfor piano)
Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie N°1 (transcription Eduard Steurmann for piano à 2 mains)
By Wilhem Latchoumia (piano)
Boulez : Dialogue de l’Ombre Double for clarinet and magnetic tape (1985)
Boulez : Anthèmes 2 for violin et electronic (1997)
Boulez : Sonate N°1 pour piano (1946), Incise et Page d’éphéméride
By Hae-Sun Kang (violin), Marie Vermeulin (piano) and Jérôme Comte (clarinet)
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Boulez : Livre pour quatuor (1949)
Webern : Six Bagatelles opus 6 pour quatuor à cordes
Mantovani : Deux pièces pour quatuor à cordes (2000-2005)
Messiaen : Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes (1991)
By the Quatuor Parisii and Marie Vermeulin
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Boulez : Sonate N°2 pour piano
Beethoven : Sonate N °29 “ Hammerklavier” op 106
by Paavali Jumppanen (piano)
Saturday August 7th at 5 p.m. – The Cordeliers Church in Briançon
Boulez : Notations for piano (1945)
Messiaen : le Merle Bleu (livre 3 du Catalogue d’oiseaux) (1959)
Carter : Esprit rude/ Esprit doux for flute, clarinet and marimba (1995)
Berio : Sequenza VI pour alto
Boulez : Sonatine pour flûte et piano
Berg : Adagio pour violon, clarinette et piano
Messiaen : Thème et variations pour violon et piano
Fujikura : worldwide creation for violin soloist (ordered by the Messiaen Festival)
Hae-Sun Kang (violin), Emmanuelle Ophèle (flute), Sophie Cherrier (flute), Michel Cerutti
(percussion), Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Dimitri Vassilakis (piano)
Saturday August 7th at 9 p.m. – The Cordeliers Church in Briançon complete
Boulez : Le Marteau sans Maître (1954)
Boulez : Dérive 1 (1984)
Manoury : Le Livre des claviers, 2. duo de marimba (1987-1988)
Boulez : Domaines pour clarinette seule (1968)
Hilary Summers(soprano)
Solists from the ensemble Intercontemporain
Conducted by Pierre Boulez
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Sunday August 8th at 11 a.m. – La Grave ChurchMessiaen : Poèmes pour Mi
Wagner : Wesendonck Lieder
Debussy : Jet d’eau
By Gaëlle Arquez (soprano)
Anne Le Bozec (piano)
Sunday August 8th at 9 p.m. –La Grave Church
Boulez : Messagesquisse for cello and et 6 cellos
Berio : Korot for 8 cellos (1998)
Durieux : Possibilities-to Howard Baker for 8 cellos worldwide creation
(ordered by the Messiaen Festival)
Berio : Sequenza XIV for cello soloist (2002)
Dutilleux : Trois Strophes sur le nom de Paul Sacher
Huber :Transpositio ad infinitum pour violoncello solo
By Marc Coppey (Cellos) and Pauline Bartissol, Delphine Biron, Honorine Schaeffer, Pierre
Cordier, Thomas Duran, Sylvain Rolland, Dmitry Tsypkind
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Rambling 1 : Le Tour de l’Aiguillon (2095 meters) – Monday, August 2nd at 8 a.m
Level : easy to moderate for the difference in level (650 meters going up and 550 meters going down).
Global time: 6h30 (walking time without breaks : 4 hours)
Return to La Grave planned at 2.45 p.m.
Meeting place : 7.45 (in front of the guide’s office in La Grave)
We need personal vehicles for the transport. (1,5 km)
DEVELOPPED THEMATICS :
QUICK DESCRIPTION :
This route starts at the Oratoire Saint-Joseph (1522 meters) to climb to the Hameau du Puy Golèfre (1710 meters). This path runs up to Pont de Valfroide (1850 meters), before a last hill up to the top of the Aiguillon (2095 meters). We will have lunch at the top, facing La Meije. We will arrive under the village of Villar d’Arène where we will drive back to the starting point.
Rambling 2 : Le Pic Blanc du Galibier (2950 meters) – Friday, August 6th at 8 a.m
Level : Moderate (High altitude) (500 meters going up and down).
Global time: 6.30 hours (walking time without breaks ; 4 hours).
Meeting point : 8 a.m in front of the Guide’s Office in La Grave or at 8.20 a.m in front of the Hôtel des Agneaux in Villar.
