ARTIST World Concert Promotion
http://www.artistworld.org / contact: Marlon Daniel, Director
(212) 866-2958 / director@artistworld.org
French soprano Magali Léger hails Saint-Georges International Music Festival by performing debut concert in New York
On January 10, 2010 7pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Ensemble du Monde and its Music Director Marlon Daniel welcome super star French soprano Magali Léger in a concert entitled ‘Classical Innovators’.
Featured the works of Beethoven, Grétry, Mozart and French composer Joseph Boulogne (Le Chevalier de Saint- Georges).
This concert is especially interesting because it features Saint-Georges L’amant anonyme: Ouverture and Two Arias, the arias which are an American premiere will be performed by Magali Léger, who is making her New York debut. In fact these works have not been performed outside of France, which makes this concert of great historical significance.
Ensemble du Monde
Marlon Daniel, Music Director and Conductor
Magali Léger, soprano
BOULOGNE L’amant anonyme: Overture and Two Arias
Magali Léger, soprano
GRÉTRY Aria de Lenore from L’amant jaloux
Magali Léger, soprano
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major Op. 55 “Eroica“
MERKIN CONCERT HALL 129 West 67th Street NYC
Tickets $50 / Seniors and Students $30
LINK: http://kaufman-center.org/merkin-concert-hall/event/ensemble-du-monde-classicalinnovators
A propos de Saint-Georges
Né au Baillif le 25 décembre 1745 sa Maman est Nanon née elle même au Grand-Clu de Sac de la Guadeloupe et son Papa Georges Bologne un propriétaire terrien de la Basse-Terre. C’est indontestablement une figure amblématique du XVIIIème siècle français.
Mais les lecteurs de ce Blog en savent déjà beaucoup sur Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
ARTIST World Concert Promotion
http://www.artistworld.org / contact: Marlon Daniel, Director
(212) 866-2958 / director@artistworld.org
Marlon Daniel, Music Director and Conductor
“The artistry of Mr. Daniel is fabulous and exceptional.”
Pravda – Moscow
“…one of the youngest and most prominent pianist/conductors in New York today.”
Le Figaro – France Amerique
The winner of the 2009 John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Conducting Award, conductor Marlon Daniel has been described as « …a natural and enormous talent. » by the Chicago Sun Times. He has performed venues that range from the Rudolfinum in Prague to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.
He has made débuts with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra (Cantus Firmus), Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Praga Sinfonietta, Filharmonie Hradec Králové and several international music festivals including Fontainebleau, Santander and Les Musicales de Pontivy Festival. In 2002 he had the honor of conducting a performance at the world première inauguration of the new MAYBACH Car sponsored by Daimler Chrysler and Mercedes Benz (DE), in 2004 he was featured at Carnegie Hall in the “Silver Bells” Christmas concert which alongside renowned soprano Deborah Voigt and is 2007, he conducted the world première live performance of the « Save the Goldfish » episode of the EMMY winning “Wonder Pets” at New York’s Javits Center. Also in 2007 he was invited to Berlin by Maestro Sir Simon Rattle to Berlin to observe rehearsals of the Berlin Philharmonic and learn from one of the most important conductors and orchestras of our day.
He has received numerous prizes and awards including the James and Lola Faust Fellowship, the Hazel Scott Memorial Prize for Outstanding Musical Achievement, a Rose Hanus Fellowship, the M.C. Lawton Civic and Cultural Club Grant for Musical Development, the Mabel Henderson
Memorial Grant for Foreign Experience, a Capitol Region Foundation Grant for Arts in Education and an Honorary Key to the City of Chicago for Outstanding Musical Achievement bestowed by the late Mayor Harold Washington. He was most recently a finalist in the National Symphony/Leonard Slakin Conducting Institute search and the recipiant of the 2008 ‘Voice of the Artist’ Award from the United Nations Nation to Nation Networking Organization in recognition of his charitable work through music, bringing awareness to the crisis in Darfur.
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Magali Léger, soprano
One of the brightest new stars of the opera world today, French soprano Magali Léger has received praise from critics and and audiences alike. Her beautiful and agile lyric colortura voice has been compared to Riri Grist, Natalie Dessay and Katheleen Battle.
Her extensive solo repertoire includes the major works of Beethoven, Fauré, Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn and her opera roles include Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (Zirbinetta); Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte (Despina); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde); Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna); Die Zauberflöte (Pamina); La Clemenza di Ttio (Servilla); Bellini’s La Sonnambula (Amina); Puccini‘s La Bohème (Musetta); Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta); Offenbach’s Les contes d’offman (Olympia); and Verdi’s Falstaff (Nannetta) and Rigoletto (Gilda).
She has performed with virtually every major opera company in France including Opéra du Rhin, l’Opéra de Gènes, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Montpellier, Opéra de Nantes, Opéra de Massy and ensembles that include l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra. She has also worked with conductors that have included Yves Abel, Zubin Mehta and Marc Minkowski.
In 2001 she made her debut at the Festival de Aix-en-Provence and in 2005 she made her Opéra de Nice debut the role of La Colorature in the world premiere performance of Laurent Petitgerard’s Elephant Man at the Opéra de Nice which was subsequntially released on DVD internationally. She can also be heard onseveral CDs; Ma Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) alongside Anne Sofie Von Otter on Deutsche Grammophon; Offenbach‘s La Belle Hélène on Virgin Classics alongside Dame Felicty Lott; Massenet’s Werther alongside Andrea Bocelli on DECCA; and Verdi’s La Traviata alongside José Curaon on Teldec.
Guadeloupe Attitude 
pourquoi diffuser les erreurs sur la vie de Saint-Georges
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Comme vous avez raison, et comme il est difficile de rectifier les erreurs commises sur le Chevalier. Je pense déjà aux réaction de Monsieur Gabriel BANAT qui voudra peut-être assister à ce Concert, lui si méticuleux sur le Chevalier. Merci de votre réaction. Mais vous savez aussi que j’ai une fois de plus sonné les cloches aux auteurs de ce texte.
Jean-Claude HALLEY
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