Read Tanguy de Williencourt's interview following on from his performance at the Festival de Paques

Following on from his successfully live streamed performance at the Festival de Paques, Tanguy de Williencourt and Elise Bertrand (violinist and composer) are interviewed by Marie Anezin to discuss how they have coped throughout this difficult and challenging year and how their partnership for the Easter Festival developed.

Every year, the iconic Generation @ Aix concert symbolizes a desire for transmission. It highlights young classical artists alongside established musicians and has brought together some ten thousand spectators online. This year Renaud Capuçon surrounded himself with three young virtuosos: Soprano Jeanne Gérard, young Composer and Violinist Élise Bertrand and Pianist Tanguy de Williencourt. Together, they performed works by Rachmaninoff, Strauss and performed a world premiere of the new composition by Élise Bertrand, Sonata Poème, composed for violin and piano.

To read to full interview please click here.

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Excerpt from their interview:

Marie: Why don't you introduce each other?

Elise: Well, Tanguy is someone who plays wonderfully. When we started playing together, we quickly felt our human qualities and that's something that always goes hand in hand in chamber music, that makes it work. Tanguy was extremely reactive, he proposed things in my sonata, he was very inventive, lyrical and flexible... In fact, everything I like when a musician plays my music! It was really a very enriching work for me, I loved it!

Tanguy: I'm already happy to have met Élise, a very talented violinist, with a great musicality and a great sound. You can feel the personality of the musician and the composer together, which allowed me to really understand her musical universe: it was very rich. I was able to slip into what Élise was proposing and it was so obvious thanks to her interpretation. When I received the score of Elise's sonata, I wondered if she was really only twenty years old. There's already a maturity; it's well written, balanced, structured. In works by young composers, there are sometimes weaknesses; but this is never the case, everything works right away. Bravo Élise!