Alexis Kossenko, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Hasnaa Bennani, Marine Lafdal-Franc, Jehanne Amzal, Clément Debieuvre, David Witczak, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Biography Alexis Kossenko, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Hasnaa Bennani, Marine Lafdal-Franc, Jehanne Amzal, Clément Debieuvre, David Witczak, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra & Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Chantal Santon Jeffery
Much admired for her ‘warm, flexible, magnificently sustained voice’ (Le Monde) and her stage presence, Chantal Santon Jeffery plays a wide range of roles in the opera house, from Mozart to contemporary works, by way of Wagner, Britten, Haydn, Hervé, Boismortier, Rameau, Gassmann and Purcell. She is invited to appear with the most prestigious orchestras, including Le Concert Spirituel, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Les Siècles, Le Concert de la Loge, Opera Fuoco, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, Pygmalion, Orfeo Orchestra, and sings in today’s leading venues, among them the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, La Fenice, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Bozar, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and the opera houses of Versailles, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Metz and Rennes.
Her large discography (more than thirty releases) includes numerous works from the French repertory (Rameau, Campra, Lully, Mondonville, Boismortier, Grétry, Dukas, Jaëll, Catel, Delibes, Dauvergne, David, Dubois etc.) but also music by Purcell, J. C. Bach, Rovetta, Mozart, Kraus, Haydn and Martinez.
Alexis Kossenko
Born in Nice, Alexis Kossenko performs as soloist with Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Matheus, Philharmonie der Nationen, La Grande Ecurie and Chambre du Roy, Stradivaria, Barokksolistene, B'Rock, Le Cercle The Philharmonic Chamber, the Modo Antiquo, Lorrain Concert, Holland Baroque Society, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, with a repertoire ranging from Vivaldi to Khachaturian, Mozart's concertos on tour with Emmanuel Krivine. He formerly played at Berlin Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall in London, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Theater des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Ton-Halle in Zürich, Concertgebouw in Bruges and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
An expert of all the historical forms of his instrument, Alexis Kossenko plays as well as the modern flute (he is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in the class of Alain Marion, winner of the 2000 Rampal Competition) the baroque flute, classical and romantic flutes, and the recorder.
He is currently the first flautist of the Philharmonic Chamber (directed by Emmanuel Krivine), the Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Ensemble Matheus (directed by Jean-Christophe Spinosi), Gli Angeli Geneva (Stephan MacLeod) and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées (Philippe Herreweghe).
He recorded the concertos for flute by Nielsen, Telemann, Haydn, Touchemoulin and the first collection of six concerts by CPE Bach, Vivaldi's concertos (Editor's Choice of Gramophone) and Lessons of Darkness by Charpentier with the baritone Stephan MacLeod, Vivaldi and Haendel with the mezzo-soprano Blandine Staskiewicz, and concertos and openings of Telemann.
Among projects realised in 2015-2016, can be mentioned numerous solo concerts scheduled throughout Europe, direction of a tour of 25 performances of The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart in France and Rossini concerts with the soprano Sabine Devieilhe, conducting the Musica Viva Orchestra in Moscow (concert at Tchaikowski Hall) and Sinfonia Iuventus in Warsaw (concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic).
