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Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied at the CNSMDP with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds. In 1998, Claudio Abbado chose him as concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and he completed his musical education with Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim and Franz Welsze-Möst. As a soloist, Renaud Capuçon plays with the greatest conductors and the most prestigious orchestras in the most famous festival : Festival international de La Roque d’Anthéron, Hollywood Bowl, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Lucerne, Verbier, Salzburg, Rheingau or the Bucharest Enescu Festival.
One of the most renowned soloists, the violinist Renaud Capuçon collaborates with internationally renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Boston Symphony, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
He practices chamber music with passionate partners : Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Kit Armstrong, Khatia Buniatishvili, Frank Braley, Yefim Bronfan, Khatia and Marielle Labèque, Maria Joao Pires, jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yuri Bashmet, Myung-Whun Chung, Yo Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Michael Pletnev. Renaud Capuçon has been conducting the best chamber ensembles on the violin for around fifteen years.
He is artistic director of : Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence, Rencontres musicales d’Evian. Since 2021, he has directed the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne. In 2022, he will put his reputation at the service of a new generation of musicians by launching Beau Soir Productions.
In terms of discography, Renaud Capuçon has already recorded nearly thirty records, notably Bartok’s violin Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth, an album entitled « Cinema » released in October 2018. From September 2022, he begins a new collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon and Universal Music, starting with a complete set around Mozart. In February 2023, he published his second album of film music entitled "Cinema II - Les Choses de la Vie ».
His violin is the Guarneri del Gesù « Panette » (1737) which belonged to Isaac Stern. He was promoted to « Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite » in June 2011, « Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur » in March 2016 and « Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres » in December 2021. He is also « Artiste pour la Paix » at UNESCO since September 2020 and promoted to « Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite » in December 2023.
Named Révélation classique de l’ADAMI in 2021, Paul Zientara is already the winner of several international competitions, including 3rd Prize in the prestigious Lionel Tertis Competition on the Isle of Man, Grand Prize of the Fondation Safran pour la Musique and 1st Prize in the Concours d’Epernay.
Paul Zientara began a highly noted concert career as a soloist as well as in chamber music. He shares the stage with Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Valeriy Sokolov, Jérémy Menuhin, Pierre Fouchenneret, Adam Laloum, Adrien La Marca, Jérôme Ducros, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Vincent Warnier ...
He is invited to lot of festivals such as the Festival international de piano de la Roque d’Anthéron, the Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence, the Festival Pianissimes and the Pablo Casals Festival.
Committed to contemporary music, he has the opportunity to perform a lot of creations. Invited by Renaud Capuçon to Nouveaux Horizons Festival, he recently had the honor of creating « My Other Self » by Diana Soh in a duet with Gérard Caussé. Vincent Warnier dedicated « Legend » to him, a work for viola and organ of which they perform the world first in October 2020.
Paul Zientara began playing the viola at the age of 7 and was admitted to the CNSMDP in the class of Sabine Toutain and Christophe Gaugué. He perfected his skills with masters such as Tabea Zimmermann, Gérard Caussé, Tatjana Masurenko, Bruno Pasquier, Nils Mönkemeyer, the Quatuor Ebène and Laurent Korcia.
He participates in international masterclasses including the Kronberg Academy Festival for which he is invited by Tabea Zimmermann.
Paul Zientara plays on a viola by Patrick Robin, financed by the Fondation Safran pour la musique, on the initiative of the Talent’s & Vio-lon’celles association.
Guillaume Bellom has had one of the most atypical career paths of his generation, combining violin and piano studies at the CNSMDP, where he came into contact with such musical luminaries as Nicholas Angelich and Hortense Cartier-Bresson.
1st Prize at the Concours international de piano d’Epinal and finalist and winner of the « Modern Times » Prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary piece at the Concours international de piano Clara Haskil in 2015, Guillaume Bellom revealed himself at this event dedicated to the Romanian pianist. The following year, he won the Thierry Scherz Prize at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. The general public discovered him at the Victoires de la Musique Classique, where he was nominated in the « Instrumental Soloist Revelation » category.
