Virtuosic and sensitive, soloist and chamber musician, such is the viola of Jean Sautereau. From his rigorous training at the Paris Conservatory, this rising artistic figure draws a keen sense of consistency and generosity.

Born in 1996, Jean began playing the viola at the age of 8 at the Vichy Conservatory. At 11, he won his first national competition.

As a young teenager, he entered the Boulogne-Billancourt Regional Conservatory to study under the renowned Isabelle Lequien and attend advanced classes. He won first prize at the National Competition for Young Violists and first prize in the excellence category at the Clés d’Or Competition. These years were marked by his encounter with one of his mentors, Gérard Caussé. These artistic encounters were a true source of inspiration for this promising young soloist.

Jean continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) in the classes of David Gaillard and Nicolas Bone, as well as with pianist Keigo Mukawa and Jean Sulem. His passion for chamber music has led him to perform at festivals throughout Europe, including the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Mozarteum Wiener Saal, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaat, various academies and festivals, the Jeunesses Musicales Allemandes, the Zenon Brzewski International Music Courses, the Tibor Varga, Pablo Casals, and Maurice Ravel academies, the Fondation Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot, the Festival Musiques Vivantes, La Grange du Meslay, the Escapades Musicales d’Arcachon, Les Folles Journées, the Deauville Easter Festival, and the Verbier Festival and Academy.

He has played and benefited from the teaching of the greatest chamber musicians such as the Wanderer Trio, the Modigliani Quartet, the Ébène Quartet, the members of the Alban Berg Quartet, Ysaye and Rosamonde Quartets, but also from Gábor Takács-Nagy, Laurence Power, Isabel Charisius, Lars Anders Tomter, Milklòs Perényi, Marc Coppey, Franck Braley, Claire Desert, Philippe Hattat, Lise Bertaud, Adrien La Marca, Adrien Boisseau, Julien-Victor Laferrière, Aurélien Pascal, François Salque…

A curious and insatiable musician, Jean has also had the opportunity to play in numerous symphony orchestras, alongside members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera. He is a regular guest of Parisian orchestras such as the Paris Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Orchestre National de France. He can also be found in various historically informed ensembles, such as the Orchestra of the Royal Opera of Versailles, Raphaël Pidoux’s Stradivaria Camerata, and Les Concerts de la Loge. He also plays in contemporary music, jazz, and film music ensembles, notably with Les Apaches and with Samuel Strouk.

He is a founding member of the Astreos Quintet, which was in Residence at the La Roque-d’Anthéron Festival in 2018 and 2019. He won the first prize, Special Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at the Léopold Bellan Competition.

Jean Sautereau joins the Elmire Quartet for the 2021/2022 season. They will be winners of the Banque Populaire 2021, resident artists of the associations Dimore del Quartetto, Proquartet, and the Singer-Polignac Foundation.

Jean is a brilliant young soloist; we have been able to hear him on several occasions alongside Hugues Borsarello and the Génération Mozart and Orchestre de l’Alliance orchestras in Mozart’s Concertante and Pleyel’s Concertante.

In 2024, we will be able to hear him in Bruch’s double concerto, alongside Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra for a concert tour in Switzerland.

He was recently awarded the Maurice Ravel and Mélomanes Côtes Sud prizes under the patronage of Jean-François Heisser, as well as the André Hoffmann Prize at the Gstaad Music Festival under the patronage of Renaud Capuçon.

Drawn to teaching and sharing knowledge from a young age, he participates in numerous outreach activities across all sectors to make the richness of music accessible to the widest possible audience. He also teaches violin and viola at the Aulnay-sous-Bois Conservatory and the Prizma School in Boulogne-Billancourt.

The virtuoso is supported by the Academy of Fine Arts, the Clos Vougeot Foundation, the Porosus Endowment Fund, the Musiques Vivantes Association, the Safran Foundation, the Fondation de France, the Vincent Meyer Foundation and the Société Générale Musical Patronage.

By playing a recent 2017 viola, he tunes his instrument to his visions of the future, for a living and shared music, in the mirror of tradition.

Awarded in his youth at the Vatelot Rampal Competition with a unanimous first prize when he trained with Xavier Gagnepain, Jordan Costard embraced the life of a musician by entering the CNSM of Paris the following year in the class of Philippe Muller and Raphaël Pidoux.

