Mathilde Sternat is a French
cellist
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...
and
arranger
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.
Life
Sternat studied the cello and
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
, notably with
Étienne Péclard, at the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
and won her prize in 1995. Since then, she has been playing chamber music in small ensembles and in different
chamber orchestra
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numbe ...
s (
Camerata Salzburg
The Camerata Salzburg is an Austrian chamber orchestra based in Salzburg, Austria. The Camerata's principal concert venue is the Mozarteum University.
History
Bernhard Paumgartner founded the ensemble in 1952 as the ''Camerata Academica des Moza ...
,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), established in 1981, is an orchestra based in London. The orchestra comprises about 60 members from across Europe. The players pursue parallel careers as international soloists, members of chamber groups and ...
) and as
soloist of several symphony orchestras (the
Orchestre philharmonique de Montpellier, the Orchestre symphonique de Tours, the Orchestre lyrique de Tours).
As a member of the Travelling Quartet —
Anne Gravoin
Anne Gravoin (born 4 November 1965) is a French concert violinist and music entrepreneur.
In 2010 she married Manuel Valls, who served between 2014 and 2016 as Prime Minister of France. However, In April 2018 Valls announced their separation.
...
and David Braccini (violins), Vincent Pasquier
Vincent Pasquier
on BnF (double bass
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) and Mathilde Sternat — she makes arrangements of the repertoire of the art music
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value. It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerationsJacques Siron, ...
of the 19th and early 20th centuries (Tchaikovsky
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, Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with ...
, Offenbach, Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
, among others) and arrangements of compositions of Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
(Scott Joplin
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, Bill Evans
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...
, George Gershwin
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, Astor Piazzolla
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, notably) pop music
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(The Beatles
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…), film score
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s and French songs (Édith Piaf
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Pia ...
, Jacques Brel
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, Charles Aznavour
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, among others).
In addition to her engagements mainly for chamber music, Sternat composes and arranges music for theatre performances and regularly performs in concert and recording studio with mainly French musicians, but also internationally known musicians, such as Malia, Patrick Bruel
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Biography
Early life
Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, d ...
, Laurent Voulzy
Lucien Voulzy (, born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy (), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician.
Life and career
Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus ...
, Michel Sardou
Michel Charles Sardou (; born 26 January 1947) is a French singer and occasional actor.
He is known not only for his love songs ("La maladie d'amour", "Je vais t'aimer"), but also for songs dealing with various social and political issues, su ...
, Nolwenn Leroy
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Originally classically trained (violin and opera singing), she rose to fame after winning the second ...
and Sofia Mestari
Sofia Mestari (born 27 September 1980) is a French singer of Moroccan origin, at the age of ten she moved to Paris with her family. Mestari represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th edit ...
.
Recordings (selection)
* Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European ...
, Quintets with flute .437-442- with Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Biography
Ea ...
, Régis Pasquier
Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, ...
, Bruno Pasquier
Bruno Pasquier (born 10 December 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), is a French violist, the son of Pierre Pasquier, also a violist.
Biography
After a First Prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1961, Pasquier won the ARD International Music Compe ...
and Roland Pidoux
Roland Pidoux (born 29 October 1946, in Paris) is a French contemporary cellist and conductor.
Biography
Roland Pidoux studied at the Conservatoire de Paris until 1966. His masters were André Navarra, Jean Hubeau and Joseph Calvet.
He entered ...
(1997, Sony SK 62 679)
* Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Eleftheria Arvanitaki (Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη) (born 17 October 1957 in Piraeus) is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria. Arvanitaki has worked with important musicians, such as Cesária Évora, Ar ...
, ''Diffusion'' (2001, Emarcy Records/Universal)
* Jacques Loussier Trio The Jacques Loussier Trio was a French Third Stream jazz piano trio, led by pianist Jacques Loussier, that became known for its jazz interpretations of European classical music. They were commonly known in France as "le trio Play Bach" after the tit ...
, ''Mozart, Concertos pour piano 20 & 23'' (2005, Telarc)
* Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Le Magueresse (; born 28 September 1982), known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy (), is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
Originally classically trained (violin and opera singing), she rose to fame after winning the second ...
, ''Histoires Naturelles ''(2006, Mercury/Universal)
References
External links
Mathilde Sternat
Discography
(Discogs
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)
Web site of the Travelling Quartet
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
French women classical cellists
Women cellists
21st-century French musicians
21st-century French women musicians
21st-century cellists