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Amanda Favier


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Dans la malle du Poilu, Antonio Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons

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Amanda Favier (born 7 April 1979 in Paris, France) is a French violinist.

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Amanda favier plays cesar franck s violin sonata s first movement with emile naoumoff piano


Early life and academics

Amanda Favier has taken her first piano lessons at the age of four years and started violin at six.

At 13, she joins the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Gérard Poulet as her main teacher. She's been awarded with a 1st prize in violin and graduated cum laude. She then traveled in Europe to meet with additional teachers among those: Sir Ifrah Neaman in London, Igor Ozim in Köln, Jean-Jacques Kantorow in Rotterdam et Suzanne Gessner.

Awards and recognition

Favier performed at the age of nine years for the first time and was the youngest winner of the Jean Sébastien Bach competition in Leipzig.

She has won several international competitions. She then started an international career.

Favier has also been awarded with the Forthuny prize of the Académie des Beaux Arts and Berthier prize of the Palmes Académiques. Several private foundations have also supported her like the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Mécénat Société Générale.

Her peers have also acknowledged her talent when she has been awarded with the "Révélation classique" and then "Violon de l'Adami ".

Her version of The Four Seasons of Antonio Vivaldi has received several tokens of appreciations with among which the "Classique d’Or RTL" and a " Attention Talent " Fnac, " Sélection du mois " Air France but also a " Coup de coeur " from France-Musique radio station

Projects

Beyond her solo and chamber music activity, Favier often associates music with other arts like poetry, literature but also jazz, history and plastic arts and presents her work on French radio and TV on RTL, France-Musiques [1][2], FIP,[3] Radio Classique,[4] France 2 (1pm News,[5] " Tandem " show with Jean D’Ormesson) and France 3 (" Toute la musique qu’ils aiment " show).

She usually invites actors to participate to her projects. Brigitte Fossey, Marie Christine Barrault, François Castang and also Jean Marie Machado have been sharing the stage with her.

Favier has participated to the tribute to the French violinist and composer Lucien Durosoir with Célimène Daudet through the project " Dans la Malle du Poilu ". The public is invited to listen to pieces composed just after the First World War but also to discover the music that would comfort him on the battlefield. The letters he would send to his falmily from there are simultaneously read by Marie Christine Barrault, a French actress. This project has been awarded with the official "Centenaire" label by the Mission du centenaire de la Première guerre mondiale

Media and press

Favier is regularly invited to broadcast on French radio and TV on RTL, France-Musiques, FIP, Radio Classique, France 2 (1pm News, " Tandem " show with Jean D’Ormesson) and France 3 (" Toute la musique qu’ils aiment " show).

Discography

  • Sonates de Richard Strauss et Leoš Janáček with Cédric Tiberghien, Lyrinx
  • Album Claude Pascal, Polymnie
  • Les Quatre Saisons d'Antonio Vivaldi with quintette (Classique d’or RTL), Saphir
  • Le Violon de l’ADAMI, Sonates de César Franck et Gabriel Fauré with Dana Ciocarlie, Promotion record
  • Sonates de Maurice Ravel et César Franck with Jean Dubé, Syrius
  • Album Blanche Selva, with Laurent Martin, Ligia
  • " Dans la malle du Poilu " with Célimène Daudet, Arion
  • References

    Amanda Favier Wikipedia


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