The Paris International Summer Sessions
Edition Brussels-Braine l'Alleud

July 7-12, 2010

PHILIPPE ENTREMONT is one of the world's leading pianists and a well-known conductor. He is particularly well known as a pianist for his performances in the early twentieth century repertory and music of the Classical era.
His father was a conductor, who - when Philippe was a boy - was conductor at the Strasbourg Opera. Philippe's mother was a pianist, who gave him his first lessons.

He studied with Marguerite Long, who was a favored interpreter of the music of Maurice Ravel.
In 1944 he went to study at the Paris Conservatory with Jean Doyen. At the age of 12 Entremont won the Harriet Cohen Piano Medal. At the Paris Conservatory he won the first prizes in solfège when he was 12, in chamber music when he was 15, and in piano when he was 16. He made his professional debut in 1951 in Barcelona. He began touring in Europe.

Philippe Entremont made his American debut on January 5, 1953, with the National Orchestral Association, with Jacques Barzun conducting. He became particularly well-known for his performances and recordings of music by such composers as Milhaud, Stravinsky, Jolivet, and Leonard Bernstein.

He has appeared as a pianist on five continents in practically every major musical center and with the great orchestras for the world, and at many major summer festivals.

He also appears frequently in chamber music presentations, including appearances with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal.

In 1967 Philippe Entremont also took up conducting. In 1976 he was appointed principal conductor and lifetime musical director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

In 1980 he became music director of the New Orleans (Louisiana) Symphony Orchestra, remaining in that position until 1986. In 1985 he was appointed music director of the Denver (Colorado) Symphony Orchestra.
From 1988 to 1990 he was conductor of the Orchestre des Concerts Colonnes in Paris, and in 1993 became principal conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the Netherlands.

He also is active as a teacher, in addition to maintaining a very busy concert schedule.
He has been the president of the Ravel Academy in Paris and is director of the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau. His recordings have won the Grand Prix du Disque and the Netherlands Edison Award.

Philippe Entremont is the President of The International Certificate for Piano Artists.
(http://www.internationalcertificate.org)

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PIANO

HILOMI SAKAGUCHI
JAPAN

HILOMI SAKAGUCHI graduates from the University of Osaka (Japan); then, she obtains the Diplôme Supérieur d'exécution of the " Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot, in the class of Mrs Annie d' Arco.

She obtains then the First Prize of the National Conservatory of Bordeaux as well as the Medal of Honour of the town of Bordeaux, in the class of the pianist Alain Motard.
In 1993, she joins the piano faculty of the University of Music of SOAI (Osaka), and becomes accompanist at the University of Arts of Osaka.
Since 1995, she is pianist - accompanying with the National Conservatory of Bordeaux, in the professional classes of cello, violin and saxophone.
From 2002 on, she becomes pianist - accompanist of the "Habanera International Academy of saxophones " of Poitiers.

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VICTORIA ALEMANY FERRER
SPAIN

Born in Valencia, VICTORIA ALEMANY FERRER teaches Music and Scenic Arts of the piano, at the Valencia Conservatory, since 1985.

Even if she's a public performer, her career is above all pedagogical. Victoria Alemany Ferrer's researches on the learning process of a music instrument (piano) in order to develop new pedagogical approaches are very renowned.
She also published articles concerning the historical valencian pianism, contributing to the knowledge of the use of the piano in Spain during the 19th Century.
During her researches, she discovered some forgotten piano works of the Spanish patrimony.

She's Doctor in Music "cum laude" of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia since 2007.

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MUZA RUBACKYTE
LITHUANIA

Lithuanian pianist MUZA RUBACKYTE is a Grand Prix of the well-known F. Liszt/Bartok competition of Budapest.

Student of the Russian Masters Y. Flier, B. Davidovitch and M. Voskressenski, she travels around the world, from Singapore to the USA, performing in the most prestigious halls like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London or the Beethoven Haus in Bonn.

Discovered by Nikita Magaloff, she was the youngest assistant at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

She made like 30 recordings (27 CD's). Professor at the University of the National Academy of Music and Theatre of Lithuania, she also teaches at the Russian Conservatory "S. Rachmaninov" in Paris.

