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Adam Newman began his musical studies aged 7, learning a variety of instruments including violin and piano before focusing on the viola aged fourteen. He proceeded to study at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music with Louise Lansdown. Newman graduated with first class honours from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Matthew Souter, Philip Dukes and Hu Kun. He then continued his studies in the class of Tatjana Masurenko at the Hochshule für Musik in Leipzig and in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Louise Hopkins. He is currently studying in Basel with Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartett.
Newman has attended Verbier Festival, IMS Prussia Cove, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Tibor Varga Masterclasses and the London Masterclasses where he has studied with renowned musicians such as Tabea Zimmerman, Bruno Giurana, Ana Chumachenco, Gábor Takács- Nagy, Thomas Riebl, Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power and Alfred Brendel.
He has had considerable success in both competitions and recitals. They included a Sir John Barbirolli Foundation Award towards the purchase of a new bow and the Duchess of Cornwall / English Chamber Music Award. He was also a finalist at the Windsor International String Competition where he was awarded the Bishops Instruments and Bows Prize for the most deserving finalist.
Newman has worked with the English Chamber Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Camerata Variabile Basel, Cappa Ensemble, London Conchord Ensemble, Razumovsky Ensemble, Aronowitz Ensemble, Nash Ensemble, and with such musicians as Patricia Rozario, Nicolas Daniel, Jorg Widmann and Valentin Erben.
Born in 1999 in Lausanne, Çiğdem Tunçelli began her studies at the age of 5 at the Conservatoire de Lausanne with Tina Strinning. In 2012, she entered in the pre-college section in the class of François Sochard. She pursued in the class of Prof. Stuller and started her Bachelor degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in 2015, from where she graduated with distinctions. Since 2019 Tunçelli is studying at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Prof. Schönweiss’ class.
During her musical upbringing, Tunçelli won several prices in solo, duo and with her former ensemble at the Swiss Youth Music Competition. She also took part in masterclasses of artists such as Shmuel Ashkenazy, Vadim Gluzman, the Ysaye Quartet, the Aviv Quartet. As a passionate and engaged musician in orchestra and chamber music, she participated in many youth orchestras and academies. She has also spent her last 5 summers playing in the different orchestras at the Verbier Festival and is currently a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.
Tunçelli has also been very engaged in social services by giving numerous concerts with Musethica, whose ideology is to bring music to underprivileged communities.
Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She began her first piano lessons at the age of five with Vincenzo SCARAMUZZA. Considered a child prodigy, she soon performs in public. In 1955, she moved to Europe and continued her studies in London, Vienna and in Switzerland with SEIDLHOFER, GULDA, MAGALOFF, Mrs LIPATTI et Stefan ASKENASE.In 1957, she won the Bolzano and Geneva Piano Competitions, and in 1965 the Warsaw International Chopin Competition. Since then, she has been one of the most prominent pianists in the world both in popularity and ability.
Martha Argerich has been rated highly for her performance of the virtuoso piano literature of the XIX and XX centuries. Her large repertoire includes Bach and Bartok, Beethoven and Messiaen, as well as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Franck, Prokofiev, Stravinski, Shostakovitch, Tchaikovski.
Though she is permanently invited by the most prestigious orchestras, conductors and music festivals in Europe, Japan, America and Israel (with Zubin Mehta and Lahav Shani), chamber music takes a significant part of her musical life. She regularly plays and records with Nelson FREIRE, Alexandre RABINOVITCH, Mischa MAISKY, Gidon KREMER, Daniel BARENBOIM: « This harmony within a group of people gives me a strong and peaceful feeling ».
Martha Argerich has recorded for EMI, Sony, Philips, Teldec, DGG and many of her performances were broadcasted on television worldwide. She has received many awards : “Grammy Award” for Bartok and Prokofiev Concertos, “Gramophon – Artist of the Year”, “Best Piano Concerto Recording of the Year” for Chopin concertos, “Choc” of the Monde de la Musique for her Amsterdam’s recital, “Künstler des Jahres Deutscher Schallplatten Kritik”, “Grammy Award” for Prokofiev’s Cinderella with Mikhael Pletnev and lately a “Grammy Award” for Beethoven Concertos 2 & 3 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Claudio Abbado (DGG / Best Instrumental Soloist Performance), “Sunday Times – Record of the Year” and “BBC Music Magazine Award” for her Shostakovitch recording (EMI – 2007). Last recordings: Mozart concertos K466 and K503 with Orchestra Mozart et Claudio Abbado, duo recital with Daniel Barenboim (Deutsche Grammophon.)
