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Le clarinettiste Pierre Génisson, l’un des représentants les plus renommés de l’école des vents français a signé un contrat d’exclusivité chez Warner Classics/Erato.
Le premier album de cette nouvelle collaboration consacré à Mozart, avec le Concerto Köln, vient compléter une discographie déjà riche et unanimement saluée par la critique (Diapason d’or, Choc de l’année de Classica, ffff de Télérama, « CD of the week » du Sunday Times, Gramophone, Clef d’Or de Resmusica…)
Récompensé en 2018 par le Prix « Cino del Duca» décerné par l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France, Pierre Génisson est également lauréat de prestigieux concours internationaux tels que le Concours International Carl Nielsen, le Concours international Jacques Lancelot de Tokyo ainsi que des fondations Banque Populaire, Safran, et « Musique et Vin au clos Vougeot ».
Pierre Génisson s’est formé au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris auprès de Michel Arrignon pour la clarinette, et Claire Désert, Amy Flammer et Jean Sulem pour la musique de chambre. Après y avoir obtenu les premiers prix à l’unanimité dans ces deux disciplines, il part se perfectionner à l’University of Southern California de Los Angeles auprès de Yehuda Gilad où il obtient un Artist Diploma.
Aussi habile sur instruments modernes que sur instruments anciens , Pierre Génisson est régulièrement invité à se produire en soliste avec de prestigieux orchestres tels que le Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin, le Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, les BBC orchestras, Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, l’Odense Symphony Orchestra, le Sichuan Symphony, l’Orchestre philharmonique royal de Liège, l’Orchestre symphonique de Düsseldorf, l’Insula orchestra… et collabore notamment avec des chefs tels que Krystof Urbansky, Olari Elts, Darell Ang, Sacha Goetzel, Alexandre Bloch, Laurence Equilbey ou Lionel Bringuier.
Outre ses activités de soliste, Pierre Génisson multiplie les rencontres musicales avec quelques-uns des plus fameux quatuors à cordes (Ebène, Modigliani, Jérusalem, Zemlinsky, Hermès, Van Kuijk…), ainsi que des solistes tels que Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nemanja Radulovic, Marc Bouchkov, Miguel Da Silva, Lise Berthaud, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, David Kadouch, Franck Braley, Michel Dalberto, David Bismuth, Bruno Fontaine, Les Solistes du Metropolitan Opera de New York, Patrick Gallois, Marielle Nordmann, Emmanuel Ceysson, Karine Deshayes ou Delphine Haidan.
Fervent défenseur de la musique d’aujourd’hui, Pierre Génisson fait rayonner la musique française à l’étranger et collabore avec de nombreux compositeurs, notamment Tristan Murail, Thierry Escaich, Eric Montalbetti, Karol Beffa ou encore Eric Tanguy, dont il est dédicataire de plusieurs concerti et pièces de musique de chambre.
Pierre Génisson consacre également une partie de son temps à la transmission, à travers de nombreuses masterclasses dans le monde entier et au sein de l’École normale de musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, où il est enseignant.
La recherche constante de nouvelles approches musicales de Magnus Lindgren, associée à un talent extraordinaire, lui a valu une place de choix dans la sphère musicale suédoise, admirée et respectée à l’échelle mondiale.
Lauréat de plusieurs prix tels que Grammis, Swedish Radio Award pour l’album de jazz suédois de l’année, Orkesterjournal Gold Record, etc. et le dernier en date, la 65e édition des GRAMMY Awards ® en février 2023, Magnus Lindgren, avec John Beasly & The SWR Big Band, a remporté le GRAMMY® du meilleur arrangement, instrumental ou a cappella, pour « Scrapple From The Apple », extrait de l’album Bird Lives.
La capacité de Magnus Lindgren à s’exprimer au saxophone ténor, à la clarinette ou à la flûte est digne d’un véritable maître. En tant que compositeur, il dispose d’un immense potentiel pour matérialiser ses inspirations artistiques. Il enveloppe ses performances d’une mélodie qui s’intègre parfaitement dans l’environnement stylistique dont il dispose à ce moment-là.
Mais là où Magnus Lindgren brille le plus, c’est peut-être dans les sentiments qu’il éprouve lorsqu’il arrange la musique. La beauté réside dans la façon dont il assemble les timbres, les figures rythmiques et les séquences harmoniques.
Magnus Lindgren cherche sans cesse à étendre son horizon musical, explorant diverses combinaisons telles que le jazz, les big bands, les chœurs avec des solistes instrumentaux, l’intégration d’orchestres classiques et d’ensembles de jazz, le folklore suédois, les rythmes funk, la samba brésilienne et la musique africaine traditionnelle. Sous l’oreille attentive de Magnus Lindgren, les structures et les genres musicaux prennent toujours de nouvelles dimensions.
