Piano recital
Winner of the Spiriades Prize at the Maisons-Laffitte International Piano Competition, Alexey Dimitriadis has come up with a programme that suits him like a glove:  "Éclats romantiques: Ombre, Feu & Reflets".
A daring talent!

Friday 11 July 8.30pm
Eglise Saint-Nicolas, 48 bis, quai de Seine
95530 La Frette-sur-Seine
Free Participation
Œuvres by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Ravel

Jan Jakub Zielinski has won numerous competitions as a soloist and chamber musician. He won First Prize at the International Piano Competition Ile-de-France (2024).

Programme: Johannes Brahms and Frédéric Chopin.

Sunday 8 June, 11.00 am
Bergerie Auditorium Frédéric Chopin
2 place Sainte Anne
Nohant-Vic, 36400 France

The opening concert on 31 May at 8.30pm, in Old Church, will be given by British pianist Julian Trevelyan, winner of our competition in 2015.

That same year, after winning the Long-Thibaud Competition at the age of 16, becoming the youngest winner in the competition's history, he moved to France. Since then, he has won prizes at international piano competitions such as those in Leeds, Géza Anda, Horowitz and many others. Julian is studying at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" with Rena Shereshevskaya.

He is delighted to be returning to perform an ambitious programme for us, featuring Szymanowski and Chopin, Messiaen and Fauré, Granados and Byrd, much to our delight.

What you will be hearing:

• Olivier Messiaen: Eight preludes, n°1 "La colombe"
• Karol Szymanowski: Nine preludes, op.1, n^os 1,2,6
• Olivier Messiaen: Eight preludes, n°2 "Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste"
• Karol Szymanowski: Prelude in C minor, op. 1 n° 7
• Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne n°1 in E flat minor, op.33 n°1 and Nocturne n°13 in B minor, op. 119
• Frédéric Chopin: Etude in B minor, op.25 n°10
• William Byrd: La Volta in G major
• Enrique Granados: Quejas o la Maja y el Ruisenor
  
• Gabriel Fauré: Romance sans paroles in A flat major, op.17 n°3
• Frédéric Chopin: Grande valse brillante, op. 18; Nocturne in B major, op.9 n°3; Ballade in A flat major, op. 47

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. 

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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