Chamber Music Workshop - Germanic Repertoire 1820 - 1850

Purpose: La Nouvelle Athènes offers a workshop of instrumental chamber music or lieder or soloThis concert will focus on the Germanic repertoire between 1820 and 1850, exploring the qualities of the association's 1847 Streicher piano and the 1820 Rosenberger piano from Luca Montebugnoli's collection.

We gather around the violinist, researcher and professor Clive Brown, two founding pianists of The New Athens: Edoardo Torbianelli, Laura Granero.

Clive Brown, Edoardo Torbianelli and Laura Granero will bring an approach of the works crossing written and recorded sources. Listening to the recordings of the last romantics (Reinecke, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann's pupils or Brahms) supported by the texts of the methods of the time and the original manuscripts and editions opens new perspectives of interpretation. These testimonies attest that the interpretation was not limited to the text - partially freezing the musical phenomenon - but included spaces of rhythmic flexibility (rubatoof arpeggiation, of portamento like the art of the Bel Cantoaesthetic ideal of the time.

Luca Montebugnoli will present a lecture on the practice of arranging orchestral or lyrical works for chamber ensemble.

Around Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann or Brahms, composers such as Maria von Weber, Hummel, Moscheles...

Olga Pashchenko - professor at the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam - will join the workshop on May 1st for a day of open masterclasses in solo or chamber music.
Objectives: The workshop aims for each repertoire studied, 

- to identify written sources (scores, methods, testimonies...) and recorded sources of the late Romantics in the form of scrolls or recordings

- to integrate the modes of romantic playing (mastery of the old keyboards, of the bow, of the use of vibrato, of rubato...)

- to present a piece at the participants' concert

The New Athens and the speakers will provide a bibliography for participants to pursue their research.

Prerequisites Bachelor's degree level 3 and up, some amateurs can be accepted according to their level
Duration The training is spread over 3.5 days with Clive Brown, Laura Granero & Edoardo Torbianelli, from Wednesday, April 27, 10am to Saturday, April 30, 8pm, with an extra day to study with Olga Pashchenko
Concert of the participants Saturday, May 30th 7pm
Terms and conditions of access Registration on line on the website until April 15th. The workshop will take place in person at ARCAL 87 rue des Pyrénées PARIS 20 (metro Maraîchers).
Prices and payment The training workshops are offered by La Nouvelle Athènes. Payment is made by interbank transfer after acceptance to participate

Individual price 4-day workshop 180€, 150€ for members of La Nouvelle Athènes
1 day workshop solo pianist : 60€, 40€ for La Nouvelle Athènes members

Contact : lanouvelleathenespianos@gmail.com tel 06 70 20 67 34

La Nouvelle Athènes, 19 rue du Banquier 75013 PARIS, Siret : 82907558900012,
Declaration of training activity registered under the number 11756030175 with the Prefect of the Ile-de-France region.

biographies
CLIVE BROWN, violinist, conductor and researcher
Clive Brown is a violinist, conductor and researcher specializing in historically informed performance of late eighteenth and nineteenth century repertoire. He is currently leading a 4-year research program on the annotations of nineteenth-century violin scores at the University of Leeds, supported by a £500,000 grant from the UK Arts and Humanity & Humanities Research Council. He has published several books: Louis Spohr bibliography critique CUP 1984, Classical & Romantic Performing Practice 1750 – 1900 (OUP 1999), A portrait of Mendelsshon (Yale 2003). A graduate of Cambridge and Oxford, he was formerly Professor of Applied Musicology at the School of Music, University of Leeds, and is currently Professor at the Vienna University of the Arts. Clive Brown has published several "historically informed" editions of Beethoven's sonatas and chamber music by Brahms and Mendelssohn with Bärenreiter.

http://musiksoziologie.academia.edu/CliveBrown

LAURA GRANERO, pianist, researcher
Noted for her "exquisite sensitivity" (Audiophile Magazine) and "her delicacy and sense of song" (El Diario de Sevilla), Laura Granero (Madrid) is a singular young performer. A keyboardist inspired by the performers of the past, she combines fortepiano, harpsichord and piano with regular practice in transcription, improvisation and composition.