Return to La Grave at 3.30 p.m
We need personal vehicles for the transport. (18 km)
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DEVELOPPED THEMATICS :
QUICK DESCRIPTION :
This route starts from the Col Galibier road. A path, regular and in alpage mountain, goes up to the Small Valley, sitting in the Mandette’s « barres ». We will arrive on an unnamed pass, before the last sharp bend sides of the great Pic pyramid. We will have lunch at the top.
(WARNING : this programme is given as a guide but it may change because of the weather, the mountain’s conditions and the participants. The guide is the only one to decide and modify the programme for security reasons.
Complementary information:
Level :
Insurance :
The mountain’s guide has an insurance for professional responsibilities and aids. You need some personal insurance. In case of corporal accident, the guide’s insurance will pick up the first aids. All after-hospitable (repatriation, car, transfer) will be picked up by the accident victim’s personnal insurance.
Treatment :
Don’t forget to inform us briefly and privatly, if you have a particular treatment and/or if you are medically followed. It can help us to give quick and good informations to the aid mountain doctor, in case of an accident.
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La Grave : Notre-Dame of the Assumption church
The Notre-Dame of Assumption Church dominates the village. It has kept from the medieval time a great abside that contributes to the wonderful acoustic of this place. This is what attracts many artists for prestigious reccordings and what enables our Partner, France Musique, to achieve great broadcasts.
Le Chazelet : Sainte-Croix Church
Chazelet village is one of the fourth hamlets, said « traverses ». It keeps two big altitude pastures. The actual Church dates from the XIX century. It’s a copy of an old monument, dated from 1611, which has been restaured in 2002. It acoustic is particulary clear and natural.
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Briançon : the Cordelier Church
Before opening it’s door to the chamber music Festival, the Cordelier Church welcomed a franciscan monk community. Today, this monument isn’t military anymore and it houses the Town Hall. At the end of the 60s, the Cordelier Church was protected and it’s now listed as a building. Since 1998, music has taken up résidence in this elegant architecture.
The Hières Church
The village of the Traverses has been erected at the end of the XV century and a Chapel was built. Today, we can just see the bent hurt from the original monument which is joined to the actual monument, in 1607.
Monêtier-les-bains : Dôme’s room.
Created by the Monêtier-les-Bains council in December 2008, this community hall, with 302 seats welcomes few animations (seminar, dance’s show, plays or many concerts).
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez was born in 1925 in Montbrison (Loire). In 1944, he was admitted to the Olivier Messian classes at Paris school academy and at the age of 21, was named scene music director for the Renaud-Barrault company.
In care of the diffusion of contemporary music and of public relations and the creation development, he created the « music estate concert » and in 1976 the « research and coordination acoustic/music Institute » (IRCAM). Nearwhile, he started an international career as a conductor and in 1971, was named the permanent Conductor for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and musical director for the New-York Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1992, he devoted himself to conducting orchestra, compositions and he stopped managing the IRCAM. He is at the head of the Best World Orchestra and is regularly invited to big Festivals. For his seventieth birthday, did a World Tour with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2003, he is the art director of the festival of Lucerne Academy.
As a composer, an author, a creator and a conductor, Pierre Boulez has won many prizes as the Prize of the Siemens foundation, Leonie Sonning Prize, le Praemium Imperial of Japan and recently, the Imamori Prize in Japan (2009).
His last compositions are on Incises, created in 1998 for the Edimbourg Notations VII Festival, created in 1999 and Derive 2, created in 2006.
Pierre Boulez was one of the main contemporary music actor, always contributing to its development.
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Hilary Summers
Contralto
Hilary Summers was born in Newport, South Wales. She studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music and at the London National Opera Studio. Since her professional beginning in as Walkyrie for the Scottish Opera in 1992, she has had a rich career, including 12st to 21st centuries répertoire.
Since 2002, she performed, all around Europe, Le Marteau sans Maître by Boulez, with the Intercontemporary Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez himself. This work’s recording has been awarded a Grammy Award for the Best Performance by a Small Orchestra. For the 80th birthday of the composer she interpreted Le Visage Nuptial under his conduction with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago.
She also did a world tour with the composer Michael Nyman and his orchestra, interpreted pieces as Six Celan Songs, Prospero’s Books, and Cycle of Disquietude.
She will soon interpret Genevieve in Pélleas and Mélisande for Madrid’s Opera.
