Program:

• Praise to the eternity of Jesus (1940) Olivier Messiaen (*)
• Raga with harpsichord mixed (1977) Alain Louvier
• Epirus (2016) Konstantin Koukias
• The little garden of delights (2019) Mateo Bourgogne (mundial creation) (*)
• Praise to the Immortality of Jesus (1940) Olivier Messiaen (*)

     (*) Accompanied to the piano by Pierre Thomas and Andrée-Claude Brayer

The artists :

Nadia Ratsimandresy,

Ondiste , Professor of « Ondes Martenot » and  « Ondéa » at the CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt

Born in Paris, she discovered the « ondes Martenot  at the age of 9 in the class of Françoise Pellié-Murail at the music school of Evry.

Graduated from CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris)  in 2002, she devoted herself to chamber music and live performance. The trio 3D (wave, classical guitar and soprano), Volta (two ondes, electric guitar and percussion) or the quartet Hendriks (quartet of ondes) are adventures that allowed the creation of new pieces (Jean-Marc Chouvel, Colin Roche, Frederick Martin).

In addition to her chamber music activities, Nadia is developing a unique solo repertoire for ondes and electronic processing in real time: Mimetic (aka Jérôme Soudan), Sarah Wery, Carl Faia and Zeena Parkins have dedicated pieces to her. This work is supported by Why Note production and Caesaré, National Center of Music Creation. She is also a member of Art Zoyd, Blinded by the Dust and works regularly with pianist Cécile Thévenot.

Nadia Ratsimandresy is professor of artistic  teaching ondes at the Regional Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt.

Andrée-Claude Brayer,

Pianist, conductor (knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)

(Photo copyright Esther Brayer)

Coming from a family of artists, she quickly enters the National Conservatory of Nancy, gets there at the age of 16 a First Prize of piano unanimously and continues her musical studies in Paris with Alain Weber (writing, harmony, counterpoint ), Roger Boutry (conductor and choir director) and Irene Joachim (vocals).

She quickly joined the arts education specializing in the network of Regional Conservatories, and became a professor at the National Conservatory of Grenoble at 22 years. She will later receive the Prize of the « Fondation de France » from Simone Weil for conducting in the Rhône-Alpes region.

She continued her studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Genève, conducting choir and orchestra (Michel Corboz, Arpad Gerecz), then with Michel Mercier, conductor of the Orchester National d’Ile de France. She works regularly with great masters, especially in the field of contemporary music such as Magnus Lindberg and Lorraine Vaillancourt …

First woman received the contest of director of National Conservatory of Region, she is named at the head of the National School of Music, Dance and Dramatic Art of Cergy-Pontoise, establishment which will quickly become a National Conservatory of Region (1997) then a Regional Conservatory in 2007 (CRR of Cergy-Pontoise). In 2011, in partnership with the University of Cergy-Pontoise, a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Letters was opened in three courses, music, dance and theater.

Pierre Thomas,

Pianist ( chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold )

Born to the same siblings as his older sister Andrée-Claude, he won a first unanimous Piano Award at the National Conservatory of Nancy at the age of thirteen and continued his musical studies at the C.N.S.M. of Paris in the class of Lucette Descaves.

In 1970, he won a first unanimous piano prize with distinction in the class of Eduardo Del Pueyo and four years later his superior degree unanimously. A confirmed pedagogue at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and the Franz Constant Academy of Auderghem, he trains many students and leads them to the level of professional excellence.

Specialized in contemporary music, he has been a member of the « Musique Nouvelle » ensemble since 1978. He pursues a performing career by, among other things, ensuring the distribution of the Belgian musical repertoire of the XX and XXIth centuries. He produced « Attitudes » by Philippe Boesmans, pieces created at the Royal Theater of the Monnaie de Bruxelles, recorded for the firm Ricercare who won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1979.

Pierre Thomas performs in a varied repertoire ranging from Bach to Argentine tango including the most innovative creations.

After meeting with the French composer Claude Ballif, he made his work known and created several of his works at the initiative of « Domaine Music Pas-de-Calais France » and « Festival Ars Musica Belgium ». He often collaborates with various artists such as comedians and circus artists.

DUO GIOCOSO

formed in 2016 by Andrée-Claude and Pierre Thomas

(Photo of Serge Prokofiev’s « Pierre et le Loup » produced in 2017 and 2018 in more than a dozen Brussels places)

To reserve :

Reservation  10 euros ( 5 euros young rate )

on BE67 3631 6615 6087, with communication

« Ondes Martenot » , your name, and the number of places.

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The concert will be followed by a friendly moment over a drink