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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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The Paris International Summer Sessions
July 4-9, 2011
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International Faculty
SPECIAL MASTER CLASSES
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT
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)
FRANCE CLIDAT
France Clidat is a French pianist renowned for her interpretations of the works of Franz Liszt, a great many of which she has recorded, and Erik Satie, whose complete piano works she recorded.
She studied at the Paris Conservatory with Lazare Lévy, Maurice Hewitt, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Norbert Dufourcq, and Robert Siohan and received first prize in piano in 1950, at the age of 18. She later studied with Emil Gilels and Lelia Gousseau.
At the Budapest International Competition in September 1956, she won the Franz Liszt Prize, a prize that had not been awarded since 1937. She has since performed in many venues around the world. After a recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Bernard Gavoty, reviewer for Le Figaro, dubbed her "Madame Liszt".
She has also been called "the Ambassadress of the French piano" and she has been named alongside Monique Haas, Cécile Ousset, Robert Casadesus and Philippe Entremont as outstanding representatives of the French piano school.She has taught at the École Normale de Musique in Paris for a number of years, where she has attracted many students from around the world. She also gives masterclasses in various countries, particularly Japan.
She was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 1976 and a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite in 1987.
She is also a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and has received the Medaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris.
PIANO
SPECIAL GUEST: JEAN-MICHEL DAMASE
Paris, France
Jean-Michel Damase, french pianist and composer.
Damase composes in a style often compared to Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Serge Prokofiev, Albert Roussel, and Stravinsky. He likes incorporating many of the rhythmic and harmonic complexities associated with twentieth-century French music.
Throughout his career, Damase has remained a traditionalist, "continuing the post- tonal line of Debussy and Ravel without the
modish interest in their deeper-seated implications."
SUSAN SHU-CHEN LIN
National Taiwan Normal University-Taipei, Taiwan
Susan SHU-CHENG LIN, studied at the Graduate School of the Musashino University of Music where she majored in Piano Performance Pedagogy and Accompaniment.
In recent years, she devotes herself to the training of musicians with great potential, expanding international cultural exchanges in the area of music.
Since 1985, she has served as an evaluator and judge for the Education Ministry and in 1999, she becomes co-director of the National Music Section Evaluators.
She is currently Professor/ Director of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts at National Taiwan Normal University and an adjunct professor in the graduate program of the Music Department at Fu-Jen Catholic University.
HILOMI SAKAGUCHI
Conservatoire de Bordeaux, France
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 the First Prize of the National Conservatory of Bordeaux and 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 and since 2002 on, of the "Habanera International Academy of Saxophones " of Poitiers.
MARINA SCALAFIOTTI
Conservatorio di Musica, Torino, Italy
The pianist Marina Scalafiotti was born in Settimo Torinese (Turin).
After brilliant studies at the "G.Verdi" Conservatory of Turin, she starts an international career of concert performer.
At the age of 16, she wins the Stresa International Competition for Contemporary Music. The following years, she will win 23 important piano contests.
Along her pianistic career she plays as soloist at the piano and harpsichord and in Musical Ensembles for chamber music with famous artists as Erwin Schiffer, Kati Sebestyen, Jacques Dupriez and Brigitte Autret.
She performed in the most prestigious concert halls of Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and the USA, with orchestras with directors as Ovidiu Balan, Gian Andrea Noseda, Piero Bellugi, Herbert Soudant and Pierangelo Gelmini.
After her first prize for the prestigious Treviso Piano Competition in 1992, Alexis Weissenberg encourages Marina Scalafiotti to go to Paris to perfect her art of interpretation with Nelson Fabbri Delle-Vigne Fabbri, a former pupil of Claudio Arrau.
Later Marina Scalafiotti will become Nelson Delle-Vigne's assistant. She is member of the jury of several international contests of piano and of "The International Certificate for Piano Artists" presided by Philippe Entremont.
She is regularly invited to give of Master Classes in France, Italy, the USA and Belgium and also teaches at the Conservatory of Torino in Italy.
Marina Scalafiotti is a very appreciated interpreter among contemporary compositors, which regularly dedicate their compositions to her.
Her passion for contemporary music recently permitted her to win the "Spedidam" price 2002 at the International Competition for Contemporary Music of Orleans.
CHIN CHUAN CHANG
National Taipei Normal University, Taipei,Taiwan
Pianist, Dr. Chin-Chuan Chang, is currently a professor at the National Taipei University of Education.
