27 mai 2023, 15:00 – 16:15 | Festival : Autour d’Isaac Lefébure Welly organiste et pianiste du 1er Empire

Sonatas for piano and accompaniment :
Louis Emmanuel Jadin (1768-1853)
Sonata in G major for flute and piano
Isaac François Lefébure Wély (1756-1831)
Sonata in B for piano and violin unpublished
Nocturne in C minor for flute and fortepiano Louis Emmanuel Jadin
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) Sonata C-dur for flute, violin and fortepiano

This concert explores some of the unpublished pieces by the organist and pianofortist Isaac Lefébure-Welly for keyboard with flute or violin accompaniment discovered by Quentin Guérillot at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Pieces by Bach's youngest son, Johann Christoph Friedrich, by the son of the great harpsichordist François Couperin, Armand Louis, and by Louis Emmanuel Jadin will introduce us to the pre-romantic sensibility. The refined sound of the Erard square piano is prolonged by the colors of the violin or the romantic flute.

Native of Mulhouse, Quentin Guérillot studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with great masters such as Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry for the organ, Olivier Baumont for the harpsichord, Thierry Escaich and Pierre Pincemaille for writing and improvisation, and obtained 7 prizes. A student of Vincent Warnier, he also attended numerous master classes with Louis Robillard, Bernhard Haas, Andreas Staier, Christophe Rousset and worked on the Italian organ repertoire with the famous organist and musicologist Andrea Macinanti. Passionate about musicological sources and ancient treatises, he specializes as a maestro al cembalo with Leonardo Garcia Alarcon at the HEM of Geneva. Organist, harpsichordist, he is interested in the origins of the fortepiano and is a member of the workshops of La Nouvelle Athènes around the Erard 1806.

In May 2018, at only 25 years old, he became the titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll great organs of the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint-Denis by competition, where he succeeded his mentor Pierre Pincemaille. Since then, he has been the artistic director of the Cathedral's organ concert season and regularly performs as a soloist at the Saint-Denis Festival, notably with Khrystyna Sarksyan and David Guerrier. In addition, he regularly plays under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Matthias Pintscher, Marko Letonja, or Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the Philharmonie de Paris or at the Théâtre Antique d'Orange.   His first CD, "L'orgue chambriste, du salon à la salle de concert", released on the Initiale label, was unanimously acclaimed by the specialized critics (Choc de Classica).

Laure Massoni fait ses études de violon moderne au CNSMDP et au Royal College of Music de Londres, puis se spécialise sur le violon baroque et romantique auprès de Stéphanie Paulet et Benjamin Chénier. Elle collabore avec les ensembles comme Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Insula Orchestra, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Arts Florissants, Les musiciens de Saint Julien, ainsi qu’en tant que chambriste avec Il gemelli et Alia Mens. Elle a suivi les ateliers de la Fondation Royaumont et de La Nouvelle Athènes autour des sonates, avec accompagnement de violon ou flûte.

Khrystyna Sarksyan was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she made her debut as a soloist at the age of 9. Noticed by Pierre-Yves Artaud during an international competition in Belgrade, she came to Paris to study in his class at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and then at the CNSMDP. She was awarded prizes in flute, chamber music and baroque flute.  She performed in orchestras at the National Philharmonic of Kiev, St Petersburg, at the Cité de la Musique... She recorded Airs by Roussel and Lalo under the direction of François Le Roux and Christian Ivaldi as well as the disc 'L'orgue chambriste, du salon à la salle de concert' with Quentin Guérillot. She collaborates with prestigious artists such as Masaaki Suzuki, Leonardo Alarcon, Alexis Kossenko. She attended the workshops of La Nouvelle Athènes on sonatas with violin or flute accompaniment.