«Tutti Cambristi» chamber music workshop in Blonay

The 2023 « Tutti Cambristi » workshop organized by Cambristi Lemani will take place at the Centre Musical Hindemith in Blonay (Vaud, Switzerland)

The professional musicians hired to coach are

All instruments and all levels are welcome.

There will be four work sessions (1:30 each) on Saturday and three on Sunday. Each participant will have at least three coached sessions during the week-end.
The registration fee includes full board accommodation at the Centre Musical Hindemith. Ad hoc musical activities (play-ins) will take place on Friday and the Saturday evenings.
On Sunday afternoon, an informal concert will allow each group to demonstrate their spectacular progress!

The registration fee (double room, 2 nights, full board) is

The registration deadline is Sept 1st 2023. Places are limited!

Priority will be given to preformed ensembles who wish to improve their repertoire. If this is your case, please indicate the names of your partners and the pieces you want to work on (see registration form under “other remarks for the organisers”).
It is also possible to register as an individual, but the registration will only be confirmed if we manage to form a consistent group with other participants (in terms of playing levels), and to find a suitable score.

The registration will be confirmed upon payment of the full fee. Cancellation is free until September 15. After this date, we will not be able to provide any refund, as we will have to hire a professional musician as a substitute.

All participants are required to have a personal public liability insurance.

This program has been made possible, in part, with support from ACMP Associated Chamber Music Players.

For more information, please write to: info@cambristi-lemani.ch

Biographies of the coaches

Gueorgui Popov, piano
A versatile pianist and musician, Gueorgui Popov studied at Sofia conservatory, and later pursued his studies with Henry Gautier and Harry Datyner in Geneva, as well as Yvonne Lefébure in Paris.

He plays in various ensembles and as an accompaniment pianist.

A former professor at the Lausanne Conservatoire and at Conservatoire populaire in Geneva, he remains passionate about teaching, in the spirit as a mutual enrichment.

Camille André, oboe
Born in France, Camille André began playing the oboe aged 9 at the Conservatoire de Région in Lyon, with Brigitte Voidey, Olivier Hue and César Ognibene. She also studied classical guitar with Jesus Castro Balbi and achieved degrees with distinction in both instruments. She then joined Alexeï Ogrintchouk's class at Geneva HEM school.
During that time, she played with the French Youth Orchestra, Geneva Sinfonietta, then spent a year training with the Orchestre Théâtre de Bienne Soleure. She is interested in historical instruments, which led her to join the European Youth Orchestra - Hector Berlioz in 2018, an to play JS Bach's double concerto BWV1060 alongside Nigel Kennedy in Geneva and Lausanne.
Passionate about the symphonic repertoire, Camille André, regularly plays with Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Lausanne Sinfonietta and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, she also plays with the Orchestre d’Harmonie de l’État de Genève, la Fontana Cantabile, Tunisian Symphony Orchestra, etc. She forms the Duo Almaderas (oboe/guitar) with Percy Castro Castillo, and regularly performs baroque repertoire with Roland Perrenoud, Céleste-Marie Roy and Paolo Corsi.
Since 2021 she is oboe teacher at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva.

Clémentine Leblanc, violin
Clementine Leblanc was born in 1988 in Fontainebleau, her father an amateur cellist, her mother a music lover. After graduating in Paris, she studied in Lausanne and Geneva with Gunars Larsens and Marie Annick Nicolas. She also obtained an Advanced Studies Diploma in Orchestral Performance with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and regularly plays with them since 2018.
A versatile musician, Clémentine embraces many areas of music:
her main activity is in orchestral music, playing with Orchestre National de Lille, Les Siècles, Reims Opera, Orchestre des Nations, Microcosme ensemble, orchestre Pasdeloup, etc.
She also recently created a string quartet in the Geneva region and played around Switzerland with OSR's caravan stage.
She co-authored the music for the play "Le Loup du Bois de Chêne" performed by Rupille7 theater company.
Teaching music to amateurs is one of her favorite activities, teaching violin and chamber music to adults, preparing and coaching the violin section at the Lausanne Sinfonietta as consertmaster. She devoted her Master's thesis in pedagogy to the question of learning music as an adult.

Beatriz Raimundo, violoncelle
Beatriz Raimundo is a portuguese cellist who started her musical studies with Catherine Strynckx at the National Conservatory in Lisbon. Chamber music is at the center of her musical activity, playing with Quarteto Tejo, 1st prize winner at Prémio Jovens Músicos competition in 2019.
As a soloist, she has won a first prize at the Vasco Barbosa competition and a third prize at Prémio Jovens Músicos competition in 2021; in 2016, she was awarded a first prize at the International Competition of Cidade do Fundão. Outside the classical repertoire, Beatriz Raimundo is frequently involved in contemporary music projects (ensemble Ulysses 2021) and popular music with the latino folk band Barlovento Sur.
In 2015, she joined the class of Ophélie Gaillard at the Haute École de Musique (HEM) in Geneva, from which she graduated with top grades in 2018.
She spent the first year of her master in pedagogy in the class of Hans Jakob-Eschenburg at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler and was awarded the « Anne et Marthe Torcapel » prize for her final recital in 2020. In 2022 she completed a second master as composer-performer in the class of Joshua Hyde in Geneva. After working as cello coordinator within the NEOJIBA project in Salvador da Bahía, she now pursues her artistic projects as a freelancer in Europe.