Raquele Magalhães & Marie-Josèphe Jude
Biographie Raquele Magalhães & Marie-Josèphe Jude
Raquele Magalhaes
is an eclectic musician, fascinated by the chamber music, displaying her musical talents in classical, improvised or interdisciplinary performances.
She owes her current momentum to the confidence of the French state who awarded her a grant throughout her years at the National “Conservatoire” of music (CNSMD) in Paris and in Lyon. Raquele Magalhaes received the first prize for flute in Alain Marion & Sophie Cherrier’s class in Paris and successfully undertook a PhD with Philippe Bernold in Lyon. She was a pupil of Celso Woltzenlogel in Brazil and Philippe Pierlot in France, Great Masters of the flute advised her, such Jean-Pierre Rampal, Paula Robison, Felix Renggli, Ransom Wilson, Michael Faust, Keith Underwood, Benedek Csalog.
She was a prizewinner at the Maria Canals international competition in Barcelona, at “Jeunesses musicales” in Bucarest, and five times first prizewinner at Brazilian National Competitions. She began her career as a soloist at the age of eleven with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, the Rio de Janeiro University Symphony Orchestra and the Piracicaba Symphony Orchestra (Brazil). She pursued her soloist career with the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Pays de Savoie Orchestra and the Conservatoire Prizewinners’ Orchestra (France), the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra (China), the Ensemble Link Together (Germany) and the Galicia Symphonic Orchestra (Spain).
Raquele Magalhaes was appointed Pricipal Flute with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in China in 2005-2007, with the Conservatoire Prizewinners’ Orchestra in France from 2002 to 2005 and Principal Piccolo with Divertimento Symphonic Orchestra in France from 2009 to 2019.
She often plays with the Orchestre National de France, the Paris Opera House Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, the Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Rouen Opera House Orchestra... with conductors such as Myung Whun Chung, Emmanuel Krivine, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Roberto Abbado, Carlo Montanaro, Zsolt Nagy, Yo-Yo Ma, Daniele Gatti, Josep Pons, Ilan Volkov, Leon Fleisher, Stefan Blunier, Mark Foster, Pascal Rophé, Lionel Bringuier, Stefan Asbury, Rumon Gamba, François-Xavier Roth.
Her great interest for chamber music has led her to participate in a variety of Festivals in Europe, Brazil and the Far East, such as Croisement Festival Jiaolu, Goethe Institut Festival (China), Martinu Festival (Czech), Classique au Vert, Vollore, Piano à Riom, Cordes-sur-Ciel Festival, Boucard Festival, Louberon Festival, Toulouse les Orgues, Les Jeudis Musicaux de Royan, Abbayes des Landes Festival, Hors Saison (France), International Brazilian Flute Association Festival, Londrina & Vale do Café Festival (Brazil), Mednarodni Cikel Kocertov (Slovenia).
She has performed in the Cité de la Musique, Salle Cortot, Orsay Museum Auditorium, Théâtre Mogador and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Auditorium de Lyon in Lyon the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, the Salla Cécilia Meireles and the Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, the Shiodome Hall and the Kobe Arts Center in Japan. At these venues, she has shared the stage and played chamber music with Maurice Bourgue, Sergio Azzolini, Wu Wei, Kenneth Weiss, Davitt Moroney, Jonas Vitaud, Karina Sabac, Alain Planès, Lise Berthaud, Philippe Bernold, Lorène de Ratuld, Ariane Jacob, Xu Zhong, Emilie Gastaud, Teodor Coman, Frédéric Stochl, Romain Garioud and Alain Meunier, Victor-Julien Laferrière.
In 2011 Raquele Magalhaes obtained her CA teaching Diploma and European Masters in Musical Education at the CNSMD in Paris. She worked with the composers Hugues Dufourt and Jérôme Combier for her research program entitled: “The contribution of plastic arts to musical interpretation”. She is professor at Fontenay-sous-Bois and Puteaux Conservatories.
Raquele Magalhaes is the artistic director of the association “A Fleur de Notes”, which develops chamber music projects. Since 2017, she performs with the Trio Valadon (Paolo Rigutto, pianist and Aurélienne Brauner, cellist).
In January 2013 she recorded for Naïve with the Choeur Accentus works of Janacek – a recording which received the highest recommendations from the cultural magazines Diapason d’Or and Telerama.
