Press kit

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Cully Classique becomes Lavaux Classic p.2New branding p.3Lavaux and its surroundings p.4

13th edition p.5theme p.6

Programme p.7Focus on the ‘iN p.8 Concert series: Evénements

Grands Concerts

Nocturnes

Concerts de Midi

Découvertes

Swiss made p.9 Conversations p.9 Discover Lavaux p.10 Soirée exceptionnelle

Balades musicales

Rencontres

Focus on the ’OFF p.11 Concerts à L’Embarcadère Autour des concerts P’tits Déj’ avec

Autour d’une œuvre

Crieurs

edition 2016 p.12 Festival’IN Festival’OFF Budget edition 2015 p.12

ticket office p.13Map p.14Organization p.15Partners p.16

selection of biographies p.17

LAVAUX CLASSIC

EDITION 2016

FESTIVAL’IN

FESTIVAL’OFF

FESTIVAL FIGURES

INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHIES

Press contact and accreditations Hélène BrunetPress agent

presse@lavauxclassic.ch+41 21 311 02 29+41 78 883 69 03

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CULLY CLASSIQUE BECOMES LAVAUX CLASSIC

After 12 years of success, Cully Classique is now expanding to include the entire Lavaux Region and is changing its name to Lavaux Classic!

There are two key objectives behind this development. On the one hand, to strengthen the values and spirit forged by the festival over the last 12 years. On the other, there is a new vision: to represent the region, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with the same features that have made the event a success since 2004. Lavaux Classic comprises a unique formula, which combines high artistic standards, proximity to the events and the discovery of a truly exceptional landscape.

Cully - which remains the centre of the event – will offer over a hundred events over the course of 10 days: paying concerts in various concert halls across the region focusing on a pre-decided theme, free lakeside concerts of all styles, meetings and children’s events.

With its dynamic and unique nature, Lavaux Classique will become a festival of the entire region. It enjoys strong support owed to its deep roots in local soil, cross-regional fame and a strong international element.

Festival'IN E The Festival’IN comprises the paying activities of the event: almost 25 classical concerts, events based on the theme and activities involving discovering Lavaux. International artists and young musicians alike gather at Lavaux Classic for exceptional musical moments. The Festival’IN programme is announced on 2nd March 2016.

Festival'OFF E The Festival’OFF includes the event’s free activities: nearly 30 concerts of all styles by the lake in Cully, meeting the musicians and exciting music-based activities. The Festival’OFF program will be announced on 1st June 2016.

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NEW BRANDING

After 12 years of existence and growing success, Cully Classique begins a new chapter under the name Lavaux Classic. A new logo has been created to reflect the values and particularities of the festival from its 13th edition onwards.

A typography full of character was chosen: Retiro Pro. It embodies the nobility of classical music while having original features. With unique qualities on certain letters, this font marks the rugged terrain of vineyards plunging into Lake Geneva and the winding alleys meandering between the clusters and leaves, sometimes green, yellow or red.

A fresh, bright green was chosen as the identity colour of Lavaux Classic: it illustrates the fig leaf, the reflections of the lake some days and especially the dynamism of the event.

The Association des Amis also takes on a new appearance and a new colour: purple.

The Lavaux Classic logo features a shape that is integral to the identity of the festival. This is a 14-sided polygon. It expresses the many facets of this festival, rich in projects, ideas and different activities. This form also acts as a highlight for the image to give it more strength and more presence, like the festival, which despite its small size, reaches far beyond the region and is internationally esteemed.

It is this form that you will find on the poster for the 2016 edition and which functions as a spotlight on the breathtaking views of Lavaux.

The use of photography also marks a change in communication of the festival, which is moving away from a purely graphic identity. This will put into perspective the vision and the unique atmosphere of Lavaux. 2016 will feature pictures from Cully-based photographer Michel Bertholet.

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LAVAUX AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

A UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007, Lavaux is a wine region, unique for its landscape, character and history. Located at the edge of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey (Switzerland), the region is known for its ter-raced vineyards literally plunging into the lake and is dotted with small villages suspended be-tween sky and water.

As well as its spectacular beauty, Lavaux is rich in traditions and experience, every year attracting tourists from all around the globe. A landscape formed by man over more than a thousand years, Lavaux is striking in its natural beauty, revealing hidden treasures. Over the centuries, Lavaux became known for its hospi-tality, typical regional cuisine and world-famous wines with eight designated sources.

Lavaux Classic mimics these countless cultural riches, bridging the gap between musical crea-tion and living heritage.

