Raj Bhimani to perform the music of Thérèse Brenet Sunday, April 19th in Paris

Pianist Raj Bhimani will perform the French première of Thérèse Brenet's "Trois Preludes" pour piano on Sunday, April 19 at 16h00 at the American church in Paris. The programme (which is listed below) will also feature works by Brahms, Roussel and Poulenc. The American church is located at 65, quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris and admission is free (a collection is taken to help support the series).

Raj Bhimani is an active performer, teacher, and adjudicator. He has presented solo and chamber music recitals in the United States, France, Italy, Portugal, Canada, and India, and can be heard regularly in and around New York. Performances of his have been broadcast on Indian National Radio and Television, Portuguese National Radio, and also on WQXR and WHUS Radio in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College in California, and a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory in Maryland. He had the good fortune to study in Paris for three years with noted French pianist Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, and in New York has had a long association with Seymour Bernstein. He also values the assistance he has received from Claude Frank and Andre Laplante. Mr. Bhimani teaches in the Music School of the 92nd Street Y in New York and also maintains large private teaching studios in Bronxville, New York, and in Manhattan. He has also taught at New York University and in the Music Preparatory Department of Concordia College, and gives lectures and workshops on piano pedagogy, the performance of French piano music, and other topics.



Trois Intermezzi, Opus 117 - Johannes Brahms

Variations et Fugue sur un thème de Handel -

Johannes Brahms

Trois Préludes pour piano - Thérèse Brenet

Nocturnes - Francis Poulenc

Trois Pièces pour piano, Opus 49 - Albert Roussel


à l’Eglise Américaine

65, quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris


Entrée Libre – Libre Participation

Thérèse Brenet's "Des Graines de Sable d'or aux Mains", Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra in Paris tomorrow

For anyone in Paris, there is a performance of Thérèse Brenet's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Townhall annex of the 14th arrondissement: The guitar soloist is Gérard ABITON, with the Stringendo ensemble under the direction of Jean Thorel.

Thérèse Brenet's work is inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's poem "A Dream within a Dream" and its more "cosmic" significations :

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?

Me 15 X 2008 / 20h30 / Doors open at 20H00 precisely

Annexe of the Townhall of the XIV° Arr (5 minutes from metro/RER : Denfert-Rochereau or Mouton Duvernet)

Rue Durouchoux / 75014

VIVALDI: C° Guitare en ré

VIVALDI : Motet « Invicti Bellate »

NEVIN : La Guitare (1896), 1° audition française

BRENET : C° Guitare (1988-2005), Création mondiale, dans la version définitive

LANGLAIS : Suite Bretonne

DJORDEVIC : « Upstream from Sorrow »

FRANCK: Psaume 150

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : Fantasia on Christmas Carols



Soloists : Gérard ABITON, guitar / Sophie de TILLESSE, mezzo

Ensemble Vocal du Chesnay / Silvio SEGANTINI

Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo / violon solo : Christophe Pïerre

Jean Thorel



Tickets : 18 et 13 euros

Musik Fabrik composers performed this week and next

The Piano Duo of Ellen Kendall and Susan Wheatley gave a lecture-recital on The Two Piano Music of Germaine Tailleferre at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Festival of Women Composers on Thurday, March 27, 2008. The duo performed Tailleferre's Sonata for Two Pianos, The Intermezzo for Two Pianos and the Nocturne from La Nouvelle Cythère.

Jean-Yves Malmasson's work Trois Miniatures Burlesques for violin and piano was performed by Adam Banda, violin; Cima Moussalli, piano on Friday, March 28, 2008 at the Institut Hongrois in Paris.

Next week, on March 31, 2008, Carson Cooman's work The Doors in the Sky (2007) for solo violin by Piotr Szewczyk, violin at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.