January Musicians Opus 1

Learn more about the Opus 1 musicians through their careers and successes!

Anne Lise Gastaldi Credit Lyodoh Kaneko 1

Anne-Lise Gastaldi Artistic director - Piano

Winner of several international competitions, Anne-Lise Gastaldi is pianist with the George Sand Trio. Her discography includes numerous award-winning titles in Classica, Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason and Télérama. Anne-Lise Gastaldi designs projects and imagines original shows for which she is the pianist. She has recorded with actor Michaël Lonsdale and singer Juliette, and performed with Marianne Denicourt, Anny Duperey, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lambert Wilson and artists from the Comédie-Française. Winner of the “Villa Médicis Hors les Murs” program, she created the show Escales Romaines, which was the subject of a television report on LCI. Her latest project, Mozart’s Imaginary Journey to Japan, is the subject of concert-readings and a CD-book released in October 2024. His passion for literature, and for Proust in particular, led him to set up, with Pierre Ivanoff, the Journées Musicales Marcel Proust, which have been the subject of reports on France 2 and France 3 since the first edition in 2012.

Anne-Lise is professor of piano at the CNSMD in Lyon and professor of pedagogy at the CNSMD in Paris. There, she leads bridge-building projects between music, literature and painting, to open up the field of possibilities for young people. In the same spirit, she and Valérie Haluk created Piano Project and Univers Parallèles, two collections of piano pieces written specifically for students by leading contemporary composers. Anne-Lise Gastaldi is collection director at Editions Billaudot.

Anna Sypniewski Alto

A passionate chamber musician, young violist Anna Sypniewski has been invited to perform at numerous chamber music festivals in France and abroad: the Périgord Noir Festival, the Aout Musical de Deauville, the Menton Music Festival, the Ohrid Summer Festival, at the French Consulate in New York. She is a member of the Sypniewski Trio and the Katok Ensemble.

Anna won 1st prize at the Concours National des Jeunes Altistes at the age of 15, and was awarded the Prix de la Ville de Ciboure and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Ravel. She is a laureate of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation and has received support from the Safran Foundation.

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Jean Sulem’s class, Anna perfected her technique in Germany, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig and at the Colburn School in Los Angeles with Tatjana Masurenko. She has received guidance from masters such as Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Lawrence Power and Miguel da Silva at the Verbier Festival Academy, the Académie Internationale de Musique Maurice Ravel and the Académie Musicale de Villecroze.

Anna is artist-in-residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and the Fondation Singer Polignac.

Virginie Buscail Violin

After her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris and Geneva, Virginie Buscail joined the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, where she is currently concertmaster. She plays a 1729 violin by Domenico Montagnana.
Violinist with the George Sand Trio, she has created works for composers such as Gérard Pesson, Michael Jarrell and Mauro Lanza.

A renowned chamber musician, she has also performed with ensembles such as Métamorphosis and at numerous festivals alongside Augustin Dumay, Roland Pidoux, Anne Queffélec and Boris Berezovsky.
Since 2017, she has been teaching at the CRR de Paris.

Caroline Sypniewski Cello

Born into a family of musicians in Toulouse, Caroline Sypniewski began playing the piano at the age of 6 and the cello at 8.Her many distinctions (Révélation Classique de l’Adami 2017, Jeune Talent du festival Musique et Vins au Clos-Vougeot 2019, Fondation Safran scholarship, Ginette Neveu prize at the Carl Flesch Academy 2015 and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Ravel 2018) have led her to perform as soloist with orchestra and in chamber music at numerous festivals.

She has shared the stage with, among others, Alexandre Kantorow, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Emmanuel Pahud, the Modigliani Quartet… and regularly plays in string trio with her two sisters Anna and Magdalēna in the Sypniewski Trio.

Her many collaborations have led her to record for various labels: with the Capucelli cello ensemble for Warner Classics, in trio with Ekaterina Litvintseva (piano) and Lusiné Harutunyan (violin) for Brillant Classic, alongside pianist Aurèle Marthan for Alpha Classic, and to participate in the complete Schumann chamber music for b.records with Théo and Pierre Fouchenneret among others.

