PROGRAM

YVONNE LORIOD

ETHEL SMYTH (1858-1944)
Three Moods of the Sea

LUISE ADOLPHA LE BEAU (1850-1927)
Trois lieder, op. 45
for voice, violin and piano
“In der Mondnacht”

AMANDA MAIER (1853-1894)
Sonata in B minor
for violin and piano

DISTRIBUTION

Marianne Croux, soprano
Guillaume Chilemme, violin
Théo Fouchenneret, piano

MARIANNE CROUX

The Franco-Belgian soprano Marianne Croux was awarded 6th prize and the Audience Prize at the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition, and was elevated to the rank of Officier du mérite wallon in Belgium. At the Opéra Garnier, she sang the soprano solo in Stravinsky’s Noces, and the soprano mourner in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place. At the Opéra Bastille, she played a convict in Mzensk’s Lady Macbeth and Die Schleppträgerin in Strauss’s Elektra. Marianne Croux appeared last season as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Massy and Nedda in Pagliacci at the Opéra de Toulon. She has worked with conductors Elizabeth Askren, Duncan Ward and Raphaël Pichon, and directors Robert Carsen, Sir Graham Vick, Emmanuelle Cordoliani and Florent Siaud. Marianne Croux is involved in contemporary creation: she played Calypso in Les Constellations, a theory by J. Stephenson in 2017 and Nadia in Gilbert Amy’s Premier cercle in 2021.

She forms a duo with pianist Florence Boissolle and collaborates regularly with Anne Le Bozec and the ensemble Héxaméron, Anne Bertin-Hugault with whom she made the world’s first recording of Rita Strohl’s Douze Chants de Bilitis, published by Hortus. She will also appear in the complete works of Bizet (Harmonia Mundi, May 2025).

GUILLAUME CHILEMME

Selected by Seiji Ozawa from 2008 to 2013 to take part in the International Music Academy Switzerland, Guillaume Chilemme benefits from the teaching of Nobuko Imaï, Pamela Frank, Sadao Harada, Robert Mann and Seiji Ozawa. Guillaume Chilemme has won numerous prizes, including the Swedish International Duo Competition with pianist Nathanaël Gouin, the Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition (ICMC) and the Banff International String Quartet Competition (Canada) with the Quatuor Cavatine, which he co-founded. He has been invited to perform at numerous festivals, including Les Folles Journées de Nantes, Les Schubertiades de Schwarzenberg, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux, Les Folles Journées de Tokyo, La Roque d’Anthéron and the Festival des Arcs. He has performed with Edgar Moreau, Renaud Capuçon, Gauthier Capuçon, Raphael Pidoux, Paul Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud, the Quatuor Voce, Deborah Nemtanu, Claire Désert, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Florent Boffard…

Guillaume Chilemme performs regularly as a soloist, and has been invited by the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse to perform Bruch’s Concerto under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev. He is a member of David Grimal’s group Les Dissonances. He plays a Yair Hod Fainas violin, generously donated by Bernard Magrez.

THÉO FOUCHENNERET

Benefiting from the advice of renowned pedagogues – Jean-Claude Pennetier, Akiko Ebi, Denis Pascal, Itamar Golan, Mikhaïl Voskresensky, Pascal Devoyon… – Théo Fouchenneret won First Prize in the Gabriel Fauré International Competition in 2013, then First Prize in the Geneva International Competition in November 2018, before being named ‘instrumental soloist revelation’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. The same year, he won First Prize and five special prizes at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. Applauded by major international venues and festivals, he has also performed with Victor Julien-Laferrière, Renaud Capuçon, François Salque, Lise Berthaud and Svetlin Roussev, among others.
March 2020 saw the release of his first solo CD for La Dolce Volta, devoted to Beethoven’s great Waldstein and Hammerklavier sonatas. Théo Fouchenneret initiated the project to record the complete chamber music of Robert Schumann, which began in 2023, alongside his brother Pierre Fouchenneret. His new recording of Gabriel Fauré’s Nocturnes was released on 6 September 2024 by La Dolce Volta. It has already been hailed by the critics (Revue Pianiste, 5 stars Diapason), and was awarded a Choc Classica. Théo Fouchenneret is artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire.