Jean Ferrandis, flute

Linda Mark, piano
with Carol Wincenc, flute

Barcarolle Melancolique — Charles Edouard Lefebvre (1843-1917)

Sonata in A Minor “Arpeggione” — Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Variations on a theme of Corelli for two flutes — Michel Blavet (1700-1768)

Sonata in E minor, Op. 2, No. 1 — Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)

Sonata in F Major, Op. 24, “Spring” — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Fantasie after Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata — Giulio Briccaldi (1818-1881)

Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
The Lighthouse
111 East 59th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)
New York City

Program subject to change

French soloist and conductor Jean Ferrandis enjoys an international career that takes him throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He has presented recitals, performed chamber music, and appeared as soloist with orchestra in such prestigious concert halls as Alice Tully Hall, the Salle Pleyel and Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Taipei Arts Center, Wigmore Hall in London, La Fenice in Venice, Hamarikyu Hall in Tokyo, the Vigado in Budapest, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, and the Moscow Tschaikovsky Conservatory. He has been invited to numerous festivals, including the Lanaudière in Canada, Switzerland’s Sion Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Midem Festival in Cannes, and the Berlioz Festival in Lyon. His chamber music collaborators have included Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Jean Philippe Collard, and Emile Naoumoff. His appearances at the 2006 National Flute Association convention in Pittsburgh included a gala headliner concert in Heinz Hall and a master class.

Jean Ferrandis is professor of flute at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He regularly presents master classes in Japan, the United States, and Korea, and this fall also appeared in Taiwan and South Africa. As a conductor he leads the St. Petersburg Camerata in Russia and the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius, Lithuania, with which he has recorded flute concertos of C.P.E. Bach. His other recordings include Mozart’s complete flute concertos (with Marie-Pierre Langlamet, solo harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic), works of Honegger and d’Indy, Schubert’s sonatinas and the “Arpeggione” sonata, and a two-disc set of works for flute by Yuko Uebayashi.

Jean Ferrandis received his first prize from the Lyon Conservatoire, where he studied with Maxence Larrieu. A prize winner at such as international competitions as Munich, Maria Canals in Barcelona, and Young Concert Artists in New York, he was awarded the grand prize at the 1986 Prague Spring Festival International Flute Competition. Leonard Bernstein was so impressed by his performance of the adagio from Mozart’s D major concerto that he remarked “It is Pan himself!” and subsequently composed a cadenza for Mr. Ferrandis.