Unanimously praised for their artistic and sonic symbiosis, David Salmon and Manuel Vieillard are considered one of the most promising duos of their generation. Awarded 2nd prize at the International Schubert Competition for piano duet in the Czech Republic in 2019 and 1st prize and audience prize at the Monaco International Piano Four-Hands Competition, they won first prize at the ARD International Piano Competition in Munich in 2021, a true consecration for the piano duo, as well as 5 special prizes.
In 2024 and 2025, the duo performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, ElbPhilharmonie Hamburg, Salle Bourgie Montreal,
Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Schubertiade Hohenems, La Folle Journée in Nantes and Warsaw, La Roque d'Anthéron, Auditorium of Bordeaux, Opéra de Saint-Etienne, Marseille Concerts, Liepāja "Great Amber Hall" Flâneries Musicales de Reims, etc...
David Salmon Manuel Vieillard
Elina Buksha Grégoire Vecchioni. Caroline Sypniewski Charlotte Chahuneau
Created in 2025, the Lakmé Quartet brings together Elina Buksha, Charlotte Chahuneau, Grégoire Vecchioni, Caroliine Sypnewski, recognized in their careers as soloists and chamber musicians (Mona Quartet, Van Kuijk Quartet, Trio Sypniewski, Capucelli).
The four musicians were trained as a quartet by Günter Pichler at the Escuela Reina Sofia Madrid.
The Lakmé Quartet is in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris.
Elina Buksha was born in Riga
She is a laureate of the 2019 Kulturkreis Gasteig Musikpreis in Munich. She trained under Augustin Dumay at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Christophe Poppen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and then with the famous violinist Midori and Ana Chumachenko. She has performed at Wigmore Hall London, Auditorium du Louvre Paris, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Palais de Beaux Arts Brussels, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Moscow and as a soloist with the orchestras I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and many others. E.Buksha is also the curator of a project that revolves around music and perfumes. Elina plays a Vincenzo Panormo violin from 1800, generously loaned by the Harrison Frank Foundation.
Described by Strad Magazine as a musician with "a capacity for fantasy and storytelling," "intensely convincing in her technical agility and individuality."
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studied with Latica Honda-Rosenberg at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Eberhard Feltz at Hanns Eisler Berlin. She is the winner of the Villa Musica Stern Prize 2020, was engaged for several years at the Staatskapelle Berlin under the direction of Daniel Barenboim before joining the Paris Opera. She also plays regularly with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and as a chamber musician in major European festivals such as Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, Festival Salon de Provence, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. She has shared the stage with Pinchas Zukerman, Jens Peter Maintz, Éric Le Sage, Quatuor Modigliani, among others. As part of the Mona Quartet, she has also performed at the Biennale of the String Quartet Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie du Luxembourg. C. Chahuneau holds a Master's degree in Political Arts from Sciences Po Paris, directed by the philosopher Bruno Latour.
Grégoire Vecchioni, appointed 1st principal viola of the Paris Opera by Gustavo Dudamel in 2022, is recognized as one of the most talented violists of his generation. A founding member of the Van Kuijk quartet, with which he won first prize at the Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition, he has also shared the stage with the Modigliani, Ebène and Belcea quartets and regularly collaborates with Liya Petrova , Alexandre Kantorow, Aurélien Pascal, Béatrice Rana , Adam Laloum . Trained with Françoise Gneri at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and Gérard Caussé and Antoine Tamestit at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he has been teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris since 2023 as assistant professor in Françoise Gnéri's class.
Caroline Sypniewski was named Classical Revelation by Adami (2017) and Young Talent of the Fête de la Musique et du Vin at Clos-Vougeot (2019), and received the Ginette Neveu Prize from the Carl Flesch Academy (2015) and the Grand Prix from the Ravel Academy (2018). She performs as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous festivals such as the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, Verbier, Prades, Deauville, the Radio-France Festival in Montpellier and in the major venues of the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Opéra Garnier, the Philharmonie de Paris, and Schloss Elmau. She has shared the stage with Alexandre Kantorow, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Emmanuel Pahud, and the Modigliani Quartet . She also founded the Sypniewski Trio with her two sisters and regularly plays in Gautier Capuçon's Capucelli cello ensemble. She has also performed as a soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra, and many others. She studied with Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and then perfected her skills in Gautier Capuçon 's class of excellence at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has also won prizes for piano and accompaniment alongside her cello studies.
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Born in Göttingen, Samuel Hasselhorn is today one of the most prominent artists in his field. After studying in Hanover and Paris and winning prestigious prizes – including the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2018 – he has established himself on the international operatic scene, as well as in the fields of singing and concert performance.
