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C.Schumann, Chopin, Canal

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Debussy, Wissmer, Lesur

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Messiaen, Liszt, Pileggi

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Short bio :

Sophia Vaillant is a pianist with a very rich background: having studied with Geneviève Ibanez and having obtained her Musical Diploma, cum laude, in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon in the class of Pierre Pontier, she went to study at the Guildhall School of London with Paul Berkowitz, pupil of Rudolf Serkin, taking postgraduate studies, in the Banff Centre for the Arts, in Canada and at the University of Stony-Brook in New York. She also participated in the Master-classes of great masters as György Sebök, Bernard Greenhouse (cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio), Jean-Claude Pennetier, Alexander Volkov (pianist of Israel Piano Trio) and won several international competitions. Sophia’s skill covers a wide piano repertoire, from the Baroque to the contemporary composers (with a particular preference for the French ones). Fascinated by the tango music, she played extensively with the Orquesta Tipica of Juan Cedron, and in other tango groups. In 2013, she was admitted to the University of Paris VIII in Saint-Denis for a doctorate on the topic “interpret/composer”, focused on mixed music for piano and electronic. She has performed solo and chamber music around the world (Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New Morning, Mouffetard theater… in Paris, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Venezuela, USA…). Besides, Sophia has managed for many years a classical music festival in the Hauts-de-France region, where she invites her colleagues to play with her. She is also president of “Femmes et Musique”, and teaches at the Frédéric Chopin Conservatory in Paris district 15.

Notes et mots d'amour

« Écoutons la voix des femmes qui se sont exprimées au cours des siècles, sur leurs sentiments amoureux. Écoutons les compositrices trop souvent oubliées, et faisons-les dialoguer pour notre plus grand plaisir ! »
Ce concert-lecture, conçu dans un esprit de symbiose total entre musiques et textes, nous fait voyager à travers toutes les époques, du Moyen-Âge à nos jours, au moyen de lettres qui parlent d’amour et de musiques écrites par des femmes.
Il a été créé au Théâtre Les Rendez-vous d’Ailleurs le 28 janvier 2018.
Répertoire littéraire :
Héloïse à Abélard, Julie de Lespinasse, Madame de Sévigné, Bettina Brentano, Louise Labé, Clara Schumann, Zelda Sayre, Madame de Staël, George Sand, Veuve coréenne à Eung-Tae Lee

Répertoire musical :
Lili Boulanger, Marguerite Canal, Cécile Chaminade, Edith Canat de Chisy, Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc, Betsy Jolas, Alice Lesur, Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Pauline ViardotDurée : 60 minutes
Interprètes :
Marie-Christine Barrault, récitante
Sophia Vaillant, pianiste

Clara Schumann - un destin romantique

Le destin extraordinaire de Clara Schumann, mis en paroles et musiques par Marie-Christine Barrault et Sophia Vaillant. Vous entendrez l'histoire de cette compositrice-pianiste allemande, figure incontournable du siècle romantique, à travers des extraits de son oeuvre pour piano, en alternance avec ses écrits, et ceux de son entourage.Durée : 70 minutes
Répertoire littéraire :Articles de presse, lettres de Clara à sa mère, son père, ses enfants, correspondance de Clara et Robert Schumann, correspondance de Clara Schumann et Johannes Brahms, lettres de Liszt, Goethe, Friedrich Wieck, souvenirs d'Eugénie Schumann
Répertoire musical :Clara Schumann : extraits des Polonaise op.1, Caprice op.2, Pièces caractéristiques op. 5, Soirées Musicales op.6, Thème et Variations op.8, Romances op.11, Pièces fugitives op.15, Thème et Variations op.20, Romances op.21Interprètes :
Marie-Christine Barrault, récitante
Sophia Vaillant, pianiste

Romance Di Barrio, La Trampera (Avec Nini Et Rudi Flores)

Romance di barrio, Trampera with Nini and Rudi Flores

"Die Stimme. Decembre 17th 2009

"Pianiste subtile
Weinsberg presents us one time of more a sophisticated pianist. This time not in "Baukelter", where Brahms full of temperament of Luba Nawrocka had given rise to the storms of applause, but in the room Jugendstil de Weissenhof. Sophia Vaillant's subtle and sophisticated play does not unfortunately arouse in the public of echo so spectacular, but it matches as for the level.
It begins religiously. In " Look of the father " of Messiaen, suites of chords alternate with repetitions of notes, in " First communion " of arabesques virtuosos come to interrupt the chords. "God's Blessing" of captive Liszt more.
It is not a pianist in the swagger. What many listeners notice probably not : even if, as the big and charming French, we possess very big fingers and can play in fast passages, with delicacy and legato, agreements ninth and tenth, this piece of Liszt is almost unplayable. We notice it hardly. Sophia Vaillant does not make a swagger, what would have provoked more applauses, but plays as well "Allegro Barbaro" with the distinction of a great lady, especially than the grand piano of Weissenhof, unlike the instrument of Baukelter, has a discreet sound in treble.
After the break, the pianist is even more in her element. The tangos of Piazzolla and other adapted by her for solo piano sparkle with spirit, and her rubato often comes to soften the rigidity of the rhythm of tango. Her interpretations of the best quality never slip towards the commonness of the music of variety.
Even after the removed passages, her final agreements do not look for the applauses by a high sound volume, they are only strong mezzo. Chopin criticized the women pianists who play too hardly. " They play as Germans ". Sophia Vaillant would have been of her taste. " M.Betulius

Listening to August/September 2008

" The pianist Sophia Vaillant chose to present in the same program, three extracts of the twenty Looks on the child Jesus from Messiaen, two extracts of the poetic and religious Harmonies of Liszt and the Ponderings on the Embodiment of Pileggi, contemporary Italian composer. The pianist as whom the playing at the same time faithful and personal serves outstandingly the qualities of each of these musicians, themselves turned to the expression of an alive faith… " A.R.