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13TH EDITION

"HOrs LiMites" (BeyONd LiMits) – 24tH JuNe – 3rd JuLy

A platform for creating and sharing, the festival attracts more than 7,000 spectators each year, and welcomes internationally renowned artists and talented young musicians. Its trademark is a proximity at all times, with intimate venues, housing artists amongst locals and offering one of a kind encounters between the audience and the musicians. After 12 years of existence, Cully Classique changes its name and is now extending its borders to the entire Lavaux region. Under the new name of Lavaux Classic, the 13th edition of the festival takes place from 24 June to 3 July 2016 and carries the theme “Hors limites” (Beyond limits).

22 paying concerts E With the majority of concerts and activities organized in Cully, the town remains the heart of Lavaux Classic. Vevey and the/la Salle del Castillo now host the concerts of the Evénements series. In Cully, The Temple hosts three different series and the/la Steinway Lounge – Hug Musique hosts the Découvertes concerts. Among the guests of the edition 2016 are Boris Berezovsky, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, le Quatuor Borodine, Tedi Papavrami and La Venexiana. Placed under the theme “Beyond limits”, the 13th edition of the festival is dedicated to the masterpieces, which, from the Baroque era to the present, are the result of overcoming situations of deprivation or restriction.

Autour des concerts E Determined to break down barriers of classical music, the festival organizes many activities, free or paying, which will allow the public to discover this year’s theme, to listen to and even meet the musicians. Organized in the framework of Festival'IN, Conversations offer moments of exchange around the theme of the edition. As for the ‘OFF, the P’tits déj avec and workshops Autour d’une œuvre permit the public to meet some of the artists from the Festival'IN or to discover in a musical work in great depth.

Discovering Lavaux E To highlight the unique area that hosts the festival, Lavaux Classic offers a range of activities that combine classical music and discovering Lavaux. These activities include: walks in the vineyards of Lavaux punctuated by surprise musical stops and tasting local products, public meetings public meetings with local products carte blanche to a musician and a winemaker and even a concert organized in a heritage site of Lavaux.

Free concerts at L’Embarcadère E During the festival, the stunning lakeside in Cully is now called L’Embarcadère. Its stage offers 30 free concerts of all styles. Located at the heart of the festival, it also provides a place to eat and drink.

Find all the details about the series, activities outside the concerts and the Lavaux discovery activities on pages 8 to 11.

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THEME

“HOrs LiMites” (BeyONd LiMits)

In 2016, the development isn’t just geographic (from Cully to Lavaux), it is also at the heart of the theme for the 13th edition of Lavaux Classic.

This year, the festival is dedicated to the master-pieces, which, from the baroque period to today have been created through overcoming depri-vation or restriction. These necessarily changing experiences are the foundation for compositions with a rare density and depth that transcend the creator's situation: they are works “beyond limits”.

This topic being as vast as it is exciting, two ar-eas have been prioritized: political and social constraints, as well as those relating to a state of physical or mental illness. This 13th edition will therefore present pieces by Schütz facing the ravages of the Thirty Years’ War, the latest mas-terpieces by Schubert, Beethoven hampered by deafness, Mélodies by Duparc interrupted by a nervous disease that condemned him to silence, Etudes by Debussy written at the beginning of World War I when he was a very physically afflict-ed composer, the famous Quatuor pour la fin du Temps by Messiaen composed in a concentration camp and works marked by communist totalitari-anism (Chostakovitch, Ligeti, Kurtág).

All of these works share a transcendental dimen-sion, a unique beauty, an essential character. For, backed into a corner, man overflows with crea-tivity as if, pushed and constrained by an external force, it grows in intensity and emerges even more beautiful than before. It is to this transcendence that Lavaux Classic is dedicating its 13th edition.

Finally, in order to reach beyond the music, Lavaux Classic invites senior, world class musicians to come and express the theme “beyond limits” in their own way. Thinkers, writers, journalists, film-makers, these strong personalities will deliver their wealth of knowledge in a series of four Conversa-tions with Charles Sigel (see page 9).

I hope you enjoy exploring our 2016 programme.

Jean-Christophe de Vries General & artistic director

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PROGRAMMATIONFeStIVA 'In

FrI 24 June8 PM, SALLE DEL CASTILLO, VEVEY QUATUOR BORODINE Haydn, Chostakovitch, Beethoven

10 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY DANIEL MOUREk E TEDI PAPAVRAMI GABRIEL ESTEBAN E MIYUkI ISHII Messiaen

SAt 2512 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY jEAN-SELIM ABDELMOULA Abdelmoula, Chopin, Schubert

2 PM, BILLETTERIE, CULLY RENCONTRE VIGNERON & MUSICIEN

4 PM, STEINWAY LOUNGE, CULLY EMILE ABEILLE E CYPRIEN GRUFFEL ZEN MATSUZAkI E MALéNA jäGER Clementi, Beethoven, Mendelssohn

5 PM, ANCIEN PRESSOIR, CULLY PIERRE ASSOULINE Conversation avec Charles Sigel

7 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY ROGER MURARO Debussy, Wagner-Liszt, Ravel

