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Stéphane Degout - Cédric Tiberghien

Stéphane Degout - Cédric Tiberghien

Baritone - Piano
August 1 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Treasures of French Melody Stéphane Degout, baritoneCédric Tiberghien, piano  Baritone Stéphane Degout and pianist Cédric Tiberghien will open the 68th season of the Stavelot Festival. After the two recitals of Lieder performed by Samuel Hasselhorn in previous seasons, this year the artists will offer us an anthology of French melodies, paying tribute to Maurice Ravel, as it should be, but also to composers who are less well known today, but who have equally sublimated the most beautiful texts of their time. Programme: Works by Maurice Ravel, Henri Duparc, Rita Strohl, Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn and Francis Poulenc.
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Trio Susato - The concerts

Trio Susato

Piano trio
August 2 2025 - 18:00 The Monk's Refectory
Ladies in the spotlight!Friends of the Festival evening Trio Susato :Sarah Bayens, violinMikko Pablo, celloMarkiyan Popil, piano For this Friends of the Festival concert, we invited the young Susato Trio to return to Stavelot after their brilliant performance in the summer of 2023. They had previously won 1st Prize in the Génération classique competition, and each of their concerts since then has confirmed their qualities. The programme chosen here honours four female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, whose talent was so little recognised in their day. Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann take us down the paths traced by the two inseparable friends Felix and Robert, while Mel Bonis and Lily Boulanger introduce us to the legacy of Franck and Fauré. Programme :Mel Bonis: Soir et MatinLili Boulanger: D'un soir triste et d'un matin de printemps (A sad evening and a spring morning)Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Fugitives, Op.15 for pianoFanny Mendelssohn: Trio in D minor, Op. 11
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Jérôme Lejeune - Conférence Jérôme Lejeune

Conférence Jérôme Lejeune

Lecture: The Avatars of the Prix de Rome
August 4 2025 - 16:00 The Monk's Refectory
Lecture: The Avatars of the Prix de Rome Jérôme Lejeune, musicologist and artistic advisor to the Stavelot Festival Introduced at the beginning of the 19th century, the Prix de Rome was very often won by musicians whose names will not go down in history. Many of them tried their luck, imagining that this distinction would bring them posterity. Some, like Maurice Ravel, tried several times, but failed to win. And yet, after four unsuccessful attempts, Ravel achieved unparalleled fame. Who were his rivals? Starting with an evocation of this famous competition, this talk will provide a more complete picture of French music in Ravel's time, showing that he was not the only master of orchestration or modernity in his day!
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Coline Dutilleul - Ensemble Clematis

Ensemble Clematis

Baroque Music
August 4 2025 - 18:00 The Church of St. Sebastian
False attributions Ensemble ClematisConductor: Brice Sailly Coline Dutilleul: mezzo-soprano In the 18th century, ‘false attributions’ tended to enrich the catalogue of reputed masters... This is the case with a Salve Regina attributed to Pergolesi and the sublime Pianto di Maria, long thought to be by Handel, which has been attributed to its composer, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini. But didn't these misattributions help to ensure that these works achieved the posterity they so richly deserved? The libretto of the Pianto di Maria presents us with the entire scene of Christ's Passion, but here the central character is the Virgin Mary, a weeping mother faced with the drama unfolding before her eyes. Vivaldi's Church Sonata serves as the overture to this lamentation of the Virgin Mary.  Programme:George Frideric Handel : Concerto grosso op.6/6Giovanni Battista Pergolesi : Salve ReginaAlessandro Scarlatti : Per la Nativita di Nostro Signore Gesu CristoAntonio Vivaldi : Sonata al Santo SepulcroGiovanni Battista Ferrandini : Pianto di Maria
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Kacper Nowak - Aline Piboule - Sindy Mohamed - Elsa de Lacerda

Elsa de Lacerda - Sindy Mohamed - Kacper Nowak - Aline Piboule

Piano quartet
August 5 - August 6 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Three generations of German Romanticism Elsa de Lacerda, violinSindy Mohamed, violaKacper Nowak, celloAline Piboule, piano More than an officially established quartet, the artists in this concert have come together under the leadership of Elsa de Lacerda to present a programme spanning the German Romantic period. This evening will be devoted to three keyboard quartets: Robert Schumann's is one of the monuments of the genre, but we will also have the pleasure of discovering Friedrich Gernsheim's, preceded by the masterpiece by a fifteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn! No doubt our curiosity will be aroused by the originality of this line-up, both in terms of the works chosen and their performers.  Programme :Felix Mendelssohn: Keyboard Quartet in B minor, Op. 3Friedrich Gernsheim: Keyboard Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 20Robert Schumann: Keyboard quartet in E flat major, op. 47
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L'Achéron - L' Achéron - François Joubert-Caillet

