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| SUSAN MANOFF Née à New York et d’origine lettone et allemande, Susan Manoff a étudié le piano à la Manhattan School of Music et à l’Université d’Oregon. Des études intensives avec Gwendoline Koldowsky l’ont conduite à approfondir le répertoire du Lied et de la Mélodie et à devenir dans ce domaine une des pianistes les plus recherchées de sa génération. En parallèle à son activité dans le domaine de la musique vocale elle se consacre aux autres répertoires du piano. Passionnée par la musique de chambre, Susan Manoff joue régulièrement dans nombre de grands festivals comme Covent Garden, Verbier, Braunschweig, Lugano, Montpellier, Aix-en Provence, ou Présences... De même elle apparaît dans toutes les grandes salles de concert: les Champs Elysées, le Chatelêt, l’Opéra Bastille, la Salle Gaveau, le Musée d’Orsay, l’Auditorium du Louvre., Wigmore Hall, le Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Wien, Festival de Salzbourg... Susan Manoff est par ailleurs invitée régulièrement par France Musiques. Cette saison elle joue, entre autres, à Carnegie Hall, Oji Hall, Tokyo Opera City, et le Musikverein. Pianiste curieuse et amoureuse du théâtre, elle a créé de nombreux spectacles mélangeant musique et texte. C’est ainsi qu’on a pu l’entendre associée avec Nelly Borgeaud, Hélène Delavault, Jean Rochefort ou Marie Christine Barrault et mis en scène par Syberberg, Jouanneau .... Susan Manoff a été chef de choeur adjoint à l’Opéra de Paris et est actuellement professeur au CNSM de Paris. | NEMANJA RADULOVIC At 25, Nemanja Radulovic sets aflame concert halls in every appearances of his thanks to his performances and his stage presence. He was recognized as the “International Revelation of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique in 2005 (European Association of Artist Managers, MIDEM prize), was nominated as “Rising Star” in 2006 and plays in the most important European concert halls: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Megaron in Athens, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Philharmonie of Cologne, as well as at the Carnegie Hall. In 2006, he replaced Maxim Vengerov in the Beethoven concerto, Salle Pleyel, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. He then performs with the greatest orchestras in Europe, Asia and America : Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Rio, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Nürnberger Symphoniker, NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hannover, Orchestra Philharmonic of Ukraine, Orchestre National de Belgique, WDR Symphony Orchestra of Köln, Zurïch Tonhalle Orchestra, the RTVE of Madrid, Orchestra Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the RAI Orchestra of Turin, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London… He has been recording for the label Transart Live since 2005, with a solo CD (Bach, Miletic, Paganini, Ysaÿe) which is acclaimed by the press and awarded a Diapason discovery, and the two Mendelssohn concertos with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, which are immediately on the top of the download lists on iTunes and VirginMega. His latest album «The Devil’s Trills» has been released in September 2009 for the label Decca/Universal in France and worlwide for the label ArtAct, (Kreisler, Sarasate, Schubert, Wieniawski and Tartini) and receive many international awards: “Choc“ of Classica, “Clé“ of Res Musica, Recommended by the Strad... His latest album, a CD dedicated to Beethoven Sonatas and with Susan Manoff, has just been released by DECCA and ArtAct. Since his appearance at the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu in France in 2002, Nemanja Radulovic has taken part in the most famous music festivals, and gives regular recitals with Marielle Nordmann, Susan Manoff, Dominique Plancade, Laure Favre-Kahn, Anne Gastinel and his ensembles The Devil’s Trills and Double Sens. Nemanja Radulovic won many international prizes : Joachim in Hanover, George Enescu Competition in Bucharest, Antonio Stradivari Competition in Cremona, Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Wieniawski-Lipinski Competition in Poland… Born in Serbia in 1985, Nemanja Radulovic has begun his musical studies in 1992 and won the Prize of October for music of the City of Belgrade in 1996, then the Special Prize of the ministry of Education of the Serbian Republic “Talent of the year 1997”. He has taken part in master classes given by Yehudi Menuhin, Salvatore Accardo, and Joshua Epstein, with whom he studied in 1998 at the Saarlandes Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Saarbrücken, and Dejan Mihailovic, whose class he joined in 1999 at the Faculty of Arts and Music in Belgrade. At the age of fourteen, he moved to France and perfected with Patrice Fontanarosa at the CNSMD of Paris. Nemanja Radulovic plays a violin made by J. B. Vuillaume in 1843. |