10 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY ASTRIG SIRANOSSIAN E THéO FOUCHENNERET Schnittke, Ligeti, Prokofiev

Sun 26 Journée des familles12 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY LAURéATS DU CONCOURS SUISSE DE MUSIQUE POUR LA jEUNESSE 2016

FROM 2 PM, BILLETTERIE, CULLY BALADE MUSICALE

4 PM, STEINWAY LOUNGE, CULLY NICOLAS SALLOUM Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin

5 PM, SALLE DEL CASTILLO, VEVEY FINGHIN COLLINS E QUATUOR SINE NOMINE ORCHESTRE DES jEUNES DE SUISSE ROMANDE Mozart, Chostakovitch

mon 277 PM, LIEU PATRIMONIAL, LAVAUX SOIRéE EXCEPTIONNELLE Lieu, nom de l’artiste et programme dévoilés le 2 mai

tue 288 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY MAURO PETER E HELMUT DEUTSCH Schubert

Wed 298 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY SWISS CHAMBER SOLOISTS Holliger, Hindemith, Mozart

thu 306 PM, ANCIEN PRESSOIR, CULLY LUCIENNE PEIRY Conversation avec Charles Sigel

8 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY kRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT Bach, Mozart, Beethoven

FrI 1St July6 PM, ANCIEN PRESSOIR, CULLY BRUNO MONSAINGEON Conversation avec Charles Sigel

7 PM, SALLE DEL CASTILLO, VEVEY BORIS BEREZOVSkY Bartók, Ligeti, Scarlatti, Stravinsky

10 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY LUCAS DEBARGUE Liszt, Scriabine, Ravel

SAt 212 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY CRéATIONS Haensler, Chostakovitch, Ubaldini

2 PM, BILLETTERIE, CULLY RENCONTRE VIGNERON & MUSICIEN

4 PM, STEINWAY LOUNGE, CULLY LéA AL-SAGHIR E AURORE GROSCLAUDE Dvořák, Liszt, Schumann

5 PM, ANCIEN PRESSOIR, CULLY MARC BONNANT Conversation avec Charles Sigel

7 PM, SALLE DEL CASTILLO, VEVEY PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD Bach, Ligeti, Kurtág, Beethoven

10 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY STéPHANE TéTREAULT E FABRIZIO CHIOVETTA Schubert, Chostakovitch, Pärt

Sun 312 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY SILkE GäNG E MARCO SCILIRONI Duparc, Debussy, Ravel

FROM 2 PM, BILLETTERIE, CULLY BALADE MUSICALE

4 PM, STEINWAY LOUNGE, CULLY MARIANA RüEGG E TAMARA CHITADZE Debussy, Messiaen, Honegger, Poulenc

6 PM, TEMPLE, CULLY LA VENEXIANA Monteverdi, Schütz

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FOCUS ON THE ‘IN

CONCerts series

EVéNEMENTS E 4 CONCERTSWith 4 prestigious meetings, the Evénements se-ries welcomes internationally renowned artists to the stage of the la Salle del Castillo in Vevey. Among the guests of this series are: Boris Bere-zovsky, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the famous Quatuor Borodine. Salle del Castillo E Place du Marché, Vevey

GRANDS CONCERTS E 5 CONCERTSTaking place at the Temple in Cully, this series brings together artists of the highest caliber. Mau-ro Peter and Helmut Deutsch, the Swiss Cham-ber Soloists and La Venexiana are performing in the Grands Concerts.Temple E Rue du Temple, Cully

NOCTURNES E 4 CONCERTSIlluminated by candlelight, the Nocturnes pres-ent highly acclaimed artists in a unique, intimate setting. In 2016, the four concerts of this series take place at the Temple on Fridays and Satur-days at 10 pm. Guests include: Tedi Papavrami, Fabrizio Chiovetta, Stéphane Tétreault and Astrig Siranossian, winner of the Coup de cœur Piguet Galland 2015.Temple E Rue du Temple, Cully

CONCERTS DE MIDI E 4 CONCERTSBrand new for the 2016 edition, the Concerts de Midi take place on Saturdays and Sundays at the Temple in Cully. Guests include: The pianist Jean-Selim Abdelmoula and mezzo-soprano Silke Gäng acompanied by pianist Marco Scilironi.Temple E Rue du Temple, Cully

DéCOUVERTES E 4 CONCERTSSet this year amongst the woodwork of l’Atelier du Luthier, the Steinway Lounge – Hug Musique welcomes the Découvertes. Intended to present the stars of tomorrow, the series is now dedicated to very young talent and welcomes promising per-formers aged 13 to 18.Steinway Lounge – Hug Musique E Atelier du Luthier, Route de Vevey 11, Cully

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swiss Made

Lavaux Classic is launching a new project aim-ing to honour Swiss musicians and compositions through four concerts. For the Création division, Swiss made hands over to budding composers and aims to unveil compositions as a world premiere.