After his studies in Taiwan, he was selected as one of the students of the "gifted child program" of the Minister of Education from Taiwan to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid in Spain where he studied with Fernando Puchol Solomon Mikowsky.
Than, with Donn Alexandre Feder obtaining his Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music and his Doctor in Music Arts at the University of Cincinnati under Wiliam Black.
Chin Chuan Chang is a winner of several international competitions (Barcelona, Salerno, Santander, Bergen, Manhattan, Los Angeles…).
PASCAL-JEAN MARIGNAN
Conservatoires de Bordeaux & de Mérignac
President of the International Piano Competition of Mérignac
The French pianist Pascal-Jean Marignan developed three different aspects of an international pianist's career: concerts, intense pedagogical activity and organisation of several artistic events.
In 1994, he created the international competition "Mérignac Pianoopen" (former "Piano Competition Médoc Aquitaine"). In 2005 he founded the festival "Music Mérignac Passion" and he runs three Annual Piano Académies.
As a pianist, he performed in Poland, Mexico, Spain and Japan, in solo recitals or with the Japanese pianist Hilomi Sakaguchi (Piano Duo Opus 2). Together, they also use to perform in Piano Quartet with pianists Judy Chin and Jean-Marie Cottet.
Pascal-Jean Marignan studied at the Conservatory of Bordeaux and at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, while he received several first prizes in piano and chamber music in the classes of Lucienne Delourme (student of Samson Francois), and Annie d'Arco (student of Marguerite Long).
He also followed the piano advices of Leon Fleisher, Bruno Rigutto, Jean-Francois Heisser,
Francois-René Duchâble, Vadim Sakharov, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Joaquin Achucarro, Alain Motard.
Pascal Jean Marignan was awarded prizes in several international competitions, including international piano competitions Saint - The Nom La Bretèche, the "Great Concours International of Piano" ...
The teaching of piano and chamber music is an important part of his activities.
Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Bordeaux Merignac, he is regularly invited to give master classes in countries such as Japan, China, Belgium...
Several of his students were winners of national and international competitions.
Pascal-Jean Marignan is a jury member of several international piano competitions (France, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan…).
"Sharing" is a word he likes as much as music passion
He likes to repeat that "Thinking and helping others is a mission that every artist has to make through his teaching and his artistic "activity".
ROBERTO PLANO
International Piano Academy - Lago di Monate, Italy
ROBERTO PLANO First Prize Winner of the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Finalist at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, Laureates of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition (Calgary, Canada) and the 2006 Axa Dublin International Piano Competition, Italian pianist Roberto Plano has performed throughout North America (Alice Tully Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center, Severance Hall in Cleveland, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Sala Verdi in Milan, Salle Cortot in Paris and at the Herculessaal and Gasteig in Munich.
He also performed in Biarritz, France, toured Italy,Canada and the U.S. (Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Cincinnati, Forth Worth, Austin, Los Alamos, Denver, and New York 's Steinway Hall), played with the Vienna Concert-Verein Orchestra at the Weston Recital Hall in Toronto, and made his debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa conducted by Pinchas Zuckerman.
Highlights of last seasons also included Mr. Plano's debut with the strings of the Berliner Philarmoniker in Italy, his debut recital at London's Wigmore Hall, and concerts with the Milan, Forth Worth, Calgary, Bakersfield, Reading and Yakima Symphony Orchestras, plus new collaborations with groups such as the St. Petersburg String Quartet.
Mr. Plano has studied at the École Normale "Cortot" in Paris with Nelson Delle Vigne, where in 2004 he earned the "Diplome Superieur De Concertiste" with First Prize and special mention: "à l'unanimité et avec felicitations du jurie".
While studying in Paris, he was selected to participate in public Masterclasses with such distinguished artists as Philippe Entremont, Aldo Ciccolini, Joaquin Achucarro and François-René Duchâble.
In 2003 he earned the International Certificate for Piano Artists from École Normale in collaboration with the University of Florida.
Other teachers have included Eli Perrotta, Walter Krafft, Lazar Berman, Bruno Canino, William Grant Naboré (Lake Como Academy) and Sergio Marengoni.
He was also invited to serve on the jury of the Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition and of the Philadelphia International J.S. Bach Competition, among others.
