Musical Cruise: Romantic Music from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (port-to-port cruise)

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• BRUNO PHILIPPE – Violoncello
  • Born in 1993 in Perpignan, France, Bruno Phillipe entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régionale at 15, where he studied with Raphaël Pidoux. At the Conservatoire de Paris the next year, he studied with Jérôme Pernoo. He has taken master classes with many virtuosos: David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey, and Frans Helmerson. After receiving awards at international events and competitions, he was named best instrumental newcomer at the 2018 Victoires de la Musique in France. His solo career is now widening on some of the most renowned stages in the world, alongside other virtuosos. He has released two albums. The first, from 2015, is devoted to Brahms’ Sonatas. In 2017, he released a new album of Beethoven and Schubert’s sonatas. Both were recorded with pianist Tanguy de Williencourt. He plays a Tononi violoncello, loaned to him by Beare’s International Violin Society.

• PIERRE GENISSON – Clarinet
  • Born in 1986 in Marseille, France, Pierre Génisson is one of the leading wind instrumentalists of his generation. Prize winner of the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition, in 2014 he also won the first prize and the Audience Award at the Jacques Lancelot International Competition in Tokyo. At the age of 21, Pierre Génisson was appointed principal clarinet of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, participating in numerous festivals and recordings. He has regularly performed as a guest soloist with major European and international orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Pierre has released two albums, Made in France (2014) and How I met Mozart (2017). How I met Mozart was recorded with the Quartet 212, an American string quartet based in the Berkshire Mountains.

• ELEONORE DARMON – Violin
  • When Eléonore Darmon was 5 years old, she listened to an album of gypsy violins over and over. When she was 10, she made up her mind: she would be a violinist. Her mother taught her at first, before she was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris at 14 years old. After her training, which included top honors and awards, she studied in Florence and then in Vienna with Pavel Vernikov. She has won several international competitions. Her debut as a soloist began at 16 years old with a Mendelssohn concerto under the orchestration of Sebastian Lang-Lessing. She is regularly invited to perform in chamber music recitals and frequently partners with notable musicians such as Mischa Maïsky, Frans Helmerson, and Martha Argerich, to name a few. She plays a Gianbattista Grancino violin with a Eugène Sartory bow.

• DELPHINE HAIDAN – Mezzo-soprano
  • Trained by choral conductor Jacques Grimbert and recipient of a Master's Degree in Musicology from the Sorbonne, Delphine Haidan won an opera prize at the Conservatoire de Paris and several prizes in international competitions. She is well known at home and abroad and has performed throughout Europe and Asia. In France, she has headlined many productions at the Opéra National de Paris, including works by Mozart, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Offenbach, and Bizet. Her recordings include Lakmé for EMI, Carmen for Decca (with Myung-Whun Chung), Paul Le Flem’s Aucassin et Nicolette for Timpani, and Une fête baroque with Emmanuelle Haim and the Concert d’Astrée.