Under the heading Interprétation, the project presents homegrown talents, both emerging and renowned musicians. Keep your eyes peeled, the Swiss made logo will guide you!

CONVersatiONs

Top-level performers describe in their own way, the varied and exciting contexts of the theme “beyond limits”. Thinkers, writers, journalists or filmmakers, these strong personalities meet in l’Ancien Pressoir and will deliver to the public their wealth of knowledge in conversation with Charles Sigel.

Saturday 25th june, 5 pm E Pierre Assouline, journalist and writer (France)

Thursday 30th june, 6 pm E Lucienne Peiry, specialist in Art brut (Switzerland)

Friday 1st july, 6 pm E Bruno Monsaingeon, vio-linist, filmmaker and essayist (France)

Saturday 2nd july, 5 pm E Marc Bonnant, lawyer and speaker (Switzerland)

Ancien Pressoir, Cully E duration 1 h E reservation only (limited places) price : 20.- (with ticket for evening: 10.-/5.-)

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disCOVer LaVauX

SOIRéE EXCEPTIONNELLE a first rate concert in an extraordinary settingStarting in 2016, every year Lavaux Classic will open to the public the doors of a heritage site of the region. On the menu for this exclusive evening: a wine aperatif, a concert with a fantas-tic musician and a local buffet with the artist. This new concept combines the pleasure of discov-ering classical music with fine dining in a friendly and privileged environment. Please note, places are limited!Mon 27 E 7 pm E duration 2 h 30 E price : 120.- (aperitif, concert and meal) Setting, programme and artist announced 2nd May 2016

BALADES MUSICALES Lavaux on foot and with musicExplore the wonderful vineyards of Lavaux and its villages, discover the surprise ‘musical stops’ and taste some local food. To participate: go to the ticket office (Cully) on either of the two Sundays of the festival between 2 and 4:30 pm to find the secret location and the itinerary of the route. Leave the ticket office (Cully) between 2 and 4:30 pm Sun 26th, Sun 3rd duration: approx. 1 h 30 (walk, tastings and concerts) no reservation. Pay upon arrival E price : 20.-

RENCONTRES wine maker’s know-how and classical music. On Saturday afternoons, Lavaux Classic offers the chance to meet an artist and a winemaker in the region. Both will have free rein to come up with an unforgettable experience including music and wine. The program (tasting and concert) will remain secret until the start of the event.Leave the ticket office (Cully) at 2 pm E Sat 25th, Sat 2nd duration: 2 h E (travel, tasting and concert) E reservation only (limited places) E price : 30.- E Performers announced 2nd May 2016

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FOCUS ON THE ’OFF

CONCerts at L’eMBarCadère

During the festival, the magnificent lakeside set-ting in Cully will be called L’Embarcadère: it is the heart of the festival and its main entrance. With a breathtaking view of Lavaux and the mountains, the stage at L’Embarcadère hosts almost 30 con-certs of classical, contemporary and world music. Every day from 6:30 pm, the Préludes offer a

classical recital outdoors. From 7:30 pm folk, pop and world music take the stage. On weekends, the music begins at 2:30 pm and Sunday 26th June, the traditional Journée des familles offers concerts, brunch and other surprises.L'Embarcadère, Place d'Armes E every day (except Mon 27th) Programme announced on 1st June, 2016

autOur des CONCerts

Lavaux Classic offers the chance to explore this year’s theme through activities that offer discussion, explanations of masterpieces that will change the way you hear the composition, and finally the oppor-tunity to meet the artists.

P'TITS Déj AVEC…This morning event gives the public the opportunity to have breakfast with an artist the day after their concert. These friendly and casual interviews are led by Charles Sigel.Ancien Pressoir, Cully E Tue 28th, Wed 29th, Thu 30th, Sat 2nd 10:30am E duration : 45 min E free entry Programme announced 1st June 2016

AUTOUR D'UNE OEUVREThe two weekends of the festival, these work-shops offer the chance to explore a musical mas-terpiece in great detail. The artists will take you through the compositions, lead by the musicolo-gist Philip Albèra.Ancien Pressoir, Cully E Sat 25th, Sun 26th, Fri 1st, Sun 3rd E 10:30am duration: 1 h E free entry E Programme announced 1st June 2016

CRIEURSThroughout the festival, les crieurs offer festivalgo-ers musical explanations and previews of upcoming events, all in a few minutes!

