Lise Berthaud (born 1982) is a French violist.
She was born in Bourg-en-Bresse [1] in the Ain department in south-east France on the Swiss border, in the Rhône-Alpes region. She grew up in Sainte-Euphémie. Her father is the headmaster of a school in Jassans-Riottier, and her mother is a teacher in Trévoux.
She started learning the violin aged 5 at a music school at Villefranche-sur-Saône. She changed to viola at age 12. She attended Lycée du Val de Saone in Trévoux. She studied with Pierre-Henri Xuereb at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (Paris Conservatory) in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. She won a prize in the Eurovision Young Musicians 2000 (Concours Eurovision des jeunes musiciens). In the Victoires de la musique classique (a category of the Victoires de la Musique) in January 2009, she was nominated for Revelation Instrumental Soloist of the Year (Révélation instrumentale de l’Année), which was broadcast on France Inter and France Musique (radio), and on France 3 (television).
In 2006 she was invited to perform with the Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa in his string quartet (Quatuor à Cordes) in Switzerland. She went on international tour with Augustin Dumay in a sinfonia concertante (Symphonie Concertante). She has toured with Emmanuel Krivine with his Orchestre Français des Jeunes. She has been part of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. [2]
Alexander Tansman was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer.
Marcel Mihalovici was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu in Bucharest. He moved to Paris in 1919 to study under Vincent d'Indy. His works include his Sonata number 1 for violin and piano (1920), Mélusine opera, his 1st string quartet (1923), 2nd string quartet (1931), Sonata number 2 for violin and piano (1941), Sonata for violin and cello (1944), Phèdre Opera (1949), Étude in two parts for piano and instrumental ensemble (1951) and Esercizio per archi (1960). Many of his piano works were first performed by his wife, the concert pianist Monique Haas.
Nigel Keay is a New Zealand composer. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher. Nigel Keay has held the following composer residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 and 1987, Nelson School of Music 1988 and 89, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 1995.
Esteban Benzecry is an Argentine classical composer.
Nicolas Bacri is a French composer. He has written works that include seven symphonies, eleven string quartets, eight cantatas, two one-act operas, three piano sonatas, two cello and piano sonatas, four violin and piano sonatas, six piano trios, four violin concertos and numerous other concertante works.
Alain Bancquart was a French composer.
Raphaël Sévère born 15 September 1994 in Rennes, is a French clarinettist.
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky is a Russian-born composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism ; "La Belle Musique N.3" (1977) is the first work for orchestra in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland. He has collaborated with numerous musical artists, notably with the pianist Martha Argerich, with whom he has recorded works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.
The Diapason d'Or is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
Bartłomiej "Bartek" Nizioł is a Polish violinist playing in a bel canto style. His interpretations tend to be objective and comprehensive.
The Trio Wanderer is a French piano trio made up of Vincent Coq, piano, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, violin, and Raphaël Pidoux, cello, who graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1988 they won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and in 1990 the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in the US.
Ida Rose Esther Gotkovsky is a French composer and pianist. She is currently a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France.
Edith Canat de Chizy is a French composer, born in Lyon and now based in Paris. She was the first female composer to be elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Jean François Toussaint Rogister was a Belgian virtuoso violist, teacher and composer.
Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich is a French organist and composer.
Pierre Lénert is a French violist. An international concertist, he is first solo violist of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris.
Luc Héry is a French classical violinist.
Zosha Di Castri is a Canadian composer and pianist living and working in New York. She is the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University. Her work came to international attention when a specially commissioned piece about the lunar landings opened the BBC Proms 2019.