7th Mirecourt Music Festival
We are pleased to resume the Mirecourt Music Festival this year, with a particularly festive 7th edition!
Four artists with international careers and three young soloists will offer the public moments of sharing with masterpieces of the romantic repertoire alongside works to discover. We have the immense pleasure of meeting these artists of great talent and regulars at the Festival, Dana Ciocarlie, Diana Ligeti and Mélanie Brégant, but also our two winners of the last Mirecourt International Violin Competition, the 1st prize Qing Zhu Weng and the 3rd Victoria Wong Award!
Four decentralized concerts in Hennecourt, Châtenois, Vittel and Remiremont will introduce an ever wider audience to classical music at its highest level.
2022 sonne la reprise des festivités sur un territoire vosgien étendu et fera découvrir un répertoire souvent méconnu dans toute sa diversité et sa richesse. Des liens forts se tissent ainsi au fil des années entre artistes et luthiers Mirecurtiens et Européens.
Guest artists
Marianne Piketty – Violoniste
« Densité, fougue, virtuosité, intériorité, générosité » : c’est ainsi que la presse accueille la violoniste qui développe une carrière éclectique où se côtoient concerts en soliste, récitals, musique de chambre, duos originaux, grand répertoire, œuvres à découvrir et créations contemporaines. Marianne Piketty est professeur au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon et donne de nombreuses master-classes en Europe. Elle est directrice artistique des Rencontres Internationales de Mirecourt, et bien sûr de l’ensemble à cordes qu’elle a fondé, Le Concert Idéal.
Mélanie Brégant – Accordéoniste
Mélanie Brégant entered the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris in 2002, when an accordion class opened. She regularly gives solo recitals to discover the concert accordion through original Russian music, contemporary music and transcriptions. She performs regularly in many festivals in France and abroad. She works regularly in collaboration with composers. Holder of the Certificate of Teaching Aptitude, she is a professor at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Villeurbanne.
Diana Ligeti – Violoncelliste
Diana Ligeti is a winner of numerous prizes in her native Romania, but a finalist at the prestigious Munich Competition, and won first prize at the Douai International Cello Competition. As a member of the Ligeti String Trio, she won first prize at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Since then, Diana Ligeti has performed as a soloist and chamber musician all over the world. In 2018, she became artistic director of the American Art Schools of Fontainebleau, the only woman to lead this century-old institution, after Nadia Boulanger.
Dana Ciocarlie – Pianiste
Dana Ciocarlie has an extensive repertoire in both solo and chamber music, ranging from Bach to contemporary composers. She has created more than fifty works, several of which are dedicated to her. Dana has a fiery temperament and her playing in solar colors translates into total musical commitment. After her recent visits to Carnegie Hall, the Gewandhaus and La Roque d'Anthéron, she is a regular guest at the most important events on the international scene. A “hurricane from Romania”.
Clément Sozanski – Altiste
Clément Sozanski is a young violist whose graduate studies began at the CRR and the Pôle Superieur in Paris, he later graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon and the Haute École de Musique Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig. He seeks to develop a singular and vocal style, particularly in chamber music. This discipline, which he particularly likes for its repertoire and its intimate character, pushes him to join several constituted ensembles, including the Collectif Fractales, the Septet Bouclier, the traditional Algerian fusion group Koum Tara, and the Quatuor Émana.
Qingzhu Weng – Violoniste
Qingzhu Weng is the unanimous winner of the first prize and three special prizes of the Mirecourt International Violin Competition (2021) and the first prize of the Ysaÿe International Violin Competition. He is also laureate of the Bach Competition Leipzig, Jascha Heifetz Competition, Tibor Junior Competition, Kloster Schöntal Competition and the Ton und Erklärung Competition. Qingzhu Weng has been studying with Prof. Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the University of Music Hannover since 2014.
Victoria Wong – Violoniste
Victoria began her Bachelor's degree with Professor Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler University of Music and since 2018 she has been studying with Nora Chastain at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Victoria was a winner of the Music of Australia Foundation Award and is currently a laureate of the Freunde Junger Musiker Foundation of Berlin. She is the winner of the 25th edition of the Berlin Gyarfas competition and winner of the 3rd prize of the Mirecourt International Violin Competition (2021).
Tuesday, November 8, 8:30 p.m. – Hennecourt Church
Violin and accordion: Escales
Mélanie Brégant, accordion – Marianne Piketty, violin
Full price: 10€
By their simplicity and their numerous sound possibilities, the accordion and the violin accompany the popular musicians of the XXth century, make the countryside dance, or allow to evoke the music of the nightlife, or its nostalgia. In this program around musical evocation, from Andalusia to Argentinian clubs, via Central Europe and Romania, emotion will inevitably be present!
