PROGRAM

DISTRIBUTION

Sarah Nemtanu, violin
Eric Crambes, violin
Lise Berthaud, viola
Victor Julien-Laferrière, cello
Bertrand Chamayou, piano

SARAH NEMTANU

During her student years, Sarah Nemtanu developed a passion for chamber music and the orchestra. She studied with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jean Mouillère and Alain Meunier, and went on to win First Prizes in violin and chamber music. She won the Maurice Ravel First Prize in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1998 and revealed herself to the public in 2000 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, performing Brahms’ Double Concerto with Gautier Capuçon under the baton of Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre du CNSMD de Paris. Sarah Nemtanu was appointed concertmaster of the Orchestre National de France at the age of just twenty-one. In 2009, she was the real violinist in Radu Mihaileanu’s film Le Concert, doubling Mélanie Laurent’s ‘sound’ by performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto.
She performed the Mendelssohn Concerto under Kurt Masur during a tour of Italy. She also plays contemporary music and chamber music with pianists Romain Descharmes, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Éric Le Sage, violist Lise Berthaud, her sister Deborah Nemtanu, trumpeter and horn player David Guerrier, and others. She regularly passes on her passion for the orchestra to young students in masterclasses, academies and courses.

ERIC CRAMBES

Eric Crambes is regularly invited as violin soloist by major French and European ensembles, and gives recitals in France, Europe, Asia and the United States, notably at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, where he made his debut. Chamber music is particularly close to his heart: The festivals and concerts to which he is invited enable him to share his passion with artists such as Gérard Poulet, Akiko Suwanai, Bruno Pasquier, Henri Demarquette, Xavier Gagnepain, Christian Zacharias, Michel Dalberto, Hortense Cartier Bresson, Alexandre Tharaud, the Parisii and Psophos quartets… Eric Crambes also has the privilege of regularly sharing the stage with the star dancers of the New York City Ballet, the Los Angeles Dance Project and the Ballet de Flandres, both in the United States and in Europe, in performances combining music and dance. He has created several works by choreographer Benjamin Millepied. In 2002, he founded the Opus festival in Aubenas, Vals-les-Bains, which he directed for 7 years. Since 2006, he has been artistic director of the Académie-Festival des Arcs.

LISE BERTHAUD

In 2009, Lise Berthaud was nominated for Instrumental Revelation of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. In September 2013, she was selected for the prestigious BBC New Generation Artist programme for the 2013-2015 seasons. In September 2014, she made her debut at the prestigious BBC Proms Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in William Walton’s Viola Concerto with the BBC Symphony conducted by Andrew Litton. As a soloist, she is the guest of orchestras such as the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Musiciens du Louvre, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris… She performs under the guidance of Paul Mc Creesh, Marc Minkowski, François Leleux, and Emmanuel Krivine, who takes her on tour with Harold en Italie and the Orchestre Français des Jeunes when she is just 20 years old.

A keen chamber music player, she regularly performs with Renaud Capuçon, Eric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, David Grimal, Emmanuel Pahud, Marie-Elisabeth Ecker, Daishin Kashimoto and the Ebène and Modigliani Quartets. She is a co-founding member of the Quatuor Strada (with Sarah Nemtanu, Pierre Fouchenneret and François Salque).

Winner of the First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferrière also received the First Prize and two special prizes at the Prague Spring International Competition 2012, and in France in 2018, the Victoire de la musique, in the instrumental soloist of the year category. Victor Julien-Laferrière has performed with renowned orchestras throughout the world, including the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under such prestigious conductors as Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Hanna Chang, Eivind Gullberg Jensen and Ben Glassberg. Victor Julien-Laferrière is also developing an important activity as a conductor. He conducts the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen on tour, as well as the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. In 2021, he founded his own ensemble, the Orchestre Consuelo, which is developing an intense activity in France and abroad.

In addition, he has recorded numerous albums: his latest recordings for Alpha Classics include the album of two Dutilleux / Dusapin concertos recorded with the Orchestre National de France between 2021 and 2022, recordings awarded a Diapason D’Or in 2023.

Bertrand Chamayou is a versatile pianist, as much a chamber musician as a great promoter of the music of our time. He performs with the most prestigious orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Montreal, Vienna and London symphony orchestras, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Munich and Frankfurt Radio Orchestras, and the Seoul Philharmonic. He has had the privilege of playing under Pierre Boulez and Sir Neville Marriner, and has collaborated with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Krzysztof Urbanski, Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons, Tugan Sokhiev and Sir Antonio Pappano. He performs regularly in recital in the greatest concert halls: Philharmonie de Paris and Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is a guest at prestigious festivals, including the Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals and the Roque d’Anthéron Festival.

Bertrand Chamayou has made a large number of recordings. An exclusive Warner/Erato artist, in 2016 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik prize for his recording of Ravel’s complete works for solo piano. Bertrand Chamayou is the only French artist to have won the Victoires de la Musique five times. He is co-Artistic Director of the Ravel Festival in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.