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Marina Chiche

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Marina Chiche
Background information
Born (1981-11-10) 10 November 1981 (age 43)
Marseille, France
InstrumentViolin

Marina Chiche (born 10 November 1981, in Marseille) is a French classical violinist.[1][2][3]

Biography and career

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Marina Chiche was born in Marseilles in 1981. She started playing the violin at the age of 3.[4]

Education and Training

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Chiche studied at the Marseilles National Conservatory [fr] with Jean Ter-Merguerian. At the age of 16 she began studying at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris where she obtained four first prizes, in violin, chamber music (class of Pierre-Laurent Aimard), analysis and aesthetics. She continued honing her skills with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna, then with Ana Chumachenco at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. She obtained a master's degree in Early music at the Berlin University of the Arts. Chiche took numerous master classes with renowned musicians such as Joseph Silverstein, Ida Haendel, Gerhard Schulz and György Kurtag. In 2016, she received a doctorate degree in "aesthetics, theory and practice of the arts" at the University of Lille.[5]

Performances and recordings

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In 2003, she recorded her debut: the complete sonatas of Brahms with pianist Vahan Mardirossian,[6] which was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Chiche participated in the recording of Éric Tanguy's "Chamber Music" for the Transart Live label.[7] In 2008, she recorded the solo album After reading Bach, which included an eponymous composition by Karol Beffa, as well as pieces by Bach, Prokofiev and Ysaÿe.[8]

Chiche has performed all over the world as a soloist with orchestra, in recital as well as in chamber music. As a soloist she played with orchestras such as Sinfonia Varsovia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Bretagne, Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse and the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. She also performed alongside Joseph Silverstein, Gérard Caussé, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Marc Coppey, Jérôme Pernoo, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Jonathan Gilad, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Augustin Dumay, Florent Boffard, Anssi Karttunen, Magnus Lindberg, and Chen Halevi.

Since 2013, she regularly plays in a duo with pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha, in which both play by heart.[9][10][11]

In 2014, Chiche performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons in La Folle Journée held in Tokyo.[12]

In 2020 she recorded the album Post-scriptum in duet with the pianist Aurélien Pontier,[13] which received excellent reviews, including a 5 stars review from Classica.[14]

Marina Chiche plays a Neapolitan violin by Giuseppe Gagliano from 1762. Since 2020 she also plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1784, on loan from the Zilber-Vatelot-Rampal association.[15]

Teaching

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In 2009 and 2010, Chiche was a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei.[3] From 2013 to 2018, she taught violin and chamber music at the Trossingen University of Music [de] in Trossingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where she headed the strings department. Since her return to Paris, she gives seminars on music at Sciences Po.[16]

Media and writing

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Chiche writes about the backstage of the life of a musician in her blog “Everything you always wanted to know about the life of a professional musician”.[17] She also regularly publishes articles about music in magazines,[18][19][20][21][22] and produces programs for France Musique[23] at Radio France. In 2021 she produced a series of podcasts about pioneering female musicians.[24] In October that year she published the book Musiciennes de légende. De l'ombre à la lumière (“Legendary female musicians, from shadow to light”), which depicts portraits of 30 known and lesser-known 19th and 20th century musicians.[25][26]

Discography

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References

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  1. ^ Marina Chiche on Festival de musique de Menton
  2. ^ Marina Chiche on France Musique
  3. ^ a b Marina Chiche on Actes Sud
  4. ^ Thierry Beauvert (2013-11-24). "Au diable Beauvert : Marina Chiche". France Musique. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  5. ^ "Conférence-concert de la violoniste Marina Chiche". Université de Lille. 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  6. ^ Brahms*, Marina Chiche, Vahan Mardirossian (2003). "Les Sonates Pour Piano Et Violon". Discogs.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Gérard Dupuy (2007-03-17). "Eric Tanguy". Libération. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  8. ^ J. Lukas (2008-04-10). "Marina Chiche". la terrasse. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  9. ^ "Hommage à Barbizet" (PDF). Théâtre de la criée. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  10. ^ Sophie Guiraud (15 August 2019). "Duo magique à Villevieille". Midi libre. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Brahms et ses amis enchantent le public". Ouest-France. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  12. ^ "LFJ2014 Artist - Marina Chiche". LA FOLLE JOURNÉE au JAPON – LA FOLLE JOURNÉE au JAPON “Days of Enthusiasm. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  13. ^ Félix Tardieu (2020-03-19). "On dit que le violon a une âme". Transfuge. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Presse". NoMadMusic (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  15. ^ "Marina Chiche - Les Musicales de la Vallée-aux-Loups". www.vallee.aux.loups.lesmusicales92.fr. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  16. ^ Marina Chiche (2019–2020). "Musique classique 3.0: stratégies de programmation et de communication à l'ère digitale". Sciences Po. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  17. ^ "Marina Chiche Violin » BLOG" (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  18. ^ Marina Chiche (2019-04-24). "Osez le par cœur !". la Lettre du musicien. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  19. ^ Marina Chiche (2019-04-19). "La musique classique face à la crise écologique : vers le " slow musician " ?". Socialter. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  20. ^ Marina Chiche (2020-04-21). "Pendant ce temps-là…" (PDF). Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  21. ^ Marina Chiche (2020-03-19). "Merce Cunningham travaillait au chronomètre". Transfuge. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  22. ^ Vincent Jaury; Oriane Jeancourt Galignani (2020). "L'équipe". Transfuge. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  23. ^ Chiche, Marina (2020-08-13). "Vous avez dit classique ? Chiche ! : podcast et émission en replay". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  24. ^ Chiche, Marina (2021-06-21). "Musiciennes de légende : podcast et émission en replay". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  25. ^ "Dans " Musiciennes de légende ", la violoniste Marina Chiche rend hommage à ses sœurs d'âme oubliées". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  26. ^ Foucaud, Aliénor de (2022-01-20). "Les amies musiciennes de Marina Chiche". Transfuge (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  27. ^ Various artists (2004). "Les Révélations Des Victoires De La Musique Classique". Discogs.
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