Wednesday, November 9, 6 p.m. – Violin-making Museum, Cours Stanislas – Mirecourt
Recital at the Violin Making Museum of Mirecourt – Cours Stanislas
Victoria Wong, violin – 3rd prize at the Mirecourt International Violin Competition 2021
Full price: 10€
The violinist Victoria Wong offers us a peregrination in the evolution of the language of the violin, rhetorical and harmonic with a spiritual dimension in Bach, bold, audacious and disturbing in Bartók, elegant and sensual in Kreisler.
Thursday, November 10, 8:30 p.m. – La Scène, Ernest Lambert Theater – Châtenois
String quartet, at the heart of romanticism
Marianne Piketty & Victoria Wong, violins – Clément Sozanski, viola – Diana Ligeti, cello
Full price: 8€
Reservations: 03 29 94 99 50 – 03 29 94 55 61 – trait-dunion@ccov.fr – www.ccov.fr
Three quartets to travel through the musical 19th century: the tragic quartet by F. Mendelssohn, a painful work which reveals in its four movements the suffering of the last months of a composer in mourning. G.Puccini's quartet, more confidential and inspired by the musical language of Wagner, as a tribute to a romantic world on the decline. The exciting perspectives of a New World emanate from the American quartet of A.Dvorák, a work energized by the presence of popular themes and evocations of an exotic environment for the Czech established in New York.
Friday, November 11, 8:30 p.m. – Espace Alhambra – Vittel
String quartet, at the heart of romanticism
Marianne Piketty & Victoria Wong, violins – Clément Sozanski, viola – Diana Ligeti, cello
Full price: €11 (reservations)
Three quartets to travel through the musical 19th century: the tragic quartet by F. Mendelssohn, a painful work which reveals in its four movements the suffering of the last months of a composer in mourning. G.Puccini's quartet, more confidential and inspired by the musical language of Wagner, as a tribute to a romantic world on the decline. The exciting perspectives of a New World emanate from the American quartet of A.Dvorák, a work energized by the presence of popular themes and evocations of an exotic environment for the Czech established in New York.
Saturday November 12 6:00 p.m. – Espace Flambeau – Mirecourt
Recital at the Espace Flambeau in Mirecourt
Qing Zhu Weng, violin – 1st prize at the Mirecourt International Violin Competition 2021
Free
The Partita n°2 by Bach, crowned by the famous Chaconne, serves as the starting point for a program where three later works resonate, all related to Bach, for an evening in the form of a tribute to one of the major figures of musical heritage, and largely considered an absolute model by composers. Inventiveness of the musical language, meditative emotions, use of ancient writing processes, rhythms and energy of the dance... are sublimated by the virtuosity of a solo violin necessarily committed body and soul.
Saturday, November 12, 8:30 p.m. – Salle Zaug – Remiremont
Romantic Living Room
Marianne Piketty, violin – Diana Ligeti, cello – Dana Ciocarlie, piano
Full price: €10 / under 18: €5
Reservations: Town hall of Remiremont, 1 place Christian Poncelet – 03 29 62 42 17 – mairie@remiremont.fr
Two facets of the romantic era resonate in this evening. The French spirit of the end of the 19th century, under the pens of Mel Bonis, a composer still too little known, and that of her contemporary Ernest Chausson. Both represent the atmosphere of an era as much fascinated by Germanic culture as attracted by modern research, more colouristic, which tilted the end of this century towards impressionism and modernity. German Romanticism resonates with the Threesome No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn, a lyrical and fantastic work: it is his mastery of a classical genre that earned him honours. " Mendelssohn is the Mozart of the XIXth century, the most lucid of musicians, who more easily than others detects the contradictions of our time, and who is the first to reconcile them", writes Schumann.
Sunday November 13 11:00 a.m. – Cinema Rio – Mirecourt
Romantic Living Room
Marianne Piketty, violin – Diana Ligeti, cello – Dana Ciocarlie, piano
Full price: 15€
Two facets of the romantic era resonate in this evening. The French spirit of the end of the 19th century, under the pens of Mel Bonis, a composer still too little known, and that of her contemporary Ernest Chausson. Both represent the atmosphere of an era as much fascinated by Germanic culture as attracted by modern research, more colouristic, which tilted the end of this century towards impressionism and modernity. German Romanticism resonates with the Threesome No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn, a lyrical and fantastic work: it is his mastery of a classical genre that earned him honours. " Mendelssohn is the Mozart of the XIXth century, the most lucid of musicians, who more easily than others detects the contradictions of our time, and who is the first to reconcile them", writes Schumann.
Ticketing
Réservations :
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Information :
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Subscription for the 3 concerts on November 8, 9 and 13: €28