Enracinées dans le post-bebop du jazz moderne, les influences de Magnus Lindgren proviennent du monde entier, ce qui transparaît dans ses compositions sur plusieurs décennies. La plupart de ses œuvres sont interprétées par le groupe, souvent accompagnées de reprises du jazz moderne. Le groupe combine un désir de groove à une énergie vive, tout en favorisant une interaction minimaliste, mais néanmoins captivante et ludique.
« La musique improvisée est un pont entre les gens. Grâce à la musique, nous nous pouvons échanger avec les gens dans un langage universel où les différences disparaissent et où nous nous retrouvons tous ensemble. Les big bands dans le jazz sont semblables aux orchestres symphoniques dans la musique classique. Cette tradition de combiner les grands ensembles et l’improvisation est ce que je trouve le plus inspirant dans la musique. Cette inspiration m’a conduit à collaborer avec des musiciens d’autres horizons, qui peuvent avoir des préférences différentes des miennes ». Magnus Lindgren.
Alors qu’il entre dans sa 33e année de carrière professionnelle, Magnus Lindgren s’engage à explorer davantage la scène internationale, aspirant à multiplier les collaborations et à repousser ses propres limites.
A renowned jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, Goines has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the Wynton Marsalis Septet he was named President & CEO of Jazz St. Louis in September 2023.
Clarinetist, saxophonist, and educator Victor L. Goines is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout the world and recording over twenty-one releases, including Marsalis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning recording Blood on the Fields (Columbia Records, 1997) and The Ever Fonky Lowdown (2020), Marsalis and Eric Clapton (2011), Jazz at Lincoln Center’s A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration (2020), The Fifties: A Prism (2020), Black, Brown and Beige (2020), The Music of Wayne Shorter (2020), Jazz for Kids (2019), Swing Symphony (2019), Una Noche con Ruben Blades (2018), United We Swing (2018), Handful of Keys (2017), The Music of John Lewis (2017), The Abyssinian Mass (2016), Big Band Holidays (2016), Live in Cuba (2015) all from Blue Engine Records and, as well as the soundtracks for Ken Burns’ acclaimed documentaries, JAZZ, 1999; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, 2004 and The War, 2007. Goines has collaborated on three video projects with Cuban clarinetist Janio Abreu. Two videos, Nuestra Herencia Musical (Our Musical Heritage) (2018), Juntos Otra Vez (Together Again) (2019), are with Abreu’s ensemble Aires de Concerto; and the third, Vic and I (2020), is with La Orquesta de Cåmara de la Habana conducted by Daiana Garcia. He is an acclaimed solo artist and leads his own quartet. As a leader, Mr. Goines has ten recordings including A Dance at The Mardi Gras Ball (2016), Morning Swing (2013), and Twilight (2012), all from Rosemary Joseph Records.
A gifted composer, Goines has more than 200 original works to his credit. His commissions include The Four Winds Suite (2021) and Suite for Bird (2014) for the Music Institute of Chicago; Untamed Elegance (2016) and Crescent City (2014) featuring Branford Marsalis for Jazz at Lincoln Center; Benny: Then, Now, Forever! (2009) for The ASCAP Foundation and Columbia College Chicago with support from the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and Base Line (2002) for the Juilliard School to support the original choreography by Juilliard alumnus Robert Battle and other countless works for hire.
Mr. Goines has recorded, performed, and collaborated with many noted jazz and popular artists such as Terence Blanchard, Ruth Brown, Paquito D’Rivera, Dianne Reeves, Jack McDuff, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, B.B. King, Branford Marsalis, Delfeayo, Ellis Marsalis, Jason Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Dianne Reeves, Marcus Roberts, Wayne Shorter, Chucho Valdez, and Stevie Wonder. Additionally, Goines can be heard on the film scores for the motion pictures Undercover Blues, When Night Falls on Manhattan and Rosewood as well as on music videos featuring Chick Corea, Garth Fagin, Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, and Linda Ronstadt, and a host of other renowned musicians and ensembles.
Throughout his career, Goines has been deeply committed to the field of jazz education. In November 2007 he was named director of jazz studies and professor of music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to that appointment, Goines was for seven years inaugural artistic director of the jazz program at the Juilliard School and a faculty member in jazz clarinet and saxophone. During his tenure at Juilliard, the department expanded from a collaborative program with Jazz at Lincoln Center to include formal Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. He has also served on the faculties of Florida A&M University, the University of New Orleans, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Xavier University.
