Gabriel Richard, violin & Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano
Program: Neuburger: "Two Études for Piano," and sonatas by Debussy and Schumann.
Gabriel Richard has been First Violin at the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, Violin Soloist at the Opéra de Lyon, and First Violin at the Paris Orchestra, as well as First Violin of the Thymos String Quartet. He tours regularly in Japan, Korea, China, America, and Europe. With the Thymos Quartet, Richard has performed four times at the Paris International String Quartet Biennial and has toured Europe, the USA, Brazil, and Japan. The Quartet's recording of Dvorak on the AVIE label won the Editor's Choice Award from Gramophone magazine in 2012. The Washington Post described the Thymos Quartet's performance at the Kennedy Center as "detailed down to the last atom, and overflowing with human experience." Gabriel Richard is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University, where he also teaches in the Music Department's Chamber Music Program.
Born in Paris, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger received an intense and varied musical education in piano, composition and organ before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at the age of thirteen. On graduating from the CNSM with Five 'Premier Prix' he went on to study composition with Michael Jarrell and Pascal Dusapin in Geneva. He is regularly commissioned by festivals and musical institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Evian Festival, Radio-France, Long-Thibaud International Competition, Folle Journée de Nantes and his works have already been performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris under Christoph von Dohnányi as well as by the Chorus and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Pascal Rophé. His chamber music works have been played in venues such as the Lucerne Festival, The Sage Gateshead, the Lincoln Center, and Musikverein Wien.
Free admission. This concert is presented by the Duke University Center for French & Francophone Studies.
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