A French Touch in the chamber orchestra world !

A French Touch in the chamber orchestra world !

The Orchestre de chambre de Paris…

• the leading chamber orchestra in France

with 43 musicians;

• an artistic team with Thomas Zehetmair as principal conductor, Sir Roger Norrington as first guest conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann as associate artist, and Philippe Manoury as associate composer • a selection of prestigious guest artists: Misha Maisky, Kun Woo Paik, Olga Peretyatko, Douglas Boyd, Gautier Capuçon and John Nelson among others; • special attention given to the vocal

repertoire and oratorio including an artistic

partnership with the accentus choir

and Laurence Equilbey.

The Orchestre de chambre de Paris has also planned several tours abroad for the 2014-2016 season: Azerbaidjan (Bakou) ; Turkey (Istanbul) ; Roumania (Bucarest), tour in South America (Brazil and Argentina : Saõ Paulo, Buenos Aires, tour in Germany, tour in Japan in partnership with the Public Establishment of the Museum and National Estate of Versailles. To support these tours abroad, several forms of partnerships have been developed with companies who are are willing to gain more visibility or to organize public relation events from France or from the host country during the tour.

The Orchestre de chambre de Paris has also planned several tours abroad for the 2014-2016 period: Azerbaijan (Bakou), Turkey (Istanbul), Romania (Bucharest), tours in South America (Brazil and Argentina: Saõ Paulo and Buenos Aires), a tour in Germany, a tour in Japan in partnership with the Public Establishment of the Museum and National Estate of Versailles. To support these tours, different forms of partnerships are being developed with companies who are willing to gain more visibility or to organize public relation events from France or from the country that hosts the tour.

The Orchestre de chambre de Paris and its international projects are supported by the City of Paris, the French Ministry of Culture, and the

corporate sponsors of the Crescendo Association and the Cercle des Amis.

The orchestra pays tribute to Pierre Duvauchelle, the creator of the brand Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and thanks Alexandre Tharaud for agreeing to transfer the ownership of this brand on amicable terms.

Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Since its foundation in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, with its 43 permanent musicians, has established itself as the leading chamber orchestra in France. The originality of its concerts, its intimate chamber music approach to repertoires, the search for new venues and challenges as well as some civic initiatives towards new audiences: all this undertaking confers an original identity to the Orchestre de chambre de Paris in the Parisian musical landscape.

To enhance its unconventional profile, the orchestra adopted the name “Orchestre de chambre de Paris” in 2012. This evolution gives the orchestra a clear identity while ensuring its inclusion in the network of major international chamber ensembles.

Following successive collaborations with renowned artists such as Jean-Pierre Wallez, Armin Jordan, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, John Nelson (appointed Honorary Music Director) or Joseph Swensen, an artistic team who shared the same commitment and chamber music approach to repertoire was brought on board: Thomas Zehetmair as principal conductor and artistic advisor, Sir Roger Norrington as first guest conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann as associate artist, the accentus chamber choir and Laurence Equilbey, and Philippe Manoury as associate composer.

The Orchestre de chambre de Paris also works with leading artists such as Christian Zacharias, Emmanuel Pahud, Stephen Kovacevich, Michel Portal, Fazil Say and Gautier Capuçon, to name a few.

The orchestra performs at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Cité de la Musique, Salle Pleyel, the Théâtre du Châtelet and at the Philharmonie de Paris from 2015 onwards. In addition to this Parisian season, the orchestra’s reputation continues to grow both in and outside France, with its program including tours (in Europe, Japan, South America, Russia, etc.); participations in leading festivals (the Folles Journées, the Festival of Saint-Denis, Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Belgrade or Bratislava Festivals, etc.). Over the past 10 years, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris has also made a name for itself in the studio with over 20 recordings bearing eloquent testimony to its voice, oratorio, chamber orchestra and contemporary music repertoires.

