Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin
Biography Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann & Frédéric Chaslin
Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann
First prize winner of the Conservatoire Nancy for voice (Christine Stutzmann’s class), harp, chamber music and analysis, graduated in musicology, finalist of multiple international music competitions (Canari, Caballé, Bellini, Epinal), she joins the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, studying with Renata Scotto and Teresa Berganza. Julie continues her quest for excellencewithBéatriceUria-MonzonandthemaestraElizabethCooper .
Julie is a guest artist at the Festival des Forêts and has the support of the Villecroze Foundation.
Very fast, Julie addresses a very wide ‘répertoire’, including, in opera, title roles such as Juliette - Roméo et Juliette, Antonia - les Contes d’Hoffmann, Susanna - Les Noces de Figaro, Mickaëla - Carmen, The Woman - La Voix Humaine.
She regularly performs in recitals and cycles of among others, Poulenc, Fauré, Debussy, Schubert lieders, Turina, de Falla, Liszt.
She is frequently invited to give sacred music concerts, such as the requiem of Mozart, Fauré, Brahms; King David – Honneger, and was particularly noticed in her interpretation of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate.
She has, during her career, had the pleasure to work with the conductors Kanako Abe, Luciano Acocella, Didier Benetti, Denis Comtet, Philippe Entremont, Marco Guidarini, Samuel Jean, Julien Leroy, Yo Yo Ma, Jacques Mercier, Patrizia Mezler, Dominique Rouits, Arie van Beek, Pascal Verrot,Elizabeth Cooper as well as with the prestigious ensemble such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the China National Orchestra, Manheim’s Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Orchestre national de Lorraine, the orchestras of Picardie, Avignon, Montpellier, the Nancy Opera Orchestra, the Metz Choir and Ballet, The Orchestre Lamoureux, Octuor de France, the musicians Gilles Apap, Fanny Clamagirand, Dana Ciocarlie, Nicholas Dautricourt, Marion Desjacques, Philippe Entremont, Etsuko Hiroshé, Sebastien Van Kuijk, Yo Yo Ma, Véra Tsybakov.
Her concerts have taken her in many Opera houses such as Massy, Metz and Nancy in France, Brasov in Romania, Anghiari in Italy, Beijing in China as well as numerous concert halls across the world: the Antique Theatre of Orange, Imperial theatre of Compiègne, of the Chatelet, Academia Santa Cecilia- Rome, Knight Concert Hall - Miami, Kravis center - Palm Beach, Mechanics Hall - Worcester, Radio France - Paris.
Currently, Julie is working on the roles of the Flute’s First Lady & Pamina, as well as Juliette, Manon and Leïla; and prepares a Poulenc recording.
Frédéric Chaslin
Conductor, composer, pianist and author, Frédéric Chaslin was born in Paris and educated at the Paris Conservatoire and the Salzburg Mozarteum.
He became assistant of Daniel Barenboim from 1987 to 1989 at the Orchestre de Paris and Bayreuth Festival, in 1989 he became Pierre Boulez’s assistant at the Ensemble Intercontemporain until 1991
He became successively Music Director of the Opera in Rouen (1991-94), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (1998-2001), the Mannheim Nationaltheater (2004-2007), the Santa Fe Opera (2009-2013) and for his second tenure, the Jerusalem Symphony (2011-2019)
Frederic Chaslin divides his conducting activities equally between operatic and symphonic performances.
At the opera, he conducted New York Metropolitan (since 2002), Los Angeles Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Munich Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as Leipzig, Dresden, Madrid, Bologna, Roma, Venice, Torino, Tokyo, Oslo, Copenhagen.
Frederic Chaslin made his Austrain debuts in 1993 at the Bregenzer Festspiele for Nabucco (93, 94) and Fidelio (95, 96). Since 1997, he is a regular guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera where he conducted nearly 250 performances of 34 different tittles, as well as concert with the Vienna Philharmonic as a conductor and as a pianist (September 2001, Beethoven 5th piano concerto. Paril 2018, Mahler’s 5th Symphony)
Major recent appearences were two new productions of Tales of Hoffman in Dresden and Copenhagen. In the symphonic repertoire, he’s conducted all major french orchestras (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra National, Radio-France Philharmonic, Paris Opera Orchestra), the Milan Scala Philharmonic, Torino Rai, Manchester Hallé, London Philhramonia, London Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Spain National Orchestra, Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra (Lisbon), Israel Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic.
He performed several piano concertos as a conductor/pianist (Ravel 2 piano concertos, Beethoven 5 piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic , Mozart K488 with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra)
As a composer, Frederic Chaslin wrote 5 operas and over 50 melodies for soprano, mezzo and baritone. Excerpts of this operas have been sung and recorded by the most famous sopranos (Netrebko, Dessay, Peretyatko, and Damrau who recorded Chaslin’s arias in her CD « Damrau Forver », Warner). Symphonic compositions include the « Gipsy Dance » for violon and orchestra and a cello concerto. His most recent “11 Variations for Trombone and Orchestra spraid his name among the most famous trombone players of the world.
As an author, Frederic Chaslin wrote an essay, Music in Every Sense, published in Paris (France-Empire) and Germany (Böhlau) and available in English on Kindle. and in october 2017 he released a novel based on the life of Gustav Mahler, Being Gustav Mahler, (Fayard, Paris) together with his own orchestration of Mahler’s 10th symphony that has been premiered on Nov 30th, 2018, with the Zagreb Philharmonic.
Starting May 3, 2019, his latest opera/musical Monte Cristo, commissionned by Placido Domingo for the Los Angeles opera, is workshoped and performed in such places as L.A Opera, Valencia (Spain) Paris, Monte Carlo, Bologna, Lisbon and Vienna.
