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© Dimitri Scapalan/ Keith Hiro/ Matt Dine
Chamber music between Paris and Hong Kong Musicus
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Violinist Fanny Clamagirand and Hong Kong pianist Aristo Sham , both winners of the Music Masters of Monte Carlo, join Musicus Society Artistic Director Trey Lee and young Hong Kong talents Helen Yu and Lee Yat. The programme includes compositions of incredible beauty from the Belle Époque: Puccini’s Crisantemi string quartet , composed in 1890 on the death of his friend, the Duke of Savoy; Ravel’s impressionistic and colourful Piano Trio in A minor, composed on the eve of World War I; and César Franck’s highly expressive Piano Quintet in F minor.
Trey Lee
"...a superb cellist" by Lorin Maazel, a "Miracle" by Gramophone, and "an excellent cellist...with an enveloping richness and lyrical sensitivity" by the New York Times, Trey Lee has worked with esteemed conductors, composers, and orchestras around the world, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonard Slatkin, Mikko Franck, Yuri Bashmet; the BBC Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, and the Netherlands Philharmonic, among many others. He frequently performs at major venues and festivals around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Teatro dal Verme in Milan, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Lincoln Center, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Trey Lee has shared the stage with some of the greatest stars of our time, including Julia Fischer, Vilde Frang, Pekka Kuusisto, and Alexander Sitkovetsky. A winner of major international competitions, Trey Lee’s albums with EMI have topped the classical charts. He plays the 1703 “Comte de Gabriac” cello by Venetian master Matteo Goffriller. Since 2012, Trey Lee has been a UNICEF ambassador in Hong Kong. His latest album, Seasons Interrupted , in collaboration with the English Chamber Orchestra, was released by Signum Records in May 2024.
Fanny Clamagirand
Internationally recognized as one of the revelations of the French scene, Fanny Clamagirand won the Violin Masters of Monte Carlo in 2007 and the F. Kreisler International Competition in 2005. Acclaimed for her elegant playing and her interpretations combining sensitivity, authority and freedom, she performs as a soloist in prestigious venues and festivals with renowned orchestras and artists, as well as on various French and foreign media. She was a member of Mutter's Virtuosi, an ensemble of young soloists directed by Anne-Sophie Mutter.
His extensive discography includes works by Ysaÿe (Nascor) and Saint-Saëns (Naxos), as well as other recordings with the Orchestre National de France and the English Chamber Orchestra. His latest album, devoted to the violin concertos of Florence Price, was recorded with the Malmö Opera Orchestra (Naxos).
Clamagirand plays a violin by Matteo Goffriller made in Venice in 1700.
Aristo Sham
Hailed by the New York Times as a pianist "whose playing combines clarity, elegance and abundant technique" and by the Washington Post as a young artist with "limitless potential" who can "already compete with the best," Aristo Sham has dazzled audiences on five continents, performing with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart, the English Chamber Orchestra under the late Sir Raymond Leppard, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Sham won the Piano Masters Monte Carlo in 2023. He also won the Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in 2018. More recently, he has won first prizes at the Casagrande, Gina Bachauer, Vendome Prize at Verbier Festival, Dublin, Clara Haskil, New York, Saint-Priest and Viotti international piano competitions.
Helen Yu
Hong Kong violinist Helen Yu was a finalist in the 2024 Musicus Young Artist Audition. She recently received her master’s degree and will begin her graduate studies under Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston. Yu has previously won the Tokyo International Youth Music Competition (Virtuoso Senior Class), the NEC Honors Chamber Competition, and the HKAPA Academy Concerto Competition. Yu has performed at prestigious music festivals including the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, the Heifetz International Institute of Music Chamber Music Seminar Program, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Curtis Summerfest, and the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. Yu plays a Testore violin on loan from the Colburn Collection during her stay in Boston.
Lee Yat
Hong Kong violist Lee Yat received an honourable mention at the 2021 Musicus Young Artist audition. He has performed internationally at venues including Victoria Hall, Musikverein Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, Royal Albert Hall, Opéra de Monte Carlo and KKL Luzern. Lee was awarded second prize at the Kreisler Institute Competition in Vienna in 2018. As a passionate chamber musician, he has performed with master performers such as Maxim Vengerov, Nobuko Imai and Liviu Prunaru. He has performed at the Wien Modern, Prussia Cove and Stauffer Festivals, and as principal violist with the Menuhin Soloists, Klangforum Bern and the Webern Symphony Orchestra. Lee currently studies at the Manhattan School of Music under Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec on a full scholarship. Lee plays an excellent 1800 John Betts viola, kindly loaned to him by the PostScript Collection through Beare's International Violin Society.
Program and cast
Program
Giacomo Puccini:
Crisantemi String Quartet , SC 65
Maurice Ravel:
Piano Trio, M. 67
-intermission-
César Franck:
Quintet in F minor
Interpreters
FANNY CLAMAGIRAND , violin
HELEN YU , violin
LEE YAT , viola
TREY LEE , cello
ARISTO SHAM , piano
Salle Gaveau
The Salle Gaveau, named after the French piano maker Gaveau, is a classical concert hall in Paris, located at 45-47 rue La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is particularly intended for chamber music.
