The last delicacies of the Sion Festival 2023
We are already entering the third and final week of the Sion Festival 2023, but are not yet satiated. We cannot wait to discover the delicacies our Artistic Director Pavel Vernikov has in store for us at the end of the feast from Wednesday 30 August. They will be sweet and salty with Janine Jansen – who, in very good company, will offer us two evenings of contrasts – , from icy to melting with the Norwegian Soloist’s Choir, sweet to sparkling with Gaëtan…
After the 2nd round at the beginning of the week, the finalists of the Tibor Varga Competition will tackle their main course: the final in two evenings on 31 August (with Alexander Chaushian and Ashley Wass) and 2 September (with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra).
We are looking forward to enjoying the pleasures of music with you, and to rounding off a festival that has delighted our ears and eyes with some unforgettable evenings.
The team of the Foundation Sion Violon Musique
WED 30.08 | 19.30 | FERME-ASILE: JANINE JANSEN
Surrounded by close friends and relatives – Timothy Ridout, Daniel Blendulf, Denis Kozhukhin – Janine Jansen will offer us nuggets from Brahms’ chamber music repertoire. These discreet and warm scores were most often written for the composer’s close friends or muses.
THUR 31.08 | 19.30 | FERME-ASILE: COMPETITION – FINAL 1
Chamber music is one of the most perilous exercises for the instrumentalist. The finalists of the Tibor Varga Competition will be confronted with a few searing examples from the great chamber music corpus of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, accompanied by Alexander Chaushian and Ashley Wass.
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FRI 01.09 | 19.30 | ST-THÉODULE CHURCH: NORWEGIAN SOLOISTS' CHOIR
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir is one of the young Nordic ensembles renowned for their inventiveness, the purity of their timbre, the clarity of their melodic lines and the precision of their singing. They will perform an original recital featuring motets from the great classical tradition alongside Norwegian folk pieces.
SAT 02.09 | 19.30 | FERME-ASILE: COMPETITION – FINAL 2
A recurrent exercise in the life of a soloist, the concerto with orchestra requires multiple abilities, which the finalists of the Tibor Varga Competition will have to demonstrate. They will have the support of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sergej Krylov.
SUN 03.09 | 11.00 | FERME-ASILE: GAËTAN – FAMILY CONCERT
Gaëtan will perform intimate versions of his most famous songs, accompanied by his trusty ukulele and Frédéric Leclercq’s guitar. We will get right to the heart of his repertoire: the funny, colourful texts he conveys to children with a remarkable sense of showmanship. Come and laugh and sing along!
SYRUP CONTEST AFTER THE CONCERT!
THANK YOU MORAND SYRUP!
SUN 03.09 | 17.00 | FERME-ASILE: JANINE JANSEN
Between flamboyant post-Romanticism and modernity, the programme assembled by Janine Jansen for the closing concert illustrates the chamber music production of the twenty years preceding the Great War, with works by Ravel, Chausson and Turina. The artists already present on 30 August will be joined by Tomo Keller, Svetlana Makarova and Ting-Ru Lai.
DISCOVER THE SION FESTIVAL WITH MARIE FAVRE!
‘Intros de Marie’
- Wed 30.08 | 6.30pm | Ferme-Asile (Janine Jansen’s concert)
- Fri 01.09 | 6.30pm | St-Théodule Church (Norwegian Soloists’ Choir’s concert)
(in French)
