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SWISS CHAMBER ACADEMY - Rising stars on the international scene

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Saturday 14 June 2025 7 PM

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Salle Franz Liszt, Conservatoire de Genève

Pl. de Neuve 5, 1204 Genève

The Swiss Chamber Academy has proved itself since its first edition in 2014 with undeniable success. Each season, some eighty particularly talented students from all over the world are invited to take classes in performance and participate in an intense phase of rehearsals. This mentoring leads to several subscription concerts featuring string quartets, string and wind ensembles as well as singing. 

The Conservatory Hall will resonate with the energy of some of the most promising young instrumentalists of their generation, hailing from Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, the United States, and Switzerland. Some are already laureates of prestigious international competitions. They will perform major works by Brahms, Mozart, Penderecki, and Frank Martin.

PALOMA MARTIN, violin

FINALISTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY 2025

QUATUOR THALIA

— ALICJA PUSTULA (POLOGNE), violin

— WICTOR DZIEDZIC (POLOGNE), violin

— DEVERY ROSS MCINTOSH (ETATS-UNIS), viola

— KONSTANCJA ŚMIETAŃSKĄ (POLOGNE), cello

TAMI POHJOLA (FINLANDE), violin

ANNA MOLINARI (ITALIE), violin

CYPRIEN SEMAYNE (FRANCE), viola

ANTONIN LEFAURE (FRANCE), viola

JONAS BOUANICHE (FRANCE), cello

JOACHIM BIRMAN (FRANCE), cello

PROGRAM

W.A. MOZART - String quartet No. 19 in C major, K 465, “ Les Dissonances ”

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - String Quartet No. 3

FRANK MARTIN - Pavane couleur du temps, for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos

JOHANNES BRAHMS - String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18

Approximate total duration: 1 hour 15 minutes (no intermission).

Written in 1920 for a string quintet with two cellos, Pavane couleur du temps by Frank Martin draws inspiration from a tale by Perrault and belongs to the Ravelian tradition of reimagined courtly dances. With its melodic nobility and a more tormented central section, it reflects the influence of French composers on Martin at the time.

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INFORMATIONS & ACCESSIBILITÉ

For any information, especially regarding individuals with reduced mobility and their companions, please contact us at:

 accueil@odysseefrankmartin.ch or by telephone at 00 41 78 754 24 77

Georgijs Osokins

piano

Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins has gained international attention through his participation at age of 19 in the XVIIth International Chopin Piano Competition where he quickly became an absolute Audience Favorite. Shortly after the Chopin Competition, Osokins made important debuts at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, International Piano Series in Bern, Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Music Festival, Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Katowice, the Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hall, Tongyeong Hall in South Korea. In 2021 Georgijs Osokins performed at the 101st Salzburger Festspiele.

Georgijs is actively collaborating with Gidon Kremer, touring in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Asia and US. Alongside Lucas Debargue, Georgijs Osokins was announced the first permanent Guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica in its 25-year history. In 2024 Georgijs makes his solo debut at Pierre-Boulez Saal in Berlin and returns to Milan’s Serate Musicali Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall.

UK’s label “Piano Classics” released Osokins’ two CD albums focused on Chopin’s Late Works and works of Rachmaninoff. These recordings received brilliant reviews from important British, Canadian, German, Danish and French music magazines. German label Accentus has released the first chamber music album of Georgijs Osokins alongside Gidon Kremer containing trios of Chopin and Beethoven – this CD was nominated for both International Classical Music Awards 2020 and Opus Klassik 2021. He received the Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Latvian Grand Music Award – highest honour in music in Latvia – and remains youngest recipient in the Awards’ history.