He lives in Italy in Travedona Monate, near Milan, where he teaches regularly at the new International Piano Academy "Lake Monate", created with his wife in the summer of 2008.During the summer he also regularly teaches at the Music International Masterclasses in Portogruaro, Italy
ANTONIO GALERA LOPEZ
Societat Filharmonica "Musica I Art", Valencia, Spain
Antonio Galera López graduated in piano and flute in the "Joaquin Rodrigo" Conservatory-Valencia, under the tutelage of A. Bueso, V. Alemany and J. Gericó, with the First Prize.
He has studied since 2003 at the École Normale de Musique "A. Cortot" with maestro N. Delle-Vigne Fabbri, where he has received the "Diplôme Superieur d'Enseignement" with special mention.
Now, he's studying the "Diplôme Superieur d'Execution" with a special scholarship granted by JJMM Madrid, award received from Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain. Antonio is a prize-winner of several competitions, as the "Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe" 2004 award.
He has performed more than 200 concerts -recitals, chamber music or orchestra- with repertoire covering wide range of pianistic styles from Baroque up to 21st Century. His national career has brought him to the most important halls and festivals in Spain receiving outstanding critics - "extraordinary sensibility", "infallible technique control", "very rare musicality" - and standing ovations.
The ICPA project has allowed him to start a performing career in the USA, Taiwan, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France or Belgium. His presentation in America, with Mozart K595 and Ph. Entremont conducting Dominican R. National Orchestra, should be remarked.
GIOVANNI GUASTINI
Accademia di Musica di Fiesole - Italy
Giovanni Guastini began his piano studies with Sabrina Pesci, and continued with Susanna Bigongiari in the "Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence, Italy, where he got his final diploma with full marks.
He specialized in chamber music under Alessandro Specchi at the Accademia Musicale of Florence with flutist Bernardo Donati, with whom he has performed in duo for several years. He will obtain the second level degree in Chamber music with full marks from the Florence Conservatory, in the class of Rolando Russo.
During his studies he spent one year at the "Ferenc Liszt" Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary, with teachers László Baranyay (piano), János Devich and László Bihary (chamber music). He attended master classes with teachers Andrzej Jasizski, Matthijs Verschoor (piano), and Dario De Rosa (chamber music).
In 2005, he graduated in Philosophy from the Florence University with a thesis about the relation between text and performance in music, part of which has been published in the Italian musical magazine "Civiltà musicale". He has cooperated at the creation, organization, and management at the Music Laboratory of the Philosophy Department of the Florence University.
Giovanni Guastini is the winner of several national and international competitions. He currently is the accompanist of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and of the New York Univeristy Center in Florence. He is intensely committed to chamber music, in particular in duo with Bernardo Donati (flute) and Elvira Budai (cello).
NELSON DELLE-VIGNE FABBRI
Ecole Normale de Music de Paris "Alfred Cortot", Paris, France
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.
SINGING
CAROLINE DUMAS
Ecole Normale de Music de Paris "Alfred Cortot", Paris, France
Caroline Dumas studies at the National Conservatory of Nïmes and enters very young at the CNRS of Paris.
She will be the youngest awarded student with 3 First Prizes.
Student of Charles Panzera, she continues the tradition of the French vocal school.
She often performs in public performance all around the world and gives inernational master classes.
Besides her personal career, she teaches vocal technic and interpretation at the ECNMP.
SEM CERRITELLI
Maître de Chant
Conservatorio Pollini, Padova, Italy
Sem Cerritelli studied in France, Germany and Italy, where he graduates in vocal chamber music, Ander Prof. Stelia Doz and in Piano with Prof. Sergio Marengoni, at the Conservatory of Milano.
He also graduates in chamber music at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "A. Cortot" in Paris and as thus he often collaborates with instrumentalists or singers.
He will be invited as accompanist of Opera Arias and Lieder in important centers such as Carnegie Hall and will perform worldwide. In 2004, he will be the official accompanist of the Jaume Aragal Competition in Spain.
He often makes part of the jury panel of International Voice or Piano Competitions. Since 2005, he teaches at Corsico, Milano, Brescia and Padova.
GUITAR
RAFAEL ANDIA
Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortote", Paris, France
Born in France of Spanish parents, Rafael Andia first studied the violin.
At the age of eighteen, he decided to devote his life to the guitar. The Flamenco that he first practiced yielded to the classical guitar after several years. In the 1980s he recorded several albums, using ancient instruments, that are still anthologised to this day, such as the Robert de Visee integral.
He edits several recordings and his compositions lie in that little explored realm, midway between the Flamenco tradition and the scholarly music of the Iberian Peninsula.
Rafael ANDIA has been teaching baroque and classical guitar in the famous Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris since 1971.
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