Teachers & grandmasters

The great masters

Rena Shereshevskaya

Russian pianist Rena Shereshevskaya studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She then taught at the Central School of Music for Gifted Children at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Today, alongside her busy concert career, she teaches piano at the École normale de musique in Paris and is the author of several articles on the subject of music education for gifted children. Rena Shereshevskaya gives masterclasses all over the world, in France, the United States, Canada, Italy, China, Monaco, etc., and is a member or president of the jury of several international competitions. A sought-after teacher among professionals, her students include many winners of major international competitions. These include Rémi Geniet, 2nd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium in 2013, Lucas Debargue - 4th Prize and Special Prize of the Moscow Music Critics at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2015), Alexandre Kantorow - 1st Prize and Grand Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2019), Julian Trevelyan - 2nd Prize, Prize for the best interpretation of the Mozart concerto and Audience Prize at the Geza Anda International Competition (Zurich, 2021), and Dmitry Sin - laureate at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition (Brussels, 2021). The Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron is dedicating a day of honour to Rena Shereshevskaya which, in view of its success, will be repeated for three years (2018, 2019, 2020). In 2015, she was named Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Michel Dalberto

Michel Dalberto is now one of France's most prominent pianists. His career has taken him to the four corners of the globe, and he is now one of the best-known French musicians in Asia. He has also been involved in the artistic direction of the Académie-Festival des Arcs and in chairing the jury of the Haskil Competition. He has taught at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola and at the Conservatoire de Paris, as well as giving masterclasses throughout the world. He began playing the piano at the age of three and a half. At the age of twelve, his meeting with Vlado Perlemuter was decisive, and he was admitted to his class at the Paris Conservatoire. He went on to win the 1st Mozart Competition in Salzburg, the Clara Haskil Prize in 1975 and 1st Prize in the Leeds International Competition in 1978. His career has taken him in front of the greatest orchestras, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur and Yuri Temirkanov. He has been invited to festivals such as Lucerne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Vienna and Verbier. He has accompanied such great voices as Barbara Hendricks, Jessye Norman and Stephan Genz, and has been chamber music partner to Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Renaud Capuçon, Vadim Repin, Lynn Harrel, Michel Portal, Emmanuel Pahud and Henri Demarquette. He is particularly renowned for his interpretations of the music of Schubert, of whom he is the only living pianist to have recorded the entire piano oeuvre. Mozart, Liszt, Faure and Schumann are also among the composers he has performed regularly. He taught at the Paris Conservatoire from 2011 to 2022. From 2023, he will head the piano and chamber music department at the brand new Yehudi Menuhin School in Qingdao. He has also received invitations from various Chinese music schools to come and teach. The French government made him a Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite in 1996.

Piano

Jonathan Bénichou-Rabinovitch

Piano - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Pianist-concertist, composer and teacher, Jonathan Bénichou fuses the French and Slavic schools. He performs internationally in recital and with orchestra. His compositions include "Réminiscences" and "Initiation" (string quartet). He has premiered contemporary works such as the "Carpe Diem" concerto (Chmykov) and pieces by Dupin, Ades and Greif. His recordings of Shostakovich/Greif (Triton, 2003) and Scriabin (2009) have won awards, and he has been performing since the age of 10, both as a soloist and with orchestra. At the age of 14, he entered Jacques Rouvier's class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won a First Prize with First Class Honours, as well as the Diplôme de Formation Supérieure. He continued his studies for two years at the Mannes College in New York, in the class of Pavlina Dokovska. Invited to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow by the Rostropovich Foundation, he studied with Vera Gornastaeva. He continued his studies with Grigory Gruzman at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Hambourg in Germany and RenaShereshevskaya at the Ecole Normale de Paris. At the same time, he received advice from Misha Katz, Aldo Ciccolini, Eteri Andjaparidze, Vladimir Feltsman, Pnina Zaltsman and Dmitri Bachkirov.

Antoine Bouvy

Piano - Lessons in French, English, German, Latvian
For over 20 years, Antoine Bouvy has divided his artistic activities between a passion for the stage and a love of teaching. After the intensity of a concert, what a pleasure it is to help others discover the subtleties hidden between the notes and to show them the way to master them! Trained in the traditions and cultures of several European countries, he began studying piano and harpsichord in Paris. Followed and advised by Czech pianist Radoslav Kvapil, he continued his postgraduate studies at the Riga Academy in Latvia. After completing his Masters in the classes of Teofils Bikis and Sergueï Osokin, he went on to perfect his skills with famous musicians such as Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Igor Lazko and Lazar Berman. His concerts have taken him all over Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States, performing alongside internationally renowned artists or as a soloist. Appointed artistic director of an international music festival in China, he organised and performed over a period of three years in more than twenty concerts. He has been invited to give master classes at Chinese and American universities and several European schools, and is often asked to sit on the jury of international competitions. Antoine Bouvy currently coordinates piano master classes in Latvia, which have the particularity of preparing young pianists to play with orchestras.