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PASCAL-JEAN MARIGNAN
FRANCE

PASCAL-JEAN MARIGNAN graduated from the Bordeaux Conservatory. In 1987, he wins the Gold medal of Chamber music and the Gold medal of Piano, then, in 1988, the Medal of Honour of the town of Bordeaux.

Since 2004, he's on the piano faculty of the Bordeaux's National Conservatory of Music.
Pascal-Jean is the artistic director of several music events in the region of Bordeaux and is regularly on the jury of international piano competition - Spain, Mexico, France, Asia , …).

He is member of "Pianoduo Opus 2" with Hilomi Sakaguchi and the "Piano Quartet 2 Pianos" with pianists Judy Chin and Jean-Marie Cottet.

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ALFREDO BUESO CASASUS
SPAIN

ADOLFO BUESO CASASUS was born in Valencia, where he started his music education.

He will continue his studies in Italy with Ennio Pastorino, himself a former student of Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli.
Adolfo combined his music studies with Law, at the University of Valencia.
As pianist, he's having a pedagogical together with his soloist career, performing regularly in recitals or with orchestra. He's currently head of the piano department at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo de Valencia.

He regularly makes part of the jury of international piano competitions like the José Iturbi Competition of Valencia.

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NELSON DELLE-VIGNE FABBRI
FRANCE-ITALY
Artistic Director of the course

The Italian virtuoso Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri was born in Argentina, where he was instructed by Magda Tagliaferro, Gyorgy Cziffra and Claudio Arrau.

In addition to his performing and recording career that took him to several continents, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also a famed international piano pedagogue.

He is a professor of piano at the Ecole Normale "Alfred Cortot" in Paris, and has also been appointed professor extraordinaire at the Chapelle Musicale "Reine Elisabeth" in Belgium.

He gives frequent master classes in France, USA, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, South Korea, etc.

He also collaborated to the festivities of the European Union Day in Seoul, South Korea, by special invitation of the European amabassador. Cultural and pedagogical broadening is an important goal of his duties as general director of the Bell'Arte Foundation.
Mr. Delle-Vigne Fabbri is also the artistic director of MUSIC-a Braine l'Alleud, the Paris International Summer Sessions and of the EMS Music Group, a record company and record studio.

Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is the founder and artistic director of The International Certificate for Piano Artists (http://www.internationalcertificate.org), a pedagogical programme in collaboration with the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" and the University of Florida-School of Music.
This programme is placed under the presidency of Philippe Entremont. Jerome Lowenthal is its vice-president. Nelson Delle-Vigne is the director of the present Summer course.

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LYRIC ART

ANTONIA SANDOVAL GARCIA
SPAIN

After studying at the Conservatory of Murcia in Spain, where she graduated as a teacher of lyric art and piano, Antonia Sandoval Garcia finishes her degree in Roman Philology in Belgium and graduates from the Conservatories of Mons and Brussels, (master degree in opera singing and lyric art)

Antonia Sandoval performed as soloist in many concerts and recitals and for recordings of Baroque music with the Laudantes Consort.
She hold the characters of Titania in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream (Opera Studio de la Monnaie), as well as Adele in Die Fledermaus by Strauss and Doralice in Banchieri's La pazzia senile.

She participates to many music festivals such as the Printemps Baroque du Sablon and new creations like Anathema at the Theatre du Parc in Liege or Déluge, a creation of the RTBF in Mons. For four years, she staged and performed shows around the Woman at the Theatre Villa de Molina, Murcia, Spain.

Antonia Sandoval teaches voice and vocal chamber music at the Academy of Ottignies-Louvain-La Neuve, Court Saint Etienne and the Academy of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels.

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Atelier JAZZ / COMPOSITION
HERVE LEGRAND
Composer, Paris, France

Hervé Legrand is a famed French composer and pianist, born in Paris, in 1959.

After its studies, in the middle of the Eighties, he starts his creation: traditional, jazz, film music. Today, l'opéra de poche "88 d'Or" and the Young Music Project…

Hervé Legrand's compositions, in close relationship with the stories of rises, translate the unforeseeable which watches for the mountaineer, made of a succession of rises and falls, joys and distress.

He not only composes for orchestra, chamber music ensembles, soloists or vocal music, but also for jazz compositions.

Hervé Legrand specialized in film music.
As thus, he composed the music of several films,(Papillons de nuit, etc.)

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