Since 1998 she is the Artistic Director of the Beppu Festival in Japan; in 1999 she creates the International Piano Competition and Festival Martha Argerich in Buenos Aires, and in June 2002 the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano.
Martha Argerich has received numerous distinctions: – “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres” in 1996 and “Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ” in 2004 by the French Government – “Accademica di Santa Cecilia” in Rome in 1997 – “Musician of the Year” by Musical America 2001 – « The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette » by the Japanese Emperor and the prestigious « Praemium Imperiale » by the Japan Art Association in 2005. – Kennedy Center Honors by Barack Obama in December 2016 – Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by Sergio Mattarella in October 2018.
Spanish cellist Onomeya (Alfredo Ferre) has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls, including the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, the Shostakovich Hall in St Petersburg and the KKL Luzern, and has collaborated with artists such as Mischa Maisky, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Sol Gabetta, Lily Francis, and Ettore Causa. After initial studies with Francisco Pastor, Ferre entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid to work with Natalia Shakhovskaya and Michal Dmochovsky. He continued his training with Ivan Monighetti and Claudio Martinez Mehner at the Musik Akademie in Basel. In addition to his career as a concert cellist, Ferre explores his creativity in other musical fields, including composition, electronic music production and sound therapy, all under the artistic name Onomeya. He plays a cello on loan from an anonymous patron, probably built by Francesco Gofriller around 1740. Alfredo Ferre attended the Verbier Festival Academy in 2017, where he received the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich, which is awarded each year to an outstanding cellist.
Franco-Dutch violinist Cosima Soulez Larivière is already building a name for herself having been awarded numerous prizes – 2018, third prize as well as the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work (Rebecca Saunders ‘Hauch’) at the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Germany; 2017, first prize at the Bartok World Competition in Hungary; 2015, first prize at the Brahms Competition in Austria and third prize (no first prize was awarded) and the Bach prize at the Postacchini Competition in Italy.
Concerts have brought her all over Europe as well as to Japan and Singapore (Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Franz Liszt Academy). Hehas great interest in modern and contemporary composers and as such has recently been performing violin concertos by Vasks and Gubaidulina. Upcoming appearances include performances at Heidelberger Frühling and the Festival de Pâques. Soulez Larivière also enjoys playing chamber music, especially alongside her brother, violist Sào Soulez Larivière.
Cosima Soulez Larivière has taken part in masterclasses with, among others, Salvatore Accardo, Ana Chumachenko, Mihaela Martin and Leonidas Kavakos. She became a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Centre in 2016, and in 2018, took part in ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’ at the Kronberg Academy (Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Christina Tetzlaff). The same year, she was invited to the Verbier Festival Academy where she was given the APCAV Award. In 2019 she became a fellow at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute.
Soulez Larivière is a recipient of the ESU Music Scholarship, UK (2015), the Live Music Now Hannover e.V. Scholarship, Germany (2015-2019), the Deutschland Stipendium (2016) and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2017-). Since 2018 she is a fellow at the Young Artists Foundation GmbH, Germany, and was admitted to the Academia Walter Stauffer in Italy (Salvatore Accardo) in 2019.
Soulez Larivière was born in Paris and, from a young age, was taught by Igor Volochine. When she was 8 years old, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England where she became a pupil of Natasha Boyarsky. Currently, she is studying at the Musik Hochschule in Hanover with Prof. Krzysztof Wegrzyn.
She plays on a G. Grancino 1675 kindly on loan to her by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Franco-Dutch violist, Sào Soulez Larivière, is quickly building himself an international career as a versatile musician. Already at the age of 21, he is a top prizewinner of several international competitions, including the International Max Rostal Competition (DE, 2019 – 2nd Prize), the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition (UK, 2017 – 3rd Prize), and the International Johannes Brahms Competition (AT, 2017 – 3rd Prize).
He has been featured in prestigious music festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Kronberg Academy Festival and the Verbier Academy Festival. In addition to making numerous solo appearances across Europe, he loves playing chamber music, having performed in festivals such as the Elba Isola Musicale d‘Europa (IT), Hamburger Kammermusikfest (DE), Krzyzowa-Music Festival (PL) and “Chamber Music Connects the World” in Kronberg (DE).
Soulez Larivière’s passion for broadening the viola repertoire has led him to arrange several works for the instrument. He often performs along with his sister, violinist Cosima Soulez Larivière, with whom he also enjoys playing his own arrangements (like ‘The Carnaval of Venice’ by N.Paganini).
