PRIMA Abend Oboe

"Hommage à Gilles Silvestrini"

Works from solo to quintet instrumentation by
Joseph Haydn · Eugène Bozza · Robert Schumann · Richard Strauss ·  Buhoslav Martinů · Luciano Berio · Gilles Silvestrini 

Gilles Silvestrini was born in 1961 in Givet in the Département Ardennes in the Grand Est region. He is a French composer of contemporary music and oboist. He has received commissions for chamber music from numerous institutions such as the Festival de Flaine, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musique nouvelle en liberté France Musique and others.
His Études (1997) were part of the programme for the entrance examination for the oboe class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon in 2014 and are now part of the standard repertoire of every oboist. All six etudes are inspired by impressionist paintings. Thanks to Silvestrini's lively approach to the oboe and its virtuosity, the "Six études pour hautbois", with their many different musical and technical challenges, enjoy great popularity.

Students of the class Prof. Juri Vallentin