Tomoko Akasaka
Viola
Tomoko Akasaka started playing the violin at 5. She was admitted to the School Academy of Toho Gakuen in Tokyo at 15 before following her studies at the List Academy in Hungary. Back to Japan, she swapped her violin for a viola, and integrated Toho’s School Academy. She currently studies with Nobuko Imai at the Geneva Music School Academy.
Tomoko Akasaka has won the first prize of the 12 Japanese classic music competition. She also got a grant scholarship from the Rohm Music Foundation in 2005.
WilhemLatchoumia
Born in Lyon in 1974, Wilhem Latchoumia got unanimously his first prize in 1999 at the National Superior School Academy of Music and Dance in Lyon. He passed his B.A. in musicology, and followed Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s classes.
W. Latchoumia performs recitals, concertos, and chamber music in France and abroad (Cité de la musique in Paris, summer Festival and Academies, Xeracion Festival…). He plays solo and collaborates with the choreographer S. Wisniewski and many composers such as Pierre Boulez… In 2006, he wins the first International Piano Competition of Orléans which gives him the opportunity to produce a first album in 2008. In 2009, his recording Impressoes is acclaimed by the critic, and he is given a Diapason d’Or.
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Lise Berthaud
Viola
Born in 1982, Lise Berthaud studied at the C.N.S.M. in Paris, in Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé’s classes. After her first prize, she wins in 2005 the Hindemith prize from the International Competition in Genève. Keen on today’s music, she creates in 2004 the Concerto pour alto by Marc-Olivier Dupin. In 2006, she joins David Grimal, François Salquin, and Floriane Bonani to create the Quartet H2O which Beethoven’s complete quartets. The same year, Lise Berthaud is Radio France Déclic of the Afar’s prize winner. Seiji Ozawa chooses her then to be part of his academy of string quartets in Switzerland.
Hae-Sun Kang
Violin
Hae-Sun Kang starts playing the violin in Korea at the age of 3, and gets her first prizes at the C.N.S.M. in Paris in Christian Ferras (violin) and Jean Hubeau’s chamber music classes. She is the prize winner of international competitions Carl Flesh (London), and Yehudi Menuhin (Paris), she is then named first violin solo of the Paris School Academy’s Orchestra.
In 1997, Hae-Sun Kang creates Quad by Dusapin (for violin and ensemble) and Anthèmes by Boulez (for violin soloist and electronic device), then in 1998 Michael Jarrel’s concerto: Prisme/incidences.
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Anne Le Bozec
Piano
Anne Le Bozec, after integrating the C.N.S.M. in Paris at the age of sixteen, obtains three first prizes in piano, chamber music, and vocal accompaniment. She also follows accompaniment courses with Hartmunt Höll and Mitsuko Shirai.
As a scholarship holder of the Yamaha Music Foundation, and of the Foundation Bleustain-Blanchet vocation, she is the prize winner of the lied competition in Stuttgart, and of the French accompaniment melodies Lili Boulanger in Paris. Anne Le Bozec performs solo and chamber music with privileged partners as Sandrine Tilly, Amel Brahin-Djelloul, Didier Henry, and Marc Mauillon.
Marie Vermeulin
Piano
Maire Vermeulin has a degree from the National Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt Region, and from the C.N.S.M. of Lyon. First prize winner of the “Grand Prix International de Musique” in 2004, she obtains in December 2007 the second prize of the Olivier Messiaen Competition of the city of Paris. These rewards show a command that the pianist gained with musicians such as Marie-Paule Siguret, Zoltan Kocsis, Roger Murano, and Lazar Berman. Her recital at the Festival “Les solistes aux Serres d’Auteuil” in August 2008, was hailed by the French daily newspaper Le Monde : “The musician made from that partition a jubilatory fantasy and showed her affinities with contemporary music”.
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Edith Klukson – Dezsö Ranki
Born in 1959 in Budapest, Edith Klukson studies particular repertories for two pianos and pianos for four hands, dedicating herself to chamber music and lyrical repertory. She works on a large repertory dedicated to the lied, from Mozart to Hugo Wol.
Dezsö Ranki, also born in Budapest in 1957, met Edith Klukson at the Franz Liszt Academy where he studied. He started an international career within prestigious orchestras after winning the first prize Schumann prize. Adith Klukson and Dezsö Ranki have been playing regularly together since 1985 in great European cities. The duo has been taking on classics from the repertory for two pianos and for four hands (Bartok, Beethooven, Schubert, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel…). Contemporary music plays a more and more important role for them, as their regular interpretations of the Hungarian composer Barnabas Dukay’s show.