Alongside her cello studies, she obtained a DEM in piano at the CRR de Paris and a DEM in accompaniment at the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt.

Caroline Sypniewski Credit Capucine De Chocqueuse

Clément Saunier Trumpet

After studying at the CNSMDP, where he won his first prizes in trumpet and chamber music, Clément Saunier’s performances at international trumpet competitions were rewarded with several major prizes, at Cita di Porcia (Italy), Prague, Jeju (South Korea), Théo Charlier-Brussels, Maurice André-Paris and Tchaïkovski-Moscow.

In 2013, he joined the Ensemble intercontemporain, collaborating with the great composers and conductors of our time (Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, Pablo Heras-Casado, François-Xavier Roth, Unsuk Chin, Martin Matalon, Helmut Lachenmann, Olga Neuwirth, Philippe Manoury, Hèctor Parra, Yann Robin…) and performs a large number of solo works from the trumpet repertoire, as well as premieres at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Cologne Philharmonie, Hamburg, Tokyo, Moscow, New York, Munich and Berlin.

His discography includes recordings of French concertos by Tomasi, Jolivet, Chaynes, Boutry, Girard, Gotkovsky and contemporary works by Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, Matthias Pintscher, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies…

Clément Saunier has been a professor at the CNSMD de Lyon since 2021. Since 1998, he has been involved in a number of artistic and pedagogical projects to promote and develop his instrumental family. He created the international festivals Le Son des Cuivres in Mamers (72) and the Surgères Brass Festival (17), as well as the Surgères Brass and Percussion Academy.

Élisa Berthet Double bass

Élisa Berthet is a double bassist currently studying for a degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon with professors Cédric Carlier and François Montmayeur. She began playing double bass at the age of 7 at the Conservatoire de Nantes with Elisabeth Allain, where she obtained her Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales. She obtained a second at the Toulouse conservatory with Damien-Loup Vergnes, where she continued to explore chamber music and honed her interest in symphonic music, notably by listening to concerts by the Orchestre National du Capitole.

She discovered the orchestral profession during her two years with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, and began to appreciate the art of opera in 2024.

Loann Fourmental Piano

Loann Fourmental began learning the piano at the age of eight. In 2013, he joined Anne-Lise Gastaldi’s piano class at the CRR de Paris, where he also studied chamber music. Graduating with a DEM and the Prix du Cycle du Perfectionnement, he continued his studies in 2018 at the CNSM de Paris in the piano classes of Florent Boffard and Marie-Josèphe Jude.

Loann founded the Trio Nebelmeer in 2019; with his two colleagues Florian Pons and Arthur Decaris, he took part in the Roque d’Anthéron festival, the Épau festival, the Folle Journée de Nantes and Warsaw, the Folles Journées en Région… The three musicians released their first CD in 2023, devoted to Saint-Saëns and Chausson.

Throughout his career, Loann has also benefited from the wise counsel of Michel Béroff, Jean-Francois Heisser, the Wanderer and Karénine trios, the Ébène, Modigliani and Diotima quartets… He also had the opportunity to play as a soloist with orchestra under the baton of Pierre-Michel Durand with the Orchestre Symphonique du CRR de Paris, then with Martin Barral and the Orchestre Symphonique du Campus d’Orsay.

Loann graduated in 2023 with two master’s degrees in piano and chamber music. He is currently continuing his studies with Anne-Lise Gastaldi at the CRR de Paris and with Miguel Da Silva, Corina Belcea and Jean-Claude vanden Eyden at La Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium with his trio.

He is also studying pedagogy at the CNSM in Paris.

Nathalie Costecalde Violin

Entering the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional du Grand Avignon in 2015 in Anne-Cécile Brielles-Couturier’s class, Nathalie Costecalde obtained her Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales four years later.

In 2020, she was accepted at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et du Design de Toulouse in Nathalie Descamps’ class, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree 3 years later. She regularly takes part in various musical projects as a soloist, chamber musician or member of symphony orchestras.

In 2024, together with flutist Marine Guedon, she created the Duo des Canuts, an atypical duo whose main challenge is to make 2 monodic instruments sound, and to discover little-known and little-played pieces. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in performance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, in Marianne Piketty’s class.