Olga Karnaukhova

Piano & chamber music - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Olga Karnaukhova studied at the Higher National Conservatory in Lviv and the Kyiv National Conservatory. She went on to perfect her vocal accompaniment skills at the Moscow, Odessa and Leipzig Conservatoires. On her arrival in France in 1995, she obtained a doctorate in musicology from the Sorbonne. She holds the Diplôme d'Etat and has been teaching at the Conservatoire Russe de Paris Rachmaninoff since 2010. Olga Karnaukhova considers it her personal duty to pass on her knowledge and passion for music to motivated students.

Alexander Karpeev

Piano - Lessons in English, Russian and French
Winner of numerous international competitions, Alexander is a British Russian pianist who performs in recital, chamber music and with orchestra. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, he devoted his thesis to a detailed analysis of the piano pedagogy of the composer Nicolas Medtner, of whom he became a specialist. This study enabled him to develop a unique approach to piano teaching. Alongside his concert career, Alexandre has been teaching piano for the last twenty years at conservatoires, schools and privately. Every year, he is invited to sit on juries at national conservatoires. Many of his students have gone on to win regional competitions and join national conservatoires in the UK. As well as perfecting piano technique and developing the stylistic culture of his students, Alexandre pays particular attention to the musical interpretation of works and the personal artistic development of each student. Today Alexandre works as a performer, teacher, researcher and recording artist.

Sarina Gudha

Piano - Lessons in French or Albanian
A graduate of the CRR de Rueil-Malmaison (First Prize in piano and chamber music, class of Bernard Ringeissen), she has been teaching piano for 15 years. She prepares her students for national and international competitions. A former assistant to Mélisande Chauveau at the Conservatoire du 6e arrondissement in Paris, she favours the Heinrich Neuhaus method. Her teaching combines rigour and passion, aiming for simplicity, naturalness and depth of sound to produce an interpretation of great beauty.

Georgy Krizhnenko

Piano - Lessons in French or English
began in Omsk with teacher Galina Vasilievna Naskalova. At the age of 12, he joined the Moscow Central School of Music and went on to win 12 international competitions. At the age of 16, he performed S. Rachmaninov's 2nd concerto under the baton of Alexandre Tchernychenko. His piano school was inspired by G. Neuhaus and K. Igumnov. He worked with Sergey Milshtein and Maria Gambaryan, then with Nelson Gerner at the École Supérieure de Musique de Genève, where he enriched his musical training. Between recitals and chamber music concerts, he is interested in jazz performance and composes for this repertoire as well as for film music. Teaching gives him the opportunity to share his knowledge and love of music with his pupils. In his teaching, he attaches great importance to the individual approach of each student, using techniques adapted to their personal projects.

Svetlana Kryvych

Piano - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Svetlana Kryvych has been teaching piano for 45 years. Her musical journey began at the Conservatory in Lviv, Ukraine, and was later crowned with several prizes in national competitions. But her real passion turned out to be teaching. Her teaching method is inspired by classical traditions with a focus on technical development while respecting the unique personality of each learner. She also encourages autonomy by guiding her students along their own musical path.

Julia Lototskaya-Kettani

Piano - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Has been teaching piano to students of all levels for 30 years. Specialises in people with communication difficulties (autistic spectrum, PDD, CTE...). Born into a family of musicians, she studied at the Russian Academy of Gnessine and obtained a degree in psychology to better understand the perception of music. A researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education, her work has been published. Her teaching programme, based on the Russian classical piano school, is individualised. Her pupils have recently won prizes in international competitions.

Alina Pavalache

Piano - Lessons in French, Romanian or English
Alina Pavalache has taught piano at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris since 1990. She holds a doctorate in music performance (summa cum laude in 2022 from the George Enescu National University in Iasi), with a thesis on "The Human Body as an Instrument of Vocal Expression, the Singing Piano". Born into a family of musicians, she was trained by masters at the Moscow and Paris Conservatoires. Her concert career, which began in 1979, has taken her to international stages with prestigious orchestras and a vast repertoire. She also directs cultural events, notably the Rencontres Musicales du Magnoac and the Georges Enesco International Singing Competition in Paris. She teaches in French, Romanian and English.

