Claude Régimbald (F)

Claude Régimbald, flûte

« Régimbald is indeed a virtuoso, but also a musician capable of subtlety. » Claude Gingras, La Presse, Montreal.

« … an established soloist, he produces a magnificent sound and very fine phrasing. » Denis Verroust, La Traversière, Paris.

« Bravissimo » Jean-Pierre Rampal.

Claude Régimbald, a French flautist originally from Quebec, has given hundreds of concerts and recitals in Canada, France, Switzerland, Britain, Spain, Poland and Brazil. He has recorded six CD’s: La flûte virtuose and Impressions québécoises on the SNE label, La flûte au Conservatoire de Paris on the ATMA label, Rêverie and Syrinx on the VDE-Gallo label, and a flute and harp recital Couleurs. He has performed Jacques Ibert’s Concerto with the Belgrade Philarmonic Orchestra on Yugoslavian national television, and has often been heard on the French and English networks of the CBC, on Radio-France and on the Radio Suisse-Romande Espace 2 network.

He completed studies at the music conservatory in Montreal where he obtained a unanimous First Prize in both flute and musical analysis. He went on to study at the conservatory in Geneva with Maxence Larrieu, where he obtained a First Prize in Virtuosity Class.

In 1992, he won the Third Prize as well as the Jury’s Special Prize at the 22^nd International Competition of the Jeunesses Musicales in Belgrade. Claude Régimbald was the recipient of grants and bursaries from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec arts and letters council, and a prize winner in many competitions, including the Quebec and Canadian Music Competitions, the International Stepping Stone Competition, the CIBC National Music Festival, the Quebec symphony orchestra competition and the French Music Days competition in Montreal.

Claude Régimbald teaches at the conservatory in Ferney-Voltaire, in France.

Alessio Nebiolo, guitar

Alessio Nebiolo was born in Alessandria (Italy). He starts his musical studies with Gianpiero Biello in Asti. Then, he kept on studying with Guido Margaria at the Alessandria conservatory “Antonio Vivaldi” and obtained a diploma with “distinctions”. He perfected his formation with other professors as Stefano Grondona, Betho Davezac, and Dusan Bogdanovic. In 2003, he obtained his “Diplôme de Virtuosité” (Concert Diploma) with “congratulations of the Jury” at the Lausanne Conservatory in the professional classes of the Brazilian guitarist Dagoberto Linhares. Then, he is invited to end his studies with a “Diplôme de Soliste” (Soloist Diploma with orchestra), which he obtained with “Congragulations of the Jury”; he also gained the First Price Max Jost dedicated to the best soloist of the year among all instruments.

Alessio Nebiolo is a laureate of several competitions as “Concours Città di Varenna” (1st price), the “International young concert performer competition” (1st price) and the “Verdi competition” (1st price) in Roma, the “International Competition S. Salmaso” in Viareggio (2nd price, 1st not assigned). In 1999, his diploma is considered as one of the three best diplomas among all the Italian conservatories and all the instruments. This distinction offers him the possibility to be invited to perform in a great number of recitals.

Since his debuts in 1995, in the “Palazzo Ottolenghi” (Asti), Alessio Nebiolo has embarked upon an international carrier. He performed in most of all the Italian regions, invited by numbers of festivals.

Since 2001 he has played with the Lausanne Guitar Trio and since 2003 in duo with the accordionist Nadio Marenco. He recorded four CD as soloist, such as ‘Live at Lucerne Festival’ published by the ‘Festival de Lucerne’ and broadcasted by the Swiss radio ‘Espace 2 and two CD with the accordionist Nadio Marenco and with the Lausanne Guitar Trio. At present, Alessio Nebiolo is a guitar teacher at the Geneva Music Conservatory in Switzerland and keeps master classes in Europe, South America and Asia.