OPERA EMOI Emaho Duo

• John Thomas (1826 – 1913): Duo sur des thèmes de Carmen de George Bizet:
• 1 Thomas: Duo sur des thèmes de Carmen de George Bizet 09:24
• Jean-Baptiste Cardon (1760 - 1803): 3 ariettes d'opéra-comique arrangée en duo, Op. 5:
• 2 Cardon: 3 ariettes d'opéra-comique arrangée en duo, Op. 5: I. Comme un éclair 06:58
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): la Flûte Enchantée, K. 620:
• 3 Mozart: la Flûte Enchantée, K. 620: Ouverture 06:01
• Dieudonné Félix Godefroid (1818 - 1897): Duo sur des airs d'opéras de I Lombardi & Nabucco de Giuseppe Verdi:
• 4 Godefroid: Duo sur des airs d'opéras de I Lombardi & Nabucco de Giuseppe Verdi 07:20
• Giovanni Caramiello (1838 - 1938): Duetto sur Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Op. 92 de Gioachino Rossini:
• 5 Caramiello: Duetto sur Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Op. 92 de Gioachino Rossini 03:46
• Duetto sur Casta Diva, Op. 19 de Vincenzo Bellini:
• 6 Caramiello: Duetto sur Casta Diva, Op. 19 de Vincenzo Bellini 07:19
• Divertimento Brillante sur la Traviata, Op. 4 de Giuseppe Verdi:
• 7 Caramiello: Divertimento Brillante sur la Traviata, Op. 4 de Giuseppe Verdi 06:04
• Duetto sur La Forza del Destino, Op. 91 de Giuseppe Verdi:
• 8 Caramiello: Duetto sur La Forza del Destino, Op. 91 de Giuseppe Verdi 04:47
• Georges Gershwin (1898 – 1937): Porgy and Bess Suite (Arr. for harp & piano by Stanley Chaloupka):
• 9 Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite (Arr. for harp & piano by Stanley Chaloupka) 11:14
• Total Runtime 01:02:53

Info for OPERA EMOI

For years, the sounds of our instruments – piano and harp – have intermingled every Wednesday in the music school where we teach. We only had one hallway to cross to form a duo … And it was done in 2016 during the teachers’ concert. Thus was born the Duo Emaho (meaning wonder in Tibetan).

Our artistic project takes its roots in the history of European salons of the 18th and 19th century, where music that has been lost too time was performed. We have chosen to revive this overlooked repertoire. Our incessant research in the libraries of Belgium and elsewhere has enabled us to bring to light rare or forgotten works, which we subsequently would share during numerous concerts. But we also wanted to leave these musical treasures a lasting trace, since many of them have never been recorded before. From bel canto to jazz improvisation, from intimate French court music to Andalusian exuberance, we invite you on a musical journey through three centuries of music.

Duo Emaho:
Primor Sluchin, harp
Maud Renier, piano

Primor Sluchin
Her grandfather being a violonist, her mother a violist, her father a trombonist, her sister a cellist, Primor Sluchin could hardly escape a musical destiny. At the age of 8, she chooses the harp, an unheard of instrument in the family. Two years later – being only 10 years old – she creates the Sluchin duo with Naaman Sluchin, her violinist brother. Their collaboration is still ongoing today.

A precocious artist, Primor Sluchin received the blessing of several good fairies of the harp. With Annie Fontaine she discovers the instrument, tames it, and reaches such mastery of it that in 1997 she joins Isabelle Moretti’s class at the CNSM of Paris. Four years of study geared towards excellence will follow, crowned by a first prize awarded unanimously. In 2001, Primor Sluchin completes her advanced training with another great harpist, Marielle Nordmann. She is then ready to join one of the world’s greatest musical groups, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She does so in 2002 by being awarded the prestigious Karajan scholarship. At the side of first harp Marie-Pierre Langlamet she broadens her musical culture, plays in the greatest halls and acquires priceless experience of the orchestra trade under conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Thus will she discover the Salzbourg Festival and play under renowned guest conductors like Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink or Mariss Jansons.

