Amanda Favier (born 7 April 1979 in Paris, France) is a French classical violinist.

Early life and academics

Amanda Favier took her first piano lessons when she was four and started violin at six. At 13, she joined the

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with

Gérard Poulet Gérard (Georges) Poulet (born 12 August 1938) is a French classical violinist. Biography Born in Bayonne the son of conductor Gaston Poulet, Poulet started studying the violin at age five. At 11 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in André ...

as her main teacher. She was awarded 1st prize in violin and graduated ''

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''. She then traveled in Europe to study with teachers including: Sir Ifrah Neaman in London,

Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (born 9 May 1931) is a Slovenian classical violinist and pedagogue, based in Salzburg, Austria. Career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played the piano and his brother the violin. At ...

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, Jean-Jacques Kantorow in

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and Suzanne Gessner.

Awards and recognition

Favier performed publicly for the first time at the age of nine and was the youngest winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in

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. She has won several international competitions. Favier has also been awarded with the Forthuny prize of the Académie des Beaux Arts and Berthier prize of the Palmes Académiques. Several private foundations have also supported her like the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Mécénat Société Générale. Her peers have also acknowledged her talent by awarding her the "Révélation classique" and then "Violon de l'Adami". Her version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons received the "Classique d’Or RTL", a "Attention Talent" (

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), Ait France's "Sélection du mois" but also a ''Coup de cœur'' from

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Projects

Beyond her solo and chamber music activity, Favier often combines her music with other arts like poetry, literature, jazz, history, and visual arts, and has presented her work on French radio and TV on RTL, France-Musiques 2], FIP, Radio Classique, France 2 (1pm News, " Tandem " show with Jean D’Ormesson) and France 3 (" Toute la musique qu’ils aiment " show). She usually invites actors to participate to her projects. Brigitte Fossey, Marie Christine Barrault, François Castang and also Jean Marie Machado have been sharing the stage with her.

Her project, "De Venise à Venise, itinéraire d'un violon gâté", tells the story of her Venezian violin a Matteo Goffriler from 1723 to nowadays. Francois Castang has participated to this project as a lead actor for numerous concerts.

Favier has participated to the tribute to the French violinist and composer

Lucien Durosoir Lucien Durosoir (1878 – 5 December 1955) was a French composer and violinist whose works were rediscovered thanks to manuscripts found by his son Luc. Durosoir studied the violin with Joseph Joachim and Hugo Heermann in Germany before his first ...

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Célimène Daudet Célimène Daudet (born in 1977) is a contemporary French classical pianist. Biography Born in Aix-en-Provence to a French father and a Haitian mother, Daudet began her training at the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory with Michel Bourdoncle. She th ...

through the project ''Dans la Malle du Poilu''. The public is invited to listen to pieces composed just after the First World War but also to discover the music that would comfort him on the battlefield. The letters he would send to his falmily from there are simultaneously read by Marie Christine Barrault, a French actress. This project has been awarded with the official "Centenaire" label by the Mission du centenaire de la Première guerre mondiale.

Media and press

Favier is regularly invited to broadcast on French radio and TV on RTL, France-Musiques, FIP, Radio Classique, France 2 (1pm News, " Tandem " show with Jean D’Ormesson) and France 3 (" Toute la musique qu’ils aiment " show).

Discography

* Sonatas by

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

and Leoš Janáček with Cédric Tiberghien, Lyrinx * Album Claude Pascal, Polymnie * Antonio Vivaldi's Four seasons with quintet (Classique d’or RTL), Saphir * Le Violon de l’ADAMI, Sonatas by César Franck and

Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...

with

Dana Ciocarlie Dana Ciocarlie (born 26 November 1968) is a French pianist and teacher of music of Romanian origin. Life Born in Bucharest, Ciocarlie began her musical studies at the Bucharest Conservatory and won her first prize in 1990. She came to work at ...

, Promotion record * Sonatas by

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...

and César Franck with Jean Dubé, Syrius * Album Blanche Selva, with

Laurent Martin Laurent Martin (born 12 September 1945) is a French classical pianist. Biography After piano studies with Geneviève Zaigue in Troyes, Joseph Benvenuti at the Conservatoire de Paris, Germaine Audibert in Nice and Pierre Sancan in Paris, Mart ...

, Ligia * 'Dans la malle du Poilu'' with

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References

External links

Amanda Favier's Official website

Official website "Dans la Malle du Poilu"
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