"DUOS" Project
Meeting other people and simply try to make something beautiful and good that is the purpose of this project.
A project of remote duets that will be on Youtube, streaming plateforms and social media, and of which all the streaming earnings and royalties will be on a yearly basis entirely donated to the NGO Oxfam which fights against inequality to end poverty and injustice in the world.
Of course, it is very little, but putting the very little of each together is still a way to act. At least one must believe in it, not to give up in the face of this suffering world.
Thanks a lot to all the artists who have participated in this project for their involvement and their generosity, and in advance to those who will participate.
Thanks too to all the people who support this project by sharing it.
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Duo with Marie AWADIS
(December 2023)
Marie AWADIS
The Armenian pianist and composer, based in Germany, is known for her sensitive sound.
Intimate and poetic, Marie's music aims at communicating the depth of human emotions. Her music, always centered around her instrument, the piano, draws influences from the life experiences that have shaped her as a human, from deep roots in classical traditions to recurrent folkloristic harmonic elements of her native Armenia. Her compositions are centered around elegantly crafted melodies and their evolving discourse, at once deep and intimate, aimed to bring about simplicity through the sophistication of a classically crafted pianistic language.
Born into a musical Family, she stood on stage for the first time at the age of five, singing with her fathers band.
Starting Piano lessons at the age of eight, music became her passion where she focused on the classical repertoire and became active in performing solo concerts.
Her repertoire included pieces from Bach to Rachmaninov and Schönberg, beside chamber music, choir accompaniments and studio projects.
After receiving her Bachelor degree in Lebanon she continued her studies in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover. During her study she was invited to play the Schumann piano Concerto with the Lebanese National symphonic orchestra in Lebanon. Together with the Armenian cellist Karolin Scholz, she established the Duo Karma (2009), performing Armenian classical and traditional repertoire. This was the period where she discovered her passion to composing, and wrote her first cello duo piece "Waltzer", followed by more solo piano pieces later.
Since 2018 she is active playing concerts in Germany and Europe, also collaborating with different artists for studio recordings and live performances. Besides her two solo Albums “Echoes” (2015) and “Searching“ (2017), she has Also worked with Labels such as K7 (2019) , Sonderhouse (2020), Bluespiral (2021) and the legendary Deutsche Grammophone (2021). Her latest Album “Una Corda Diaries” was released on Nov. 2020 in Vinyl under the record label Oscarson. This album is written specially for the unique Klavins Concert Una Corda M189, and recorded on the instrument in Budapest. Her latest EP ‚LUYS’ is a vocal experiment, which is released on the 10th of November 2023. Another solo piano album has been recorded and going to be released next year.
More infos about Marie AWADIS :
https://www.marie-awadis.com
https://linktr.ee/MarieAwadis
Duo with Mirabelle GILIS
(January 2024)
Mirabelle GILIS
Mirabelle began studying the violin at the age of 5. Her studies took her to the Toulouse conservatory, then to Saint Petersburg in 2004. She subsequently became a student of jazz violinist Pierre Blanchard in Paris before exploring traditional music from Ireland to Turkey, which took her for five years to Istanbul, then to London before settling in Brest then again in Paris. During all these years, she has continued to perform in various groups in France and abroad. Today a multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, vocals, mandolin, keyboards, tenor guitar), she is also a composer (Miossec, les Amirales, Sonars) and is preparing her first solo album.
More infos about Mirabelle GILIS :
https://lc.cx/0Glj0T
Duo with Alessandra CELLETTI
(February 2024)
Alessandra CELLETTI
Alessandra Celletti is an internationally renowned pianist. She has a concert career in Italy, Europe, Africa, India and the United States, over 20 record productions and millions of plays on Spotify. She starts from a classical training but those who know her a little more know how great her attitude is to always experiment new things, so much so that her experiences multiply with interesting deviations also in the field of rock, avant-garde and electronics. She has many collaborations with Italian artists and international ones (including the legendary Hans Joachim Roedelius, pioneer of German electronics with Brian Eno and the Clusters).
Nourished in particular by the music of Erik Satie to whom she has devoted several recordings, she offers this Duo a delicate poetry. All this with simplicity, authenticity, generosity.