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22 30 130700 7 000

concerts 'IN

concerts 'OFF

artists invited ('IN et 'OFF)

spectators 150 volunteers nights of homestay

Event Wages expenses Other operational costs

Sponsoring Help Own incomes Support

Communication Artistic Infrastructure Other

BudgetBudget 2016: CHF 1 100 000

Event

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70%

20%Expenses

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29%

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InFoS PratIqueS

BOOk YOUR TICkETS AND SUBSCRIPTION

Pre-bookingwww.lavauxclassic.chbilletterie@lavauxclassic.ch+41 21 312 15 35 (Tuesday 1 – 5 pm and Thursday 9 am – 1 pm)

Pendant le festivalMonday – Friday 5 – 9 pmSaturday – Sunday 10 am – 10 pm

PriCes CAT I CAT II CAT III

éVéNEMENTS NORmAL 85 62 45 yOUNg** 56 40 28

GRANDS CONCERTS NORmAL 65 45 32 yOUNg** 45 30 20

NOCTURNES NORmAL 45 38 yOUNg** 30 25

MIDI NORmAL 35 yOUNg** 20

DéCOUVERTES NORmAL 20 yOUNg** 10

jOURNéE évéNEmENt NORmAL 45DES FAMILLES* mIDI NORmAL 15 DéCOUvERtE NORmAL 10

CONVERSATIONS NORmAL 20 with ticket for the evening 10 yOUNg** 5

SOIRéE EXCEPTIONNELLE NORmAL 120

RENCONTRES VIGNERON & MUSICIEN NORmAL 30

BALADES MUSICALES NORmAL 20

suBsCriPtiON (traNsMissiBLe)

GéNéRAL NORmAL 800 580 420 yOUNg** 520 380 270

SOIRéES NORmAL 400 290 210(concerts du soir et nocturnes) yOUNg** 265 190 140

6 ENTRéES NORmAL 300 220 160(à découvrir seul ou entre amis) yOUNg** 200 145 100

* Free for children under 16 (only for the Journée des familles).** The reduced-fare is available for persons under 26 Yo, students and persons in possesion of unemployed ou AI card.

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general and artistic directorJean-Christophe de Vriesj.devries@lavauxclassic.ch+41 78 842 13 42

Operational directorSébastien Olesens.olesen@lavauxclassic.ch

Head of marketing and communicationNathalie Langloisn.langlois@lavauxclassic.ch

Press agentHélène Brunetpresse@lavauxclassic.ch+ 41 78 883 69 03

artistic officerClaire Brawandc.brawand@lavauxclassic.ch

technical managerAntoine Watissea.watisse@lavauxclassic.ch

accounts secretaryMyrianna De Iccom.deicco@lavauxclassic.ch

F&B coordinatorEris Gestion F&B, Anne-Claire Rochat

Coordinateur sponsoringGPS Performance, Karim Sidaoui

Foundation BoardJean-Claude Givel † , PresidentPhilippe Maeder, Vice-PresidentOlivier CalloudJean-Yves CavinJoël CrettazAlexandre CurchodAlbert DiringerJean-Christophe de VriesSabine Perret, Board Secretary

Commity of l’association des amisAlbert Diringer, PresidentPavel Micodin, TreasurerMarianne Reymond, ad interim SecretaryJean BovetValérie BrunelGaetan JeantetAlberto GallusserPierre FerrariPatrice Mignon

Commission "theme & Mediation"Philippe AlbèraClaire BrawandNancy RiebenCharles SigelJean-Christophe de Vries

Commission "Programme of L’embarcadèreRomain BovyClaire BrawandHélène BrunetDelphine GarciaInbar GeronGabriel NobleSébastien OlesenBeatrice VenturiniJean-Christophe de Vries

ORGANIZATIONInFoS PratIqueS

www.lavauxclassic.chCrédits photographiques: Michel Bertholet, Marco Borggreve + DG, David Crookes, Pierre-Antoine Grisoni, M. Ingenweyen, Kaupo Kikkas, Anne-Laure Lechat, Bernard Martinez, Frances Marshall, montreuxriviera.com, Keith Saunders, Fransizka Schrödinger, Shirley Suarez, Romain Tornay

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MaiN PartNer

OFFiCiaL PartNers

PuBLiC suPPOrt

with the support of the communes of de Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Chexbres, Epalinges, Essertes, Lutry, Maracon, Oron, Puidoux, Rivaz, Saint-Saphorin et Savigny

Media PartNers

suPPOrt

aCkNOwLedgeMeNts

contractors Boxer, Devillard, Henniez, La Nébuleuse, Payot, La Semeuse

institutional partners Concours Suisse de Musique pour la Jeunesse, Conservatoire de Lausanne, Conservatoire de musique de Genève, Conservatoire populaire de Genève, Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Hochschule Luzern-Musik, HorsPortée, Jeunesses Musicales Suisse, Montreux Vevey Tourisme, Lavaux Patrimoine Mondial, Université de Genève – Département de musicologie

PartnerS and SuPPort

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SELECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES

Pierre-LaureNt aiMard, PiaNO (FraNCe)

Widely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time and as a uniquely significant interpret-er of piano repertoire from every musical period, Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys an internationally celebrated career.