A native of New Orleans, he began studying clarinet at age eight. He received his Bachelor of Music Education from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984, and his Master of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in 1990.
In 2022 Jonathan Leibovitz was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) and Concert Artists Guild (New York) International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall.
A top prizewinner at major competitions in Israel and Europe, including 1st Prize at the prestigious Crusell Competition in Finland and a Special Prize at the Carl Nielsen Competition in Denmark, this year Jonathan completes his Masters at the Music Academy in Basel with François Benda.
Solo highlights include appearances with the Israel Philharmonic, Israel Chamber, Haifa Symphonic, Ostrobothnian Chamber, Lapland Chamber and Kuopio Symphony Orchestras working with conductors including Elena Schwarz, Adrien Perruchon and Tung-Chieh Chuang.
This season Jonathan makes his debut with the London Mozart Players and appears as soloist with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia conducted by Yoel Gamzou and the Israel Sinfonietta. He records and performs chamber music with Südwestrundfunk in Bruchsaal and takes part in the Hauho Festival in Finland.
An avid chamber musician Jonathan founded the Avir Wind Quintet, and has collaborated with the ‘Mietar Ensemble’ and the Israeli Contemporary Players. He has given recitals across Israel, in Germany, Switzerland and Finland.
Jonathan made his debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 18 performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. During the 2019/20 season he joined the Israel Philharmonic as a member, and has appeared as guest with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber and Jerusalem Camerata.
Born in Tel-Aviv in 1997, Jonathan’s musical education began with Eva Wasserman. He went on to study with Yevgeny Yehudin at the Buchmann Mehta School of Music where he won numerous awards including 1st Prize laureate of the Aviv Competition
L’éblouissante virtuosité de Michael Collins et sa sensibilité musicale lui ont valu d’être reconnu comme l’un des artistes les plus éminents d’aujourd’hui et comme l’un des principaux représentants de son instrument. À 16 ans, il a remporté le prix des bois lors du premier concours du jeune musicien de l’année de la BBC, avant de faire ses débuts américains au Carnegie Hall de New York à l’âge de 22 ans. Depuis, il s’est produit en soliste avec de nombreux orchestres parmi les plus importants du monde et a noué des liens étroits avec les plus grands chefs d’orchestre. Collins a également la distinction d’être le soliste à vent le plus souvent invité aux BBC Proms, y compris plusieurs apparitions à la célèbre Last Night of the Proms.
Au cours des dernières saisons, Collins est devenu de plus en plus considéré comme un chef d’orchestre et en septembre 2010, il a pris le poste de chef d’orchestre principal du City of London Sinfonia. Son succès dans ce rôle témoigne de son talent naturel de musicien et de son leadership galvanisant, qui se manifeste tant dans son jeu que dans sa direction.
Il a notamment dirigé le Philharmonia, l’Academy of St Martin in the Fields, les London Mozart Players, le BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, l’Ulster Orchestra, le Kymi Sinfonietta, le Philharmonia d’Auckland et l’Orchestre symphonique de Tasmanie.
Très demandé en tant que chambriste, Collins se produit avec des collègues musiciens tels que les quatuors Belcea et Takács, Martha Argerich, Stephen Hough, Mikhail Pletnev, Lars Vogt, Joshua Bell et Steven Isserlis. Lors de sa résidence au Wigmore Hall, il a joué avec András Schiff, Piers Lane et le quatuor à cordes Endellion. Son ensemble, London Winds, fêtera son vingt-cinquième anniversaire en 2013, avec une composition entièrement inchangée durant cette période. Le groupe tient un agenda chargé avec des engagements de haut niveau tels que les BBC Proms, le Festival d’Aldeburgh, le Festival d’Edimbourg, le Festival de la City de Londres, le Festival international de Cheltenham et le Bath Mozartfest. Collins est également directeur artistique du Liberation International Music Festival à Jersey.
Clarinettist, conductor and Sony Classical recording artist, Martin Fröst is known for pushing musical boundaries and has been described by the New York Times as having “a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinettist — perhaps any instrumentalist — in my memory”. Widely recognised as an artist who constantly seeks new ways to challenge and reshape the classical music arena, his repertoire encompasses mainstream clarinet works, as well as a number of contemporary pieces that he has personally championed. Winner of the 2014 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, one of the world’s highest musical honours, Fröst was the first clarinettist to be given the award and joined a prestigious list of previous recipients including Igor Stravinsky and Sir Simon Rattle. International Classical Music Awards voted him their 2022 Artist of the Year Award for his innovative global career, his impressive discography, and his philanthropy.