More infos about Alessandra CELLETTI :
https://www.alessandracelletti.com
https://lc.cx/FfCvpG (Youtube Channel)
https://lc.cx/oIU0im (Spotify)
Duo with Evgeny GANEEV
(March 2024)
Evgeny GANEEV
Contemporary dancer, artist based in Berlin.
From classical ballet (Vaganova Ballet Academy trained, danced in several ballet companies) he came to contemporary dance and performed for incredible events as «Mind & Movement» Wayne McGregor (London) / CONTEXT.Diana Vishneva (St.Petersburg) / Paris Fashion Week. Yuima Nakazato (Japan) Couture LIMINAL/DOUBLE HELIX by Nanine Linning (Amsterdam) in collaboration with Bart Hess etc.
Duo with Oskar TENA
(April 2024)
Oskar TENA
Mexican composer, pianist musician and mechatronic engineer.
He grew up in a family of 5. At 4 months of age he suffers a traumatic health event, which leads his parents to surround him with an atmosphere of classical music. In the following years he shows interest in the piano, beginning his first studies at the age of 9 years. Following his musical taste he obtained achievements and recognitions for his compositions.
Currently he creates original neoclassical music, adding electronic sounds, which together create a relaxing and cinematic sound. During the year 2021 he performed his music in Germany and Holland, having concerts with other composers from different countries.
Duo with CHAMBERLAIN
(May 2024)
CHAMBERLAIN
Mathieu Harlaut aka Chamberlain is a French producer, composer & pianist/keyboardist.
After touring with his post modern jazz trio, he has released three albums, three Eps and many singles and reworks for other artists.
It has been released vis his own label, and Parisian label such as Infine Music, Kwaidan Records, or Relief Rec. Including "City-Sous-Bois" and "Fifty Plans" used by Victoria Beckham for Paris Fashion Week Show, "Veridis Quo" Daft Punk's cover via Wagram Music, and "Call Me" Joon Moon's remix featured "Queen Sugar" 's show on Oprah Winfrey Network.
He's also composing for musicals libraries agencies and creative publishers such as Cezame Music Agency, Sony Music Publishing or Art Melodies (four albums).
Main concerts and venues : Finaliste du Prix Société Ricard Live 2020, Transmusicales de Rennes, Festival Piano City Milano Italy, La Gaité Lyrique Paris, Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris 2023 with his young audience show "Typotypex'" (composer, actor and director) and many many clubs in France and Europe.
Chamberlain has always had the audacity to push his curiosity to its logical conclusion, conjuring up unique sonic spectres. Verging on strange, these apparitions aggregate a myriad of influences and approaches combining DIY, scholarly appropriation and pop arrangements, Where classical, jazz, electro and soundtracks merge to form innovative musical compositions. Here's the picture : Kraftwerk, Ravel, Satie, Debussy, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Moodymann, Brad Mehldau. Ennio Morricone or François de Roubaix, get it ? Enough with the references. It's not so much where Chamberlain comes from that matters, but where he takes us.
Duo with CASCADEUR
(June 2024)
CASCADEUR
Holder of a fine arts PHD, Alexandre Longo creates the musical project "Cascadeur" in 2004, synthesis of his jointed practice of music and painting.
Following a series of shows and the release of 3 auto-produced albums, he wins the CQFD award in 2008, organized by Les Inrockuptibles magazine. He then signs for 4 albums with the music label Mercury :
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Human Octopus in 2011 (with more than150 shows, alone on stage, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, England and Canada.
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Ghost surfer in 2014. He received a Victoire de la musique (French music award) in 2015 in the 'best electronic album' category.
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Camera released in 2018 and once again acclaimed by the critics.
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Revenant in 2022.
Cascadeur has a strong cinematic universe.
Unsurprisingly, some of his tracks are chosen for series (Clash, Khader Cherif), trailers
(Michel Gondry's L'Ecume des Jours, Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart, Jalil Lisper's Des vents contraires, Denis Dercourt's En Equilibre) and long-feature films (Toledano Nakache's Le Sens de la Fête, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar's Le Ciel Attendra, Katia Lewkowicz's Tiens-toi droite...).