Born in Lyon in 1957, Pierre-Laurent Aimard studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Yvonne Loriod and in London with Maria Curcio. Ear-ly career landmarks included winning the 1973 Messiaen Competition at the age of 16 and be-ing appointed three years later by Pierre Boulez as Ensemble intercontemporain's first solo pianist. Pierre-Laurent Aimard has had close collabo-rations with many leading composers includ-ing György Kurtág, Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, and George Benjamin, and had a long association with György Ligeti, recording his complete works for piano. Most recently he per-formed the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s Responses; Sweet disorder and the carefully care-

less, as well as Carter’s last piece Epigrams.

He regularly performs all around the world with major orchestras and conductors includ-ing Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Peter Eötvös, Sir Simon Rattle and Riccardo Chail-ly. Through his professorship at the Hochschule Köln, as well as lectures and workshops worldwide, he sheds an inspiring and very personal light on music of all periods.

In the 2015/16 season Pierre-Laurent is Art-ist-in-Residence with Wiener Symphoniker and will perform all of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos under the baton of Philippe Jordan. Other high-lights include solo recitals in Frankfurt, Amster-dam, Sydney, Tokyo and London.

Aimard is also the Artistic Director of the Alde-burgh Festival.

BOris BerezOVsky, PiaNO (russia)

Born in Moscow, he studies at the conservatoire with Elisso Virsaladze and takes specific classes with Alexander Satz. He made his début in 1988 in London at the Wigmore Hall. Two years later, he received the gold medal at the International Tchaikovksy Competition in Moscow.

Boris Berezovsky has played with the top direc-tors from the most prestigious orchestras of our time, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the New York Philaharmonic. He is a regular guest of the largest series of recitals, and is particularly involved in chamber music with partners Vadim Repin, Henri Demarquette and the Borodin Quartet.

In August 2004, the DVD that the trio of B. Berezovsky, D. Makhtin et A. Kniazev dedicated to Tchaikovksy received the Diapason d'Or. They stand out for their numerous prizes from the Choc de la Musique in France, the Gramophone in England, and the Echo Klassik Preis in Germa-ny. In 2006 he was named best instrumentalist by the BBC Music Magazine Awards.

Two years ago, he took over from his good friend Brigitte Engerer as the Artistic Director of the Festival Pianoscope de Beauvais.

Evénement Friday 1st July

7 pm E Salle del Castillo, Vevey

Evénement Saturday 2 July

7 pm E Salle del Castillo, Vevey

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kristiaN BezuideNHOut, PiaNOFOrte (sOutH aFriCa)

Kristian Bezuidenhout is one of today’s most no-table and exciting fortepianists. Born in South Af-rica in 1979, he began his studies in Australia and completed them at the Eastman School of Mu-sic. After initial training as a modern pianist with Rebecca Penneys, he explored harpsichord with Arthur Haas, fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson and continuo playing with Paul O’Dette. Bezuiden-hout first gained international recognition at the age of 21 after winning the prestigious 1st prize as well as the audience prize in the Bruges Fortepi-ano Competition.

Bezuidenhout is a frequent guest artist with the world’s leading ensembles (Freiburg Baroque Or-chestra, Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Concerto Köln, etc). He has performed with celebrated artists includ-ing John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Frans Brüggen, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Isabelle

Faust, Alina Ibragimova, Anne Sophie von Otter and Mark Padmore.

Since 2009, Bezuidenhout has embarked on a long-term project, recording the complete key-board music of Mozart (vol. 1-9, Harmonia Mundi ; awards include among others a Diapason d’Or de L’année). In 2013 Bezuidenhout was awarded the ECHO Klassik Award for Concerto Recording of the Year (Mozart Concertos with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) and nominated as Gramo-phone Magazine’s Artist of the Year.

In the 2015/16 season, Bezuidenhout performs with orchestra (Australian Brandenburg Or-chestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Kammerakade-mie Potsdam, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester) and continues his close collaboration with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He gives solo recitals and per-forms chamber music with his favorite partners.

FiNgHiN COLLiNs, PiaNO (irLaNd)

Finghin Collins was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied with John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and with Dominique Merlet at the Geneva Conservatoire. He established his international reputation by winning the 1999 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. Since then he has performed with leading orchestras such as the Chicago, Houston, City of Birmingham and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, the Seoul, London, Rotterdam, BBC and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Emmanuel Krivine, Gianandrea Noseda, Heinrich Schiff, Vassily Sinaisky and Leonard Slatkin. In 2013 he completed his

three-year tenure as Associate Artist of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, in which he performed the complete Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos. His double CD recording for the RTÉ lyric fm label of four Mozart piano concertos directed from the keyboard with the RTÉ NSO was also released in May 2013. In the 2014/15 season he performed with the Phiharmonie Zuidnederland, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the RTÉ NSO and made a last-minute début with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In 2015/16 he performs with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Finghin Collins has been Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival since its inception in 2006, and has also been Artistic Director of Music for Galway since 2013.