He subsequently decided to dedicate himself to chamber music, particularly the piano trio, for which he received numerous awards both in France and internationally: First Prize unanimously at the Cremona International Competition, and First Prize at the Leopold Bellan Competition. In parallel, he continued to pursue his career as a soloist. He graduated with highest honors from the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) through the Erasmus exchange program, studying jointly with the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of Wolfgang Boettcher, of whom he was one of the last students. In 2020, he participated as a young talent in the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy and performed at La Seine Musicale.

He has received international awards for his playing, which the press has described as “profound and imaginative”: First Prize at the Allegro Vivo Festival in Austria, First Prize at the Maurice Ravel Competition at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, and Third Prize at the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Austria. He is noted for his taste and interpretive skills in German Romantic music, and his performance of Brahms’s sonatas has been hailed as “exceptional” by the German press. He is an artist-in-residence at the Brahms House in Baden-Baden, a city with which he maintains close ties through his mentor, Wolfgang Boettcher, and thanks to awards bestowed upon him by the Carl Flesch Academy held there: the Johannes Brahms and Ginette Neveux Prizes.

He plays in the Limoges Opera Orchestra, of which he has been a member for three years, to indulge his love of opera. Most recently, Jordan Costard made his debut at the Philharmonie de Paris as a soloist with the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, and as part of his performance diploma at the CNSM (National Conservatory of Music and Dance), he created a new kind of show based on Racine and Rita Strohl, blending electronic music, theater, and a piano sonata. Striving to be a multidisciplinary artist, he takes on the responsibilities of musician, actor, and director.

French cellist Guillaume MartignéGuillaume Martigné was trained by Mark Drobinsky, himself a student of Mstislav Rostropovich. He entered the Paris Conservatory (CNSM) where he earned First Prizes in Cello and Chamber Music in 1999. He then went to the United States between 2000 and 2001 to further his studies with Bernard Greenhouse, founder of the Beaux Arts Trio, who welcomed him into his home and offered him his tuition. In 2003, he entered a postgraduate program in the class of Philippe Müller (CNSM). He has received guidance from masters such as David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Mischa Maisky, and Janos Starker in various masterclasses. Guillaume Martigné is a prizewinner of several major international competitions. In 2002, he won First Prize at the prestigious Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence, Italy, and in 2003, Second Prize at the Witold Lutoslawsky Competition in Warsaw, Poland. In 2003, he was also a laureate of the Adam Competition in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2005, he won the Beethoven Prize at the Trio de Trieste International Chamber Music Competition in Italy. In 2006, he received Second Prize at the Viña del Mar Competition in Chile. Deeply interested in contemporary music, he has recorded several works for solo cello and performed the Russian premiere of Jean Françaix’s Concert Variations. He is also an artist-in-residence with the Brussels-based company Transitscape, founded by architect Pierre Larauza and dancer Emmanuelle Vincent, who combine their disciplines with visual and sound arts. He has also collaborated with Bartabas, contributing solo cello improvisations to the show “Soleil Levant” (Rising Sun). Since his debut at the age of thirteen, he has performed as a soloist with orchestras, notably with Moscow Musica Viva (conducted by Alexander Rudin), the Kazan Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Fuat Manzurov), the Ural Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Dimitri Liss), the Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Isaac Touritch), the Polish National Radio Orchestra, and the Budapest National Opera Orchestra (conducted by Janos Kovacs). He has also had the opportunity to perform alongside musicians such as Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Amaury Coeytaux, Ivry Gitlis, Sofja Gülbadamova, Alexandre Rabinovitch, Nemanja Radulovitch, Sayaka Shoji, Alexandra Soumm, Juliana Steinbach, and Ayako Tanaka. He performs in French venues such as the Cité de la Musique, Radio France, the Théâtre Mogador, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Salle Pleyel, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, as well as at numerous festivals. He is regularly invited to perform in the most prestigious Italian concert series (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bologna Festival, Amici della Musica in Florence and Perugia, Ateneo Veneto in Venice, etc.). He also gives numerous concerts in Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Austria (Salzburg Festival), as well as in Japan, Korea, China, and Chile.in Argentina, Russia, New Zealand, and the United States. Guillaume Martigné joined the Psophos Quartet in 2010. He is principal cellist of the Paris Mozart Orchestra. His recording of Britten’s suites for solo cello, released by Klarthe, was recognized as one of the best recordings of 2015 by France Musique and received four stars from Classica. Guillaume Martigné plays a superb Rogeri cello from 1690.