Her interpretation is nourished by research into Romantic interpretive practice (vocality at the piano, early recordings and piano rolls). She is interested in the legacy of Clara Schumann through her students and in rediscovering the Italian-Iberian repertoire of the 18th century, the birthplace of the fortepiano. She has been invited to give concerts, masterclasses and conferences at the Santander International Festival, San Sebastian Music Fortnight, Juan March Foundation, University of Sydney, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Salle Colonne, Salle Cortot, Palacio Real de Madrid....

She is a founding member of the Marie Soldat Ensemble and La Nouvelle Athènes, and director of the Notre Temps Project in Spain. She recently led a romantic chamber music course at the Académie de Saintes.

She appears in the album "Dans un salon de La Nouvelle Athènes".

EDOARDO TORBIANELLI, pianoforte, composer
Edoardo Torbianelli has a dual career as a teacher and international soloist. He transmits his research on 18th and 19th century aesthetics in prestigious institutions: Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, University of Arts of Bern, CRR of Paris and participates in the instrumental training of the Master MIMA Paris-Sorbonne directed by the musicologist Jeanne Roudet.

Young laureate of the international competitions of pianoforte Emmanuel Durlet 1993, Bruges 1995, he leads since then a career of soloist on the European scenes and in the most prestigious collections of instruments.

His important recording activity with the clarinettist Pierre-André Taillard, the bassoonist Serge Azzolini, the violinist T.Albertus Imberger, the Freitagsakademie at harmonia mundi, Winter&Winter, PanClassics, Phaedra, Gramola, Amadeus, Glossa, Son an Ero has been noticed by the international critics.

Artist in residence at the Royaumont Foundation (2014-2019), he has conducted research on Vocality at the piano with Jeanne Roudet and Ulrich Messthaler, as well as a series of workshops and concerts on Chopin, including a studio recording of Chopin's last works on Glossa, and a live recording of Chopin Franchomme on Paraty.

He has developed several chamber music projects with the cellist Fernando Caida-Greco, the clarinetist Pierre-André Taillard, the violinist Wietse Beels.

A project " Teatro d'Arcadie " on a copy of the 1st Cristofori pianoforte 1726 leads him to the XVIIIth repertoires of Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Bononcini...

LUCA MONTEBUGNOLI, piano pianists
Luca Montebugnoli est un pianiste et pianofortiste italien. After studying modern piano at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome, his birthplace, he trained in historical piano practice in France, first at the CNSMDP with Patrick Cohen and then at the University of Paris-Sorbonne under the direction of Edoardo Torbianelli, Piet Kuijken and Jeanne Roudet. Between 2013 and 2017 he also attended the training workshops of the Royaumont Foundation where he was able to study the piano sonata with accompaniment (in France and around Mozart), Beethoven and Chopin. Currently he is a doctoral student at the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent (Belgium) in the research team of Tom Beghin. His research topic is the practice of the accompanied piano arrangement in the first half of the 19th century. In 2016 he founded the Ensemble Hexaméron with flutist Nicolas Bouils, violinist Roldan Bernabé, cellist Amaryllis Jarczyk, a variable-geometry formation that intends to revive in all its diversity the practice of chamber music with piano and the plural nature of its repertoire from the end of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century in salons. He is also very active in the field of music education, teaching piano and fortepiano at the Conservatoire Départemental de Bobigny and since 2018 at the Conservatoire Rayonnement Régional de Paris. He is a founding member of La Nouvelle Athènes.

OLGA PASHCHENKO, pianists, piano players, clavecinists, organists
Olga Pashchenko, a prodigious pianist trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Alexei Lubimov, specializes in early keyboard music in Moscow and then in Amsterdam with Richard Egarr. She has won numerous competitions on early pianos (Bruges, Kremsegg, Rovereto, Madrid, Leipzig...). She has an intense concert activity in Europe and in Russia. She is in residence at the Utrecht Festival, the Beethoven Haus, and is also a professor at the Royal Conservatories of Amsterdam and Ghent. She is a sensation in the festival La Nouvelle Athènes at the Salle Cortot (Paris) in February 2019.

His discography for Alpha includes Beethoven, Dussek, including one for four hands with Alexei Lubimov.

In 2021, his recording of Lieder with the baritone Georg Nigl was noticed by the press (portrait in the Figaro) and his recording of Variations on Folksongs with the flutist Anna Besson received European awards. Their concert of June 30, 2021, recorded by La Nouvelle Athènes is available online for free on the site.