Kei Saotome

Piano - Lessons in French, Japanese, Italian or English
Born in Tokyo, Kei Saotomé grew up in Abu Dhabi. At the age of 8, she met Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, who encouraged her to study piano in France. She benefited from their advice until 1991. Her teaching was also influenced by Patricia Thomas (Yvonne Lefébure School). At the age of 18, she was awarded First Prize in piano and chamber music at the CNSMP, where she studied with Michel Béroff. In the 1990s, she studied with Russian masters (Lev Naumov, Vitaly Margulis, Igor Lazko) and Hungarian masters (György Sebök). Winner of the Clara Schumann International Competition (1994) and the Robert Schumann International Competition (1996), she was awarded the prize for best interpretation at the "Virtuoses of Year 2000" in Saint Petersburg. Kei Saotomé teaches at the CRR de Versailles.

Jazz piano & Improvisation

Paul Dégardin

Jazz piano & improvisation - Lessons in French and English
Born in 1998. He began studying classical percussion with Oswaldo Gonzalez at the Conservatoire d'Asnières sur Seine from 2004 to 2008. In 2010, he joined Frédéric Macarez's class at the CRR in Paris, continuing his percussion studies under a special timetable until 2014. In 2016 he began a jazz course at CMA 17, where he took up jazz piano in Guillaume Naud's class. In 2018 he joined Hip-Hop choreographer and dancer Patrick Zingilé's Compagnie P.Z, with whom he performed the show Naissance cyclique at the Théâtre L'Apostrophe-Théâtre 95. In 2020 he played a jazz set for the Fondation Goélands at the Salle Cortot in a quartet. In 2021 he entered the CRR in Jazz Piano in Yvan Robilliard's class. That same year he gave his first solo jazz piano concerts at the Accord Parfait. Since January 2023 he has been teaching at La Cerise sur le Piano. In 2024, his first one-man band project was released on streaming platforms. Des choses magnifiques. An album of pop songs, combining humour and sometimes crude lyrics to describe life and the passage to adulthood in an offbeat way.

Violin

Céline Hara

Violin - Lessons in French, Italian or English
Céline Hara began studying the violin at the age of six and the piano at 10. In addition to her studies in musical training, analysis and composition, she completed the Études Universitaires en Musicologie programme at La Sorbonne University. After obtaining a First Prize in chamber music and violin in Igor Volochine's class in Paris, she joined Pavel Vernikov's advanced violin class at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Florence, Italy). She has performed as a soloist with American and Italian orchestras, notably under the baton of Sir Eliot Gardiner. Before joining the Conservatoire Russe de Paris Rachmaninoff, Céline Hara taught at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where she took the class of Petru L. Horvath, concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale (Zubin Mehta).

François Pineau Benois

Violin - Lessons in French, Russian or English
François Pineau-Benois graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in violin and chamber music. He went on to perfect his skills at the École Normale de Musique Cortot in Paris with Régis Pasquier. François Pineau-Benois is a prizewinner in international competitions and grants, and performs regularly in concert halls and festivals, as a soloist with symphony and chamber orchestras in France, Russia and elsewhere in the world. The teaching methodology is based on an individual approach, joyful teaching of violin technique, development of musicality and interest in music, in close cooperation with parents. François Pineau Benois is the recipient of grants from the Fondation de la Banque Populaire (2017), Safran pour la musique (2017), "Culture Moves Europe" from the European Union (2023) and Adami (2023).

Cello

Julie Gros

Cello - Lessons in French or English
Julie Gros is a graduate of the Conservatoire Régional de Rueil Malmaisons, where she was unanimously awarded 1st prize. She plays chamber music, regularly performs sonatas and takes part in a variety of projects, including Cosmojazz and the Chemin Faisant festival. Teaching her instrument is close to her heart, and above all passing on the pleasure of playing. Learning technical skills is always at the service of a musical desire.

Harp

Oksana Sidyagina

Harp - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Oksana Sidyagina is a Russian harpist based in Paris. She joined the Rachmaninov Conservatoire in 2021 and became its first harp teacher. She is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. She has won five international harp competitions in Italy, France and Russia, and has been awarded numerous other prizes (in Russia, Ukraine and Greece). She has been invited to perform and give masterclasses at some of the most prestigious events in the harp world. She is also a regular guest at music festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and elsewhere. In addition to her solo career, she has extensive teaching experience: Oksana has been invited to conduct master classes in Italy, Spain, Poland, Croatia, and in many Russian cities.

