Deborah Nemtanu © Jean-Baptiste Millot

Born in Bordeaux in 1983 into a family impassioned by music, Deborah Nemtanu chose the violin at the age of four. Her career has been characterized by precocious success and the diversity of her repertoire.

In 2001, she graduated valedictorian from the CNSMDP (Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance), and went on to win numerous international awards: Académie Maurice Ravel prize (2001), fourth prize and special prizes at the Jacques Thibaud Competition (2002), Perlman Program participant in violin in the U.S. (2007), and second prize at the Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London (2008), crowned by a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2005, she was appointed chief soloist (violin solo super soliste) with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, a position of considerable responsibility which she still holds today. In this capacity, she regularly performs as soloist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, notably in Concerto No. 3 by Saint-Saëns, Symphonie espagnole by Lalo, Concerto by Brahms and a selection of Bach concertos. Over the years, she built close relationships with conductors such as Lars Vogt, Andris Nelsons, Louis Langrée, Juraj Valčuha, Daniel Harding and Sir Roger Norrington.

Curious and passionate, Deborah Nemtanu has gradually broadened her field of action: by proposing programs in which she skilfully switches from violin to viola; and by conducting the Orchestre de chambre de Paris herself, in connivance with the orchestra's musicians, in a true spirit of chamber music.

Deborah has conducted symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven at the Hôtel de Sully in Paris (broadcast by France 3) and at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. As a soloist, she has performed at the Enescu Festival and the Augsburg Festival under Sir Roger Norrington. She has also performed at the Folles journées de Nantes and Tokyo, the Salzburg Festival, the Montpellier Festival, the Colmar Festival at the Musée d'Orsay and the Midis-Minimes Festival in Brussels.

In the course of her touring career, she has enjoyed many fruitful musical encounters, notably with Bertrand Chamayou, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Vilde Frang, Tanja and Christian Tetzlaff, Stephen Kovacevich, Romain Descharmes, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Adam Laloum, François Leleux, Emmanuel Pahud, Fazil Say, Daniel Hope, and her sister Sarah Nemtanu, also a violinist and long-standing partner on stage.

Acclaimed by the press, her first recording, dedicated to Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré, was released in 2013, with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris conducted by Thomas Zehetmair (Mirare). In December 2014, she joined forces with her sister Sarah to record the Bach and Schnittke violin concertos (Naïve), followed by the complete Bartók Duos in 2016 for Decca. In 2017, “Eh bien dansez maintenant !” a CD featuring works by Lalo and Ravel was released with the Symphonie de poche ensemble. Last but not least, 2018 saw the release of a CD (Pentatone) devoted to Martinu's Double Concerto for violin and piano, with the collaboration of Sarah Nemtanu and the Kodama sisters. The 2023/2024 season marks the continuation of her collaboration with the Symphonie de poche and the release of their 2nd CD devoted to Balkan music (Mirare).

In February 2016, Deborah Nemtanu was named a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Deborah plays a violin by Domenico Montagnana (1740), generously loaned by Monceau Investissements Mobiliers, a member of the Monceau Assurances group.

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Lucienne Renaudin Vary © Simon Fowler

Young and fresh, the trumpet of 25-year-old Lucienne Renaudin Vary resonates with vibrancy. She is exclusively signed with Warner and received the Opus Klassik Award in 2021 in the category 'Young Artist of the Year'. In 2016, she was already a winner in the 'Révélation' (Discovery of the Year, Instrumental Solo) category at the French Victoires de la Musique Classique. Beginning with the 2024-2025 season, she will be one of the 'Junge Wilde' (Young Wild Ones) at the Konzerthaus Dortmund for three seasons.

This exceptional young artist has performed with major orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Brussels Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Les Siècles, Les Violons du Roy, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, BBC Concert Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National d'Auvergne, Ensemble Kanazawa, Warsaw Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Dortmund Philharmonic, Basel Chamber Orchestra, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco, under conductors like Paavo Järvi, Barbara Hannigan, François-Xavier Roth, Eun Sun Kim, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Tugan Sokhiev, Cristian Macelaru, Sascha Goetzel, Kazuchi Ono, Emmanuel Villaume, Jan-Willem de Vriend, Christopher Warren-Green, Lawrence Foster, Michael Sanderling, and Ruth Reinhardt.

In addition, the young trumpeter performs at festivals such as the Snape Proms, Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Stresa Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Istanbul Music Festival, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Cartagena Music Festival, and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, where she holds a five-year residency as a 'Menuhin's Heritage Artist'.

In November 2024, Lucienne's fifth album, 'Winter Gardens,' will be released by Warner Classics, under the direction of Sasha Goetzel. She will present it with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris during a major Germany tour in December 2024, alongside Hummel's Trumpet Concerto, with performances at venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Frauenkirche Dresden, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Prinzregententheater Munich. Her previously released albums with Warner Classics include 'Trumpet Concertos' with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Sanderling (2022), 'The Voice of the Trumpet' (2017) with the Orchestre National de Lille and Rolando Villazón, 'Mademoiselle in New York' (2019) with Bill Elliott and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and 'Piazzolla Stories' (2021) with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and Sascha Goetzel.

Lucienne Renaudin Vary is also in demand as a jazz artist and has founded her own quintet. Originally from western France, she first studied classical trumpet in Le Mans and was later accepted into both the classical and jazz departments at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris—as the first and youngest student ever—and quickly established herself in both genres.

Lucienne Renaudin Vary is a regular guest on popular European TV shows such as Rolando Villazón’s 'Stars of Tomorrow' (Arte/ZDF), 'Christmas with the Federal President' on ZDF, 'Le Grand Echiquier' for France Télévisions, and the Dutch TV program NTR's 'Podium Witteman.'

In 2019, Lucienne Renaudin Vary became the first woman to be awarded the Swiss 'Arthur Waser Prize' for the promotion of highly talented young soloists.

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