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Modern Composer's International Music Festival
14 September – 3 October , 2025 Paris · France Chieti · Italy
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Alexander
Chaushian Cello

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Grether Violin

Chae-Um
Kim Piano

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Lethiec Viola

Claire
Merlet Viola

Dorothée
Nodé-Langlois Violin

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Hallet-Eghayan

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Musicatreize

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Hayrabédian Conductor

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Mantovani Conductor

Léo
Margue Conductor

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Alexander Chaushian · Cello
Alexander Chaushian · Cello · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Alexander
Chaushian
Cello

Now regarded as one of the finest cellists of the younger generation, Alexander Chaushian has performed extensively throughout the world as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Academy of St Martin-in- the-Fields, The London Mozart Players, The Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, The Boston Pops and The Armenian Philharmonic, and has given highly acclaimed performances in such venues as London’s Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, Sala Verdi Milan, Konzerthaus Vienna, Suntory Hall Japan, the main Carnegie Hall New York, and Symphony Hall Boston.

He performs regularly in festivals throughout the world and is the Artistic Director of the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus and the Yerevan Music Festival in Armenia.

After initial studies in Armenia, Alexander Chaushian studied in the UK at the Menuhin School and the Guildhall School, London. He then pursued advanced studies at the Hochschule Berlin, graduating with distinction in 2005. He is a laureate prize winner of many international competitions including the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the ARD Competition in Germany. As an alumnus of Young Concert Artists, New York, he toured extensively in the USA.

Amongst the many distinguished musicians whom he has collaborated with are Yehudi Menuhin, Julia Fischer, Levon Chilingirian, Yuri Bashmet, Diemut Poppen, François-Frédéric Guy, Emmanuel Pahud. His regular chamber music partner is Yevgeny Sudbin.

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Roland Hayrabédian · Conductor
Roland Hayrabédian · Conductor · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Roland
Hayrabédian
Conductor

Roland Hayrabedian formed the Chœur Contemporain in 1978 and Musicatreize in 1987. Throughout his career he has conducted numerous orchestral and vocal groups (the Choir and Choir School of Radio France, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, the National Orchestra of Lorraine, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Marseille, the Regional Orchestra of Avignon, the Regional Orchestra of Cannes, the National Choir of Ireland, the Nederlands Kamerkoor,… ) and collaborated with the Strasbourg Percussion, Musique Vivante, Musique Oblique, 2e2m, TM+, the Itinéraire ensemble….

With Musicatreize, the central focus remains the work with present-day composers: Edith Canat de Chizy, Zad Moultaka, Oscar Strasnoy, Michel Petrossian, Philippe Schoeller, Alexandros Markeas, etc. Roland Hayrabedian’s name is closely linked to the name of Maurice Ohana, a composer of whom he is one of the most faithful interpreters and of whose vocal works he has recorded nearly all.

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Bruno Mantovani · Conductor
Bruno Mantovani · Conductor · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Bruno
Mantovani
Conductor

Bruno Mantovani was born on October 8, 1974. After receiving five first prizes from the Paris Conservatory (analysis, aesthetics, orchestration, composition, music history) and attending the computer music Cursus at Ircam, he began an international career. His works have been performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the KKL in Lucerne, La Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre in New York, the Cité de la musique and the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Faithful to his preferred performers, he collaborates with prestigious soloists (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Alain Billard, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Antoine Tamestit, Tabea Zimmermann), conductors (Pierre Boulez, Sir Andrew Davis, Peter Eötvös, Laurence Equilbey, Gunter Herbig, Emmanuel Krivine, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Nott, Pascal Rophé François-Xavier Roth), ensembles (Accentus, Intercontemporain, TM+) and orchestras (Bamberg Symphony, BBC Cardiff, Chicago Symphony, WDR Cologne, La Chambre Philharmonique, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Liège Philharmonic, BBC London, Lucerne Academy, Orchestre de Paris, Paris Opera Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Sarrebrücken Radio Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo, RAI Turin, Sinfonia Varsovia, RSO Vienna).

He is the headmaster of the Paris Conservatory since September 2010.

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Elsa Grether · Violin
Elsa Grether · Violin · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Elsa
Grether
Violin

French violinist Elsa Grether is regularly invited to prestigious festivals and venues in France and abroad. As a soloist with orchestra, she has played concertos from Bach to Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev, Tomasi among others, with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Orchestre National de Cannes, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Briansk Symphony Orchestra, Indiana Philharmonic, Deutsch-Tschechicher Chamber Orchestra…

She has given recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall in New-York, Berliner Philharmonie, Hamburg ElbPhilharmonie, Paris Invalides, Folle Journée de Nantes, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Menton Festival, Festival de Sully et du Loiret, Festival de Rocamadour, Festival des Forêts, Festival des Abbayes en Lorraine, Festival de Musique sacrée de Perpignan, Festival Berlioz, Grandes Heures de Cluny, Pâques à l’Abbaye de Fontevraud, Musicales de Normandie, Festival Classique au Vert, Festival Lille Clef de Soleil, Salle Cortot, Invalides and Petit Palais in Paris, Bozar and Flagey in Brussels, Radio Suisse Romande and Festival Musiques en Eté in Geneva, Altmark Festspiele, Ido Festival Düsseldorf, Palazzetto Bru-Zane in Venice…

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Léo Margue · Conductor
Léo Margue · Conductor · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Léo
Margue
Conductor

Conductor, pianist, and saxophonist Léo Margue was nominated in 2024 in the "Revelation, Conductor" category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. He began his career as an assistant conductor with three French orchestras: the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Picardie, and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France.  

Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Alain Altinoglu’s class, which he joined in 2013, he later served as assistant conductor to Matthias Pintscher at the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 2019 to 2021. During this time, he became particularly active in contemporary music creation with the LIKΣN project, which he co-founded alongside composer and improviser Timothée Quost.  

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Chae-Um Kim · Piano
Chae-Um Kim · Piano · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Chae-Um
Kim
Piano

Pianist Chae-Um Kim is originally from South Korea and is now based in Paris.  

She has been invited to numerous contemporary music festivals, including the Boulez Biennale at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Messiaen Festival (La Meije), Traiettorie (Parma), and the New Music Forum (Ljubljana), among others. She performs major works from the contemporary repertoire, both as a soloist and in chamber music and ensemble settings. 

She has had the opportunity to collaborate closely with composers such as Philippe Manoury, George Benjamin, Tristan Murail, Bruno Mantovani, and Nina Senk, to name a few.  

In 2020, she won Third Prize at the 14th Orléans International Piano Competition (France). There, she captivated the attention of Agata Zubel, whose Chamber Concerto she performed alongside the Ensemble intercontemporain in the competition’s final round. Since then, she has been invited on multiple occasions to perform in a duo with composer and lyric soprano Agata Zubel at various venues across Europe. 

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Karine Lethiec · Viola
Karine Lethiec · Viola · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Karine
Lethiec
Viola

An eclectic and passionate artist, violist Karine Lethiec is widely recognized for her artistic rigor and openness, securing her a distinguished place among sought-after musicians, particularly for her expertise as a concert performer and her interdisciplinary approach, forging connections between Music, Fine Arts, History, Archaeology, and Science.

Deeply committed to transmission in all its forms, she is actively engaged in various cultural projects, including making music more accessible through mediation, supporting the professional integration of Young Talents, and promoting contemporary musical creation by bringing music to unconventional venues (museums, prehistoric caves, scientific centers, etc.).

She has served as the artistic director of various events and festivals, including Ensemble Calliopée since 1999, the Amadeus Festival in Geneva from 2004 to 2009, the Rencontres Musicales de Saint-Cézaire from 2001 to 2020, Musique et Sciences at the Scientific Institute of Cargèse, and the Young Talents Academy-Festival Around Ventoux from 2021 to 2023. As a founding member, alongside astrophysicist Jean Audouze, of the AST21 collective (Arts, Sciences, and Technologies of the 21st century), she has been collaborating with the National Archaeology Museum since 2018 and is currently in residence at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.

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Claire Merlet · Viola
Claire Merlet · Viola · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Claire
Merlet
Viola

Claire Merlet graduated from the CNSM in Lyon, studying with Gerard Causse, Tasso Adamopoulos and Zoltan Toth. After CNSM, she joined the Banff Centre of the Arts (Canada) for a postgraduate and then Hochschule of Essen (Germany) where she worked with Pr. Vladimir Mendelssohn. As a soloist of Ensemble 2e2m and Ensemble Alternance she appeared in the most prestigious festivals in France, Europe, Asia and America. Her natural curiosity led her to explore new horizons such as musical theatre and improvisation, giving her the opportunity to collaborate with various choreographers, conductors and stage directors. Passionate about pedagogy, Claire Merlet teaches viola in CRR of Rueil-Malmaison and is a regular teacher at the CNSM Paris.

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Dorothée Nodé-Langlois · Violin
Dorothée Nodé-Langlois · Violin · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Dorothée
Nodé-Langlois
Violin

Born in France, Dorothée Nodé-Langlois began her musical training at the Toulouse Conservatory, where she studied the violin. After earning her diploma, she continued perfecting her violin skills while simultaneously studying psychology at university. Her pursuit of excellence then led her to the Haute École de Musique de Genève, where she graduated with a Concert Diploma "with distinction." She was also awarded the prestigious Henryk Szeryng Prize before obtaining a Master of Pedagogy in Arts.

To further enrich her musical universe, she deepened her knowledge at the Guildhall School of Music in London and the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. Throughout her journey, Dorothée Nodé-Langlois had the privilege of working with renowned musicians such as Gábor Takács-Nagy and Nobuko Imai. It was through her encounter with violinist Florence Malgoire that she discovered her passion for baroque violin, while chamber music became a true source of inspiration.