Grand Concert thursday 30 June

8 pm E Temple, Cully

Evénement Sunday 26 June 5 pm E Salle del

Castillo, Vevey

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HeLMut deutsCH, PiaNO (austria)

Helmut Deutsch ranks among the finest, most successful and in-demand song recital accompanists of the world. He was born in Vienna, where he studied at the Conservatory, the Music Academy and the University. He was awarded the Composition Prize of Vienna in 1965 and appointed professor at the age of twenty-four. Although he has performed with leading instrumentalists as a chamber musician, he has concentrated primarily on accompanying in song recitals. At the beginning of his career he worked with the soprano Irmgard Seefried, but the most important singer of his early years was Hermann Prey, whom he accompanied as a permanent partner for twelve years. Subsequently he has worked with many of the most important recital

singers and played in the world’s major music centres. His collaborations with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Michael Volle are currently among his most important. Deutsch has recorded more than a hundred CDs. In recent years the development of young talent has been especially close to his heart. After his professorship in Vienna he continued his teaching primarily in Munich at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where he worked as a professor of song interpretation for 28 years. In addition he is a visiting professor at various other universities and is sought-after for an increasing number of masterclasses in Europe and the Far East. The young Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was one of his last students in Munich and has become one of his favourite recital partners.

rOger MurarO, PiaNO (FraNCe)

Born of Venetian parents in Lyon in 1959, Roger Muraro began studying the saxophone in his na-tive city before teaching himself to play the piano. At the age of nineteen he entered Yvonne Loriod’s class at the Paris Conservatoire and met Olivier Messiaen. He quickly became established as one of the leading interpreters of the French compos-er, to whom he devoted a complete recording of the solo piano works, finished in 2001, that earned unanimous critical acclaim. His performanc-es without a score of Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus and the complete Catalogue d’oiseaux are regarded as not only a prodigious feat, but also an intimate appropriation of the works of Messiaen, with which he identifies totally.

While he is gifted with a dazzling technique, hav-ing studied for several years with Éliane Richepin and won prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Liszt Competition in Parma, his

playing is invariably placed at the service of poet-ry and sincerity. His artistry, at once oneiric and lucid, imaginative and rigorous, is equally at home in Mussorgsky, Ravel, Albéniz, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and in Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schu-mann, from whose music he extracts the full range of emotion, colours, hypersensitive Romanticism and sonic atmospheres.

Roger Muraro is a welcome guest as a recitalist in the world’s leading concert halls, and works with today’s foremost conductors and most prestig-ious ensembles. Eclectic, open to a musical world without frontiers, he now distils his experience as a pianist and his pedagogical skills for the students of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Mu-sique et de Danse de Paris.

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Grand Concert Tuesday 28 june

8 pm E Temple, Cully

Grand Concert Saturday 25 June

7 pm E Temple, Cully

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MaurO Peter, teNOr (switzerLaNd)

Swiss tenor Mauro Peter studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik and Theater of Munich with Fenna Kügel-Seifried before joining Helmut Deutsch’s performance class. In 2012 he partic-ipated in the Young Singers Project at the Salz-burg Festival and the same year won first prize in the Audience’s choice award at the interna-tional competition Robert-Schumann. He made his debut performing with Die schöne Müllerin at the Schubertiades of Hohenems 2012, which he also performed at the Schwarzenberg Festi-val. He ended the year with recitals in Tokyo, at the Schloss Elmau and at the Festival Schumann in Bonn. 2013 saw him join the ensemble of the Zurich Opera and his involvement in opera in gen-eral, notably at the Salzburg Easter Festival under

the batton of Christian Thielemann, at the Opéra de Lyon and then at the Salzburg Festival, where he sang under the batton of Gustavo Dudamel, John Eliot Gardiner and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The 2013-2014 season began with 3 debut per-formances at Wiener Musikverein, the deSingel d’Anvers and at Wigmore Hall. In 2014-2015, Mauro Peter sang Tamino in the new production of The Magic Flute in Zurich and made his debut with the same role at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. The 2015-2016 season will see him performing in Zurich in the roles of Andres/WOZZECK, an english hero / KING ARTHUR, Tamino / ZAU-BERFLÖTE and Ferrando / COSI FAN TUTTE as well as in Salzburg as Ferrando and in recital.