An opera singer, Hasselhorn was initially a member of the Vienna State Opera company, then of the Nuremberg Opera. Today, he performs regularly in major opera houses such as the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Frankfurt Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Scala in Milan.
During the 2025/26 season, he will make his debut at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in a new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro , in the role of Count Almaviva, and at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival as the Herald in Lohengrin , under the baton of Joana Mallwitz. He returns to the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden under the baton of Christian Thielemann as the barber Schneidebart in Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), as well as for the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher's Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart) and concerts featuring Brahms's Requiem, which he will also sing in a staged production at the Rouen Opera.
He has worked with the greatest conductors of our time: Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Joana Mallwitz, Thomas Guggeis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Alain Altinoglu, Mark Minkowski, Adam Fischer, Sebastian Weigle, Philippe Herreweghe, Laurence Equilbey and Ivor Bolton.
"Refinement and youth – nothing seems impossible for him. His voice is deep, supple, powerful, rich, brilliant, with a Don Giovanni-like sex appeal; something conquering, chivalrous and nonchalant."
Forumopéra-Charles Siegel
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Born in Jerusalem, Ammiel Bushakevitz is an accompanist, soloist and chamber musician who performs on six continents.
He has accompanied great operatic singers such as Ilker Arcayürek, Christian Gerhaher, Laetitia Grimaldi, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Hasselhorn, Julia Kleiter, Katharina Konradi, Konstantin Krimmel, Dame Felicity Lott, Catriona Morison, Anna Prohaska, Anna Lucia Richter and Nadine Sierra.
"A fabulous Schubertiade then, this alliance which seemed to reveal the two faces we imagine in Schubert: one, with Hasselhorn, full of fiery passion and controlled sensuality, the other, under the fingers of Bushakevitz, capable of ardent strokes, but above all radiating a sorrowful sweetness, as if he were turning the other cheek to the world that assaults him.
The mingled breath of the two artists gives the illusion of being that of the composer himself. The fusion of the singer with his pianist delves into the very depths of Schubertian dreams. More than an interpretation, an immersion .
"While it was common in the 19th century to pursue a career as both a composer and a performer, this phenomenon has become extremely rare today, and even more so for a woman. Fijal takes up the challenge with panache."
“A multifaceted composer and magnificent pianist, Fijal writes profound and haunting pieces, deep and nostalgic songs of poignant poetry.”
Having graduated from the CNSMP with unanimous first prizes in piano, instrumental ensemble, musical aesthetics and a 3rd cycle in chamber music, Anne Marie Fijal leads a demanding and rigorous career favoring interdisciplinary encounters and collaborations .
Through a constant dialogue between interpretation and creation, Fijal creates a link between visionary works such as Beethoven's sonata opus 111 , Schumann 's Kreisleriana , Liszt's sonata and one of his own works.
Fijal has composed around forty instrumental works, including an opera, The Kiss, based on a short story by Robert Walser, which premiered at the Banff Festival in Canada. She works with sound systems and electroacoustics. A multifaceted musician, she performs and composes for theatre, contemporary dance, film (notably "The Burning Earth" by FWMurnau, commissioned by ZDF/Arte), concerts, and recordings with the renowned Colette Magny .
CD Sourdes Clameurs: Schumann/Fijal/Beethoven. In 2021 CD Liszt - Sonata in B minor - 2 lugubres Gondolas. 2024 Ricordiamo triptych for piano.
Doctor of Musical Art, winner of national and international competitions. Graduated from the Frédéric Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, L. Lorent specializes in multi-percussion and instrumental theatre.
He participates in research sessions and conferences in Poland and abroad. He directs the new music studio at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
Recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Prime Minister, Młoda Polska, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education's Outstanding Young Scientists Award. Recipient of the Société Générale Prize and the UFC Rector's Prize. Publications: Percussion Sketches (Cultura Animi 2014), Percussion Works of Marcin Blazewicz (Cultura Animi). Solo albums: Eidos (Fortune), Kundalini. Lorent Plays Blazewicz (Requiem Records), Tonisteon (Requiem Records) – nominated for the 2017 Fryderyk Prize.
Théo Fouchenneret won first prize at the Geneva International Competition in November 2018 before being named "Instrumental Soloist Revelation" at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. That same year, he won first prize and five special prizes at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition.
Théo Fouchenneret is clearly a pianist (chamber and soloist) full of superb promise.He already has this expressive force, like a transcendence, but with something of Wilhelm Kempff (an acknowledged influence) in the sense of phrasing and in this way, somewhere, of being more in submission than in demonstration, this "obscure clarity that falls from the stars".