Construction
The plans for the hall were drawn up by Jacques Hermant in 1905, the year the land was acquired. The construction of the Gaveau building took place from 1906 to 1907. The vocation of this hall was chamber music from the beginning, and its seating capacity was a thousand, just as it is today. The hall was home to a large organ built in 1900 by the Cavaillé-Coll|Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll firm. This instrument with 39 stops (8 on the positive, 12 on the recitative, 12 on the grand organ and 7 on the pedal) was subsequently installed in 1957 in the commune of Saint-Saëns in Normandy. The hall is a concert venue renowned for its exceptional acoustics.
The room
In some 110 years, the Salle Gaveau has established itself in the Parisian musical landscape as an essential music venue. Find out the important dates of this hall full of history which has hosted the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
1905 - 1907
BIRTH OF THE GAVEAU ROOM
The land on which the Gaveau building is built was acquired in 1905. The plans for the hall were drawn up with particular attention to acoustics at the end of 1905 by the architect Jacques Hermant . The building was built in 1906-1907 and the Gaveau hall was immediately the prestigious hall in Paris. Its main purpose has always been piano and chamber music but orchestras were often heard there. The number of seats has changed slightly over time to around 1000 seats . The current number is 1020.
1907 - 1908
PROMISING BEGINNINGS
The Salle Gaveau opened its doors for the 1907-1908 season. The first concert was given on October 3, 1907 by the Bremer Lehrergesangverein . It was a vocal concert given with 140 performers. Thus, despite its average dimensions, the Salle Gaveau was not afraid to welcome large groups and it can be noted that from this season onwards, it hosted the Lamoureux concerts which gave concerts there under the direction of Camille Chevillard , Vincent D'Indy , and André Messager .
The 1907-1908 season was very brilliant in the field of chamber music. Cortot, Thibaud and Casals performed the complete Beethoven trios and trio variations there on November 5, 8 and 12. Eugène Ysaye gave a recital there on January 21, 1908. Marguerite Long performed there on December 11, 1911.
1912
ENESCO, KREISLER, CORTOT...
In the field of chamber music , some superb concerts in 1912: Enesco on February 8 with the pianist Eugène Wagner. Fritz Kreisler on April 21 and 28, Wilhelm Backaus on May 15, Cortot, Thibaud and Casals on May 24 and 31.
1933 - 1934
LAMOUREUX AND PASDELOUP CONCERTS
The war did not interrupt the artistic activity of the Salle Gaveau but the hall was used for galas given for the benefit of soldiers or victims of the war.
After the war the hall had a very brilliant period with the Lamoureux and Pasdeloup concerts . Great conductors conducted there: Charles Munch on October 28, 1933.
The great pianist Rudolph Serkin performed on December 2, 1933. Wanda Landowska gave a recital on a Pleyel harpsichord on November 7, 1933. Yves Nat performed Beethoven's sonatas in 1934.
1939 - 1944
A TROUBLED PERIOD
During the Second World War, the hall rediscovered its vocation to host galas.
Berthe Bovy recited fables by La Fontaine .
During the occupation, great soloists were heard: Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Raymond Trouard, Jacques Fevrier . From 1944, Samson François performed regularly. Germaine Lubin sang melodies accompanied on the piano by Reynaldo Hahn .
1976
RESUMPTION OF THE ROOM BY C. AND JM FOURNIER
Only the bankruptcy of the Gaveau house, which occurred in 1963, came to shake its sustainability...
The building, partly resold to an insurance company, soon lost its splendor. Under pressure from land, the hall escaped in extremis the threat of a parking lot thanks to the saving energy of Chantal and Jean-Marie Fournier , a couple of passionate musicians, who acquired it in 1976 and have kept it alive for 25 years.
1992
THE ROOM CLASSIFIED AS A HISTORICAL MONUMENT
Listed in the inventory in 1982, classified in 1992 in the wake, Gaveau was saved from the worst but in pitiful condition. "Everything was very tired and we were beginning to fear that a seat would give way in the middle of a performance", testify the masters on board who sounded the alarm in order to obtain subsidies for the restoration.
The work, conducted under the direction of the chief architect of historic monuments, Alain Charles Perrot (already officiating on the Paris Opera), aims to restore listening comfort without affecting the unique sound of the hall, the secret of its success.
2001
THE RENOVATION FINALLY COMPLETED
If the sound remains, the tone changes: "The spectators will be very surprised to discover the original stripping and sobriety of this modern room ahead of its time", explains Alain Charles Perrot. The architect has tried to rediscover the strict gray with gold accents of the historical decor, and the originality of the lighting, its bare bulbs "like pearls on the ceiling". Reconstructed identically , the armchairs with metal legs and wooden frames reconnect with the original buttercup yellow.
Restored to its truth, Gaveau is banking on increased attractiveness to seduce a new audience, including companies in the "golden triangle" for private parties. The future of this high-end room is based on a healthy complementarity of activities, always with music shared. The room reopens its doors on January 8, 2001. A reopening concert is then a landmark, with the great Roberto Alagna
on the bill .
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