Guitar

saxophone

Christophe Laborde

Saxophone - Lessons in French or English
Christophe Laborde was born in Pau, where he began playing the saxophone at the age of 13 at the regional conservatoire, where he studied for five years. In 1983, he moved to Paris to study at the CIM, where he spent a year and a half. Thanks to Simon Goubert, he took lessons with Steve Grossman and then Michel Sardaby, and went on to perform in a variety of concerts alongside musicians such as René Urtreger, Alain Jean Marie, Alby Cullaz and many others. He has recorded several albums, notably "Wings of Waves" and "Heart of Things" with Giovanni Mirabassi, Mauro Gargano and Louis Moutin. He has also taught at various schools and conservatoires, including the CIM, the ATLA, the Conservatoire Carrière Sur Seine and the Conservatoire de Malakoff.

Flute

Florencia Jaurena

Flute - Piccolo - Courses in French, Spanish or English
Born in Buenos Aires into a family of musicians, flutist Florencia Jaurena moved to Paris at the age of 18. Winner of several Premiers Prix and a graduate of the Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt, she went on to perfect her skills with Philippe Lesgourgues, Céline Nessi and Vincent Lucas. Her eclectic career has taken her as far as the symphony orchestra and chamber music, with regular collaborations with the Orchestre Colonne, the Orchestre Symphonique Divertimento (for the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games) and the Worakls Orchestra. Co-founder of the L'Esquisse flute quartet, selected for the International Flute Convention (NFA, 2025), she also teaches at the Conservatoire du Raincy and the Conservatoire Municipal du 15e arrondissement in Paris.

Conductors

Mathieu Herzog

Conductor - Courses in French or English
Artist and teacher, conductor, composer and orchestrator Mathieu Herzog trained with great masters such as Semyon Bychkov, Daniel Harding, Gábor Takács-Nagy, György Kurtäg, Menahem Pressler, Alfred Brendel, Mitsuko Uchida... A former founding member and violist of the Quatuor Ebène, he travelled the world with the quartet for 15 years (1999-2014), performing on the greatest international stages. He won the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2003 and the A.R.D. International String Quartet Competition in Munich in 2004. In 2008, he became artistic director of the Printemps musical de Saint-Cosme festival. He also regularly gives masterclasses around the world. In addition to his career as a chamber musician and soloist, Mathieu Herzog is passionate about conducting. In 2014, he left the Quatuor Ebène to set up his own ensemble, Appassionato. In 2019 they recorded the last 3 symphonies by W.A. Mozart for the Naïve label. In 2021-2022, again in partnership with Naïve, Mathieu created Appassionato le Label and recorded two new albums featuring music by C. Saint-Saëns with the violinist Jinjoo Cho, as well as Métamorphoses nocturnes, which won an Editor's Choice award from the prestigious Grammophon magazine. This season he will also be conducting the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Symphonic Orchestra and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan, among others. Mathieu is also an orchestrator, both for Appassionato and for classical musicians such as Roberto Alagna, Philippe Jaroussky, Ludovic Tézier, Nadine Sierra and Natalie Dessay, as well as for jazz and pop singers such as Stacey Kent, Rosemary Standley, Bernard Lavilliers and Luz Casals. In 2019, Mathieu was appointed Musical Director of the Blaricum Music Festival (Holland), a position he has held ever since. He has also been involved in musical training and masterclasses for the Blaricum Music Festival Orchestra ever since. He is also Artiste-Associé at La Seine Musicale and, in this capacity, has created the "Vous Trouvez Ça Classique? series for the venue, which aims to help new audiences come to hear and appreciate classical music. A lover of literature and history, he is also working on a libretto for a biographical opera about Georges Bizet.

Balalaika

Nicolas Kedroff

Balalaïka - Lessons in French, Russian or English
Born in Paris into a famous family of Russian emigrant artists, Nicolas Kedroff began learning to play the balalaika at the age of 12. A small triangular musical instrument with three strings, the balalaika is one of the symbols of Russia. Its character and fascinating playing express the melancholy and gaiety of the songs and dances of the Russian people. A lifelong passion, he studied with Micha Makarenko at the Serge Rachmaninov Conservatory, then with Sergei Scheglovitov at the Gnessin College of Music in Moscow. He was the first foreign balalaikist in history to win a Russian competition. In addition to his teaching activities, he performs as a soloist or with several groups in concerts, at festivals, on radio or television and, of course, in Parisian Russian cabarets (Patrimonio, Lausanne and Nice guitar festivals, as well as Sozvezdie Masterov (Moscow), the Tchaikovsky (Moscow), Chopin-Pleyel and Gaveau (Paris) halls and the Palace Theatre (Albany, USA), etc.). He is a member of the jury (Russian National Balalaika Competition), has taken part in the recording of some forty albums and has appeared in films. Knowledge of music theory is highly recommended.

