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Mauricio FUKS | violin • By car Center for artistic encounters

Professor of Violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and visiting professor at the Kronberg Academy, Mauricio Fuks began his violin From Paris: A20, exit n°23, then direction studies in his native Uruguay with Ylia Fidlon. After graduating from the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Joseph Fuchs and Ivan Galamian, he furthered his studies at the University of Southern California with Jascha From : A20, exit n°24, then direction Châteauponsac Heifetz. In 1964 he won 1st Prize at the Young Concert Artists Competition. Following a distinguished international career as concertmaster, chamber musician and soloist, he now devotes himself entirely to pedagogy. Mauricio Fuks has been • By train a visiting professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England, the University of Limerick in Ireland and the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He is regularly invited to give master classes at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Baratt-Due school in Oslo, the Royal Academy of Music in Train station Paris Austerlitz - (direct) SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY London, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, as well as the Shanghai and 26 km from Villefavard Beijing National Conservatories. He has been a professor in Summer festivals such as the Salzburg International Summer Academy Taxi Rondet 05 55 63 21 94 - [email protected] JULY 2016 of the Mozarteum, the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Studies in Alderburgh, the Aurora Music Festival in Sweden, the Orford Summer Festival in Quebec and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He continues to participate in the Sarasota Music Festival, the Orford Summer Festival in Quebec Train station Paris Montparnasse - (TGV/TER via Academy Director Mauricio Fuks and the Ferme de Villefavard Master Classes in . He has served as jury member in numerous international compétitions. ) Mauricio Fuks was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 1999. He is 15 km from Villefavard regarded as one of today’s finest violin pedagogues. Taxi Gauchoux 06 81 32 38 36 - [email protected]

Yuval GOTLIBOVICH | viola

Yuval Gotlibovich has won several international competitions, including the • By plane International Lionel Tertis Viola Competition (Great Britain), the 2004 Spring competition in Israel, and the 2004 Fischoff National Chamber Music Mauricio Fuks Jean-Louis Haguenauer Competition (U.S.A). Yuval regulary plays in festivals and concert halls around Violin Piano the world. He gratuated from Indiana University where he studied under Atar International Airport of Limoges Arad. His time is split between the Escuela Superior Reina Sofia un MAdrid 50 km from Villefavard and the conservatoire Svizzera Laliana at Lugano (Swiss). July 12 - 17 July 11 - 16 Train station Limoges | to Poitiers - Le Dorat (TER) July 19 - 24 July 18 - 23 Taxi Gauchoux 06 81 32 38 36 - [email protected] Christian POLTERA | cello

Christian Poltéra was born in Zurich. After receiving tuition from Nancy Think about carpooling: Chumachenco and Boris Pergamenschikow, he studied with Heinrich Schiff in www.covoiturage87.com Salzburg and Vienna. As a soloist he works with eminent orchestras. He also devotes himself intensively to chamber music. www.blablacar.fr Together with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra has formed a string trio, the Trio Zimmermann, which performs at the Yuval Gotlibovich Christian Poltéra most prestigious concert venues and festivals all over Europe. In 2004 he received the Borletti-Buitoni Award and was selected as a BBC Further information Viola Cello New Generation Artist. In 2006–07 he was a ‘Rising Star’ of the European Concert Hall Organisation. He is a regular guest at renowned festivals (such as Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, Edinburgh and July 13 - 18 Vienna) and made his BBC Proms début in 2007. July 19 - 24 Christian Poltéra’s discography, which has won acclaim from the international press, reflects his varied repertoire. Ferme de Villefavard 2, impasse de l’église et de la cure Jean-Louis HAGUENAUER | piano 87190 Villefavard - FRANCE

Born in France, Professor Haguenauer has been a member of the piano faculty at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, since +33 (0)5 55 76 54 72 1998 and previously was professor of piano at the Strasbourg Conservatory. [email protected] He gives master classes worldwide. Jean-Louis Haguenauer has performed extensively throughout Europe, www.fermedevillefavard.com the United States and in Asia. He has appeared as a soloist in virtually every important concert series in France. As a chamber musician, he has Piano accompanist: collaborated with numerous leading groups both in his home country and Vincent Adragna in the US. Renowned as an interpreter of the French repertoire, Jean-Louis Haguenauer has recorded several Debussy albums, both solo and collaborative, including the recently released “Debussy’s complete songs” in 4 CDs (which features Debussy’s own piano.) He has also recorded solo repertoire by Beethoven-Liszt and Schumann, and numerous chamber and vocal works. The Ferme de Villefavard in the Limousin Participants Fees