Born in Paris, Sào Soulez Larivière originally started playing the violin at a very young age. He was awarded a scholarship at just the age of eight to study in the class of Natasha Boyarsky at the Yehudi Menuhin School (UK). Having discovered the viola whilst playing both chamber music and orchestra there, he decided to fully devote himself to the instrument by 2016. In addition to his early education, Soulez Larivière’s musical development has been enriched by working with world renowned musicians, such as Gerard Caussé, Nobuko Imai, Steven Isserlis, Gabor Tacács-Nagy, among others.
He is generously supported by scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Yehudi Menuhin ‘Live Music Now’ Berlin e.V. Foundation, as well as the ‘Villa Musicaʼ Foundation and in 2019, was awarded the prestigious ‘Ritter-Prize’ in Hamburg on behalf of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Stiftung.
Sào Soulez Larivière resides in Berlin where he pursues a Bachelor of Music degree with Professor Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’. He plays on an instrument made by Fréderic Chaudière in 2013.
After ten years since the victory in the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005 he has achieved a position of the truly world-famous artist. His outstanding talent has been appreciated by the audiences of Europe, America, Asia, by music critics, great conductors and famous symphony orchestras, record producers, managers and artistic agencies organizing concerts in the most famous concert halls and in the largest music centres.
Last ten years of Rafał Blechacz’s career was filled with the solo recitals as well as concerts performed with the symphony orchestras. First of all however, it was time of intensive work on expanding his repertoire. Winning the Grand Prix, the Gold Medal and all of the other awards possible, namely for the best performance of mazurkas, polonaise, concerto, sonata (the latter founded by Krystian Zimerman) and also the audience award he unquestionably has been recognized as his generation’s greatest performer of Chopin’s works.
In such a role the international audiences wanted to hear and know him better as he never lets them down being able to win people over and gain their affection and appreciation. To meet these demands the young artist embarks on numerous and often long artistic tours. After all, the title of the Chopin Piano Competition Winner carries the meaning and importance. Everyone everywhere would like to listen to him and experience a talent of someone who amidst tough rivalry before distinguished jury proved to be the best one. One can only mention here that the young Polish pianist was definitely head and shoulders above the large and strong – as it is always the case in Warsaw – group of competitors. To emphasize his superiority the jury has not awarded the second prize but only the third and subsequent ones.
The aforementioned artist’s intensive work on developing his repertoire refers of course to Chopin but it is hard to imagine that the pianist of such a rank would not perform works by other composers. Therefore his repertoire is being continuously enlarged with works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy and Szymanowski. From among them the programs of the artist’s albums recorded and released by Deutsche Grammophon (currently five) have been selected.
The American Gilmore Artist Award, sometimes called ”the Piano Nobel,” bestowed on Rafal Blechacz in January 2014, is a strong and meaningful acknowledgment that summarizes well the last decade of his artistic activity.
Rafał Blechacz was born in 1985 in Nakło nad Notecią. He started playing piano at the age of five. He studied in the Artur Rubinstein State Primary School of Music in Bydgoszcz under the supervision of Professor Jacek Polański. In 2007 he completed the piano studies in the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in class of Professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. Still a student, he received many awards and honours such as the 1st Prize and Grand Prix in the 13th Johann Sebastian Bach National Competition in Gorzów Wielkopolski (1996), the 2nd Prize in the 5th Artur Rubinstein International Competition for Young Pianists in Bydgoszcz (2002), the victory in the 5th International Piano Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan (2003).
As the winner of the Grand Prix of the 15th Chopin Piano Competition he started concertizing in the most prestigious venues such as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein in Vienna, Berliner Philharmonie, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Herkulessaal in Munich, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Royal Festival Hall as well as the Wigmore Hall in London, Tonhalle in Zurich, La Scala in Milan, among others. He is being invited to the best music festivals such as Salzburg, Verbier in Switzerland, La Roque-d’Anthéron (France), Klavier-Festival Ruhr in Germany as well as The Gilmore Festival in the USA. He plays with numerous symphony orchestras, cooperating with outstanding conductors like Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Pavo Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagono, Andris Nelsons, Victor Pablo Perez, Trevor Pinnock, Mikhail Pletnev, Jerzy Semkow, Antoni Wit and Dawid Zinman. In 2006 he signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, the German record company. He is the second in history, after Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist signed up by this prestigious label.
