Featuring Jean-Frédéric Neuburger on piano and Gabriel Richard on violin
Location: Morgan Concert Hall - Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center, 488 Prillaman Way, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Violinist and Duke University faculty, Gabriel Richard, joins award-winning pianist-composer Jean-Frédéric Neuburger in a program of Mr. Neuburger’s compositions and violin sonatas by Claude Debussy and Robert Schumann.
Open admissions – no tickets required.
About Gabriel Richard:
Gabriel Richard has been tenured first violin successively at the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, as violin solo at the Opéra de Lyon and at the Paris Orchestra as first violin, as well as the first violin of the Thymos String Quartet. He tours regularly in Japan, Korea, China, America, and Europe. With the Thymos Quartet, Richard has been invited to perform at the Paris International String Quartet Biennial four times and to tour Europe, the USA, Brazil, and Japan. He has recorded three CDs with the Thymos String Quartet, accompanied by the pianist and conductor Christoph Eschenbach. The Quartet's recording of Dvorak with the label AVIE was awarded the Editor's Choice by Gramophone in 2012. The Washington Post described the performance of the Thymos Quartet at the Kennedy Center as “detailed down to the last atom, and overflowing with human experience”. The last recording in 2020 on Schubert with the Trout Quintet was awarded Critic’s Choice of the review Gramophone and BBC Chamber Choice. Steve Reich declared Richard's interpretation of his own Violin Phase at the Cité de la Musique "probably the best performance of the piece I have ever heard". *
Gabriel Richard has been nominated as Associate Research Professor in the Romance Studies and Music Department at Duke University in the US.
About Jean-Frédéric Neuburger:
Born in Paris in 1986, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger received an intense and varied musical education in piano, organ and composition before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. On graduating from the CNSM with Five « Premier Prix » he went on to study composition with Michael Jarrell in Geneva.
His work follows the path of the French composers of twentieth century, with a strong interest for timbral evolution and orchestration directly came from the electro-acoustical world. He is commissioned by festivals and musical institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Radio-France, Evian Festival as well as numerous festivals and musical institutions. His works are performed by the Orchestre de Paris, the Chorus and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Alexander Briguer, Pascal Rophé, Jonathan Stockhammer.
As a concert pianist, he has been invited notably by the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the New-York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and he dedicates a large part of his performing activities to contemporary music : he has premiered Philippe Manouryʼs concerto for piano and electronics with the Orchestre de Paris, Philippe Maintzʼs Concerto with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, as well as works by Bruno Mantovani, Yves Chauris, Vito Zoraj.
Published by Durand (Universal Music Publishing) since 2012, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger received the Lili and Nadia Boulanger prize from the Académie des Beaux Arts and the Hervé Dugardin prize from the Sacem in 2015.
This event is hosted by Kennesaw State University, in partnership with the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and the Villa Albertine.
