The Paris International Summer Sessions
July 6-11, 2009

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

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."

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CARLA GIUDICI
Accademia Santa Cecilia, Roma, Italy

Born in Cremona, Carla Giudici graduated very young from the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Milan as a student of Carlo Vidusso.

She continued her studies at the "Conservatoire de Musique" in Geneva under Nikita Magaloff, Louis Hiltbrand, and Ilonka Deckers.
Carla Giudici has been a member of the national Jury examinations in several Italian Music Conservatories and for the S. Cecilia Academy postgraduate studies.
Carla Giudici has been invited every year to the Festival Pro Mundo Uno in Orvieto for the "Academia Respighi" as well as teaching annual courses for the Accademia Respighi in Rome and the professionals Courses for CEE.(European Courses of formation and improvement for professional pianist).

She is also a faculty member at the international Festival of classical music "Tivoli classica."
Carla Giudici is regularly invited to present Master classes at the following International Courses: "Etruria" in Palazzo Altieri of Oriolo, at the Piano International courses of the "Opus Artis" of Bruxelles, at the Conservatory of Rotterdam, at the 12th "Festival International de Musica" in Torroella de Mongri and in Jerona (Spain), at the International Piano Festival of Venice, at the Union of Bulgarian Musicians of Sofia, in Jerona, at the School of Music "Pedro Carrero" in Barcellona (Spain), Griburgo: Center Fenix of music (Switzerland), the Beethoven Society in London and the summer courses at "Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot", Paris.

Carla Giudici has regularly been invited by the University of North Carolina' "School of the Arts" (USA) to hold master classes about the Piano Technique books that she has published; she was also invited by St. Paul University in Chicago, New York University, Manhattan School, Julliard School and United Nations "Dag Kammerskjold" Auditorium in New York, La Fayette University of New Orleans, Hartford University, Miami New World School of Arts, Honolulu University and in Paris and Bruxells for the "International Musical Record", etc. Morioka, Ichinoseki and Kamaici in June of 2001.

In 2002 Carla Giudici was one of the top four nominee in Italy for the best teacher prize "Tasto d'oro"(The golden key).
The City of Cremona has given her official recognition for her activities in Italy and abroad.
In 1987 Carla Giudici received the "Adelaide Ristori" award in the Protomoteca at the Campidoglio, an award granted to women who have distinguished themselves in the artistic field.
In 1888 she was appointed member of the "International Burckard Akademie" and in June 1992 in the "Salone del Cinquecento" of Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze, she was officially appointed Academica by the International Academy " Le Muse".
In 2002, in Rome, Carla Giudici received the "Fiore di Roccia" award (for journalism and show-business), VIII edition. Since 2001 she is member of the Rotary Club Roma.

In 2002, The President of Italy bestowed upon her the Order of Merit and the title of "Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana"

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ROSELLA CLINI
Royal Music Academy, Mons, Belgium

Rosella Clini is piano teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, assisted by Thomas Paule.

Student of Jacques Genty, she graduates from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot".
One can discover her regularly in recitals or with orchestra on the international scenes (Paris, Trieste, le Touquet, Mannheim, the US, ...).

Rosella Clini figures often in the jury panel of international competitions.

With her husband, the american pianist Thomas Paule, she forms a piano duo. They often perform together.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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FILM MUSIC-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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