He also composes scores for the following films: Laurent Tuel's Le Combat Ordinaire and On l'appelait Ruby; Edouard Pluvieux's Amis Publics and Super High.
Cascadeur collaborates with C'est pas du ieu theater company. He wrote music for their 3 latest creations La vie bien qu'elle soit courte (2016) and Le Potentiel Erotique de ma Femme (2018) that was adapted from a David Foenkinos novel and shown at Aignon festival, then Vole, Eddie vole (2021). He also created 4 musical lectures with Maylis de Kerangal.
Duo with Fabio CAPANNI
(July 2024)
Fabio CAPANNI
Composer, musician and architect, Fabio Capanni has been a key innovator in experimental music since the late 80s.
The refined sonic textures that marked Capanni's highly personal approach to the harmonic possibilities of the electric guitar led him to collaborate for over a decade with Hans Joachim Roedelius, one of the fathers of electronic music, and to participate in musical projects with : Harold Budd, Peter Principle, Luc van Lieshout, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Tim Story, Glen Sweeney, Chris Karrer.
In 2021, after a long silence, Fabio Capanni released HOME, his first solo album and in 2023 released OUTSIDE for the american label Curious Music.
Duo with Elena GOMEZ
(August 2024)
Elena GOMEZ
Elena Gomez pursued higher studies in Music at the Conservatory of Madrid, where her main instrument was the accordion.
A creative and restless mind, she began to take an interest in concrete and electroacoustic music, and she ventured into the world of digital sound with her first electronic instrument, a Moog MS20.
In 1986, she began working at Radio 3, the music channel of the public broadcaster RNE. There, she directed and presented various programs, magazines, and cultural shows, and in 2005 she began her most personal project: the radio program "Atmósfera," a show centered around experimental electronic music, sound art, and new media, the only one of its kind in Spanish broadcasting.
"Atmósfera" allows her to fully unleash her creativity, continue creating music, explore new soundscapes, and launch sound projects linked to radio, such as the “Comic Sonoro/Radiofónico: Microchica and Destroboy,” or the competition “Delirios Instrumentales.”
She has participated with "Atmósfera" in various festivals such as the LEV Festival (Gijón, Spain), Semibreve (Braga, Portugal), and Bozar (Brussels, Belgium).
In 2010, she discovered the instrument that she is continually exploring: the Theremin. Self-taught, she delved into the world of this fascinating instrument, the only one that is played without being touched. Its difficulty has made her increasingly passionate about it, and she is now immersed in a Theremin and piano project with the Spanish pianist Ana Vega Toscano.
Additionally, from 2015 to 2020, she was the Coordinator of Radio 3, and since July 2020, she has been the Director of Radio Nacional.
Duo with Oscar CARMONA
(September 2024)
Oscar CARMONA
Oscar Carmona is a composer, pianist and interdisciplinary artist.His music explores and draws from various genres such as minimalism, classical musicand piano tradition, film music and electronic music. Oscar has written music for piano,ensembles, orchestra, electronic media, interactive performance and also for dance, short filmsand theater.
His instrumental compositions have been performed in Japan, France, Switzerland, theUnited States, Spain, Germany, among other countries. Although Oscar is greatly influenced bythe music of Bach (“the Alpha and the Omega”), he currently seeks a symbiosis between theworld of classical music and the sound universe of electronic music.His latest works include creations for ensemble and electronics (Artificial, 2022;Insomnia, 2023) and numerous compositions for solo piano and piano with electronics that willbe released soon.
Duo with Monica TORTI
(October 2024)
Monica TORTI
Monica Torti is a passionate and talented Swiss guitarist, known for her expressive and musical playing.
After exploring various instruments, she devoted herself to the classical guitar in 2015 and obtained her certificate with the Congratulations of the Jury at the Conservatoire de Lausanne in 2018 (prof. Renaud Renquin). She continued her studies at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne - HEMU, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 2022 and a Master's degree in instrumental pedagogy in 2024 (prof. George Vassilev). Monica is currently continuing her studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands (prof. Enno Voorhost). At the same time, she takes part in numerous masterclasses with internationally renowned guitarists, such as Judicaël Perroy, Zoran Dukic, Aniello Desiderio, Thibaut Garcia, Marco Tamayo, Gabriel Bianco, Tali Roth and many others.
