DUET CEYSSON DUFOUR

Harp / Flute

CLEMENT DUFOUR (flute)

Clément Dufour was born in 1987 in Versailles close to Paris. He was still very young when he was given his first flute and soon developed a real passion for the instrument.

From 1995 until 2003 he studied the flute at the Regional Music Academy of Rueil-Malmaison, the city where his family lives, in the class of Pascale Feuvrier and Philippe Pierlot and was awarded a Prize of Excellence.

Clément entered the National Music and Dance Academy of Lyon (CNSMD) in Sept 2003 in the class of Philippe Bernold and Emmanuelle Reville where he got first price in June 2007. He also took part in a summersemester class conducted by Benoît Fromanger in the “Hanns Eisler” Hochschule in Berlin.

Clement has won numerous competitions: in 2001 the 1st Prize of the European Music Competition in Picardy; in 2002 1st Prizes of the Bellan competition , of the National Competition for Young Flutists and of the UFAM competition. In April 2004 he won second Prize at the second «Internationaler Rotary Musikförderpreis» in Nüremberg (Germany) and in October, of the same year was a finalist in the third European Young Concert Artist in Paris. In April 2005 he was awarded second Prize at the third International Flute Competition, Cracow – 2005.

 In october 2005 in Paris, he won the 1st Grand Prize of the 7^th International Jean-Pierre Rampal flute competition, the world's foremost flute contest. Youngest contestant among four finalists, Clement stood out in the concerto for flute and orchestra in D major by Mozart and in the concerto for flute and orchestra by Andre Jolivet.

He plays in many countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordania, Japan, England, USA, ...) for different festivals or events with artists such as Isabelle Perrin, Laetitia Bougnol, Florence Boissolle, Philippe Bernold, Shigenori Kudo, Marc Coppey, Antoine Pierlot, Tristan Pfaff, Anneleen Leenaerts, Emmanuel Ceysson, Nemanja Radulovic, the Modigliani quartet, the Psophos quartet, the Atelier Ostinato orchestra, the Bernard Thomas Orchestra …  

Clement was nominated « révélation classique » by  Adami for year 2006 and was 2007 "Declic Program" laureate of Cultures France.

He is actively supported by the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

EMMANUEL CEYSSON (Harp)

Emmanuel Ceysson won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and in November of 2006 gave his debut recitals in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center.  At the Auditions, he was also awarded the Alice Rosner Foundation Prize, the Victor Salvi Foundation Prize, the Summis Auspiciis Prize, and the Orchestra New England Soloist Prize.

The Gold Medal recipient at the 2004 USA International Harp Competition in Bloomington, Indiana, he was also awarded the Special Prize for the Best Performance of Debussy's Danses Sacrée et Profane.

In November 2005, Mr. Ceysson made his debut at Wigmore Hall in London as part of a tour of the United Kingdom, which also included a live performance on the BBC Radio 3 program "In Tune."  That same year, Emmanuel Ceysson made his Paris recital debut at the Salle Gaveau, accompanied by violist Karine Lethiec and flutist Jean Ferrandis, and his Chicago debut at Lyon & Healy Hall in November 2006, sponsored by the Victor Salvi Foundation.  He has appeared in recital and at festivals throughout Europe, including the World Harp Congress in Geneva (2002), the Journées de la Harpe in Arles (2000, 2002 and 2003), and the 6th European Harp Symposium in Lyon (2004).  He has performed as soloist with l'Orchestre de Basse-Normandie and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.  He frequently performs with l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and serves as Principal Harp of the Paris Opera Orchestra.

Emmanuel Ceysson was born in 1984 in Oulins, France.  He attended the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon, where he studied harp with Jacqueline Defoulounoux and Christophe Truant, trombone with Yvelise Girard, harmony with Denis Magnon, and chamber music with Joel Nicod.  Also an accomplished transcriber and arranger, he received the prestigious "Premier Prix" of Harmony from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP).  He received a Diplome de Formation Supérieure (First Prize in Harp) from the CNSMDP, where he studied with Isabelle Moretti, in 2005.

His debut CD, Divertissements à la française, was released in 2005 on Egan Records.

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