Masterclasses - Thomas Adès
Full
- Prices
- 0€ - 16€
- Date
- 9 November 2024 – 11am
- Place
- Auditorium
- Duration
- 1h30
- Hours
- 11 a.m.
The Fondation’s cultural project is all about transmission. On 9 November, during his residency, pianist and composer Thomas Adès will give a masterclass about his chamber music works.
These masterclasses will be broadcast live and in replay on medici.tv and FLV Play, and offline on Radio Classique.
Transmission through teaching is a vital facet of Fondation's cultural mission. Pianist and composer Thomas Adès, in residency at the Fondation, will hold a masterclass on 9 November centred on the chamber music repertoire. Two young and talented ensembles in France have been invited to take part in this event to help share, explore, and understand the creative universe of the maestro, today considered one of the world’s greatest composers. On that date, two public masterclasses will be held, at 11 am and 2 pm, a superb opportunity to encounter and learn from outstanding artists, both established masters and swiftly rising stars, on the Auditorium stage.
During these masterclasses, Thomas Adès’s work Lieux retrouvés for cello and piano will be presented by the Duo Ermitage. It will also be performed in its orchestral version on 16 November by Nicolas Altstaedt and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with the composer conducting. Then the young Trio Pantoum, recent winner of several prestigious international competitions, will present Ravel's iconic Piano Trio in A minor, one of this ensemble’s major 20th-century works.
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Masterclass #1
Duo Ermitage: Ionah Maïatsky (piano) and Paul-Marie Kuzma (cello)
Work: Thomas Adès, Lieux retrouvés for cello and piano (2009) - 2:00-3:30 pm: Masterclass #2
Trio Pantoum: Hugo Meder (violin), Bo-Geun Park (cello) and Kojiro Okada (piano)
Work: Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in A minor, M. 67 (1914)
Free admission for the Fondation members. No reservation required.
Tickets for the masterclasses will also give access to the exhibition "Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &..."
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. His compositions include three operas: he conducted the premiere of the most recent, The Exterminating Angel, at the 2016 Salzburg Festival and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Royal Opera House, London. He conducted the premiere and revival of The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, and a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and in November 2022 at La Scala, Milan. He led the world premiere of his full-evening ballet The Dante Project at Covent Garden, and conducted it in May 2023 at the Opéra Garnier, Paris. He will conduct a new production of The Exterminating Angel in 2024 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris.
He frequently leads performances of his orchestral works Asyla (1997), Tevot (2007), Polaris (2010), Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (2005), In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (2008); Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra (2013); and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2019). His compositions also include numerous celebrated chamber and solo works.
September 2023 saw Thomas Adès conduct the Gewandhausorchester as part of his two-season residency with the ensemble which sees him appear as a conductor, pianist and composer in various concert formats. This autumn Thomas also began a two-season residency with the Hallé orchestra, which sees him conduct two orchestral concerts and curate a chamber programme. For the first appearance on 28 October, Thomas conducted the UK premiere of Tower, as well as the first UK concert performance of his ballet Purgatorio, alongside his Märchentänze for violin and orchestra with Anthony Marwood, which received its UK premiere at last year’s BBC Proms.
Thomas Adès has been the Artistic Partner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2016 and he conducts the orchestra every year in Boston and at Tanglewood. He also regularly coaches Piano and Chamber Music at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove.
As conductor, Thomas appears regularly with the Los Angeles and London Philharmonic orchestras, the Boston, London, BBC, Finnish Radio and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome. In opera, in addition to The Exterminating Angel, he has conducted The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House and Zürich Opera, and the premieres of three operas by Gerald Barry, including the Los Angeles world premieres of The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, of which he also gave the European premiere at Covent Garden. Recent highlights include Thomas’s debut concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. In Summer 2022 he conducted the world premiere of Air for violin and orchestra at the Lucerne Festival, a Roche commission for Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra.
His CD recording of The Tempest from the Royal Opera House (EMI) won the Contemporary category of the 2010 Gramophone Awards; his DVD of the production from the Metropolitan Opera was awarded the Diapason d'Or de l'année (2013), Best Opera recording (2014 Grammy Awards) and Music DVD Recording of the Year (2014 ECHO Klassik Awards).
His piano engagements have included solo recitals at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) in New York and the Wigmore Hall in London, and concerto appearances with the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recent piano releases include an album of solo piano music by Janáček and a live album of Winterreise with Ian Bostridge. His solo disc of Janáček’s piano music won the 2018 Janáček medal.
Duo Ermitage
Le Duo Ermitage, formé par Paul-Marie Kuzma (violoncelle) et Ionah Maiatsky (piano), est né en 2018 de leur rencontre au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris. Complices sur scène, ils ont rapidement entamé un travail approfondi, et construit une vision commune des œuvres du répertoire. Formés par des professeurs de renom tels que François Salque, Claire Désert, le Quatuor Ébène, Itamar Golan, Jonas Vitaud et d'autres, ils continuent à se perfectionner au CNSMDP, où ils suivent leur cursus en master de Musique de chambre. Ils se produisent sur différentes scènes parisiennes ou lors de festivals divers (Festival des Pianissimes, Le vent des Arts, Festival Ravel, Musicando…).
Trio Pantoum
Fondé en 2016 au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, le Trio Pantoum s’est imposé en Europe et au-delà comme l’une des meilleures jeunes formations chambristes actuelles.
Déjà lauréats de nombreuses récompenses majeures à l'international (ARD de Munich, Trio di Trieste, Joseph Haydn à Vienne, Osaka, Melbourne, Lyon, Joseph Joachim à Weimar, FNAPEC a Paris,…) et acclamés dans de grandes salles sur trois continents (France, Italie, Belgique, Suisse, Angleterre, Norvège, Allemagne, Autriche... mais aussi Japon et Australie), Hugo Meder (violon), Bo-Geun Park (violoncelle) et Kojiro Okada (piano) apparaissent dans de nombreux médias français et internationaux: ABC, The Strad, The Violin Channel, Rai 3, Ö1, SBS, Diapason, Bachtrack, Resmusica, France Musique, Archi Magazine, Télérama...
Développant rapidement une complicité exceptionnelle sur scène et en dehors, le trio a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Pierre Fouchenneret (violon), Miguel Da Silva et Paul Zientara (alto), Ann Lepage (clarinette), Aleksandra Dzenisenia (cymbalum), le quatuor Nerida…
Ils se sont perfectionné auprès de Patrick Jüdt, Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Xavier Gagnepain, Miguel Da Silva, Corina Belcea, Claire Désert, François Salque, Günter Pichler, Antonio Meneses, desmembres du Trio Wanderer et du Quatuor Ébène… Le Trio Pantoum est Ensemble ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy), Résident à Proquartet-Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, à la Fondation Singer-Polignac, à la Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Belgique), et est Lauréat de la Fondation d'Entreprise Banque Populaire.
En 2024, le Trio Pantoum va enregistrer son premier CD, faire ses début dans le Triple de Beethoven avec l’Orchestre Français des Jeunes, se produira à la Philharmonie de Paris, au Festival Radio France Occitanie, au Festival de Pâques de Colmar, mais aussi en Belgique, en Allemagne, en Autriche, en Suisse, en Italie lors de tournées… et participera au programme « Ambassadeur » de Classeek.