Instrumentalists (violin, viola, cello, piano): professionals or advanced At the turn of the 20th century the Ferme students who wish to prepare for competitions or concert performances. • Application / fees: 80 € de Villefavard was a model agricultural • Course fees: 380 € farm. In 2002, led by Jerome Kaltenbach, • Accommodations (room & board): 60 € per day it underwent a dramatic transformation and Number 30 € for bed and breakfast, 15 € per meal (lunch and dinner) re-established itself as a place dedicated to artistic exchanges and encounters. It is now Each teacher will accept a maximum of 10 students per session mostly used for residential activities such as Sessions may be cancelled, up to 10 days prior in case of insufficient studentegistration r Application recordings or the creation and development of musical productions. Every year it welcomes musicians and 1) Please fill in the application form and send it personalities from all over the world: Program Jean-Claude Pennetier, Brigitte Engerer, Abdel before May 15 2016 Rahman El Bacha... as well as prestigious ST ensembles such as L’Ensemble Vocal de _ 1 SESSION: • Online via our internet site: www.fermedevillefavard.com, click on Lausanne, le Quatuor Ebène... «Résidences & stages», then «Académies» and «Académie d’été» At the end of each residential session, the Jean-Louis Haguenauer | piano from July Monday 11 to Saturday 16 • Via E-mail: [email protected] artists give a performance, concert, or present Mauricio Fuks | violin from July Tuesday 12 to Sunday 17 • Via post to the following address: some of their work-in-progress (music, musical Christian Poltéra | cello from July Wednesday 13 to Monday 18 Ferme de Villefavard theatre, opera, dance...). 2, impasse de l’église et de la cure The Ferme de Villefavard also organises teaching sessions, master • Arrival one day before between 2.00 pm - 7.00 pm in the afternoon: 87190 Villefavard classes, festivals and exhibitions. It offers superior amenities to resident July Sunday 10, Monday 11 or Tuesday 12 FRANCE performers looking for comfort and tranquillity: a concert hall seating 300 • Departure the following day before 10.00 am in the morning: people with exceptional acoustics, a restaurant, comfortable bedrooms, July Sunday 17, Monday 18 or Tuesday 19 and to include: rooms for work and relaxation, and an old stable transformed for use as ND reception area and exhibitions... _ 2 SESSION: • a biography or a curriculum vitae Jean-Louis Haguenauer | piano from July Monday 18 to Saturday 23 • a recent and good quality CD or DVD of your playing to the A Music Academy in Villefavard Mauricio Fuks | violin from July Tuesday 19 to Sunday 24 attention of your chosen teacher. We will provide his address. Yuval Gotlibovich | viola from July Tuesday 19 to Sunday 24 Long before the creation of the concert hall in 2002, the village of Villefavard • Arrival one day before between 2.00 pm - 7.00 pm in the afternoon: 2) Once the teacher approves your application, the total cost (teaching had welcomed during the summer young instrumentalists from all over July Sunday 17 or Monday 18 + accommodation + registration) must be paid in full (in euros), by bank the world who all felt the need to share their passion for music. The first • Departure the following day before 10.00 am in the morning: transfer to the Ferme de Villefavard : sessions, in the nineties, took place in the old rectory which belonged to July Sunday 24 or Monday 25 Pasteur Maury, who had built the Ferme and the Temple. During several by the lastest July 1st 2016 years, Michel Strauss, the eminent cellist and teacher, ensured the Each teacher will give each student three lessons (to be confirmed by success of these summer encounters. The Natexis - Banque Populaire teachers). Students playing a string instrument will be able to work with Foundation subsidized these first-rate Master Classes during five years. an accompanist. Jean-Claude Pennetier and Aldo Ciccolini shared their expertise with young instrumentalists who had been awarded scholarships from the Failure to pay fees in full before above deadline Foundation. Today they have brilliant careers: Accommodations will invalidate your application. Nemanja Radulovic, Amanda Favier, Adam Laloum...

At the same time, the renowned pedagogue and violinist, Mauricio Fuks, Double or triple rooms are available at fell in love with the Ferme de Villefavard, and now offers his greatly admired the Ferme de Villefavard, the Villa or the guidance each summer as well as serving as the Artistic Director of its Petite Solitude (300 metres from the Summer Academy. Some of the alumni have gone on to international Ferme). careers: Noah Bendix-Balgley (first concertmaster of the Pittsburg Orchestra and now of the Berlin Philharmonic), Sarah Kapustin (Rubens Sheets and bedding are provided. Bring Quartet), Frederieke Saeijs (soloist). your own bath towels and toiletries..

Every year, Mauricio Fuks is joined by internationally renowned pedagogues: Wifi is available free of charge at the the pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer, the violist Yuval Gotlibovich and the Ferme de Villefavard . cellist Christian Poltéra.