Lise
Berthaud
Professor of Chamber Music - Professor of Viola (NE)
Lise Berthaud was born in 1982 and started studying the violin at the age of 5. She studied with Pierre-Henry Xuereb and Gérard Caussé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and was a prize winner of the European Young Instrumentalists Competition in 2000. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition. She was short listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2009 as “Révélation de l’Année” (Newcomer of the Year).
Lise Berthaud is unanimously praised as an outstanding figure on the international music scene. She has performed in various prestigious concert venues throughout the world (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Het Concertgebouw, Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Philharmonie de Paris, Moritzburg Festival, Schwartzenberg’s Schubertiade Hohenems, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian) with such artists as Renaud Capuçon, Baiba Skride, Lauma Skride, Harriet Krijgh, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto, Eric Le Sage, Augustin Dumay, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emmanuel Pahud, Gordan Nikollich, Martin Helmchen, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Alina Ibragimova, Veronika Eberle, Christian Poltera, Quatuor Ebène, the Modigliani Quartet.
As a soloist, Lise has played with all BBC orchestras, including for her BBC Proms Debut in 2014 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Litton. Other solo engagements include the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Lyon, les Musiciens du Louvre, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sao Paulo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, Hong-Kong Sinfonietta, Hallé Orchestra, and various orchestras in France, with conductors like Sakari Oramo, Pascal Rophé, Fabien Gabel, Emmanuel Krivine, Andrew Litton, François Leleux, Paul Mc Creesh, Marc Minkowski, Leonard Slatkin who invited Lise to perform and record (for Naxos) Harold in Italy with the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of the orchestra’s Berlioz complete works recording for Naxos.
During the 2013-2015 period Lise was part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme which allowed her to perform with all BBC orchestras and record a great amount of repertoire both live and in studio.
After taking part in Eric Le Sage’s successful recordings of Schumann and Fauré complete piano chamber music works, she released her first solo album in 2013 with pianist Adam Laloum under the French Aparté label. The disc featuring works by Brahms, Schumann and Schubert was unanimously praised and won several awards in France.
In 2018-2021 she took part in the recording of Brahms’ complete chamber music for B-Records with Eric Le Sage, Pierre Fouchenneret, François Salque and others, which has been critically acclaimed since then.
Her passion for contemporary music has also lead her to collaborate with various composers, including Philippe Hersant, Thierry Escaich, Henri Dutilleux, Gyorgy Kurtag, Guillaume Connesson, Florentine Mulsant or Eric Tanguy
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Noémie
Bialobroda
Professor of Chamber Music with Strings - Coordinator of Chamber Music (GE)
Born in Paris, violist Noémie Bialobroda performs worldwide on stages such as Wigmore Hall in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Concertgebouw in Rotterdam, Salle Gaveau, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre d’Aix en Provence, and Alte Oper Frankfurt.
Since 2014, she has been the violist of the Quatuor Aviv, with which she leads an international career. In 2021, a recording dedicated to Franz Schubert's last two quartets was released on the Aparté label, receiving unanimous praise from the international press.
A dedicated educator, she is a professor and coordinator of chamber music at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM). She is also a professor of viola at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève.
Engaged in the creation and performance of contemporary music, Noémie has forged close relationships with key figures in this repertoire. She regularly collaborates with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, and IRCAM in Paris. She premiered two pieces for viola and electronics dedicated to her: "Caprice" by composer Keïta Matsumiya and "Drifting [mirages...]" by Pierre Stordeur.
In 2020, alongside violinist Sergey Ostrovsky, she founded and assumed the artistic direction of the Geneva International String Academy, offering promising young musicians the opportunity to study and perform with accomplished musicians over the summer.
Noémie Bialobroda trained with Nobuko Imai at the HEM, before pursuing advanced studies with Jean Sulem at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
She plays a viola by Carlo Giuseppe Testore and a bow by Benoît Rolland.
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Miguel
Da Silva
Professor of Viola
Miguel da Silva trained at the Conservatoire National de Région de Reims before joining the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied with Serge Collot and Maurice Crut. He received a first prize in chamber music and a first prize in viola, both unanimously and with a special jury vote. In 1985, he won the Premier Grand Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition in Paris and joined the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris.