Chant

Olga Stankiewicz

Soprano - opera and variety singing - Classes in French, Russian, Polish or English
Olga Stankiewicz is an opera singer and teacher of contemporary and opera singing. and opera singing. She is also an EFP-certified specialist in the in the scientific voice development method Estill Voice Training (EVT), a member of the World Association of the Voice DIVAin and the International Association of Teachers of Singing IATS. Olga was born in Minsk, Belarus, where she studied opera singing at the vocal department at the Mikhail Glinka College of Music. In 2016, she obtained her master's degree from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland. She perfected her vocal technique with masters such as Teresa Zylis-Gara, Helena Zubanovich, Michelle Wegwart and Eva Blachova. Olga has taken part in concerts and productions in Poland, Belarus, Germany and France, under conductors such as Paavo Järvi, François-Xavier Roth, Mikko Franck, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Christoph Eschenbach. In 2018, Olga moved to Paris, where she continues to pursue her artistic career by performing in concerts and collaborating with the Radio France choir. Since 2020, she has also been a teacher at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris, where she teaches contemporary and classical singing to teenagers and adults.

Svetlana Lifar

Lyrical singing - Lessons in French, English or Russian
Svetlana Lifar studied music at the Moscow Conservatoire and then in France at the Paris Conservatoire. After winning a number of international prizes, she joined the CNIPAL and then the Lyon Opera company, where she sang a number of roles, including Rosina (Barbiere di Siviglia), Clara (Les Fiançailles au Couvent), Vava (Moscow, Quartier des Cerises), directed by Masha Makeïev, and Fiodor (Boris Godounov). The Paris Opera soon invited her to sing Flora (La Traviata), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), the 2nd Nymph (Rusalka), Douniacha (La Cerisaie by Fénelon). A multilingual artist (French, Italian, Russian, Czech, English, German), she has appeared on all the French opera stages in roles such as Mercedes (Carmen), Sélysette (Ariane et Barbe Bleue), Rossweisse (Die Walküre), La Magicienne (Dido & Aeneas), etc. Highlights of her career include Pauline in La Dame de Pique at La Scala, Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) in Shanghai, Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) in Nice and Antibes, Konchakovna in Prince Igor and Larina in Eugene Onegin, Schiava Smaragdi in Francesca da Rimini in Monte Carlo, Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Tours and Limoges. Under the guidance of Viorica Cortez, she explored the dramatic mezzo repertoire, singing Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Miss Quickly (Falstaff), the Nurse (Rubinstein's Demon), the Witch Jeji Baba and the Third Nymph in Rusalka, the Mother (The Wedding), Neris (Medea), Verdi's Requiem, The Old Gypsy Woman (Aleko) and Martha (Iolanta), The Mother in Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Emilia in Otello, Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana, Smeaton (Anna Bolena), The Mayor's Wife and the Shepherdess (Jenufa), Mrs Sedley (Peter Grimes), The Governess (The Queen of Spades).

Alexandre Sabanovs

Lyric & variety singing - Lessons in French, English and Russian Originally from Latvia, Aleksandrs Sabanovs studied piano and trombone before entering the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, where he obtained a diploma in musical theatre. He continued his singing career at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre then went on to perfect his skills at the Latvian National Opera with famous teachers such as Paolo de Napoli (Italy) and Axel Everaert (Belgium). He has taken part in numerous concerts and musical projects, while simultaneously simultaneously teaching academic singing and becoming involved in vocal production. He the role of Mr Vogelsang in W. A. Mozart's opera. In 2014, he moved to Barcelona, where - for 6 years - he gave private lessons in vocal and breathing techniques using the method of A. Strelnikova. He also takes part in concerts and musical projects. Since 2020, in Paris, he has been giving singing lessons for beginners and professional singers, while continuing to be involved in artistic projects and musical performances.