Monica Torti has won prizes in many international competitions, notably in Switzerland and Italy, as well as prestigious prizes such as the Fritz Bach Prize 2024, the Seicorde 2023, the Auditech SA Prize 2022 and the Paderewski Prize 2016.
As a soloist, she has been invited to perform in Switzerland, in France and in Italy. She has performed at many renowned festivals, including the Rencontres Guitares Bulle, the 6 Cordes au Fil de l’Allier Festival, the Nendaz International Guitar Festival, the Week-end Musical de Pully and many others. She has also performed as a soloist with many ensembles such as the Villa-Lobos Concerto with the Lausanne Conservatoire Orchestra and the Boccherini Quintet with the Bazzini Quartet in Brescia, Italy.
Monica performs regularly with the Akisson Duo and various chamber music ensembles, sharing the stage with renowned artists such as Thibault Cauvin and Johan Smith.
Always on the lookout for new musical experiences, Monica incorporates a looper pedal into her recitals. She has created “Identity, classical guitar and looper pedal”, a unique concert combining compositions and arrangements in a variety of styles.
Alongside her artistic career, Monica devotes herself to teaching guitar. She has worked in a number of institutions, including giving masterclasses at the MIGS Academy and teaching at the Conservatoire de l'Ouest Vaudois and many other music schools.
More about Monica TORTI :
https://monicatorti.com
Duo with Hakim HAMADOUCHE
(November 2024)
Hakim HAMADOUCHE
Introduction by Gilles Roff, Télérama
“A punk, Hakim Hamadouche? You must have seen him play “Rock El Casbah” with the Clash Mick Jones (in 2009, during Marsatac) without appear out of place for a single second, to fully grasp the energy that this long escogriffe travels in concert. Hamadouche is the man who has been holding the electric mandoluth (and the house) behind Rachid Taha for years. The blood and party brother, without whom Taha would surely not have the same flame on stage. An old hand in Marseille musical venues, Hamadouche is not only an exceptional partner (Têtes stiffes, Tricky, Lili Boniche, Mick Jones, Brian Eno, Patti Smith...): mandoluth virtuoso, effective singer, he also knows how to revisit the musical traditions of his country of origin, Algeria, exploring mixed zones – as with Oriental Fusion, a group created with percussionist Ahmad Compaoré and saxophonist Edmond Hosdikian -, or embarking on endless improvisations with other pirates musicians like Sam Karpienia and Manu Theron. A punk spirit for rebellious music."
More infos about Hakim HAMADOUCHE :
Youtube Album Live
Duo with the OHV
(December 2024)
TO COME
OHV
(Direction : Arnaud George)
The Vandoeuvre Harmony Orchestra, created in 1991 under the aegis of the City of Vandoeuvre, has continued to evolve in order to share its passion for music with as many people as possible. Composed of 80 musicians, whether these instrumentalists are professionals (like the 12 music stand leaders) or good level amateurs mainly from Vandoeuvre and the large Nancy area, the OHV maintains an almost professional level of interpretation which makes it a beautiful showcase of the know-how of French wind orchestras.
Directed by Arnaud GEORGE since 2019, the orchestra, thanks to its varied repertoire, also contributes to discovering composers and works little known to the general public, or even to enriching the musical repertoire by commissioning original works.
The OHV is a member of the Confédération Musicale de France and performs every year in many places to share… music!
More infos about the OHV :
https://ohvandoeuvre.fr
MUSIC DIRECTOR ARNAUD GEORGE
Always passionate about the Harmony Orchestra and orchestra direction, Arnaud GEORGE began his career as a conductor in 2014, after studying bass trombone at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon as well as at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg. These two courses allowed him to occupy the position of Principal Bass Trombone at the Opéra National de Lorraine from 2012 to 2016. A state graduate in Trombone and from the 2018 class of the “Take the direction of a Conservatory” program of the National Institute of Territorial Executives, Arnaud flourishes just as well in conducting an orchestra, teaching his instrument or the management of an artistic educational establishment.
Currently he directs the Golbey Harmony Orchestra (88) and also holds the positions of Director of the Municipal School of Music of Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy and Musical and Artistic Director of the Harmony Orchestra of Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.
