NOTE: This concert takes place in Hertz Hall

Wilhem Latchoumia
Recital and new repertoire
Piano & electronics

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Program:

1. JEROME DORIVAL – YANN ORLAREY
La rhétorique des doigts (1991) 10’ piano solo

2. PIERRE JODLOWSKI
Série Blanche (2007) 7' (without Série Noire : Thriller (2006) 10') piano & electronic

3. FRANCK YEZNIKIAN
Par le Noir (The Anatomy of ...) (2010) 4’ piano solo

4. GEORGES APERGHIS
Dans le Mur (2007) 15’ piano & electronic

5. GERARD PESSON
Ambre nous resterons (2008) 5’ piano solo

6. FRANCK BEDROSSIAN
The edges are no longer parallel (new piece 2013) 15’ piano & electronic. Musical production GRAME. Commission GRAME. With the support of Sacem.

This concert is presented by GRAME, national center for new music (Lyon - France), CNMAT and the Department of Music with the support of FACE (French-American Fund for Contemporary Music).

About the pianist:
Wilhem Latchoumia, piano
Born in Lyon in 1974. Wilhem Latchoumia unanimously obtained the Gold Medal at the Conservatoire National de Region of Lyon (Anne-Marie Lamy’s class), then the first Prize with congratulations from the jury at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse of Lyon (Eric Heidsieck’s and Gery Moutier’s classes). He ended his training with Gery Moutier in perfection classes. He was Claude Helffer’s student and followed Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen’s and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s master classes. He held a bachelor’s degree in musicology. Wilhem Latchoumia performs regularly in recitals, in concertos and in chamber music concerts. In France, he has performed at the Musee d’Orsay and at the Cite de la Musique in Paris, in Menton, in Lyon and during periods of residency at Royaumont. He has also been invited to play in many festivals such as the International Festival “Piano aux Jacobins” of Toulouse, the “Annecy Festival Estival et Academies”, the “Musicales Internationales Guil-Durance”, the International Festival “Musique à l’Emperi” in Salon-de-Provence, the International Festival of Besançon, the Orangerie de Sceaux Music Festival, the Piano International Festival of La Roque d’Antheron and the Festival “Jeunes Talents” in Metz.

“A brilliant young pianist: a dramatic elegance, a pallet of sounds, a supple and frank touch”
Télérama (November 2006)