Fröst was announced the Artist in Residence with the Royal Concertgebouworkest for the 2022/23 season, the first ever wind player to be given that honour. The residency include season opening concerts with Víkingur Ólafsson and Alain Altinoglu; the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s Clarinet Concert with Jaap van Zweden; and exciting performance of Sally Beamish double concerto with Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä as well as chamber music projects interspersed throughout the season. In 2022/23 Fröst continues to focus on his activities as Chief Conductor of Swedish Chamber Orchestra, including SCO Festival “Fröstivalen”, concerts with international guest artists, recording projects and highly anticipated European tour in early 2023. Other highlights of this season include a residency at Wigmore Hall, returns to the Royal Festival Hall with Philharmonia Orchestra and Pekka Kussisto and to Berlin with RSB Berlin and Lahav Shani as well as a conducting debut with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His latest album for Sony Classical Night Passages was released on the 22 April 2022. With acclaimed pianist Roland Pöntinen and legendary bassist Sébastien Dubé, it charts a nocturnal journey through the playful and the profound, reimagining favourites from the Baroque, while touching on jazz and folk music.
As a soloist, Fröst has performed with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. He regularly collaborates with prominent international artists, including Yuja Wang, Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Roland Pöntinen and Antoine Tamestit, as well as performs in international events such as Verbier Festival in Switzerland and Mostly Mozart in New York. Fröst has appeared in some of the world’s most important concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus Berlin and he has toured in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.
In recent years he has made successful conducting steps with the most important being his appointment as Chief Conductor of Swedish Chamber Orchestra from the 2019/20 season. Together they have embarked on a music journey that explores Mozart’s historic footprint in Europe through his travels. The project, set to be recorded by Sony Classical over a period of four years, is the orchestra’s first comprehensive green tour initiative, making extensive use of rail travel across Europe.
Renowned for his multimedia performing projects in collaboration with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, in recent years Fröst has presented Dollhouse, Genesis and most recently Retrotopia – his latest project to perform both as soloist and conductor in a musical journey that explores new repertoire and challenges the traditional conventions of the classical concert.
A keen advocate of the importance of music education, in 2019 Fröst launched the Martin Fröst Foundation with the support of the world’s largest manufacturer of wind instruments, Buffet Crampon. The purpose of the organisation is to provide resources that can improve and enable children’s and young people’s access to music education and instruments. The Foundation aims to join forces with non-profit organisations and various sponsors across the world, having already established presence in Kenya and Madagascar.
The multi-award-winning clarinetist Alexander Bedenko is one of the most prolific artists of his generation and has performed with major conductors of leading orchestras, ensembles and festivals in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Born in Ukraine, into a family of musicians, Alexander Bedenko graduated from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied clarinet with Donald Montanaro and chamber music with Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley and Joseph Silverstein.
Alexander Bedenko has won first prizes at the || Moscow International Young Artist’s Competition in 1994, the Interlochen Center for the Arts “Concerto Competition” (1995-1996), the Grand-Prix and Laureate at the International Selmer Clarinet Competition in Kiev, (1999) and was a recipient scholarship of the « New Names » Charity Foundation, Vladimir Spivakov’s Foundation and the named scholarship of The President of Ukraine, from (1997-1999).
In the past seasons, Alexander Bedenko has appeared in such recital venues as the Carnegie’s Weill recital Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Steinway Hall in New York City, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, the Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory and UNESCO in Paris. He has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolai Lugansky, Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gernstein, Itamar Golan, Daniel Hope, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Eugenia Zukerman, Maxim Rysanov, Gautier Capucon and worked with the Borodin, Jerusalem, Ying, Alma, Endellion and Orion string quartets.
Alexander Bedenko has also performed as a soloist with Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and appearanced at the Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Sarasota, Miami and Schubertiade music festivals.
Mr. Bedenko has also been broadcast on television in France, Sweden, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and has been featured on RAI Radio Classica, on WQXR Radio (New York), WRTI Radio (Philadelphia), and the “Voice of America” in Washington D.C.
In 2007, Alexander Bedenko appeared together with Richard Stoltzman on a recording of the music of J.S. Bach for the RCA/BMG Japan label.
As an orchestra musician, Mr. Bedenko was invited by Riccardo Muti to perform as principal clarinet on a highly acclaimed European tour with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (in 2014) and has also performed as guest principal clarinet with the London Symphony Orchestra, both at the Barbican Centre and on tour in Germany under the baton of Daniel Harding, with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London) and with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser Most.
From (2008 – 2018) Alexander Bedenko has served as a co-principal clarinetist with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, directed by Gabor Takacs-Nagy.
Alexander Bedenko plays on Selmer Signature clarinets and became Selmer Paris Artist in 2015, as well as D’Addario woodwinds Artist in 2019.