Some records illustrate this concern for diversity, such as Bach’s Mass in B minor performed at the Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral (DVD); Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with François-René Duchâble at the Opéra royal de Versailles (DVD); Beethoven’s complete symphonies directed by John Nelson (CD); Saint-Saëns’s concertos with Brigitte Engerer and Henri Demarquette (CD); Chopin’s piano concertos with Boris Berezovsky (CD), Mendelssohn’s Christus and Cantatas with the accentus chamber choir and Laurence Equilbey. The latest releases include a recording of Paganini’s works featuring violinist Laurent Korcia and a CD of Ravel and Debussy with Thomas Zehetmair. The Orchestre de chambre de Paris embraces an ethical and socially responsible outlook based on four perspectives: the territory, solidarity, occupational integration and education through cultural actions and artistic residencies in the city of Paris and throughout the country. Solidarity with audiences who have difficulties accessing cultural events is also one of its missions in France as well as in the Middle East. Last of all, the orchestra’s concern to improve occupational integration and professional training finds its expression in the development of the international “Paris Play-Direct” Academy and in the collaboration with students from the music conservatories.

“Sir Roger Norrington visits Prague” Vanhal/ Mozart/ Dvořák Sir Roger Norrington, conductor September 17th, 2014 “A Parisian ballad” Roussel/ Chopin / Gounod John Nelson, conductor Kun Woo Paik, piano Guillaume Paoletti, cello Valeria Kafelnikov, harp October 16th, 2014 “A night in Madrid” Arriaga/ Rodrigo/ De Falla Roberto Forés Veses, conductor Miloš Karadaglić, guitar October 31st, 2014 “At the Bach family’s house in Leipzig with Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu” Bach Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu, violins December 17th, 2014 “Nathalie Stutzmann sings Schubert” Manoury/ Schubert Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Philippe Manoury, conductor in Instants Pluriels Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto January 13th, 2015 “The Creation at the Philharmonie” Haydn Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Sunhae Im, soprano Werner Güra, tenor

Florian Boesch, barytone accentus January 23rd, 2015 “Venetian concertos with Giuliano Carmignola” Vivaldi Giuliano Carmignola, violin and conductor February 4th, 2015 “A tour of Berlin with Thomas Dausgaard and Daniel Hope” Bruch/ Beethoven/ Mendelssohn Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Daniel Hope, violin February 18th, 2015 “A Hungarian night with Nelson Goerner” Kodály, Liszt, Bartók Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Nelson Goerner, piano April 7th, 2015 “Seen from London…” Britten & Purcell Sir Roger Norrington, conductor Ian Bostridge, tenor May 26th, 2015 “Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at the Philharmonie de Paris” Dvořák Laurence Equilbey, conductor Sara Mingardo, alto Maximilian Schmitt, tenor accentus June 6th, 2015

2014-2015 season highlights

“Viennese school and video” Haydn Morning Symphony Berg Violin Concerto, chamber version (arr. Pr. D Jarman) Webern Five pieces for orchestra Schönberg Verklärte Nacht with video by Netia Jones Douglas Boy, conductor NN, violin “Schubert and Schumann” Schubert Symphony No.8 in B minor “Unfinished” Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Schubert Symphony No. 4 in C minor “Tragic” Douglas Boyd, conductor NN, piano “A tribute to Yehudi Menuhin” Vivaldi “The Summer” from the Four Seasons Glass “Echorus” Pärt “Darf ich” El-Khoury Unfinished Journey Vivaldi Violin Concerto RV522 Takemitsu Nostalgia Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor Daniel Hope, violin and conductor “The Bach Family with the Nemtanu sisters” W.F. Bach Sinfonia in F major J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in E major BWV1042 J.S. Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 C.P.E. Bach Symphony in C major J.S. Bach Violin concerto in A minor BWV1041 Schnittke Concerto Grosso No.3 for 2 violins Sir Roger Norrington, conductor Deborah and Sarah Nemtanu, violins

“A festival with Reinhold Friedrich” Beethoven Leonore III, overture Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major Michael Haydn Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in C major Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major “Eroica” Douglas Boyd, conductor Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet “Music in Marie-Antoinette’s times » Chevalier Saint-George L’Amant Anonyme, overture Gluck Arias from Iphigenia in Aulis, in Tauris, Orpheus and Eurydice, Alceste Méhul Symphony No. 4 in E major Grétry L’Amant Jaloux, overture Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major “Paris” Hervé Niquet, conductor Véronique Gens, soprano