Rafal Blechacz’s first album with Fryderyk Chopin’s Preludes appeared in 2007. In Poland it obtained the platinum status just in the second week of sale. It has been honoured with many awards, among others by German Echo Klassik and French Diapason d’Or. The next album, this time with sonatas of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, was released one year later and again it was received very well. After the success of the two first albums the artist celebrated the Chopin’s Year of 2010 with the recording of both Chopin’s Piano Concerts conducted by Jerzy Semkow and legendary Concertgebouw Orchestra, proclaimed in 2009 by the British magazine Gramophone the best orchestra of the world. This time the already third album of Rafał Blechacz was honoured with Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the prestigious award of critics from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In Poland it obtained the double platinum status in the short period of time. The next recording with works by Debussy and Szymanowski, due to a thoughtful selection of the repertoire, as well as masterful performance, gained significant publicity and recognition among the international music critics. In 2012 the Deutsche Phono Akademie awarded Blechacz the Echo Klassik prize in category of the Best Solo Album of the Year (19th and 20th century). Furthermore, this same recording was honoured as the Album of the Month by the British magazine Gramophone. It was also recognized with the Polish phonographic Fryderyk Award as the best classical music album of 2013. In the fall of 2013 Rafał Blechacz returned to Chopin’s repertoire recording his seven grand polonaises. This album obtained the gold record status on the first day of sale. Soon after, it was honoured with Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik as the best album in the category Piano music (2013).
In July 2010 Rafał Blechacz received the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena) award for his overall artistic achievements bestowed on him by the international jury of music critics. In January 2014 in New York he was pronounced the winner of The Gilmore 2014 award, highly valued in the piano world, conferred every four years on the most outstanding artist to provide financial support for advancing his/her artistic career.
On February 24, 2015 in Warsaw during the concert in the Warsaw Philharmonic Rafal Blechacz received the President of the Republic of Poland’s medal Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta awarded during the concert at the National Philharmonic.
The pianist and composer Jérôme Ducros is a multi-faceted artist, performing just as much as a soloist as in chamber music, with a very broad repertoire ranging up to today’s music, in particular through his own compositions.
A much sought-after chamber musician, he is the regular partner in both concerts and on records of Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Jaroussky, Jérôme Pernoo, or Bruno Philippe… He also appears on the greatest stages such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Berliniker Philharmoniker, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus of Vienna, the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow, the KKL of Lucerne, or the Tokyo City Opera… He also works with Augustin Dumay, Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto, Nicholas Angelich, Antoine Tamestit, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Henri Demarquette, the Quatuor Ébèneor the singers Dawn Upshaw, Diana Damrau, Angelika Kirchslager, Ian Bostridge, Mojca Erdmann, Laurent Naouri or Nora Gubisch…
Still little-known a few years ago, the music Jérôme Ducros writes has little by little become known and recognised by a growing number of musicians, above all since the publication of his Trio for Two Cellos and Piano in 2006 (Billaudot, coll. Gautier Capuçon). Since then, his pieces have been played by numerous performers such as Sergey Malov, Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu, Alina Ibragimova, Gérard Caussé, Adrien Boisseau, Jérôme Pernoo, Henri Demarquette, Gautier Capuçon, Bruno Philippe, Georgi Anichenko, Raphaël Sévère, Nora Gubisch, Laurent Naouri or Antoine Tamestit… Thanks to a series of commissions, he has had the opportunity to write virtuosic works (Encore for cello and piano), chamber music (trios, a quintet), vocal pieces (La mort du poète, two poems by Verhaeren…), or symphonic compositions. In 2013, DECCA bought out the first CD devoted entirely to his chamber music. In 2016, a double concerto for cello, piano and orchestra premiered with the Orchestre de Pau, Fayçal Karoui and Jérôme Pernoo. He has also produced a number of more theoretical works about musical language and its evolution, in particular a lecture at the Collège de France, delivered in 2012 at the invitation of Karol Beffa, and which led to a great deal of debate in artistic circles.
Jérôme Ducros’s discography includes in particular Fauré’s works for piano and orchestra with the Orchestre de Bretagne, conducted by Moshe Atzmon (Timpani, 2008); “Capriccio”, a recital with Renaud Capuçon (Virgin Classics, 2008); “Opium”, French melodies, in company with Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Emmanuel Pahud (Virgin Classics, 2009); Beethoven’s works for piano and cello with Jérôme Pernoo (Ligia-Digital, 2009); Guillaume Connesson’s chamber music (Collection Pierre Bergé, 2012 – Reissued by Sony, 2017); “En aparté”, with his own chamber music (Decca, 2013); “Green”, French melodies with Philippe Jaroussky and the Quatuor Ébène (Erato, 2015); “Intuition”, pieces for cello and piano with Gautier Capuçon (Erato, 2018); or Rachmaninov and Miaskovsky, works for cello and piano with Bruno Philippe (Harmonia Mundi, 2019).
