Chamber Music Masterclass with Florent Audibert & Hélène Bordeaux
You are invited to witness a masterclass with cellist Florent Audibert & violinist Hélène Bordeaux. Our students from the BA (Hons) Music Performance programme will be participating as part of their Principal Study module.
Catch the masterclass at:
- Date: 24 April 2024 (Wednesday)
- Time: 3.00PM - 4.30PM
- Venue: Live Arts Space (Level 9 West Wing)
Admission is free and open to all Sunway staff and students. See you there!
Born in 1974, Florent Audibert began learning the cello with his father at the CNR of Nice, where he obtained several unanimous prizes in cello and chamber music.
In 2006, he was chosen by Lorin Maazel for the formation of the Orchestra of the Palau de las Artes de Valencia (Spain), and remained there for the 2006-2007 lyric season, during which Zubin Mehta was invited as the principal guest conductor.
Highly sought-after as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists Marielle Nordman, Ivry Gitlis, Alain Planès, Bruno Pasquier, Jean Mouillère, Frédèric Aguessy and Michel Lethiec. He has also been invited as a chamber musician by the Prades festival, l’Orangerie de Sceaux, the Champs-Elysées Theater, the Festival du Vexin, Rencontres de violoncelles de Callian, the Besançon festival etc.
Equally successful as a soloist, his repertoire ranges from Vivaldi and C.P.E. Bach (on the baroque cello) to Ligeti and Gulda, comprising as well the works of Haydn, Dvorak, Lalo, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Saint-Saëns. He has appeared with a variety of orchestras, including the Philharmonic of Nice, the Opera of Rouen and the Orchestra of Cannes-PACA.
Since 2008, he is a member of the Ensemble Calliopée, with whom he recorded a double-CD set, under the Alpha record label, commemorating the chamber music of Martinu (Choc de la musique), as well as a newly-released disc featuring the works of Durosoir.
Hélène Bordeaux graduated in 2001 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon with Jean Estournet and Kazimierz Olechowski.
She went on to further study classic and romantic repertory on period instruments with Alessandro Moccia, the soloists of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Philippe Herreweghe in Saintes. She obtained her Masters in 2004 (supported by Mécénat Musical Société Générale during those two years).
Since 2004, she has been a member of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen-Normandie (first violin section)
After auditionning her in 2006, Lorin Maazel invited her for the first season of the Valencia Opera (Spain) (Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana). The first guest conductor was Zubin Mehta.
In 2018 she established her own quartet (Quatuor Mathilde), and plays often sonata with the pianist Tatsiana Zakharava-Dahan. She also create performances mixing music and literature or poetry, collaborating with comedians such as Hélène Francisci, Emmanuel Pleintel, Florent Houdu, and many more.