Patchwork, her CD recorded with piano & released in 2016 by the French Record Label Evidence Classics, enhances great Eastern European composers from the XXth c. The French music magazine Diapason awarded Patchwork with 5 Diapasons, 3*** for Classica and the German Magazine Fono Forum was awarded Patchwork with 4**** for Music & 4**** for Recording. This CD and the artist received a good critics from Christoph Schlüren by Crescendo Magazine, from Gérard Pangon by Musik Zen, from the Luxemboug Review Pizzicato, from Frédéric Hutman by Classicagenda. She participated to some differents Radios Programms in France, such as France Musique, France Culture, RCJ.
In 2019, Raquele Magalhaes recorded works with pianist Mathilde Carré for the NoMadPlay application. Also in 2019, Raquele Magalhaes and Marie-Josèphe Jude recorded their new album Flute Transcriptions for the NoMad Music label. The release of the album and the concerts are scheduled to 2021.
Raquele Magalhães has taken part in research about multiphonic sounds and has participated in innovative musical creations, with composers such as Hugues Dufourt, Bernat Vivancos and Pierre Farago. The last two composers are dedicated to her some pieces. (Translation Katie Badie)
Born to a French father and a Sino-Vietnamese mother, Marie-Josephe Jude began studying harp and piano in Nice. On the encouragement of Gyorgy Cziffra, she elected to continue her studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 13, where she entered Aldo Ciccolini piano studio and received chamber music instruction from Jean Hubeau. She proved to be a very precocious artist, as she received her diploma (1er prix) in piano performance and a B.Mus. in harp performance from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris barely three years later. She was then admitted to the artist's diploma program in Jean-Claude Pennetier's studio.
At the time, Marie-Josephe Jude went regularly to London to study with Maria Curcio-Diamand, disciple of Arthur Schnabel. In 1986, the composer Maurice Ohana opened the doors of contemporary music for her and chose her as his preferred pianist. With this promising debut, Marie-Josephe Jude then went on to be a finalist in the highly prestigious Clara Haskil competition in 1989, and won the "New Talent" award at the Victoires de la Musique in 1995.
Since then, she has played in halls and festivals around the world, from Montpellier to Bath, the Roque d'Antheron to Kuhmo, Bagatelle to Locarno. She has played as a soloist under the batons of J.Märkl, F.Brüggen, C.Dutoit, E.Krivine, F.-X.Roth, J.-Y.Ossonce, J.Axelrod, A.Tamayo, and K.Weise, accompanied by prestigious orchestras such as, in France, the Paris Orchestra, the Nice Philharmonic, the Lyon National Orchestra, Les Siecles, and abroad with orchestras such as the Warsaw Chopin Academy Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, and the Luxembourg Philharmonic. In December 2009, she was a soloist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig. In February 2011 she was a soloist with the Symphonic Orchestra of Tours (Brahms' Second Piano Concerto).
Chamber music gives her the opportunity to play in more intimate settings. Since 1997, she has been part of a piano duo with Jean-François Heisser, which, however, does not prevent her from playing with other pianists, such as E.Strosser, C.Desert, M.Beroff, and F.Chaplin. String and wind instrument repertoire leads her to collaborate with L.Claret, H.Demarquette, L.Korcia, P.Moragues, X.Phillips, and M.Portal, and lieder allow her to share the stage with M.Delunsch and J.Correas. She also performs regularly as a violin and piano duo with the violinist Jean Marc Phillips-Varjabedian. Lastly, she collaborates regularly on ballets with her brother Charles Jude, principal dancer and director of the Bordeaux ballet.
She is also no stranger to the recording studio. Since 1993, she has been recording the complete Brahms solo piano works (five albums on the Lyrinx label have come out so far). She has also recorded Mendelssohn (Lyrinx, Choc du Monde de la Musique and ffff from Telerama), Jolivet (Lyrinx, Diapason d'Or, and ffff from Telerama), Dutilleux and Ohana (Harmonia Mundi, Choc du Monde de la Musique), among others. She recorded the G. Witkowski quintet (with the Debussy Quartet) in fall 2006, a CD of music by Clara Schumann in January 2008, and more recently an album of Jean Hure's music (Timpani) and an all-Beethoven album released by Lyrinx in 2011.
