Festival Jeunes Talents

For its 2nd edition, the Young Talents Festival will bring together 8 to 10 artists selected from among the winners of major international competitions (Geneva, Queen Elisabeth-Brussels, Maurice André-Paris, Brin d'herbe-Orléans, Busoni-Bolzano, Leeds, Arthur Grumiaux-Brussels, etc). Over the course of the Festival's four concerts, in the exceptional setting of the Place de la Castre overlooking Cannes and its splendid bay, our young talents will perform a wide range of composers, from Haydn to Gershwin, from Chopin to Prokofiev, from Beethoven to Rachmaninov, illustrating the history of music in all its glory. After three solo concerts on 4, 5 and 6 July, this second edition will close with the Orchestre national de Cannes on 7 July 2023. They are, or will soon be, winners of international competitions, forming ensembles with their peers or by chance of artistic encounters, running through auditions, experiencing the first drafts of quivering auditoriums, spreading their talent under the most varied skies. Young, very young, they have chosen Music, or Music has chosen them; they have chosen an instrument - the piano, the violin or the cello, the trumpet or the bassoon. To the gifts that nature gave them, they added tireless work, perseverance and the sacrifice of everything that seemed less essential. These exceptional qualities have been mobilised to offer us, with immense generosity, unique moments in which the sublime scores of the great musical geniuses, from Bach to Rachmaninov, come to life under their fingers. They are our young talents. Jean-Marie Blanchard 4th July In collaboration with the Festival international de Piano d'Orléans - Brin d'herbe MAX GRIMM, piano Gérard PESSON - In the prose of the world: III. Folds of an endless dreamed phrase (7') Johannes BRAHMS - Piano Sonata No. 3 (35') 5th July LUKA COETZEE, cello NICOLAS ABSALOM, pianist Robert SCHUMANN- Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 (9') Fanny HENSEL MENDELSSOHN - Sonata o Fantasia for piano and cello in G minor, H. 238 (7') Johannes BRAHMS - Sonata for piano and cello No.1 in E minor, Op.38 (25') NATHAN MELTZER, violin Johann Sebastian BACH - Violin sonata in A minor (24') Eugène YSAŸE - Sonata for solo violin in A minor No.2, op.27 (12') 6th July Geister duo, piano four hands DAVID SALMON and MANUELl VIEILLARD Igor STRAVINSKY - Petrouchka, burlesque scenes in four tableaux (transcription by the composer for piano four hands) KEVIN CHEN, piano Frédéric CHOPIN - Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (11') Scherzo No. 4 in E minor, Op. 54 (11') Sergueï RACHMANINOV - Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, op. 36 (21') 7th July ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE CANNES, USTINA DUBITSKY, conductor Ludwig van BEETHOVEN- The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 - overture (5') ---- LUKA COETZEE, cello Dmitri CHOSTAKOVICH - Concerto for cello and orchestra No.1 in E flat major, op.107 (29') -pause- NATHAN MELTZER, violin Jean SIBELIUS - Six humoresques for violin and orchestra, op. 87 and op. 89 (20') ---- KEVIN CHEN, piano Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Concerto for piano and orchestra No.4 in G major, op.58 (3