L' Achéron - François Joubert-Caillet

Baroque Music
August 7 2025 - 11:00 The Monk's Refectory
Suns of September L'Achéron :François Joubert-Caillet, viola da gamba and conductorJulie Dessaint, tenor violAude-Marie Piloz and Sarah van Oudenhove, bass violsJean-Baptiste Henry, bandoneon  François Joubert-Caillet is associate artist of the Festivals de Wallonie 2025.  This unique programme illustrates the meeting of two exceptional musicians: Astor Piazzolla and Nadia Boulanger, highlighting their respective roots. Astor Piazzolla draws inspiration from Carlos Gardel and Alberto Ginastera, while Nadia Boulanger draws on the world of Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and early music. The mirrored conversation between the ‘classical’ modern pieces and the arrangements of Astor Piazzolla themes from this Parisian period are just like the bandoneon's encounter with the viols: surprising, magical, unheard-of. Programme : Astor Piazzolla meets Nadia Boulanger Works by Astor Piazzola, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Alberto Ginastera, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carlos Gardel, Igor Stravinsky and Gabriel Fauré
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Bruno Philippe - Julien Libeer - Lorenzo Gatto

Lorenzo Gatto - Bruno Philippe - Julien Libeer

Violin - Cello - Piano
August 8 - August 9 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Masters and models Lorenzo Gatto, violinBruno Philippe, celloJulien Libeer, piano The artists in this concert have already been applauded at the Stavelot Festival, some on several occasions. But it's always a great pleasure to see them again, with a beautiful tribute to Maurice Ravel and his keyboard trio. We will also discover a sonata for cello and piano, a rarely heard work by French composer Jean Huré. A Mozart sonata, reminding us of Ravel's admiration for this master of classicism, will complete the programme for this concert which, once again, will allow us to hear well-known works again, but also to make some very fine discoveries. Programme : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano in F major K 377Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante défunte for pianoJean Huré: Sonata for cello and piano in F sharp minorFélix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C minor Op 66
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Florian Noack - Maya Levy - The concerts

Florian Noack - Maya Levy

Piano - Violin
August 11 2025 - 11:00 The Monk's Refectory
Did you say ‘Gypsy’?  Florian Noack, lutheran pianoMaya Levy, violin  Ravel was one of the few composers to use the invention of Belgian Georges Cloetens. This system, which can be fitted to a piano, can be used to modify its timbre, bringing it closer to the lute, harpsichord or cymbalum of traditional Eastern European music. Come and discover his emblematic work, Ravel's Tzigane. Florian Noack will also be presenting other pieces illustrating the popular festivals of Central Europe and recalling the distinctive sound of the cymbalum. As for Maya Levy, in a completely different register, you can hear her in the sonata Ballade by Eugène Ysaÿe. What more to discover!  Programme : Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 4 harpsichords BWV 1065 (arr. Fl. Noack)Serge Rachmaninov: Two Salon Pieces, for violin and Lutheran pianoEugène Ysaÿe: 3rd Sonata ‘Ballade’, for solo violinTielman Susato: Dansereye (arr. Fl. Noack)Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11Maurice Ravel: Tzigane, for violin and lute piano
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Tobias Feldmann - Mathis Rochat - Dasol Kim

Tobias Feldmann - Mathis Rochat - Dasol Kim

Violin - Viola - Piano
August 12 - August 13 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Noble and sentimental                            Tobias Feldmann, violinMathis Rochat, violaDasol Kim, piano  A Stavelot Festival regular for many years, violinist Tobias Feldmann returns with pianist friend Dasol Kim and violist friend Mathis Rochat, whom he is delighted to introduce to us. In an original trio (violin, viola and piano), we will hear them perform sonatas by Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann, as well as a trio by Joseph Jongen, a composer whose 150th birthday was celebrated in 2023, but whom our Stavelot Festival is keen to help you discover or rediscover, with great admiration for his work. Programme : Maurice Ravel: Sonata No. 2 in G major, for violin and pianoJoseph Jongen: Trio for piano, violin and viola op. 30Franz Schubert: Sonatina No. 2 in A minor for violin and piano, Op. 137Franz Schubert: Sentimental Waltzes Nos. 9, 12, 13 and 31, for solo piano, op. 50 D.779Ignaz Lachner: Trio No. 4 in D minor, op. 89
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Ensemble Oxalys - The concerts