2015-2016 season highlights

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Thomas Zehetmair Principal conductor and artistic advisor

Sir Roger Norrington

First guest conductor

Thomas Zehetmair is a violinist, conductor and chamber musician who is well-known

on the international stage. He is the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the

Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

At the start of his musical career as a violinist, he performed in the leading European venues including

the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Kölner Philharmonie and the Munich

Philharmonic, and then pursued a career as conductor with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the

Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester and the Stavanger Symphony

Orchestra. In 2002, he was named Music Director of the Northern Sinfonia in England, and since 2010,

he has been “Artistic Partner” of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the United States.

His recordings of the major works for violin have won a number of internationally recognized awards,

including three Gramophone Awards and three Diapason d’Or de l’Année. His recording of Mozart’s

concertos for violin with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the baton of maestro Frans

Brüggen is regarded as a reference.

In 2005, he received the German Record Critics’ Award for the versatility of his artistic work. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the Music Academy Franz Liszt in Weimar and in 2012, the Newcastle University awarded him an honorary doctorate too.

Sir Roger Norrington is a well-known conductor on the international stage and

shows a keen interest in period performance practices.

For almost five decades, he has been working with orchestras on Baroque and classical music

repertoires. As the conductor of the London Classical Players, which he founded in the 1980’s, and

more recently of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg, he has

encouraged musicians to express themselves while returning to the original characteristics of this

music. This made him pay special attention to the positioning and size of the orchestra, as well as

the tempo, phrasing, the articulation and the sound.

Performances in renowned venues include the Kent Opera House, Covent Garden, the English

National Opera, La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and the Wiener Staatsoper. He is a regular

guest conductor with leading orchestras such as the Berlin, Vienna and London Philharmonics, the

Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Concertgebouw, the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

He was the principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2011. With

this ensemble, he conducted a remarkable series of recordings of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,

Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler on period instruments, illustrating how modern

orchestras can make period music their own. He is currently the music director of the Zurich

Chamber orchestra.

The artistic team

Nathalie Stutzmann Contralto and conductor

Associate artist

As the perfect example of a complete musician, Nathalie Stutzmann started

her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, chamber music and

conducting. She began her vocal training with her mother, the distinguished

soprano Christiane Stutzmann, and later at the Ecole d’Art Lyrique de l’Opéra

de Paris focusing on lieder with the great Hans Hotter. She regularly sings with

the world’s greatest conductors and orchestras, including the Berlin

Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre

de Paris, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic

with Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

After studying conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula

and mentored by Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann founded

her own chamber orchestra, Orfeo 55 in 2009.

During the next two seasons, Nathalie Stutzmann will conduct classical and

romantic repertoire with the Valencia Orchestra, l’ Orchestre National de

Lyon, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Saõ Paulo Symphony Orchestra, among

others. She will conduct her first opera, Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, at the

Monte Carlo Opera house in February 2014.

Decorated with the "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres” and "Chevalier de l’Ordre

National du Mérite” insignas by the French state, she also gives masterclasses

around the world and is a singing teacher at the Haute Ecole de Musique de

Genève.

Nathalie Stutzmann is considered to be one of the most outstanding musical personalities of our time, with parallel careers as both a contralto and an orchestral conductor.

Deborah Nemtanu was born in a family of passionate musicians and chose to play the violin at the age of four. Her career is the perfect example of precocious success and manifold talent. After winning the Conservatoire de Paris Prize in 2001 (awarded by unanimous vote) in Gérard Poulet’s class, she is awarded the fourth prize at the Jacques-Thibaud International Contest, and is then selected to join the prestigious Perlman program in the United States. In 2008, she is awarded the second prize at the Benjamin Britten International Contest in London. Since 2005, she has been solo violin and concertmaster at the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. She is curious, passionate and does not limit herself to her role as solo violin: she goes further and conducts the orchestra herself. Deborah Nemtanu plays on a 1740 Domenica Montagnana violin, graciously lent by the Monceau Assurance Company.

