For the second year running, the Cité Bleue is hosting the HEM's major Fête des Claviers. Harpsichords, organs and pianofortes will join modern pianos to offer a highly varied programme of works for two keyboard instruments and four hands ranging from the Baroque period to the present day. This year, special attention will be paid to works written by women composers. The duos are formed by students from different classes at the HEM under the supervision of their teachers.
Saturday 22 March 2025 at 2pm, 5pm and 8pm
Each concert will last about 1 hour 30 minutes, without intermission
A concert by HEM students
Ricardo Castro, artistic coordination
Manon Edouard Douriaud, artistic coordination assistant
Béatrice Martin, harpsichord teacher
Pierre Goy, fortepiano teacher
Vincent Thévenaz, Alessio Corti, organ teachers
Ricardo Castro, Cédric Pescia, Nelson Goerner, Fabrizio Chiovetta, François Dumont, Paul Coker, Sylviane Deferne, Louis Schwizgebel, piano teachers
In partnership with Haute École de Musique de Genève.
Free tickets
Gaspard Le Roux (c. 1670 – Paris, 1706)
Pièces de clavessin, suite in D minor: : I. Prélude; II. Allemande “la vauvert”; III. Courante; V. Menuet; VI. Passepied
Valérian Gallopin & Asami Kosaki, harpsichords
Mélanie Hélène, known as “Mel” Bonis (Paris, 1858 – Sarcelles, 1937)
Six Valses–Caprice, op. 87 for piano 4 hands
Stella Legras, piano
Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, 1875 – Paris, 1937)
Ma mère l’Oye, version for piano 4 hands
Jessica Quenot & Roberta Michela, pianos
Cécile Chaminade (Batignolles-Monceau, 1857 – Monte-Carlo, 1944)
Six pièces romantiques, for piano 4 hands
Camille Demars & Selene Tarabini, pianos
Camille Saint-Saëns (Paris, 1835 – Algers, 1921)
Danse macabre, op. 40, version for 2 pianos 4 hands
Meïtal Briatico, Caroline Chappet, Nilo Fernandes & Niels Antonini, pianos
Improvisations (all instruments) for 15 minutes
Arthur Noël & Marvin Kociszewski, pianos
Johann Sebastian Bach (Eisenach, 1685 – Leipzig, 1750)
Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor BWV 1062, II. Andante
Miguel Montes & Edurne Molina, harpsichords
Sergei Rachmaninov (Semionovo, 1873 – Beverly Hills, 1943)
Suite for two pianos no. 1, op. 5, I. Barcarolle
Satya Bawidamann & Weiwei Yang, pianos
Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, 1743 – Madrid, 1805)
Fandango, for organ and harpsichord
Rio Sasaki, harpsichord
Zeltzin Pérez, organ
Sergei Rachmaninov
Danses symphoniques op. 45, (part 1)
Viktoria Chikalkina & Andrei Leshkin, pianos
Maria Szymanovska (Warsaw, 1789 – St Petersburg, 1831)
Four waltzes for three hands for fortepiano: no. 1 in F major
Aleksandra Zebrowska & Quentin Tièche, fortepiano
Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, 1833 – Vienna, 1897)
Sonata for two pianos in F minor, op. 34b, I. Allegro non troppo
Nilo Fernandes & Fabiola Bartoli, pianos
Sergei Rachmaninov
Suite for two pianos no. 1, op. 5, I. Barcarolle
Shirel Wernicke & Elena Renzetti, pianos
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two harpsichords in C major BWV 1061
Zsolt Sylvezster & Camila Morale, clavecins
Baptiste Zeronian & Margit Jasso, clavecins
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 – Altenbourg, 1780)
Concerto in A minor, I. Allegro; II. Affettuoso; III. Allegro;
Miguel Montes, harpsichord
Gilles-Henri Martinet, organ
Franz Schubert (Vienna, 1797 – 1828)
Rondò in A major, D. 951, version for piano 4 hands
Valeria Burba & Isaac Scordino, piano
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Hamburg, 1805 – Berlin, 1847)
Trois pièces pour piano à quatre mains, III. Allegretto grazioso
Ama Martin & Naïa-Louva Bousquet, piano
Franz Schubert
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
YuHsuan Chen & Rio Sasaki, pianoforte
Johann Christian Bach (Leipzig, 1735 – London, 1782)
Sonate in G major for two harpsichords, W.A 21
Rio Sazaki & Zsolt Szilveszter, harpsichords
Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, 1833 – Vienna, 1897)
Hungarian Dances : no. 1 in G minor,, no. 4 in F minor, and no. 5 in F sharp minor
Ama Martin & Naïa-Louva Bousquet, pianos