January Musicians Opus 1

Learn more about the Opus 1 musicians through their career paths and successes.

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Anne-Lise Gastaldi Artistic director - Piano

Winner of several international competitions, Anne-Lise Gastaldi is notably the pianist of the George Sand trio. Her discography includes numerous titles that have won awards from 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” programme, she created the show Escales Romaines, which was the subject of a television report on LCI. Her latest project, Le voyage imaginaire de Mozart au Japon (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 has been the subject of reports on France 2 and France 3 since its first edition in 2012.

Anne-Lise is a piano teacher at the CNSMD in Lyon and a teacher at the CNSMD in Paris. There, she leads bridge-building projects between music, literature and painting to open up the field of possibilities to young people. In the same spirit, she and Valérie Haluk are behind 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 Viola

A passionate chamber musician, the young violist Anna Sypniewski has been invited to perform at numerous chamber music festivals in France and abroad: at the Périgord Noir festival, the Aout musical in Deauville, the Menton music festival, 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 Fondation Gautier Capuçon and has received support from the Fondation Safran.

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Jean Sulem’s class, Anna perfected her skills 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 great 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 Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Singer Polignac Foundation.

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Virginie Buscail Violin

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

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

Caroline Sypniewski Cello

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 on various labels: with the Capucelli cello ensemble on Warner Classics, in a trio with Ekaterina Litvintseva (piano) and Lusiné Harutunyan (violin) on Brillant Classic, alongside pianist Aurèle Marthan on Alpha Classic, and to take part in the complete chamber music of Schumann on b.records with Théo and Pierre Fouchenneret among others.

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

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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, in Cita di Porcia (Italy), Prague, Jeju (South Korea), Théo Charlier-Brussels, Maurice André-Paris and Tchaikovski-Moscow.

In 2013, he joined the Ensemble intercontemporain and collaborated 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 notably performs a large number of solo works from the trumpet repertoire and premieres at the Paris Philharmonie, the Cologne Philharmonie, Hamburg, Tokyo, Moscow, New York, Munich and Berlin.

His discography includes recordings of French concerto such as 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 various artistic and educational projects promoting the influence and development of his instrumental family. He thus created the international festivals Le Son des Cuivres in Mamers (72) and the Surgères Brass Festival (17) as well as the brass and percussion academy in Surgères.

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 teachers Cédric Carlier and François Montmayeur. She began playing the 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 Conservatoire with Damien-Loup Vergnes, where she continued to explore chamber music and honed her interest in symphonic music, particularly 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 founded the Trio Nebelmeer in 2019; with his two fellow musicians 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.

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

Loann graduated in 2023 with two masters degrees in piano and chamber music. He is currently continuing his studies with Anne-Lise Gastaldi at the CRR de Paris and 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 de Paris.

Nathalie Costecalde Violin

Entrated in 2015 at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional du Grand Avignon 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 in Toulouse in Nathalie Descamps’ class, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree 3 years later. She is regularly featured in various musical projects as a soloist, chamber musician or in symphony orchestras.

In 2024, she and flutist Marine Guedon formed the Duo des Canuts, an atypical duo whose main challenge is to make 2 monodic instruments sound and to introduce people to 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.