Alina Pavalache

Voice studies - Courses in French, English and Romanian
Alina Pavalache has taught at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire in Paris since 1990. From 1990 to 1997, at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire, she was head of the singing class of Aneta Pavalache, her mother, a Romanian opera singer of great prestige, who left her a passion for the voice and opera singing, and above all taught her a very solid vocal technique from an early age. From 1997 to 2003, she directed the Voice Direction class at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire, training many young opera singers. Her interest in the voice led her to write and defend a doctoral thesis in 2022 entitled "The human body as an instrument of vocal expression, the singing piano" at the George Enescu National University in Lasi (Romania). Her research focuses on both vocal technique and piano interpretation. Her thesis was awarded Summa cum laude. In 2021, Alina Pavalache will once again be opening a Voice Studies class at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire, in a different way and with different objectives, aimed at young people wishing to pursue a more in-depth operatic training, and at vocal art enthusiasts wishing to perfect their technique and enrich their repertoire. She also teaches advanced declamation techniques for actors and public speaking. Alina Pavalache runs numerous courses and masterclasses on voice and piano in France, Romania and China. In her masterclasses, Alina Pavalache has worked with great opera artists such as Viorica Cortez, Jean Philippe Laffont, Leontina Vaduva, Nelly Miricioiu, Ruxandra Donose and Mioara Cortez, artists with whom she has also collaborated in recitals and concerts as a pianist.In 2014 Alina Pavalache founded the Georges Enesco International Singing Competition in Paris, and is still its artistic director.

Quartets & trios

Gabriel Le Magadure

Quartets & trios - Lessons in French or English
Gabriel Le Magadure has been fascinated by chamber music and the world of the string quartet from an early age, and is the violinist with the Quatuor Ebène. As a member of the Quatuor Ebène, Gabriel has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world: Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Philharmonie de Paris, etc. Born in 1981, Gabriel began playing the violin at the age of 6 at the CNR in Nantes. In 1999, after obtaining a unanimous first prize in violin (in the class of Colette Bord) and two first prizes in chamber music, he entered the CNR in Boulogne-Billancourt in the class of Maryvonne Le Dizès. In 2001, he was unanimously awarded first prize for violin with the congratulations of the jury. The following year, he entered the CNSMD in Lyon in Christophe Poiget's class. In 2003, he and the Quatuor Ebène won 2nd prize (1st prize not awarded) in the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. As a member of this ensemble, he worked with such great teachers as the Quatuor Ysaÿe, Gabor Takacs, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Eberhard Feltz and the composer György Kurtag. In 2004, the Quartet won first prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, as well as five special prizes. The following year, the Quartet gave over a hundred concerts around the world and won two first prizes in chamber music at the Geneva Conservatoire and the Paris Conservatoire. The four musicians have made numerous recordings (for Mirare and Warner Classics), winning prestigious awards: Haydn (album of the month in The Strad...), Bartok (ffff Télérama, Strad selection...), Debussy-Fauré-Ravel (Choc du Monde de la Musique, ffff Télérama, Disc of the week in the Times, Editor's Choice in Gramophone, chamber music disc of the year at the Gramophone awards...), Brahms and Mozart (Choc Classica) as well as two complete works of Gabriel Fauré's chamber music. In 2020, the Quatuor Ebène released a recording of Beethoven's complete string quartets, recorded live around the world. This recording has been unanimously acclaimed by international critics. The Quatuor Ebène is lucky enough to share the stage with such renowned partners as Renaud & Gautier Capuçon, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Mitsuko Uchida, Nicholas Angelich, Alexandre Tharaud, Franck Braley, Daniel Müller-Schott, Antoine Tamestit, Bertrand Chamayou, Nicolas Altstaedt, Sir Andras Schiff and Menahem Pressler... In spring 2024, Gabriel released his first solo recording with Frank Braley on piano and the Quatuor Agate, performing Chausson's Concert and Lekeu's Sonata (Appassionato, Le Label). Passionate about teaching, Gabriel Le Magadure has given numerous master classes throughout the world: at the Freiburg and Stuttgart Hochschulen, at the Lake District Festival, at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, at the CNSM in Paris, etc. In 2021 he became professor in residence at the Munich Hochschule, where the Quatuor Ebène founded the Ebène Quartet Academy. In September 2024, he will open his own chamber music class (quartets and trios) at the Conservatoire Rachmaninov in Paris.

