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A moment out of time with the most romantic composer in the intimate setting of this splendid church in the heart of the Latin Quarter.
Chopin
– Nocturne op. 48 2
– Impromptu n° 2 op. 36
– Nocturne op. 55 1
– Trois Nouvelles Études, B. 130
– Scherzo n° 4 op. 54
– Prelude op. 45
– Variations "Là ci darem la mano" op. 2.
Born in 2000, Mathis Cathignol graduated from the CNSM de Paris in 2022 with a master’s degree in piano, awarded the highest honours unanimously, having studied with Florent Boffard, Claire Désert, Romano Pallottini and Roger Muraro. He is currently a student in the first year of an accompanying master's degree at the CNSM in the class of Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Yumi Otsu, and continues to study piano with Célimène Daudet and Bernard d'Ascoli.
Before joining Conservatoire de Paris, Mathis was, from 2009 to 2017, the student of Michel Leduc at the Conservatory of Aix-en-Provence, where he obtained his DEM in 2014. He has won numerous international competitions (Montrond-les-Bains, 2015, category under nineteen, first prize; Flame, 2016, first special prize; Maisons-Laffitte, 2016, category «Superior», first prize; Chatou, 2020, second prize; Cognac, 2023, first prize; Pianissima, 2024, first prize; Collioure, 2024, second prize) and received in 2015 the first prize Gabriel Dussurget "Young Hope", awarded by the association Gabriel Dussurget. In December 2024, Mathis won first prize at the prestigious Pierre Barbizet competition in Marseille. Mathis has been a soloist three times, from 2014 to 2017, with the orchestra of the conservatory of Aix en-Provence, in the Deuxième Concerto de Beethoven, the Deuxième Concerto de Rachmaninov and the Premier Concerto de Brahms.
More recently, he has played Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Ballade de Fauré in Paris, as well as Ravel’s Solo Concerto in Moldova. He has also given recitals in 2016 and in 2017 at the Abbey of Lavaudieu (43); annually between 2015 and 2023, at the Music Festival in the street of Aix-en-Provence; in 2019, at the Institut Goethe de Lyon; in 2021, in Vars (05), as part of the Music festival in Vars as well as in Vallouise (05), at the Music festival in boxes; between 2022 and 2024, at the église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in Paris; in December 2022, at the Hotel Roi-René in Aix-en-Provence; in January 2023, at the Salon de musique in Courbevoie; in August 2023 in the auditorium Campra du Conservatoire of Aix-en Provence; in August 2023 also, in Lunel-Viel (34), at the festival Un piano sous les arbres; in 2024, at the pavilion of Artois and at the temple of the Foyer de l'Âme