His musical career has taken him to the Festival international de piano de la Roque d’Anthéron, Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence, the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Salzburger Festpiele, the Theatre des Champs-Elysées, the Auditorium de Radio France, the Mariinsky Theater in Saint-Pétersbourg, the Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples or the Shanghai Concert Hall.
He has performed with Renaud Capuçon, Paul Meyer, Yan Levionnois, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Mathilde Caldérini, Ismaël Margain, Anna Göckel and David Kadouch, and as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence et the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, conducted by Christian Zacharias, Pierre Dumoussaud, Ruth Reinhardt and Debora Waldman.
He is also involved in the musical creation of our time, notably being the dedicatee of recognized composers such as Pascal Dusapin (Forma Fluens with Renaud Capuçon) and Camille Pépin (Gris-Brume with Yan Levionnois).
The year 2024 is the occasion for the release of a solo album devoted to the piano music of Richard Strauss (Label Mirare).
Guillaume Bellom is a laureate of the Foundation l’Or du Rhin and the Foundation d’entreprise Banque Populaire. He has been an associated artist at the Fondation Singer Polignac since 2018.
Born in 1996, Danish violinist Anna Egholm has gained international recognition in recent years. Winner of all Danish music competitions and many international violin competitions, such as the Carl Nielsen, Tibor Varga and Ginette Neveu competitions, Anna Egholm plays with orchestras including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra , the Filarmonica of Stat Transilvania and the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne.
Pupil of Alexandre Zapolski, Svetlana Makarova and Tim Frederiksen, Anna Egholm graduated in violin performance from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and then obtained a master's degree from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Since the 2020-2021 season, Anna Egholm has been artist in residence under the direction of the French violinist Augustin Dumay at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium.
Anna Egholm has recently collaborated with artists such as Pavel Vernikov, Sergey Malov, Renaud Capuçon, Enrico Pace and Anastasia Kobekina and was selected to participate in the 2018 edition of the Chamber Music Connects the World festival at the Kronberg Academy, where she plays alongside by Steven Isserlis and Gidon Kremer.
Anna Egholm plays a 1763 Gagliano violin, generously loaned by the Augustinus Foundation.
Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at the age of twenty-one, Raphaëlle Moreau has collaborated with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Jonathan Nott and Lorenzo Viotti and has performed at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. She is regularly invited as guest concertmaster in various orchestras such as Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne.
She has been awarded the first Grand Prize of the Postacchini Competition and has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Ostinato Orchestra among others.
In the year 2020, Raphaëlle has been nominated as « Rising Star » at the french Victoires de la Musique Classique and took part in the “Martha Argerich & Friends” concert at the Philharmonie de Paris performing with Stephen Kovacevich and Gerard Caussé. She has also shared the stage with Renaud Capuçon in the Double Concerto by J.S. Bach accompanied by the Lausanne Soloists and premiered the Double Concerto for violin and cello by Philippe Hersant.
Being a passionate chamber musician, Raphaëlle regularly collaborates with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, David Kadouch, Celia Oneto-Bensaid, Alexandra Conunova and her three brothers Edgar, David and Jérémie.
She has given guest performances at the Cologne Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festival de Saint-Denis, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Grange au Lac in Evian, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Moments Musicaux de Gstaad and the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
Among 2020-2021 highlights, Raphaëlle has performed Beethoven sonata for violin and piano opus 12 no.3 with pianist Selim Mazari at the Fondation Singer Polignac for the platform Medici.tv and participated in world premieres of works by Clara Olivares, Justina Repečkaitė and Vito Žuraj for the project "New Horizons" live on Arte. Together with her three brothers Edgar, David and Jérémie, Raphaëlle has released an album with works by Korngold and Dvorak for the label Warner Classics/Erato.
She has performed for the French Bastille Day on the 14th of July together with Renaud Capuçon, the Orchestre National de France and Simone Young.
Born in Paris, Raphaëlle Moreau began playing the violin at the age of four in the Suzuki system. After studying with Rodica Bogdanas and Suzanne Gessner, she was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at fourteen and later continued her studies with Pavel Vernikov and then Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne.
Raphaëlle is a laureate of the Nicati-de-Luze Foundation, the Fondation l’Or du Rhin and the Fondation Banque Populaire.