chamber music

Hugo Martin

Chamber music - Lessons in French or English and Russian
After obtaining his Diploma (DEM) with First Class Honours the CRR in Toulouse, Hugo Martin discovered a passion for chamber music, accompaniment and orchestral conducting. and conducting. He then decided to continue his prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Mikhaïl Voskressens. Mikhail Voskressensky, where he was awarded a scholarship. These years revealed to the young musician the genius of the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but above all Scriabin. And so, in his first year year in Moscow, Hugo Martin won 1st prize in the Paris International Scriabin Scriabin Piano Competition in Paris. Alongside his solo repertoire, chamber music has played an important role in Hugo Martin's musical life. Hugo Martin is a member of the Egon Trio, with whom he has performed in concerts trio, with whom he has performed both in concerts and at conferences, with the aim of making classical music accessible to young people. classical music to younger audiences. The musician's musical curiosity doesn't stop at the piano soloist's door, but also extends to the chamber music and operatic repertoire. Hugo Martin composes for piano, string quartet and other musical formations. He learned orchestration with Tikhon Khrenikov and studied conducting with Anatoli Levin at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

Musical Training
& children's & adults' choir

Youlia Coric

FM - Courses in French and Russian
Originally from Saint Petersburg), Youlia CORIC was born into a family where music was omnipresent, with her mother a lyric singer with a warm mezzo-soprano voice. mezzo-soprano voice. At the age of 6, she joined the choral singing department at the music school. then went on to study music and teaching at the State College in Saint Petersburg, where she obtained a diploma as a music and singing teacher and music educator with the highest distinction. and music educator with honours. She then obtained a diploma as a choral singing teacher from the St Petersburg State Academy of Culture. She began teaching in 1992 as a choral singing and vocal technique teacher at the at the St Petersburg School of Music. At the same time, she was a member of several choirs (notably the "choirs (notably the Cameo Choir directed by teacher and composer Victor VOLNA). and festivals. Youlia CORIC moved to France in 1998. where she obtained two state diplomas: in choral conducting in choral conducting and musical training. Alongside her studies, she teaches piano musical training and choral singing. Youlia is passionate about translating and adapting vocal works from Russian into French and introducing students to masterpieces of Russian music. She also teaches musical training, choral singing and voice at the CRD in Issy-les-Moulineaux. For years, Youlia CORIC has been passing on her energy and passion for music and culture to her many students. and culture to her many pupils

Harmony & Music History

Matteo Di Capua

Harmony & Music History - Courses in French or English
Prizes for harmony, counterpoint and polyphony XVth -17th century polyphony polyphony at the Conservatoire Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Matteo DI CAPUA devotes just as much the viola da gamba as he does to theoretical studies. A student at the CNSMDP since 2021 in the advanced writing cycle, his career has enabled him to benefit from the the teaching of such great figures as Guillaume Connesson, Thomas Lacote, Raphaël Picazos and others. Initially trained at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rennes et de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in modern cello, he has taken part in numerous international academies international academies and masterclasses (Xavier Philips, Anne Gastinel, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Patrick Gabard, etc.) before turning to early music, playing the baroque cello and the viola da gamba. and the viola da gamba. He studied in Paris with Philippe Foulon and has also benefited Christophe Coin, Bruno Cocset, Serge Saïta and Nima Ben David, Skip Sempé... He has performed at a number of festivals in France and abroad (Folles Journées de Tombées de la Nuit in Rennes, Automne Baroque in Bourges, Festival de la Salpêtrière Festival de la Salpêtrière, Festival de Fougères, Concerts de Midi in Rennes, in Israel etc.) with artists Salomé Gasselin, Andreas Linos, Noémie Lenhof, Nima Ben David, Jérôme Hentaï, Alix Verzier, Claire Antonini, Alain Brunier... He has shared the stage with various authors such as Yvon Le Men (Goncourt de la poésie) and Jean-Pierre Milovanoff (Goncourt des lycéens). He has also appeared on television (the Bali-Breizh programme) and in films (Jeanne du Barry). cinema (Jeanne du Barry, directed by Maiwenn). He is currently writing his master's thesis on the music of Sieur de Sainte Colombe. His research work has led him to prepare various projects in association with the Centre de Versailles, the Société Française de Musicologie, the Güntersberg publishing house Güntersberg, the Harmonia Mundi label, etc. He also practises baroque dance with Ana Yepes and takes part in workshops and as a dancer with the Compagnie Outre-Mesure. Since September 2024, he has been teaching harmony at the Sergeï Rachmaninov Conservatoire Conservatoire in Paris (16th arrondissement).

