Eliconie

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th 2016 at 20.00h

Concert of wonderful performers from Switzerland

Célestine Colbert, soprano
Camille Chappuis, soprano
accompained by pianist Jasna Jeremić

Program: Monteverdi, Mozart, Puccini, Britten

Célestine Colbert, soprano, is engaged in music since her early childhood. She studied violin at the Conservatory of Lausanne (Switzerland) and was a member of various vocal Ensembles. As an adolescent, she began to collaborate with jazz musicians. With fifteen years, she revealed the opera as the place where she found her future vocation. She entered the Conservatory “Ribaupierre Institute” in Lausanne in the class of Professor Ioane Bentoiu, where she graduated on 2013. Célestine has also completed the studies of art history, French literature and musicology at the University of Geneva. The specific dark color of her voice makes her easy to sing a solo repertoire of Brahms, Schumann, R. Strauss, Verdi, Mozart and Wagner, as well as the Puccini’s opera repertoire. After graduation, together with her colleagues Florence Renaud (soprano) and Raphael Wulschlaeger (bass-baritone), Célestine established the Ensemble “FloRaCe” which performs the opera repertoire throughout Switzerland. She is a member of Opera Studio founded by Ioan Bentoiu and as member, she performed significant opera roles. After completing her studies in Lausanne, Célestine was perfecting at Jacobs School of Music in the USA under Professor Carol Vaness. She has performed at the prestigious “Verbier”, festival of classical music in Switzerland and as a soloist of the choir “Euterpe” under the direction of Christoph Gesney.

Camille Chappuis is a lyric soprano. After finishing her studies of musicology and anthropology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Camille entered the Conservatory “Ribaupierre Institute” in Lausanne in the class of Ioane Bentoiu where she graduated in June 2014. She attended Witmaster classes with professors Bill Aub (Germany), Alexander Boer (Switzerland) and Marivi Blasco (Spain). In 2005. she got the role in the Mozart Opera “The Magic Flute” conducted by Fakundo Agudin. Whit the Ensemble she is touring in Monte-Carlo, Torino (Italy) and Moutier (Switzerland). She performed as a soloist in the choir “Euterpe” of Christoph Gesney. In 2012, she took part in the project “The voice and body language” of choreographer Tibor Majard and she performed in Netherlands and Switzerland. Together with her solo singing students she established an octet “a capella” and the duo “Alternance”. In 2013, she began collaborating with five other artists (painters, choreographers and musicians) and opened the “Studio Stam” in the place of the old abandoned factory in aim to expand her artistic creativity as concerts, performances and master classes.

Jasna Jeremić is a pianist who lives and works in Lausanne (Switzerland). Jasna grew up in Negotin, Serbia. She began to study piano with eight years with Ukraine classical pianist and teacher Gennady Mirosnik. At age 16, she entered the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and she graduated in 2004. In 2005 Jasna entered postgraduate studies at the Conservatoire in Lausanne (Switzerland) in the class of Jean-François Antonioli. Within the project of contemporary music, Jasna established the quartet “4p”. The Ensemble composed of two pianists and two percussionists has shortly achieved the success by performing “The Rite of Spring” of Stravinsky. Ensemble “4p” performed in important halls of the city, at the festival “Fête de la Musique”, “the Midi Concert” and has recorded for the Swiss radio “Espace2″. After completing postgraduate studies, Jasna received a post of répétiteur at the Department of solo singing at the institute “Ribaupierre” and also became a pianist of Ioane Bentoiu Opera Studio with which she participated at the annual performances. 2010, Jasna studied jazz piano and improvisation with Professor Thierry Lang at the Conservatory in Montreux. During the period from 2013-2016 she perfected the specialist studies “Movement and Music” at the institute “Jaques-Dalcrose” in Geneva, which helped her to implement this special method in her pedagogical works.

Concert Hall
Art Centre GUARNERIUS
Džordža Vašingtona 12
Belgrade
www.guarnerius.rs

Admission is free, but reservations are required. We ask You most kindly to confirm Your attendance at the concert
at tel. no. 069/ 361 20 38 or 011/33 46 807, or by e-mail info@guarnerius.rs.