She plays on a violin by Domenico Montagnana from 1740, on a generous loan from Emmanuel Jaeger.
French pianist Tanguy de Williencourt has received the highest accolades from the press in his native country: “a complete musician” (Michel Le Naour, Concertclassic), “pianistic authority and rich colours” (Alain Cochard) while La Croix predicted him to become one of the “future greats of the piano”.
Tanguy has since pursued a very active career, both in France and abroad: Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium du Musée d’Orsay, Maison de Radio France, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra de Lille, Auditorium de Bordeaux, Grand Théâtre de Provence, St Petersburg Philharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie, Bonn Opera, Palazetto Bru-Zane, Folle Journée à Tokyo, and festivals such as Yehudi Menuhin, Gstaad, Chopin, Nohant, Radio France, Montpellier, Pablo Casals, Prades, La Chaise-Dieu, La Vézère, Solistes in Bagatelle, Chorégies in Orange, Abbaye de Royaumont, La Folle Journée in Nantes, La Roque d’Anthéron and Lille Piano Festival. In 2017, he was on television for the French classical music awards (Victoires de la Musique Classique).
His discography includes: for Mirare, the complete piano transcriptions by Wagner/Liszt, as well as the complete Beethoven Bagatelles, both of which have been acclaimed by the critics (***** Classica and Diapason). Tanguy de Williencourt has recorded three CDs with cellist Bruno Philippe: Brahms and Schumann for Evidence Classics, Beethoven and Schubert (CD1) and Prokofiev (CD2) for harmonia mundi, who have asked him again to record a Berlioz album with mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac, as well as the CD ‘Debussy: the late works’, which received the BBC Music Magazine Award and the Gramophone Award in 2019. His colloborative CD ‘Salon Proust’, recorded with violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, has been a critical success since its release in March 2021 on the harmonia mundi label: ‘two splendid French musicians…’ notes the New Yorker, which does not fail to note the strong impression the pianist leaves in his performance of the solo piano pieces. The film of the concert at the Philharmonie de Paris will be broadcast on CultureBox until April 2022. Tanguy de Williencourt’s next CD for the Mirare label will include solo and orchestral works by César Franck.
After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in piano, chamber music, accompaniment and vocal coaching, Tanguy de Williencourt has been able to count on the support from both the Blüthner and Banque Populaire Foundations, as well as Prizes from the Société des Arts de Genève, ADAMI (Classical revelation), SPEDIDAM and awarded a Prize at Philharmonie de Paris/Orchestre de Chambre de Paris joint Play-Direct competition, all in 2016. Parallel to this, he had the privilege to work closely with Maria João Pires, Christoph Eschenbach, Stephen Kovacevich and Paul Badura-Skoda.
At only 24 years old, French cellist Aurélien Pascal already commands international attention for his ‘unparalleled virtuosity and musical intuition.’ The Strad.
Laureate of several prestigious international competitions, including 2nd Prize of at the 2013 International Paulo Competition and the Grand Prix, Prix du Public and the Best performance of the Toch concerto at the 2014 Emanuel Feuermann Competition, he was recently Fourth prizewinner and the youngest finalist in the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Prior to this, he was the Adami Révélation Classique in 2013.
Aurélien performs with orchestras throughout Europe including the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrucken, Nuremberg Symphony, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Vladimir Fedoseyev, John Storgårds, Pascal Rophé, Christoph Poppen, Clemens Schuldt and Augustin Dumay.
A regular visitor to Asia, he has been invited by the Hiroshima Symphony, Kansai and Sendai Philharmonic orchestras and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, with which he has performed several times both in Hong Kong and on their European tour in 2017. He recently made his debuts with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra and Gilbert Varga, the Transilvania State Filharmonic Orchestra with Andrei Feher, with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and with the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra and Okko Kamu.
Highlights of the 2018/19 season include performances at the Konzerthaus Berlin alongside Andras Schiff, at the BOZAR in Brussels, the Beethovenhaus in Baonn and at the Cellofest in Finland. He will also return to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival to give several concerts and give his first solo recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. In concerto he performs with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre national de Metz, Orchestre de Bretagne and the Orchestre de Douai-Hauts de France.
As a recitalist, Aurélien performs at the most prestigious festivals such as Verbier, Colmar, Prades, Schloss Elmau, the Flâneries de Reims, La Folle Journée de Nantes et du Japon, Festival de Radio-France Montpellier, Beethovenfest de Bonn and the Rencontres musicales d’Evian with partners including the Modigliani Quartet, Pavel Kolesnikov, Christian Tetzlaff, Augustin Dumay, András Schiff, Eric Le Sage, Paloma Kouider and Emmanuel Pahud and forms a regular string trio with Adrien La Marca and Liya Petrova. Since being awarded the ‘Audience Prize’ at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in 2015, he has been a regular invitee to the festival and also performs on stages including the Berlin Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Muziekgebouw, the Auditoriums of the Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay as well as Salle Gaveau, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the ARK NOVA/Lucerne Festival mobile concert hall in Japan.
In 2015, Aurélien Pascal was accepted into the Sponsorship Programme of the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists and following his performance of Shostakovich concerto no. 1 at the Zurich Tonhalle together with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Fedoseyev was invited to record the Danzi concerto for the SONY label alongside Howard Griffiths and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. This recording, released in January 2018, will be the latest addition to a discography that includes the Ravel Trio, with Denis Pascal and Svetlin Roussev and the Brahms Sextet with Augustin Dumay, Henri Demarquette, Miguel da Silva.
Born in 1994 into a family of musicians, Aurélien Pascal studied at the CNSMDP with Philippe Müller and attended master classes given by the legendary János Starker in Paris, Basel and Bloomington. He is currently a student of Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. He plays the « Maisky » cello made in Roma in 1703 by David Tecchler, generously lent by Xavier and Joséphine Moreno.
Born in 1995 to a family of musicians, Nathalia Milstein starts the piano at the age of 4 with her father Serguei Milstein and enters his class at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. Nathalia continues her studies at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique with Nelson Goerner. After obtaining a Bachelor and Master's degree with distinction, she moves to Berlin to continue her studies at the Barenboim-Said Akademie with Nelson Goerner. In 2018, still at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, she joins the studio of Sir András Schiff.
Throughout her studies, Nathalia Milstein has received valuable advice from renowned professors and pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Mikhail Voskressensky, Elena Ashkenazy, Jan Wijn, Enrico Pace or Menahem Pressler.
Nathalia launches her international career in 2015 by winning 1st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition and has been since then invited to halls such as the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin or the Radio France Auditorium in Paris.
Nathalia is a prizewinner of several youth competitions, among others the “Flame” Competition in Paris and the Manchester International Concerto Competition. Later on she became laureate of the 2013 Grand Concours International de Piano in Corbelin (France) and the 2014 Adilia Alieva Piano Competition in Gaillard (France).
She was also awarded the Young Soloist Prize by the Médias Francophones Publics in 2017.
Nathalia performs in France and abroad, giving recitals all over Europe, appearing in major festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, La Folle Journée, New Ross Piano Festival, Lille Piano Festival, Zaubersee Festival or Radio France Festival.
A keen chamber music player, Nathalia also performs regularly with renowned musicians and is invited to international chamber music events, such as the Intonations Festival in Berlin, the West Cork Festival in Ireland, Lavaux Classic in Switzerland, the Schiermonnikoog Festival or the Scaldis Festival in the Netherlands. She also appears on the last CD recording of the Prazak Quartet dedicated to works of Smetana.
For several years she has been playing in duo with her sister violinist Maria Milstein. Besides a busy concert schedule, they have also recorded two albums together - “La Sonate de Vinteuil” (2017) and “Ravel Voyageur” (2019) - both on the French label Mirare and praised by international critics.
In the 2020/21 season, despite a paused cultural life, Nathalia has had the chance to appear on stage with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra with Arie van Beek.
In 2021/22 Nathalia will play in various venues across Europe as part of the “Building Bridges” concert season, curated by Sir András Schiff.
Supported by the Safran Foundation (Paris) and the Foundation “Tempo” (Geneva), Nathalia's debut solo CD, featuring works of Prokofiev and Ravel, is released in 2018 on Mirare. A second thematic album, “Fugitives Visions”, will be released in september 2021 on Mirare.