Deborah Nemtanu Solo violin - Concertmaster

Laurence Equilbey Conductor

Associate artist

As a conductor and music director of accentus and Insula

orchestra, Laurence Equilbey is well-known for her

demanding artistic standards. She occupies a unique place

among symphony conductors who are experts in the

symphonic, oratorio and opera genres. Laurence Equilbey is

an associate artist of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

She is also a guest conductor of the Grand Théâtre

de Provence as well as artistic and educational

director of the Department for Young Singers at the Paris

Regional Conservatory.

Her important opera conducting projects included Rossini’s

La Cenerentola at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Pascal

Dusapin’s Medeamaterial at the Musica Festival. In 2012-2013, she

conducted Sous apparence, a choreographic creation by Marie-

Agnès Gillot at the Opéra de Paris and Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn

at the Opéra-Comique. In 2010, Laurence Equilbey conducted

Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Brussels

Philharmonic and accentus at the Cité de la musique. Her other

orchestral conductings include a collaboration with the orchestras

of Lyon, Nice, Picardie, Lille, Pays de la Loire, Bucharest, Warsaw,

Café Zimmermann and Concerto Köln, among others. In July 2012,

she was invited to the Salzburg Festival to conduct Camerata

Salzburg and accentus in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.

accentus is a professional chamber choir dedicated to a cappella works as well as to contemporary repertoire, oratorios and operas. Founded by Laurence Equilbey, the choir has appeared at the most renowned French and international venues and festivals.

The ensemble works with the most prestigious conductors and orchestras (Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Insula orchestra).

It also takes part in lyrical productions, for example at the Opéra de Paris or at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

All its discographic recordings (Naïve) are largely acclaimed by the music press, for example « Transcriptions » (Disque d’or) and « Haydn, Les Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ en croix ».

accentus was awarded the « Ensemble de l’année » Prize at the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la musique classique) in 2002, 2005 and 2008.

Pieter-Jelle de Boer has been the principal associate conductor of accentus since the 2011-2012 season.

accentus

Chamber choir Associate artist

accentus Chamber choir Associate artist

Philippe Manoury is a composer and a teacher, but also a researcher and organizer of musical life.

He occupies a unique place in the evolution of the music of our time.

He started composing quite early in life as a self-taught composer. Subsequently, he studied composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. His first creation Cryptophonos was given at the Metz Festival in 1974.

After giving lectures and conferences on contemporary music in various Brazilian universities, he has been invited by Ircam, a research institute in acoustics, as a guest researcher. Since then, he has taken part in the activities of the Institute as a composer and teacher. In collaboration with the mathematician Miller Puckette, he has carried out research in the field of real-time interaction between acoustic instruments and new technologies related to computer music.

He has been head of education with the Ensemble Intercontemporain before teaching composition and electronic music at the Conservatory of Lyon. Since 2004, he has taught composition at the University of California in San Diego and he has also been teaching at the Conservatory of Strasbourg since 2013. He is also a resident composer at the Lucerne Festival.

His work covers all genres: solo pieces, mixed electronic music, chamber music, works for choir and orchestra, operas, including La Nuit de Gutenberg, created at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and for which he was awarded the "Composer of the year" Prize at the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la musique classique) in 2012.

Philippe Manoury Associate composer

« The calibre of the musicians is well displayed in a wonderfully crystalline performance of Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite. […] Nemtanu captures well the intimacy of Saint-Saëns’s youthful First Violin Concerto and she’s equally comfortable in that virtuoso standard, the Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, lending an almost vocal intensity to the sinuous lines of the slower music. » Harriet Smith commenting on the Saint-Saëns & Fauré CD, Gramophone, May 2013

« A splendid opening movement enhanced by the brilliant musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. » « The lyrical artists were magnificently accompanied by the impressive Orchestre de chambre de Paris. » Philippe Thanh commenting on the performance Carrousel in March 2013 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, La Lettre du Musicien, 19 March 2013

