Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)

Violin Sonata in D minor op.9

• Allegro moderato – Patetico 8’43
• Andantino e tranquillo dolce (quasi cadenza) 6’13
• Finale : Allegro molto quasi presto 5’02

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

• Berceuse, op.16 3’39

Violin Sonata no.2 in E minor op.108

• Allegro non troppo 9’13
• Andante 7’28
• Finale : Allegro non troppo 6’40

Karol Szymanowski

• La Berceuse d’Aïtacho Enia, op.52 4’07

Notturno e Tarantella, op.28

• Notturno 4’57
• Tarantella 5’10

Gabriel Fauré

• Après un rêve, op.7 n°1 2’49

Eva Zavaro

‘To tell a story and to move the audience’

This sums up Eva Zavaro’s musical mission. Born into a Franco-Polish family in Paris in 1995, she is one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation. As a passionate player who ‘plays with her heart’ (Ivry Gitlis), she appeared in many countries as soloist or chamber musician, sharing the stage with renowned artists.

After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (with Roland Daugareil, Suzanne Gessner and Christophe Poiget), she completed her training with Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany.

Eva Zavaro was nominated in the ‘Revelation’ category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2021. In 2018 she won First Prize and the Vadim Repin Prize for best Mozart interpretation at the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. Among her other distinctions are the Georges Enesco Prize of the SACEM and the ‘Revelation’ Prize of the Fondation Engie (2023).

At the age of fourteen, Eva appeared as soloist at the Salle Pleyel in Paris with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Since then, she has performed with numerous orchestras around the world. She has played Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s Tzigane at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Alain Altinoglu in the France TV series ‘Fauteuils d’Orchestre’, and has appeared several times with the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn and Fayçal Karoui. In 2019 she made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie accompanied by the Potsdamer Kammerorchester in concertos by Mozart and Bach. This was followed in March 2021 by her debut at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre de Paris under Julien Masmondet in a Saint-Saëns programme.

Eva is very committed to the music of her time and has premiered many works, some of which were dedicated to her. She has recorded Pierre Wissmer’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Pâris.

She is also an enthusiastic interpreter of chamber music and has been a member of the Trio Hélios since 2023.

She has performed at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad (Switzerland), the Festspiele Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern and the Berlin Konzerthaus in Germany, and the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian and Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence in France.

Eva Zavaro plays an Italian violin named ‘Le Bel Inconnu’, a product of the combined artistry of Nicolò Amati and Antonio Stradivari, which is generously loaned to her.

Clément Lefebvre

Poetry at the heart of the notes

Among poet-musicians, Clément Lefebvre is its torch-bearer for his generation. His authentic personality and sense of poetry attracted widespread attention in Paris when he was a prizewinner at the Concours International Long-Thibaud-Crespin in 2019. Prior to that, he had already made a name for himself on the other side of the Channel, gaining First Prize and the Audience Prize at the James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester in 2016.

These twin accolades marked a new stage in the trajectory that led him to Paris when he was just ten. There he learnt the founding principles of musical art from Billy Eidi, and pursued his studies with Jean-Michel Dayez and Hortense Cartier-Bresson, then Roger Muraro and Isabelle Dubuis at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he also benefited from the guidance of Claire Désert, Alain Planès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Clément has received awards and support from the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations and Mécénat Société Générale.

The number of French festivals and concert halls at which he has appeared as a guest has grown year on year, from the Auditorium du Louvre to the Auditorium de Radio France, from La Roque-d’Anthéron to Lyon (Opéra), from Metz (L’Arsenal) to La Côte-Saint-André, whose Berlioz Festival invited him in 2024 to perform Ravel’s complete works for solo piano and two pianos in tandem with Philippe Bianconi. In 2023, he was heard for the first time at the Salle Philharmonique de Liège in the prestigious ‘Piano 5 étoiles’ recital series. Clément Lefebvre has also performed in Dublin, Beijing, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Japan. On tour in Brazil, he played with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira and the Orquestra Sinfônica de Minas Gerais, thus expanding his experience with orchestras – he has already appeared alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine and Orchestre National de Metz.

Clément’s concert activity is enriched by pedagogical experience at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where since 2023 he has been assistant professor to Marie-Josèphe Jude. His firm commitment to passing on his knowledge and guiding the next generation has also prompted him to give masterclasses.

Whether he is performing Schumann and Chopin, Fauré and Ravel, or Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, his sincere and stylish playing touches mind and heart in equal measure, combining tenderness and resolution, reverie and energy, in a constantly renewed musical discourse. Clément Lefebvre has nobility of utterance, and poetry at his fingertips.