Corentin Boissier: Chamber Works Corentin Boissier, Corentin Garac, Iris Scialom, Magali Mouterde, Théodore Lambert

• Corentin Boissier (b. 1995): Cello Sonata, Op. 21:
• 1 Boissier: Cello Sonata, Op. 21: I. Lento grave - Allegro non troppo 09:48
• 2 Boissier: Cello Sonata, Op. 21: II. Scherzo 08:22
• 3 Boissier: Cello Sonata, Op. 21: III. Recitativo - Allegro moderato ma risoluto 05:24
• Flute Sonata, Op. 23:
• 4 Boissier: Flute Sonata, Op. 23: I. Introduzione ed allegro 04:43
• 5 Boissier: Flute Sonata, Op. 23: II. Fantasia notturna 06:56
• 6 Boissier: Flute Sonata, Op. 23: III. Rondo scherzoso 05:28
• Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, Op. 22:
• 7 Boissier: Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, Op. 22: I. Largo 10:33
• 8 Boissier: Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, Op. 22: II. Andantino quasi allegretto 04:02
• 9 Boissier: Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano, Op. 22: III. Allegro energico 10:27
• Total Runtime 01:05:43

Info for Corentin Boissier: Chamber Works

Corentin Boissier was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1995. For a composer still only in his twenties, he writes music that is unusually direct in its emotional expression and robust and confident in its musical language. His Cello Sonata, in the grand Romantic tradition of Brahms and Rachmaninov, is animated by a wild and resolute energy; and his buoyant Flute Sonata continues the line of the French flute classics of the first half of the twentieth century. The darker Piano Trio sits downstream from those of Debussy, Ravel and, especially, Fauré. All three works bid fair to become major contributions to their genre.

Trio Aralia:
Iris Scialom, violin (Tracks 7–9)
Magali Mouterde, cello (Tracks 1-3, 7-9)
Théodore Lambert, piano (Tracks 1-3, 7-9)
Corentin Garac, flute (Tracks 4-6)
Corentin Boissier, piano (Tracks 4-6)

Trio Aralia
A Johannes Brahms 2019 International competition (Austria) and Léopold Bellan competition laureate, supported by the ADAMI and the Meyer Foundation, the Trio Aralia performed at the le Roque d'Anthéron 2019 International Piano festival as “ensemble in residence”, at the “Vues d’ensembles” and “Festiville” festivals at the ferme de Villefavard-en-Limousin, at the Palais de Compiègne, at the Saint-Louis des Invalides cathedral, at the Jean Jacques Henner Museum in Paris, at the New Jerusalem Museum in Russia, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, or at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague where their Ravel trio performance was broadcasted on Radio West. ​

Thanks to ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, where they are in residence since 2019, they’ve been selected to participate in a residency at the Château de Lourmarin in September 2021 and to go on tour in Russia, co-organized with "Live Music Now". ​

Their commitment to meet new audiences makes the members of the Trio leading several projects:

Having performed in retirement homes and hospital environment throughout the lockdown, they carry out outreach concerts for young audiences in Saint-Ouen (FR). In this context their creation “l'Envers du Miroir”, for soprano and trio on an original text by Marc Henric, is an occasion to lead a workshop for children and retirees to initiate them to performance and creation. ​

“Derrière les cortis” festival concerts have also been designed for this purpose. Investing in orchards around Annecy, the Trio Aralia meets singers to perform improvisations, melodies and arrangements as well as the great repertoire of chamber music. ​

Graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, the Trio Aralia takes part to the ECMAster program with the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the Concertist Tranining of the Trio Wanderer. They join the Instituto Superior de Musica de Camara in Madrid with Günter Pichler in 2021. ​

They are taught by members of the Alban Berg Quartet (Hatto Beyerle, Isabel Charisius), the Talich Quartet (Jan Talich, Petr Prause), the Wanderer Trio, the Ebony Quartet and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, François Salque, Alasdair Tait, Patrick Jüdt, Emmanuel Strosser, Olivier Charlier, Lise Berthaud, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Claire Désert, Ami Flammer.

