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with Frédéric Chaslin

PIANIST

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Soprano Ekaterina Lekhina studied choral conducting at the music college in her native city Samara, and then studied with Professor S. Nesterenko before graduating from the Moscow Academy of Choral Art with a Master's Degree in Vocal Art.

Ekaterina was First Prize winner of the All-Russia Competition in St. Petersburg in 2005 and First Prize winner at Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in Paris in 2007.

She made her international opera debut in Der Schauspieldirektor as Madame Herz with Leopold Hager at the Volksoper Vienna, but her breakthrough came when she performed Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at the same theatre.

She was immediately invited to sing the role of the Queen of the Night at the Volksoper Vienna and also at the Munich Staatstheater with David Stahl. She also sang the role at the Deutsche Oper with M. L. Frank and at the Staatsoper Berlin with Dan Ettinger.

Her opera repertoire includes roles such as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, The Queen of Shamakha in The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky Korsakov, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and Gilda in Rigoletto.

Recently Ekaterina has sung Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Opera Festival, Klosterneuburg, Austria and in Tel Aviv conducted by Frédéric Chaslin.

Future engagements include Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Volksoper Vienna, Musetta in La Bohème in Chile and Mexico, the title role in Mozart’s Zaide in Aix en Provence, Olympia at Covent Garden, London, Titania in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bologna, the title part in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and Olympia at the Opera de Monte Carlo.

In concert Ekaterina has sung the Coffee Cantata and Cantata N.51 by J.S. Bach, Exsultate, jubilate and the Requiem by Mozart, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, the Stabat Mater by Poulenc and Russian romances by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov.

She will record a CD entitled L’Amour de Loin by K. Saariahos with Harmonia Mundi, conducted by Kent Nagano.

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Frédéric Chaslin, the world renowned conductor and composer, first started as a concert pianist after winning the international Milosz Magin Competition in Paris, 1985.

He studied with Aldo Ciccolini and Daniel Barenboim and performed all major piano concertos under the baton of his old friend Bertrand De Billy. He has accompanied many of the world’s greatest singers including Margaret Price, Waltraud Mayr, Thomas Hampson and Gerard Sousay.

In October 2001 he achieved one of every pianist's dreams by playing Beethoven’s 5th Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in a series of three evenings at the Vienna State Opera.

Frédéric likes to perform as a pianist and conductor at the same time. Last year he gave many performances of the Rhapsody in Blue with the Israel Philharmonic, and this season he has performed Ravel’s G major Concerto with the Nagoya Philharmonic and the Trieste Opera Orchestra.

He has recorded the complete Beethoven Cello sonatas with Henri Demarquette.

Frédéric began his conducting career as Daniel Barenboim’s assistant at the Bayreuth Festival for the Ring Cycle in 1998 and at the Orchestre de Paris from 1987-89.

From 1989-91 he was Pierre Boulez’s assistant at the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. He was then appointed Musical Director of the Opera and Symphony Orchestra in Rouen in 1991.

Frédéric conducts regularly in Germany, Spain and Italy. His United States debut was to great acclaim with Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera in November 2002, followed by I Vespri Siciliani and Les Contes d’Hoffmann in 2004-2005. In 2005, he conducted a new production of Roméo and Juliette in Los Angeles with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon.

In April 2007 he was praised in Nagoya, Japan, for a sensational debut conducting Ravel’s G major Concerto and Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique from the piano.

Further projects include the world premiere of his own opera, Napoleon and a visit to the Metropolitan Opera New York for Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Massenet’s Manon with Anna Netrebko. He will also perform as both pianist and conductor at concerts in Trieste and Verona.

Frédéric Chaslin PIANIST

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