« An enthusiastic Orchestre de chambre de Paris » Philippe Venturini commenting on the Performance Carrousel in March 2013 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Les Echos, March 2013

« The performance given by the Parisian Mozartian ensemble […] combined precision and homogeneity. Especially the strings played with a brilliance and passion well worthy of the Austrian conductor, who is one of the most talented violinists of our time. » Excerpted from Bruno Serrou’s blog, Classique d’aujourd’hui, on the performance of 5-6 March 2013, The Creation at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, March 2013

« A beguiling disc » « The French style in all its splendor » Christian Merlin, Figaro.fr, about the Saint-Saëns and Fauré CD by Deborah Nemtanu in « Musique Classique: the weekly top 3 », 8 March 2013

« The wind section has a mellow colour and the orchestra plays with subtlety» Jean-Michel Molkhou about the Saint-Saëns & Fauré CD by Deborah Nemtanu, Diapason, April 2013

« In the Symphony n°104 in D major by Joseph Haydn […] the instrumental sections are absolutely brilliant. » « The musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris distinguish themselves by their impressive liveliness and verve. » Sabino Pena Arcia, commenting on the concert on 26 April 2013 by Gidon Kremer at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Classique News, April 2013

« The sound is perfect and musicians are visibly happy to share music and they are having fun. » Bérénice Clerc, about the concert on 21 May 2013 by François Leleux and Deborah Nemtanu at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Toutelaculture.com, May 2013

“…These performances are especially strong on style and character, finding a delicate balance between restraint and radiance.” Gramophone about the Ravel/Debussy CD (V5345) by Thomas Zehetmair, February 2014

Reviews

Reviews

Laurent Korcia Mister Paganini… Laurent Korcia, violin Haruko Ueda, piano Orchestre de chambre de Paris Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor Kreisler Violin concerto in C major Albéniz / Kreisler Malagueña Kreisler La gitana Kreisler Petite valse pour piano seul Paganini / Kreisler La campanella Ysaÿe Paganini variations Paganini I palpiti, op.13 introductions and variations 2013, Naïve

Ravel & Debussy Emmanuel Ceysson, harp Orchestre de chambre de Paris Thomas Zehetmair, violin & conductor Maurice Ravel Tzigane Pavane pour une infante défunte Le Tombeau de Couperin Claude Debussy Petite suite Danse sacrée, danse profane Sarabande Danse 2013, Naïve

Discography: latest releases

Fauré & Saint- Saëns Deborah Nemtanu, violin Orchestre de chambre de Paris Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, op. 28 Gabriel Fauré Pelléas and Mélisande, suite op. 80 Prélude - Quasi adagio Fileuse - Andantino quasi allegretto Sicilienne - Allegretto molto moderato The Death of Mélisande - Molto adagio Camille Saint-Saëns Violin concerto n°1 in A major, op. 20 Romance for violin and orchestra in C major, op. 48 Gabriel Fauré Lullaby, op. 16 2013, Mirare

Gabriel Fauré Rolf Beck, conductor Chiyuki Okamura, soprano David Wilson-Johnson, baritone Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chor Lübeck Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Requiem Cantique de Jean Racine 2011, Hänssler Classic

Felix Mendelssohn Sandrine Piau, soprano Markus Butter, baritone Robert Getchell, tenor accentus Orchestre de chambre de Paris Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Christus Cantates Chorales 2011, Naïve

Camille Saint-Saëns Joseph Swensen, conductor

Henri Demarquette, cello

Brigitte Engerer, piano

Boris Berezovsky, piano

Deborah Nemtanu, Michel Guyot, violins

Serge Soufflard, viola

Eckhard Rudolph, double bass

Marina Chamot-Leguay, flute

Richard Vieille, clarinet

Nathalie Geujon-Gantiez, Ionela Christu, percussions

Cello concerto n°1 in A minor Carnaval des Animaux, Grande fantaisie zoologique Sonata for cello and piano n°1 in C minor Romance for cello and violin Sérénade of the suite for cello and piano

2010, Mirare

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