Beyond her musical engagements, Dorothée Nodé-Langlois is the co-founder of the festival Les Estivales de Megève and the creator of the festival L’Abbé Idéal in Vendée.

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Compagnie Hallet-Eghayan
Compagnie Hallet-Eghayan · · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Compagnie
Hallet-Eghayan

A Historic Company

In 1977, after several years of study in New York, Michel Hallet Eghayan founded his Company as well as the Professional Training School (now a Choreographic Center). This dual creation reflects the ongoing connection between creation and training that defines its founder's work.

Since then, the Company and its Artistic Director have created over 100 choreographic works. Retour en avant, Orlando Furioso, Hommage à Kandinsky, Which Side Story, and Pour Giselle are today recognized as landmark pieces of contemporary French dance. Drawing on the heritage of human movement, Michel has developed his own language, focusing on choreographic form and movement. After an initial period of compositions centered on the theme of Variation (1977–1990), he began exploring roots and the connections between our origins and contemporary thought (1990–2000).

The Arts-Science Connection

Since 2000, the Company has ventured into new spaces at the intersection of arts and sciences. It has notably collaborated with Pascal Picq, a paleoanthropologist at the Collège de France, and astrophysicist Roland Bacon.

This dual work, combining artistic implicitness with scientific explicitness, has resulted in spectacular dance conferences where scientists share the stage with artists. It has also led to choreographic works that retain only the symbols of this shared exploration between arts and sciences.

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Ensemble Musicatreize
Ensemble Musicatreize · · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Ensemble
Musicatreize

Musicatreize was founded in 1987 by Roland Hayrabedian. Since then, the ensemble has been promoting the musical repertoire of the 20th century, adding to it new works, juxtaposing eras and styles and establishing a focus for contemporary music in the South of France.

Ensemble of varying dimensions, Musicatreize is a seasoned performer on a wide variety of stages and settings, from the pared-down concert to full musical theatre. Juggling different esthetics, Musicatreize finds links between Roland de Lassus (Prophetiae Sibyllarum) & Maurice Ohana (Office des oracles), Franz Schubert (Gesang der Geister über den Wassern) & Michel Petrossian (Amours sidoniennes) or Clément Janequin (Il estoit une fillette) & Philippe Schoeller (Eros-Songs) or Régis Campo (Secouez-moi).

Musicatreize is dedicated to musical creation without any aesthetic bias, simply seeking a sensitive and original approach, with a Mediterranean spirit. The musical line of thinking ranges from Alberto Posadas to Tapio Tuomela, from Edith Canat de Chizy to Oscar Strasnoy, from Lucien Guérinel to Zad Moultaka or from Gérard Grisey to António Chagas Rosa. Musicatreize often offers young composers their first opportunity to write for a vocal ensemble.

In its more than 30-year history, Musicatreize has created a long-term relationship between musicians and composers. With more than 300 new works, usually organized in cycles (Lullabies, The Seven Tales, Space Odysseys, Priority Voices, Three Detective Cantatas, The Twelve Letters for Elise) and always accompanied by pedagogical activities, Musicatreize has developed a strong network with its public.

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2e2m Ensemble
2e2m Ensemble · · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
2e2m
Ensemble

Ensemble 2e2m is one of the first and most prestigious French ensembles dedicated to contemporary musical creation. With several hundred world premieres to its name, it has become a key player on both the national and international music scenes.  

Since its founding in 1972 by composer Paul Méfano, 2e2m has continuously reinvented itself, securing a leading role in the landscape of contemporary music.  

Based in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the Paris region, since its inception, the ensemble remains deeply committed to fostering musical creation, dissemination, and audience engagement. Through concerts, educational projects, open rehearsals, and encounters with composers and performers, 2e2m provides audiences with insights into new works, helping them to connect with performances and engage closely with the creative process.  

Fifty years after its founding, 2e2m continues to pursue its mission with passion: to discover-by embracing a broad spectrum of musical aesthetics-and to share-through long-standing artistic and personal collaborations with musicians and performers.

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Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain · · A portrait of Michel Petrossian · International Music Festival
Ensemble
Orchestral Contemporain

Founded in 1989 by conductor Daniel Kawka, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain was one of the first independent French ensembles dedicated to contemporary music. Over the years, the EOC’s creative output and tours in France and abroad have helped it forge a unique place in the musical landscape.

The Ensemble is renowned for being a key interpreter of 20th and 21st century music and an important player in musical creation. Composers of all generations have placed their trust in us. Today, the EOC counts more than 700 works in its repertoire, including 300 premieres.

The EOC is an instrumental ensemble home to around 15 musicians, who may also play a solo role. Bruno Mantovani is at the helm of the ensemble, as artistic director and principal conductor. The EOC stages concerts of large- and medium-sized formations, championing pure instrumental concerts, as well as a mix of instrumental and electroacoustic sounds paired with other artistic expressions (dance, opera, literature and visual arts).

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