In 2003, returning from Berlin, Primor Sluchin’s career takes a turn. She joins the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (ORW) as a solo harpist. She discovers the trade of the opera musician for the first time. She begins this new experience with Wagner’s huge Ring Cycle, under Jean-Louis Grinda, then goes deeper into the whole of the lyric repertoire, ranging from Verdi to Puccini to Debussy. On several occasions, she played solo with the ORW choir in shows she started.

Regularly, Primor Sluchin comes back to her symphonic first love. In 2010, she plays with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France under conductor Yoel Levi. The same year, she takes part in the Agora festival of contemporary music with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. Recently, she played with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Nuove Musiche Orchestra.

As of today, her most prolific partnership is the Nefeli duo, created in 2008 with harpist Agnès Peytour. This rare and appreciated harp duo regularly plays in Belgium (Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, de Liège, de Charleroi) and in France (Musicales Guil Durance 2011, Lille). It brings back a rich, sparkling and often spectacular repertoire. Primor Sluchin also started two other partnerships: the Alma Lyra duo with soprano Sabine Conzen and a violin and harp duo with Nathalie Huby.

Teaching since 2008 at the Académie de Waremme near Liège, Primor Sluchin works diligently to promote the harp in Belgium. She joins the Jeunesses Musicales in 2010 and the same year starts a noteworthy endeavor: the Harpegio project, under the namesake association. With harpists Agnès Peytrour and Vinciane Degroote, She organizes in Brussels the first harp competition dedicated to belgian young talents. The event is acclaimed by dozens of pupils and their teachers. It is now happening every two years, alternating with a Master Class, under the Musée des Instruments de Musique. It is seen as a springboard for developing harpists.

Maud Renier
was born in Liège (Belgium) in 1989. She started playing the piano at the age of five and studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Verviers from 1995 to 2003, then continued her teaching from 2002 to 2005 with Mrs. Longrée-Poumay. She won several competitions in Belgium and France.

From 2005 to 2010, she continued her studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in the Superior class with Mrs. Victoria Melki, where she obtained the Teaching Diploma and continued her improvement.

In 2009, she joined the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie de Namur (Belgium) in the class of Roberto Giordano, where she obtained in 2011 the Diplôme de Master Spécialisé en piano as well as the Diplôme d'Agrégation de l'Enseignement Secondaire Supérieur, both with great distinction.

In June 2013 she obtained the Master of Accompaniment at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie de Namur with great distinction.

She has participated in numerous Master Classes, in France with Pascal Devoyon, Jacques Rouvier, Georges Pludermacher, Bruno Rigutto, Victoria Melki, and in Italy with Leonid Margarius, Roberto Giordano and Franco Scala.

She has the opportunity to be the accompanist of international master classes such as the international music course of August of the Imep (Namur), the Cantiere Internazionale Musicale (Italy). Guest artist and chamber music teacher at the festival and at the Master class LeAltreNote in Valdidentro (Italy).

She is the assistant of Roberto Giordano's piano class at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur from 2013 to 2015.

She teaches at the Music Academy of Waremme as a piano teacher and accompanist since September 2012, thus sharing her musical life between her passion for teaching and her activities as a concert artist.

She regularly performs in concerts in various countries such as Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Morocco, ... whether in solo recital, with orchestra, chamber music or singing accompaniment.

She also plays with renowned artists such as Patrick Gallois, Jodie Devos, Pierre Xhonneux, ...

With Stefano Parrino (flute) and Francesco Parrino (violin), she has recorded a CD dedicated to the composer Leo Ornstein for the label Brilliant Classics, a recording acclaimed by the critics.

She forms a piano and harp duet with the harpist Primor Sluchin: the "Emaho Duo", and regularly performs in concerts with the renowned musicologist and lecturer Jean-Marc Onkelinx.

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