Gaëlle Arquez
Soprano
Gaëlle Arquez starts playing the piano at the age of 7. She follows courses at the C.N.R. in Poitiers. With a B.A. in Musicology, she dedicates herself to singing at the C.N.R. in Caen. In 2006 and 2007, she is the prize-winner of musical scholarships as the one from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, and also won several international competitions. In 2005, she integrates the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, and passed her degree of Superior Formation last June.
In 2009, she performed in France, Denmark, Germany, Tokyo (Japan). In February and Mars 2008, she was Zerlina in Don Giovani by Mozart. Now, she is preparing several international competitions, and is especially selected for the International Competition of Piano and Singing of Wilgmore Hall (London), and for the International Competition of French Melodies in Toulouse.[haut]
Marc Coppey
Cello
Born in Strasbourg, Marc Coppey gets out of the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris with a First Prize. He performs solo as well than in chamber music. His vast repertory enables him to take up playing pieces from Haydn to contemporary music. He has also created the concerto for cello by Eric Tanguy.
He has also been given in 1992 the Council of Europe Juventus prize. He has been a teacher at the C.N.S.M. in Paris since 1995.
David Grimal
Violin
David Grimal starts the violin at the age of five. He works with Régis Pasquier at the C.N.S.M. in Paris. Then, he takes a year-off and gets into the Political Science Institute. He later starts a brilliant career by taking the initiative to create a collective of musicians “Les Dissonances”.
He obtained the R10 coup de Coeur of Classical-Répertoire with his Ravel record and Debussy, and Bartok sonatas with George Pludermacher (Naïve).Henri Demarquette
Cello
Jérôme Comte
Clarinet
After studying with Pascal Moraguès, Michel Arrigon and Maurice Bourgue, Jérôme Comte is successively awarded the Virtuosity Prize of the Genève School Academy and unanimously the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris prize. The Prize-winner of several international competitions, including the ones in Munich and Prague in 2002, Jérôme Comte becomes a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2005, at the age of 25. He also performs with artists such as Bertrand Chamayou, Jérôme Perno, and the Ebène Quartet.
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Michel Cerutti
Percussion
After getting the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris first prize, Michel Cerutti joins the Ensemle Intercontemporain in 1976. Since then, Michel Cerutti has participated to the creation of numerous pieces, including the part of cymbalum, as Repons soloist by Pierre Boulez. A teacher at the C.N.S.M. of Paris, Michel Cerutti also runs master courses in New York and in Canada. Since 2004, he leads an ensemble of percussions composed of students from the Lucerne Academy.
Samuel Favre
Samuel Favre unanimously wins in 2000 at the C.N.S.M. of Lyon a National degree of Etudes Supérieures Musicales with honours. He is also an intern at the Academy of the Aix en Provence Festival, and the centre of Acanthes. Since 2001, Samuel Favre has been a member of the ensemble intercontemporain with which he has recorded Le Marteau sans maître conducted by Pierre Boulez.
Gilles Durot
Percussion
He entered the C.N.S.M. of Paris in Michel Cerutti’s class in 2003. In 2007, he passed his degree of Superior Training in percussion with highest honours, before following an advanced course.
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Piano
Dimitri Vassilakis starts his musical studies in Athens, and carries on at the C.N.S.M. of Paris where he unanimously wins the First Prizes of piano, chamber music and accompaniment. Since 1992, he is soloist in the ensemble Intercontemporain where he works with Pierre Boulez. He creates Pierre Boulez’s last piece for piano: Incises, and takes part in the recordings of Répons and Sur Incises published with Deutsche Grammophon. His record Le Scorpion with Strasbourg percussions on a music by Martin Matalon was awarded the record of the Charles-Cros Academy in the category “best recording of contemporary music of the year 2004”. His repertory goes from Bach to today’s young composers.
Ensemble Court-Circuit
The Ensemble Court-Circuit is created in 1991 after Barbara and Luigi Polla met. It is today led by Jean Deroyer and Philippe Hurel, and is composed of high level instrumentalists. This formation rapidly imposed itself as a first order ensemble; with creations from numerous composers (T. Murail, P. Leroux, M. Jarrell…).
Court-Circuit is involved in interdisciplinary projects. This is how the ensemble regulary collaborates with the Paris Opera for Ballets creations, or with the Essonne council, and the CNSMDP (Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris). The ensemble is also a member of the Integra project to create a European environment favourable to composition and music sharing.[haut]
Quatuor Parisii
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