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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-03-30 14:37:09
Just in: Madame Prime Minister leads her own orchestra
L’Obs reports today that Anne Gravoin, wife of the French prime minister Manuel Valls, has maintained her professional role as an orchestral violinist. A few business friends offered to help her found an ensemble. She is now concertmaster and artistic director of the Alma Chamber Orchestra. Named after (yes, probably). photo: AHMET IZGI/Anadolu Agency
2015-03-26 07:30:58
I had never heard of the Alma Chamber Orchestra. It is a new orchestra with members drawn from some of France’s top symphonic orchestras and instrumentalists. It is dedicated to performing worldwide in order to support music by presenting innovative and international programmes. It also promotes values through music. This universal message promotes music to each and every culture and every generation. The Alma Chamber Orchestra featuring Anne Gravoin as concertmaster and artistic director They will be visiting South Africa for its 21st year after democracy as part of their ‘World Tour for Unity’ led by concertmaster and artistic director, Anne Gravoin. The soloist is the famous Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire who will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4, under the direction of Lionel Bringuier, the programme will include works by Beethoven (Egmont Overture), Mendelssohn (Symphony Number 4) and Wael Binali (Earth), the latter being performed in the Durban […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-02-19 11:57:48
Breakthrough: Prime minister’s wife leads French orchestra to Algeria
In an extraordinary act of cultural diplomacy, the violinist Anne Gravoin – who is married to Prime Minister Manuel Valls – took the Alma Chamber Orchestra to play in Algiers this week. The conductor was Lionel Bringuier, but Mlle. Gravoin, a concert soloist and musical entrepreneur, is listed as artistic director of the tour. She told France 24: ‘It’s a coming together. People can unite around music, listen to the same music together, and each person can experience it in a different way. That’s why we make music. We’ll give it our all for everything we play this evening.’ Algeria’s Culture Minister Nadia Labidi called it ‘a special moment’. Relations between France and Algeria have been fraught with tension. France has a large Algerian-Moslem minority. The gunmen who attacked the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo were of Algerian origin. Mlle. Gravoin’s concert tour will have both external and internal repercussions. It is […]
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