Trained by Michel Marchesini, Eric Villeminey then studied with Etienne Péclard at the Bordeaux Regional Conservatory, where he won the City’s Medal of Honor. He furthered his studies in London with Stefan Popov and the Takacs Quartet at the Guildhall School of Music – where he won all the internal competitions: the Elsie Doris Moss Prize, the Toussaint Prize, the Dorothy Adams Chamber Music Prize, and played as principal cellist of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra; he was also invited to the Manchester Cello Festival and performed at Wigmore Hall in London, as well as in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.

During this period, he worked with artists such as Boris Pergamenschikow, Raphael Wallfish, Alexander Rudin, the Borodin and Melos quartets, the Beaux-Arts trio…

Deeply attracted to chamber music, he founded the Werther trio in 1996 with which he has given more than 150 concerts and is committed to showcasing the richness of the French repertoire, illustrated by recordings of trios by Théodore Gouvy, Benjamin Godard, but also Joaquin Turina and Robert Schumann, which were warmly received by critics.

He is also a laureate of the Vierzon International Sonata Competition, the Henri Sauguet International Competition and the Paris International Competition (Fnapec).

Eric Villeminey is a guest at numerous festivals, both in France and abroad, and has performed with artists such as Gérard Poulet, Noël Lee, Michel Michalakakos, Pierre-Henri Xuereb or Patrice Fontanarosa.

Cello professor at the British School of Paris from 1995 to 2001,

That same year, he joined the Rouen Haute-Normandie Opera, which he left in 2010 to become fourth ^soloist  with the prestigious Philharmonia Orchestra of London under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Since then, he has been a regular guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Glasgow Opera, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and has had the privilege of performing under conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Seiji Ozawa, Gustavo Dudamel, Kurt Mazur, and Daniele Gatti.

Eric Villeminey is also the founder and artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales en Hautes-Vosges since 2002 and a tutor professor of the Polish National Youth Orchestra since 2013, with which he notably performed Dvorak’s cello concerto at the Penderecki center for Music in Luslawice.

A musician without borders, eager for encounters and discoveries, passionate about chamber music, orchestra and teaching, he is regularly invited to share his passion and experience as a pedagogue with numerous organizations, both in France and abroad: Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Youth Orchestra, Istituzione universitaria di Roma, Peace Center of Bethlehem, and was appointed professor of cello at the London Performing Music Academy in 2021.

He has also been the principal cellist of the Pasdeloup Orchestra since 1996, an orchestra with which he has performed the great concertos of the repertoire in the most prestigious venues: Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at Salle Pleyel, Lalo’s Concerto at the Opéra-Comique, Reynaldo Hahn’s Concerto at Salle Gaveau, etc.

With the soloists of the Philharmonia orchestra, the Philharmonia chamber players, he has just completed a concert tour in Italy: Florence, Genoa, Naples, Modena and Rome to promote a CD dedicated to Ernest Chausson. (String Quartet op.35 and Concert for violin, piano and string quartet).

Fascinated by the warm timbre and rich orchestral potential of the double bass,  Rémi Demangeon  began learning the instrument with Adeline Fabre, studied with Stanislas Kuchinski and Vincent Pasquier at the Paris Regional Conservatory (CRR), and then with Daniel Marillier at the Paris-Boulogne Billancourt Higher School of Music (PSPBB).
Concurrently, he was a member of the French Youth Orchestra for two years, participated in the creation of the contemporary music ensemble Acouphène, and regularly performed with prestigious ensembles such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Paris Opera.
Also passionate about teaching, Rémi Demangeon holds a teaching diploma and is currently pursuing the teaching certificate at the Paris Conservatory (CNSM).

Marc Badin studied music in Nîmes, Marseille, then at the CNSM in Paris, obtaining several first prizes, and then furthered his studies with Master Alain Denis.

Holder of the CA in oboe, which he teaches at the CNRR in Toulon, he also created the PHASE association for the promotion of the oboe and its teaching.

He also pursues a career as a solo concert performer, currently holding the position of principal English horn with the Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly plays oboe with the Musicatreize ensemble. He has several recordings to his credit.