Computer-Assisted Music (CAM)

Emile Cooper LEPLAY

MAO - Courses in French or English
Emile Cooper LEPLAY is a multi-instrumentalist composer/ orchestrator/arranger. A finalist in the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards and winner of the 2019 Emergence competition, he is also the singer/guitarist with the alternative rock band LIQR. His meeting with director Brice Vincent led him to take a closer interest in music for film. Since 2013, Emile has continued to collaborate with a number of directors and has worked on over twenty film scores to date. Emile trained as a clarinettist at the Chartres Conservatoire, then at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil-Malmaison, where he also studied contemporary music composition. He then studied with Jean-Michel Bernard to deepen his knowledge of film music composition and orchestration with Olivier Calmel. In 2020, he graduated from the CNSMDP after studying with Bruno Coulais and Marie-Jeanne Serero to perfect his film music skills. Since then, he has composed music for short films such as SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, POUR UN ZESTE D'AMOUR by Hadrien Krasker & Mathieu Boukenhove broadcast on OCS, LUCIOLE by Lucie Pagès and SOLZ for which he worked with director Brice Vincent.

Dance

Anna Nikolaeva

Classical dance - Classes in French, Russian or English
A graduate of the Igor Moiseyev Dance Academy in Moscow Dance in classical dance, folk dance, modern jazz and dance history, Anna Nikolaeva obtained her teaching diploma at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow in 2013. During her training and since her last diploma, she has accumulated stage and artistic experience around the world (Russia, India, Israel, Austria, Japan, etc.) with famous Russian companies (The New Ballet - Moscow Contemporary Ballet Theatre, The Black Square - Street and Circus Arts Theatre, the Dennis Boroditsky Company). She has danced solo roles in famous works (Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote).

Olga Colomer

Classical dance - Classes in French, Russian or English
Olga Colomer is a graduate of the Vaganova Academy in St Petersburg, which she completed in 2017 in Tatiana Udalenkova's class. She then worked at the Leonid Yacobson Theatre until 2020. She has performed in some of the biggest theatres in Petersburg: Mariinski, Michailovski, Alexadrinski, Grand Théâtre Dramatique, and also in Moscow at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. Throughout her career, Olga has worked with famous teachers such as Jean-Guillaume Bart, Luc Massala, Alexandre Zaitsev, Pierre-François Dollé, Lioudmila Kovaleva, etc.). She also took part in a baroque dance workshop with the Cracovia Danza troupe in Krakow. She began giving dance lessons to young children while still a student. She has also prepared young girls for the Vaganova Academy entrance exams. .

Elena Dmitrieva

Classical dance - Classes in French, Russian or English
Elena Dmitrieva - prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, film actress, choreographer and teacher. She began practising rhythmic gymnastics at an early age before taking up ballet. In 1981, she graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School and was accepted into the troupe of the Kirov Theatre (now the Mariinsky Theatre). She worked at the Mariinsky Theatre until 1997. Solo dances and leading roles: Katerina in the ballet "The Stone Flower", Maria in "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai", Giselle in the play "Giselle", Princess Florina in "Sleeping Beauty", "Swan Lake", "La Bayadère", "Raymonda", etc. She has taught ballet classes for children in St Petersburg and worked as a teacher-tutor with soloists at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Academic drawing

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Teachers & grandmasters

The great masters

Rena Shereshevskaya

Michel Dalberto

Piano

Jonathan Bénichou-Rabinovitch

Yulia Orlova

Antoine Bouvy

Olga Karnaukhova

Alexander Karpeev

Sarina Gudha

Georgy Krizhnenko

Svetlana Kryvych

Julia Lototskaya-Kettani

Karine Petrossian

Alina Pavalache

Kei Saotome

Marsa Todorovska

Jazz piano & Improvisation

Paul Dégardin

Violin

Céline Hara

François Pineau Benois

Cello

Julie Gros

Harp

Oksana Sidyagina

Guitar

Ilya Astapovich

saxophone

Christophe Laborde

Flute

Florencia Jaurena

Conductors

Mathieu Herzog

Balalaika

Nicolas Kedroff

Chant

Olga Stankiewicz

Svetlana Lifar

Alexandre Sabanovs

Alina Pavalache

Mr and Mrs Dergai

Quartets & trios

Gabriel Le Magadure

chamber music

Hugo Martin

Musical Training & children's & adults' choir

Youlia Coric

Harmony & Music History

Matteo Di Capua

Computer-Assisted Music (CAM)

Emile Cooper LEPLAY

Dance

Anna Nikolaeva

Olga Colomer

Elena Dmitrieva

Vitalia Galactionova

Academic drawing

School of Classical Drawing

Disciplines

Musical Training
& children's & adults' choir