Ensemble Oxalys

Chamber Music
August 14 2025 - 11:00 The Monk's Refectory
Ravel and his time Ensemble Oxalys Regular guests at the Stavelot Festival, the artists of the Oxalys Ensemble have always been keen to offer us highly original programmes. Even today, the mere mention of the names of the French composers on the programme will take us back to the early years of the 20th century, when so many little-known works were created that deserve to be rediscovered. Of course, the repertoires of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy are familiar to us, but those of Charles Koechlin and André Caplet are undoubtedly less so. So here's to the pleasure of discovery! Programme : Claude Debussy: 1st Rapsodie for solo clarinet, flute, string quartet and harpCharles Koechlin: Sonate à 7, for principal oboe, flute, harp and string quartetAndré Caplet: Conte fantastique after Edgar Poe, for harp and string quartetMaurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet
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Frank Peters - Xavier Locus - Quatuor Zemlinsky

Quatuor Zemlinsky - Frank Peters - Xavier Locus

String Quartet - Piano
August 14 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Opening of the I Cambristi Master classes In concert, the Maestros!  Zemlinsky Quartet :František Souček, violinPetr Střižek, violinPetr Holman, violaVladimir Fortin, cello  Frank Peters, pianoXavier Locus, piano It's always a pleasure to welcome back the masters of the Master Classes, which open this evening for the 11th consecutive year during the Stavelot Festival.  Alongside a rarely performed Mozart quartet and Franz Schubert's Fantasy for piano four hands, the members of the Zemlinsky Quartet and pianists Frank Peters and Xavier Locus will be performing two keyboard quintets, one by Ottorino Respighi and the other by Alexander Borodin. These two works have never before been programmed at the Stavelot Festival: discoveries, again and again...  Programme : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet in C major Les Dissonances, KV. 465Franz Schubert: Fantasy for piano 4 hands D. 940Ottorino Respighi: Keyboard quintet in F minor P. 35Alexander Borodin: Keyboard quintet in C minor
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Masterclasses 2018 - Masterclasses I Cambristi, Stavelot

Masterclasses I Cambristi, Stavelot

Chamber music classes for amateurs and semi-professionals
August 15 - August 17 2025 - 10:00 Collège Saint-Remacle
If you would like to join us, please visit this page: Master Classs Stavelot 2025 The atmosphere is relaxed and we are fortunate to have the guidance of outstanding teachers. We study the same work during the three days of classes and each group decides and prepares one or more movements of the score. Our classes are at the Collège Saint-Remacle but on the last day, on 17 August at 4.00pm (free access), we give a closing concert in the Monks’ Refectory in the old Abbey. Welcome to Stavelot, in this idyllic setting for chamber music! Audition of the Master Class trainees The closing concert of the Master Classes is always reserved for the trainees who have come to follow the courses and advice of such prestigious masters as the members of the Zemlinsky Quartet. Every year, dozens of them come to Stavelot and their nationalities are very diverse. During this last concert, the pleasure and talent shown by these young (and not so young...) musicians in interpreting the works they have worked on are such that the audience is totally in agreement with their approach and is delighted to see living music making so many musicians happy.
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Vladimir Fortin - Petr Holman - Quatuor Amaryllis

Quatuor Amaryllis - Petr Holman - Vladimir Fortin

String Quartet - Alto - Cello
August 15 - August 16 2025 - 20:00 The Monk's Refectory
Quartets in complicity Amaryllis Quartet :Gustav Frielinghaus, violinLena Sandoz, violinMareike Hefti, violaYves Sandoz, cello Petr Holman, violist with the Zemlinsky Quartet Vladimir Fortin, cellist with the Zemlinsky Quartet  One of the aims of the Stavelot Festival has always been to showcase lesser-known but high-quality works alongside the great repertoire, and the same applies to artists whose names are not yet familiar but whose great talent is already widely recognised. For this closing concert, we have invited the German Amaryllis Quartet to Stavelot for the first time, and they will be performing Maurice Ravel's famous quartet. Two members of the Zemlinsky Quartet will then join them to perform works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák, both illustrating the riches of their national heritage. Programme: Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major M. 35Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 for two violins, two violas and cello, in F major, Op. 88Antonín Dvořák: String sextet in A major, op. 48 B 80
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Masterclasses 2024 - Concert by the trainees

Concert by the trainees

Closing of the 11th season of Master Classes in Stavelot
August 17 2025 - 16:00 The Monk's Refectory
It's with great pleasure that we discover the concert by the students of the Master Classes organised by the international association I Cambristi. They are always happy and proud to present the results of their work with eminent masters. For this 11th season, they will be joined by the members of the Zemlinsky Quartet and, for the first time, pianist Xavier Locus. All these students, of all ages and nationalities, always delight Festival audiences with their enthusiasm and genuine love of music. Sunday 17 August - 4:00pmClosing of the 11th season of Master Classes in StavelotConcert by the trainees
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