In 1987, he left the Opera to form the Ysaÿe Quartet with three friends. After working with the Lasalle, Amadeus, Italiano, and Berg quartets, the ensemble won numerous first prizes, including the Evian Competition in 1988, and began a successful international career. After debuting with Harmonia Mundi, the quartet signed an exclusive contract with Decca, for whom they recorded, among others, the complete Mendelssohn quartets, two discs dedicated to Fauré, and collections featuring Debussy and Ravel. Contemporary creation is essential for the ensemble, which has premiered numerous works by Pascal Dusapin, André Boucourechliev, and Noam Sheriff.
Miguel da Silva has also performed with partners such as Michel Portal, Pierre Amoyal, Truls Mork, Gary Hoffman, Pascal Rogé, Jean-Claude Pennetier, and Emmanuel Pahud. As a soloist, he has been invited by the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the Montpellier Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Sinfonia Varsovia, and the orchestra Les Siècles.
In 1993, he and the Ysaÿe Quartet founded a string quartet class at the CRR de Paris, a first in France. Their students (including the Ebène, Modigliani, Psophos, Voce, Aviv, and Incanto quartets) have won numerous international string quartet competitions. He is also the artistic director of the summer academy Musique à Flaine, artistic advisor of the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, and founder of Ysaÿe Records, a record label. A Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, Miguel da Silva plays a Cremonese viola from 1790 and is a professor of viola at the Haute école de musique.
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Ori
Kam
Professor of Viola
Considered by The New York Times as "an attractive and engaging stage presence," violist Ori Kam has performed as a soloist on the most prestigious stages.
Ori Kam was born in 1975 to Israeli parents in La Jolla and grew up in Israel. He began studying music at the age of 6 and started playing the viola at 15. In Israel, he studied with the renowned professor Chaim Taub, then at the Manhattan School of Music in New York with Pinchas Zukerman, and finally with Wilfried Strehle at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He made his debut at the age of 16 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which immediately re-engaged him. Since then, Ori Kam has given numerous recitals in the United States, Europe, and Israel. His performance at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) received critical acclaim, describing Ori Kam as "a rare viola soloist" with a playing style "imbued with both maturity and youthful exuberance."
Passionate about chamber music, Ori Kam plays with the Jerusalem String Quartet. He is the founder of the Israeli Chamber Music Society and was part of the Whitman String Quartet, a Naumburg Foundation award winner. He has performed alongside artists such as Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Isaac Stern, Andras Schiff, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. He gives concerts with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is invited to numerous festivals.
Ori Kam has received several titles and awards, including the Swiss Prize at the Geneva International Music Competition, the Paganini Prize at the Lionel Tertis Competition, and in 1995, the Concerto Competition Prize at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2010, he was awarded the Grand Prize by the S&R Washington Foundation. He also benefited from an Israeli-American Cultural Foundation scholarship from 1990 to 2000. He has been teaching viola at the Haute école de musique de Genève since 2010.
He released his first commercial recording in 2007 under the "Berlin Classics" label, featuring Bruch's Double Concerto for Viola and Clarinet, recorded with his sister Sharon. A CD of 12 Telemann Fantasies for solo viola followed in 2010 under the same label. He can also be heard on the Decca and Naxos labels and regularly records for Harmonia Mundi with the Jerusalem Quartet.
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Máté
Szücs
Professor of Viola
Máté Szücs, a Hungarian-born violist, has had an award-winning career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral instrumentalist.
Máté served as principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 to 2018, where he also performed as a soloist in Bartók's Viola Concerto in September 2017.
At the age of seventeen, Máté switched from violin to viola and graduated with highest honors from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Royal Conservatory of Flanders in Antwerp. He further pursued studies at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium, graduating with highest distinction.
As a chamber musician, Máté has been a member of various ensembles including the Mendelssohn Ensemble, Con Spirito Piano Quartet, Trio Dor, Enigma Ensemble, and Ensemble "Fragments". He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Janine Jansen, Frank-Peter Zimmermann, Christian Tetzlaff, Vadim Repin, Ilja Gringolts, Vladimir Mendelssohn, László Fenyő, Kristof Baráti, István Várdai, Camille Thomas, Kirill Troussov, and Julien Quentin.
In addition to solo performances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, he has appeared with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, Bamberger Symphoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, where he also served as principal violist.
Since 2006, Máté has been a regular faculty member at the Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark and taught at the Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh, England from 2012 to 2014. He taught for two years at the University of Music in Saarbrücken, from 2014 to 2018 at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, from 2015 to 2018 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, and in 2015-2016 at the Academy of Music in Budapest.
Máté conducts masterclasses worldwide, including in New York, Los Angeles, Michigan, London, Berlin, Brussels, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Since 2018, he has been a professor of viola at the Haute école de musique de Genève.
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