QuatuOr BOrOdiNe (russia)

ruben aharonian violin E serguey Lomovsky violin E igor Naidin alto E Vladimir Balshin cello

For seven decades, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its vision and authority in chamber music. Revered for its profound knowledge of the works of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the quar-tet is equally at home in performing anything from Mozart to Stravinsky. The particular affinity of the Borodin Quartet for Russian repertoire has come from contact with Dmitri Chostakovitch who has always followed the preparatory work as well as the performance of his works. The quartet regu-larly plays Shostakovich all around the world and their performances today reflect this. The quar-tet is currently the longest standing quartet that is still active, ensuring the longevity of ancient traditions. The quartet’s performance of Shostak-ovich’s compositions have been applauded world-

wide. In recent years, the quartet has returned to a broader repertoire including Schubert, Prokof-iev, Borodine et Tchaïkovski, continuing to receive international acclaim. Their 70th anniversary in 2015 was cause for an international tour around the world’s most beautiful stages, at internation-al festivals such as Schleswig Holstein, Rheingau, Tokyo Spring, Proms Snape, Istanbul Music and the Festival Dvorak in Prague. Programmes in-clude quartets by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Miaskovski, Shostakovich – and of course Borodine; as well as quintets with part-ners including Boris Berezovsky, Alexei Volodin, Michael Collins, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Ludmila Berlinskaya.

Grand ConcertTuesday 28 June

8 pm E Temple, Cully

Evénement Friday 24 June

8 pm E Salle del Castillo, Vevey

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swiss CHaMBers sOLOists (switzerLaNd)

Founded around the turn of the millennium, the Swiss Chamber Soloists is a chamber ensemble that was created to bring together leading performers from all across Switzerland, along with acclaimed guests artists from abroad, so as to present and perform sophisticated programs of chamber music. On the initiative of its three artistic directors, Jürg Dähler (Zürich), Daniel Haefliger (Geneva), and Felix Renggli (Basel), the Swiss Chamber Concerts series was initiated in 1999 to present performances by the ensemble, in various formations. It therefore represents the first national concert series devoted to chamber music, with a presence established in Basel, Geneva, Lugano and Zürich. Thanks to daringly conceived programs as well as first-class performances, the concerts of the Swiss Chamber Soloists have earned a reputation as a highly acclaimed component of Switzerland’s cultural scene. The SCS ensemble counts many renowned musicians among its players, including Bruno Canino, Dénes Várion, Heinz Holliger, Thomas Zehetmair, Christophe Coin, and Christoph

Prégardien – and many more who appear as guest artists with the ensemble.

The Swiss Chamber Soloists’ repertoire spans from the baroque, which is played on period instruments, to the contemporary and includes many recent pieces written specifically for and dedicated to the Ensemble. Its rich and committed experience as an advocate for contemporary music is reflected in the Ensemble’s highly involving performances of works by such significant composers as Carter, Ferneyhough, Kurtág, Ligeti, Yun, and Zender, as well as in the numerous world premieres of works by leading Swiss composers, including Blank, Dayer, Furrer-Münch, Gaudibert, Gubler, Haubensak, Holliger, Käser, Kelterborn, Kessler, Kyburz, Lehmann, Moser, Roth, Schnyder, Tognetti, Wyttenbach, Vassena, and Zimmerlin. Excellent reviews, concert tours throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia, and an ongoing legacy of CD recordings and radio broadcasts attest to the first-class reputation of this renowned Swiss ensemble.

La VeNeXiaNa (itaLy)

Over many years of work, the members of La Venexiana have developed a new style of perfor-mance: a spicy, Mediterranean blend of narrated texts, a colourful rhetoric and a refined harmo-ny. The ensemble’s resounding success is worthy of the great art of the Italian madrigal. The mu-sicians are guests of all major concert halls and international festivals, including the Cité de la musique à Paris, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein de Vienne, the Konzerthaus, as well as the Montpellier, de Lyon, d’Uzès and Schwetzingen festivals. These invita-tions lead the renowned ensemble to the Haen-del-Festspiele Halle, the Klangvokal Dortmund, to Venise and Cracovie as well as Schwetzingen to celebrate 450 years of Monteverdi in 2017.

The Madrigal Cds composed by Sigismondo d’In-dia, Luzzaschi, Marenzio, Gesualdo and the com-plete madrigals books by Monteverdi have de-lighted critics and have won various awards such as the Diapason d’Or, the Prix Amadeus, the Gram-ophone Award, the Prix du Festival de Cannes, the Editor’s Choice of Répertoire, the Prix Cecilia as well as the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten-kritik. 2012 saw the release of Luzzaschi’s album "Concerto delle Dame". In addition to this, the la-bel Glossa put together a collection of books of the madrigals of Monteverdi. The ensemble will three new albums with Glossa, including Cavalli opera duets.

Grand Concert Wednesday 29th June

20 pm E Temple, Cully

Grand Concert Sunday 3 July

6 pm E Temple, Cully