Born in 1974, Jérôme Ducros studied piano with François Thinat, Gérard Frémy and Cyril Huvé and took masterclasses with Léon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebök, Davitt Moroney and Christian Zacharias. The winner of the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition organised by Maurizio Pollini at la Scala in Milan, he has performed in a large number of halls throughout the world and as a soloist with such orchestras as the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes or else the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with such conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski, or Christopher Hogwood…
Argentinian tenor, Marcelo Álvarez, made an impressive European debut at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice and has since performed on the world’s most prestigious stages all over the world. With a vast repertoire from belcanto roles to French opera, from dramatic lirico pieno (full lyric) to spinto roles, Álvarez has appeared on the stages at the Metropolitan Opera House (New York), the Royal Opera House (London), the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has released over 30 recordings with major record companies, including Sony and Decca.
One of the most exciting and in demand artists today, French tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac came to international attention in in 2014 when he sang his first Tamino Die Zauberflöte at Aix-en-Provence Festival. A complex and compelling musician and actor, he has been in constant demand on the world’s most important opera stages such as Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Dutch National Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Grand Théâtre de Genève, San Francisco Opera, and at the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals.
A vehicle for de Barbeyrac in the 2021/22 season is the title role of Pelleas Pelléas et Mélisande which he sings at Gran Teatre del Liceu and Theatre de Champs-Elysées as well as in concert in Cologne and Compiegne, France. He also makes his Wiener Staatsoper debut as Don Ottavio in a new production of Don Giovanni directed by Barrie Kosky and continues his exploration of the heroic repertoire by taking on the role of Florestan Fidelio with Insula Orchestra under the baton of Laurence Equilbey. Further engagements include a double appearance at the Verbier Festival as Don Ottavio and Mozart’s Requiem; several recital appearances in Paris and Barcelona; a concert with Gaëlle Arquez at the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise and Licinius La Vestale at Palazzetto Bru Zane.
Highlights of the last season include Tamino Die Zauberflöte and an exciting role debut in the title role La Clemenza di Tito, both at the Opéra National de Paris; a role debut as Don José in Carmen at the Opéra de Bordeaux and a solo recital in Paris. De Barbeyrac also received invitations to sing Pylade Iphigenie en Tauride at the Opéra National de Paris; Pelleas Pelléas et Mélisande in Bordeaux and Tamino at the Metropolitan Opera New York. Further engagements include a hugely acclaimed debut as Max Der Freischütz at Theatre de Champs-Elysées in Paris, Barbican Centre in London, and Opéra de Rouen; his debut as Don Carlos and Damon in a new production of Les Indes Galantes at Opéra National de Paris and Tamino Die Zauberflöte at Teatro Real.
Further appearances include Tamino, a reference role in his career, at Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, Chorégies d’Orange; Opéra de Paris; Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève and in Budapest; Arbace Idomeneo at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Renaud in a new production of Gluck’s Armide at Wiener Staatsoper; Alfredo La Traviata at Semperoper Dresden and in Saint Etienne; Macduff Macbeth at Opéra de Marseille and Lensky Eugene Onegin at Théâtre du Châtelet. De Barberyac debuted as Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at the Drottningholms Slottsteater in Sweden together with Marc Minkowski, and has since performed it at San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper and in a new production at Opéra National de Paris. A regular star of Opéra National de Paris he also appeared there as Pylade Iphigenie en Tauride and Gonzalve in L’Heure Espagnole. Another important role in de Barbeyrac’s repertoire is that of the Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, which he has performed at Opéra de Toulon, Nantes-Algers, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Dutch National Opera. In 2018 De Barbeyrac added another hugely celebrated role to his repertoire, that of Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande which he first performed in Bordeaux and subsequently for his debut in Tokyo.
De Barbeyrac appears regularly in recital and concert in such works as Berlioz’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in Mozart’s Davide Penitente and later returned to Salzburg for Haydn’s Die Schöpfung.
Stanislas de Barbeyrac studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux with Lionel Sarazzin, who remains his vocal mentor today. He has been a prize-winner at several prestigious competitions, including the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux, Prix Lyriques de l’AROP, and Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. De Barbeyrac joined the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Paris in 2008 and subsequently began his operatic career at theatres in Nice, Tours, Toulon, Strasbourg, Metz, Marseille and Avignon, as well as at the Opéra de Paris, where he has appeared in many supporting roles, such as Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhäuser, Evandre in Alceste and Narraboth Salome.