Daphne Gerrits plays the piano since the age of 4 and a few years later also started playing the violin.

At the age of 11 she was admitted to the school for young talent at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where she obtained her Bachelors degree in 1993. Daphne won prizes at several national youth competitions one of which was a solo performance in Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto accompanied by the “Residentie Orkest” in the Hague.

2 March 2025 at 4 pm
Paroisse Saint Merry
76 rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris

Born in Shanghai to parents of Chinese and Polish descent, 14-year-old Oliver Hak has emerged as a multi-award winning young pianist with his recent competition successes including first prize in the 2023 Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition by the Beethoven.

Program:
Chopin : étude Opus 25 N° 12
Beethoven : sonate N° 7 (1st mvt)
Ligeti : étude N° 13 "l'Escalier du Diable"

16 February 2025 at 5:30 pm
American Church in Paris
65 quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris

Free entry with a free will offering
No registration necessary.

Aleksandr, who was the first prize in our 2018 competition, will perform on January 31 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

The Russian pianist will present a program inspired by tales, with the first part of the ballets Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky transcribed by Mikhail Pletnev and inspired by the tales of Grimm and Hoffmann. In the second part, Aleksander will perform Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Paintings of an Exhibition, two works inspired by Slavic folklore.

2024 winner of the Concours International de Piano d’Île de France

Jan Jakub Zielinski was born in 2001 in Warsaw. He came to France when still a small child and began learning the piano at the age of 6 at the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art of Antibes – Juan les Pins, then at the Jacques Melzer school in Fréjus, under the tuition of Noël Bianchini.

In 2016, he won the gold medal from the Antibes Conservatory. He pursued his musical training at the CRR d'Aix en Provence in the class of Michel Bourdoncle and obtained the Diploma of Musical Studies with the highest honors in 2018. Between 2019 and 2022, he was a student of Janusz Olejniczak at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In October 2022, he started his master's degree in the class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, at the Felix Nowowiejski Academy of Music, in Bydgoszcz.

Jan Jakub developed his musical skills during lessons and masterclasses led by exceptional artists and has already won numerous awards including first prize at the Concours international de Piano d’Ile de France in the Diplôme de Concert section in June 2024. He takes part in festivals and has given recitals in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Spain.

Entrance: free (it is advised to book your seat)

Takehira KAMOGAWA won the special prize «Spiriades» of the International Competition of Île-de-France 2023.  He arrives especially from Japan with his beautiful sensitivity to kick off the 11th edition of the Spiriades. Takehira occurred in the church Saint-Nicolas de la Frette sur Seine. 

Progam:

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic fantasy and fugue in D minor, BWV 903
• Claude Debussy: Images, second booklet:
  - Bells through the leaves
  - And the moon descends on the temple that was
  - Goldfish
• Alban Berg: Piano Sonata in B minor Op.1
• Alexandre Scriabine: Sonata for piano n°4 in F sharp major Op.30
• Johannes Brahms: Variations on an original theme in D major Op 21-1
• Franz Liszt: Reminiscences of "Don Juan" S.418 R.228

The association Opus Yvelines, in the person of its president, is particularly honoured to receive from Jacques Myard the medal of the city of Maisons-Laffite, in recognition of its activity to promote culture and music for more than 25 years. The event took place on June 8, 2024 during the Concert Diploma Category awards ceremony, in the presence of a large audience of personalities, sponsors, spectators and musicians. 

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Sho Yamasaki, lauréat du 24ème Concours de piano d'Ile de France, dans la catégorie Pianiste Concert Amateur

PROGRAMME :

• Alexandre Scriabine : Deux Poèmes, Op. 32 - Poème n°1 : Andante cantabile
• Gabriel Fauré : Nocturne n°6, op. 63
• Frédéric Chopin : Fantaisie, Op. 49
• Félix Mendelssohn : Fantaisie, Op. 28 : « Sonate écossaise »
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonate pour piano n° 28, op. 101

Danylo Saienko , Winner 2022

Program :

• Scarlatti : sonatas K9 et K 175

• Haydn : sonata in C minor Hob XVI : 48

• Beethoven : sonata n° 30 opus 110

• Chopin : Barcarolle opus 60 and Polonaise-fantaisie opus 61

• Kosenko : sonata n°2 opus 14

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ODEON in TREMBLAY-EN-FRANCE

Dmytro Semykras was born in Sumy, Ukraine in 2001. He began studying piano at the age of 5 with Natalya Hubicheva. From 2011 to 2020, he was a student at Sumy High school of art and Culture. Over the years, he perfected his art and worked tirelessly to refine his technique, notably with teachers D.S. Bortniansky and Svitlana Morozova. From 2021, he continues his teaching in Austria at the Kunstuniversität in Graz, in the class of Milana Chernyavska.

Dmytro has performed as a soloist at international festivals in Kaunas, Lviv, Palma de Mallorca and Stockholm. He participates in international competitions and has won prizes on numerous occasions. He is notably laureate of the Volodymyr Horowitz International Competition for Young Pianists (Ukraine, 2011, 2016, 2019 – 6th, 3rd and 2nd prize), of the Krainev International Competition for Young Pianists (Ukraine, 2021 – 1st prize) and the International Competition “Mercy, Maestro!” (Belgium, 2021 – 2nd prize).

In 2023, he won 1st prize in the Ile-de-France International Piano Competition.

Program :

Part 1

J.Brahms :3 Intermezzi op.117

A.Scriabin : Preludes op.16

S.Prokofiev : sonata op.14 no.2

2e  Partie 

S.Prokofiev : sonata op.103 no.9

D.Shostakovich : preludes and fugues op.87 :D Major and e minor

M.Ravel : Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs

Showroom KAWAI FRANCE

11 place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, 75010 Paris (metro Stalingrad)

Alicia NIU (16 years old)

KAWAI France and SHIGERU KAWAI, major partner of the Competition, will
welcome the 16-years-old pianist Alicia NIU, Winner of the 2023 Excellence
Category, to its showroom on Saturday November 25, 2023 for a one-hour
recital.

Free entrance
Program :

• J.S. Bach : Prelude and Fugue in E Major BWV 854 (book 1)
• Schumann : Abegg Variations opus 1
• Liszt : Au Bord d’une Source S 160
• Debussy : Reflets dans l’Eau (Images, book 1)
• Ravel : Jeux d’Eau
• Schubert : impromptu opus 142 n°3
• Liszt : St-Francis of Paola walking on the Water (Legend n°2)

Faithful to its commitment to young artists, Pro Musica invites each year the 1st prize of the Ile de France international piano competition of which it has been a partner for seven years.

The members of the jury, chosen by Anne QUEFFELEC, contribute through their reputation, their competence and their integrity to maintaining the level of excellence of the competition Chaired by Jean-Claude VANDEN EYDEN, regularly called as a member of the jury of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition, as well as than in other international competitions, and Honorary President of the Chopin Foundation, the jury crowned, on June 10, 2023, this 22-year-old Ukrainian pianist who largely dominated the competition whose candidates were, according to the jury, of a very high level. This year, Dmytro SEMYKRAS is the winner of the 24th Ile de France international piano competition

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Sunday, March 5, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Free entrance – Free participation
Damien Lemonnier, Winner of the Île-de-France Piano Competition, Adult
Concert Pianist category, will present his recital: “From Franz to
Frédéric…” Works by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin
Saint-Merry Church 78 rue Saint-Martin 75004 Paris