Corentin Boissier
Born in 1995, Corentin Boissier began composing at the piano when he was six. He was discovered by the composer and organist Thierry Escaich, who wrote: « He already possesses qualities that portend his becoming an accomplished musician: a genuine sense of harmonic color, of rhythmic invention, and an understanding of the process of thematic development. All these qualities point to a free spirit with a true gift for musical composition ». ​

He studied at the CRR of Paris in the Specialized Classes of Musical Writing and Orchestration, getting both Diplomas of Musical Studies (DEM) “With Highest Distinction”. In 2019 he obtained the Master of Superior Musical Writing at the National Superior Conservatory of Music (CNSM) of Paris, with four Prizes “With Highest Distinction” (Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue & Forms, Polyphony); in 2021 he got his Master of Superior Orchestration “With Highest Distinction”.

Eager to write a directly accessible classical music, Corentin Boissier composed to date around thirty works in a neo-romantic spirit. His ballade for alto saxophone and piano From Midnight to Dawn was premiered during the 2014 Musical Festival of Bagnac-sur-Célé by the duo Christine Marchais and Marc Sieffert. His encounter with the young several-award-winning pianist Philippe Hattat results in the performances of his Piano Sonata No. 1 "Romantica", his concert piece Double Toccata as well as three of his 24 Preludes to Travel. His three pieces for piano Romantic Young Ladies were recorded and uploaded on YouTube by the Italian concert pianist Annarita Santagada.

The version for solo piano of his Glamour Concerto was recorded in 2016 in Quebec by the concert pianist Minna Re Shin. In February 2018 his Piano Sonata No. 2 "Appassionata" was premiered by concert pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid at the Salle Cortot, in Paris. A video recording, made in studio, has been uploaded on YouTube.

The Aria of Past Times was successively performed by the soprano Sayuri Araida, the baritone Aurélien Gasse, the harmonicist Claude Saubestre, the flutist Iris Daverio and the cellist Eric Tinkerhess, who also gives the world premiere of the Sonata for Cello and Piano with the composer at the piano. This work was also performed by Jordi Albelda and Nicolas Licciardi during the final concert of the festival Cambra Romànica 2019 (Principality of Andorra). His suite for guitar Don Juan Serenade was premiered by Gabrielle Rubio in August 2019 during the Festival de Musique classique de La Llagonne. His Sonata for Flute and Piano was recorded by award-winning flutists Gladys Avignon in 2020 and Corentin Garac in 2021. ​

Interested in different sides of musical writing, Corentin Boissier is also active as an orchestrator and arranger. Notably, his orchestration of the ninth of Alfredo Casella’s Nine Pieces for piano, Op. 24, was performed by the Orchestre des Gardiens de la Paix in 2016 at the Church of St. Joseph des Nations in Paris; his orchestration of Debussy’s Passepied was performed at the Auditorium Marcel Landowski (Paris); his arrangement of the jazz standard Caravan was performed by the Local Brass Quintet in the Musée de l’Orangerie in 2017. About his orchestration of Francis Poulenc’s Humoresque, the composer Nicolas Bacri wrote: « Congratulations! Your orchestration is very well done and perfect in style ».

In 2019 the Association Le Capil for the Promotion of the Heritage of La Llagonne named him Artistic Coordinator, responsible for chamber music concerts every summer.

His two piano concertos (Glamour Concerto and Philip Marlowe Concerto) were recorded by British concertist Valentina Seferinova and the Ukrainian Festival Orchestra under the direction of American conductor John McLaughlin Williams. The CD was released in April 2021 by the British label Toccata Classics. ​

In January 2022, a second CD, devoted to his chamber music, was released by Toccata Classics. It features his Cello Sonata, Flute Sonata and Piano Trio.

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