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Alexis Galpérine (born 1955) is a French classical violinist.

Alexis Galpérine in 2016
Alexis Galpérine in 2016

Career


Born in Paris, Galpérine studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Juilliard School in New York. His principal masters were Roland Charmy, Ivan Galamian and Henryk Szeryng. He was laureate of the "Carl Flesch" (London) and "Paganini" (Genoa) competitions and First Prize in the Belgrade Competition. Winner of the Georges Enesco competition of the SACEM, he also holds a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne.

Galpérine was a soloist for the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales,[1] the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sofia soloists, the American Chamber Orchestra[2] and chamber orchestras from Belgrade, Tuscany, Bratislava, Cologne etc. He played notably under the direction of Manuel Rosenthal, Michel Tabachnik, Antoni Ros-Marbà, Bruno Mantovani, Paul Méfano, Charles Groves, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Marcello Viotti, Patrice Fontanarosa, Pierre Roullier, Philippe Bernol[3] etc.

As a chamber musician, he performed at the Library of Congress Summer Festival of Washington D.C.,[4] Musicades de Lyon,[5] the Festival des Arcs [fr], the Nancyphonies [fr], at the Asolo, Siena and Cremona festivals, and in the Radio France concert series. He is a founding member of the American Chamber Players[6][7] an ensemble that was ten years in residence at the Library of Congress. He has given hundreds of concerts for chamber music societies in the United States and Canada. In France, he is a permanent guest artist of the Ensemble Stanislas de Nancy.[8]

Galpérine has premiered more than a hundred works, notably with the ensembles 2e2m and Musicavanti. He is the dedicatee of Paul Méfano's Alone, Laurent Martin [fr]'s Légendes (concerto for violin, wind and choir), Yassen Vodenitcharov's concerto,[9] Frédérik Martin's and Roger Boutry's sonatas, Olivier Greif's Adagio, Carlos Roqué Alsina's Belgirate, and Édouard Souberbielle's quartet, among others.

Cinema called on him and he composed stage music (for Coline Serreau, Benno Besson).

An academic at the Conservatoire de Paris (violin and pedagogy)[10] and the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau,[11] he sits on the juries of international competitions (president of the Ginette Neveu competition in 2013[12]) and gives masterclasses in France and abroad. He was notably invited at the Indiana University Bloomington.[13]

Galpérine is the author of books and musicological articles.[14] He is a member of the editorial board of "La Revue du Conservatoire", president of the Association française des violonistes"(L'Amirésol") and director of the violin collection of Éditions Delatour-France. Since 2017, he has been Honorary President of the Rencontres Musicales du Plateau d'Assy.


Private life


Galpérine is the husband of the writer and lawyer Élise Galpérine [fr].[15]


Discography



Music for films



Filmography



Publications and collaborations



Contribution to various books and projects



Bibliography



References


  1. Le Grand Échiquier [fr], "Les jeunesses musicales"
  2. American Chamber Orchestra
  3. Philippe Bernol
  4. "The Stuff of Virtuosity", The Washington Post, 19 June 1985 and "The Delights of Chamber Festival", The Washington Post, 20 June 1987
  5. Les Musicades
  6. "American Chamber Players' Debut", Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1989.
  7. Hughes, Allen (8 November 1985). "Music: American Chamber Players". The New York Times. p. 22.
  8. Gérard Condé, L'Ensemble Stanislas, Le Monde, 4 May 1999.
  9. "Yassen Vodenitcharov: Concerto pour violon (1998)" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.
  10. "Official website of the CNSM". Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  11. Official website of the Fontainebleau Schools
  12. Official website of the city of Avignon
  13. "Université d'Indiana" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  14. Défense de Léon Bloy, Alexis Galpérine, Le Figaro, 27 November 2013.
  15. "Les Galpérine : la plume et l'archet". "Histoire et Recherche d'Issy-les-Moulineaux" (in French). October 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2018.




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