Stéphan Aubé

Stéphan Aubé
Stéphan Aubé in 2011
Born
Stéphan Aubé

(1971-11-11) 11 November 1971 (age 53)
Occupation(s)Music video director, pianist
Notable workDVD Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, Digital Concert Hall, Jean-François Zygel TV' shows
Websitehttp://www.stephanaube.com

Stéphan Aubé (born 11 November 1971) is a French Music video director for classical music and pianist.

Biography

Stéphan Aubé started to study piano at the age of five.

He studied at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Boulogne-Billancourt, where he won first prize in Geneviève Ibanez's class, then at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Paris with Billy Eidi and Pierre Reach.

He also studied with Jacques Rouvier, Jean-Marc Luisada, Philippe Cassard, Géry Moutier, Pascal Devoyon, Georges Pludermacher, Jean-François Heisser and Maria Curcio and chamber music repertory with Paul Meyer and Éric Le Sage.

In parallel, he studied ballet from age 8 to 16 with teachers such as Michelle Perrot, Evelyne Wolff and Jacqueline Moreau (from Opéra de Paris) at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Boulogne-Billancourt.

He holds a state diploma for vocal and instrumental accompaniment, and worked at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) as pianist in Julie Kaufmann's opera singing class.

He also works as a vocal coach and takes part in numerous lyric and musical performances, appearing on many stages and festivals.

As a director, he worked for many French TV channels, including arte,[1][2] France Télévisions,[3][4] Mezzo TV,[5][6][7] TV5[8] or for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark),[9] the French label Abeille musique,[10] the French sponsor Mécénat Musical Société Générale (for which he won several prices[11]) and medici.tv,[12][13] and for many labels, such as Universal Classics,[14] Naïve Records,[15] RCA Red Seal / Sony Music, and Outhere.

He works regularly for the Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall and for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.[16]

In 2013, he created the web platform Louisiana Music to present the musical clips he directed for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

In 2014, France Télévisions asked him to direct a concert conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (Monteverdi's Vespers) at the Chapelle royale of Versailles, one of the first concerts filmed in multicameras live in 4K (UHD) and binaural sound.

Recently he directed a film on Bach's Goldberg Variations with pianist Alexandre Tharaud for Warner/Erato and arte for which he won the Echo Award (Germany) as Best DVD of the year 2016.

In 2023, Stéphan Aubé was awarded the Opus Klassik in Germany for making the film Suites for a suffering world with German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff. The film was shown in many cinemas in Germany and was a huge hit with the public.

In 2024, he is appointed as teacher of Audiovisual Analysis, Writing and Directing at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he will teach from September 2024.

Works

TV shows

La leçon de musique de Jean-François Zygel

Les clefs de l'orchestre de Jean-François Zygel

Others

Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall

Concerts

Operas

DVD

La leçon de musique de Jean-François Zygel

  • Episode Mozart
  • Episode Schubert

Les clefs de l'orchestre de Jean-François Zygel

  • Episode Symphony 103 of Joseph Haydn
  • Episode Boléro of Ravel
  • Episode Pastoral symphony of Beethoven
  • Episode New World Symphony of Anton Dvorak

Other DVD

  • Tribute concert for the 150 years of death of Hector Berlioz under conducting of Sir John Eliot Gardiner (DVD and Blu-ray) released by Chateau de Versailles Spectacles
  • Ernani by Verdi staged by Jean-Louis Grinda - With Ramon Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Alexander Vinogradov and Svetla Vassileva released by ArtHaus Musik
  • Alcina by Haendel staged by Pierre Audi - With Sandrine Piau and Les Talents Lyriques under conducting of Christophe Rousset released by Alpha Classics (Outhere)
  • Vespro della beata vergine by Monteverdi under conducting of John Eliot Gardiner (DVD and Blu-ray) - released by Alpha Classics (outhere)
  • Bach Goldberg Variations with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud - Warner Music / Erato
  • Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen interpreted by the Berlin Junge Philharmonie Orchestra under the conducting of Kristjan Järvi
  • Chamber music of the French composer Guillaume Connesson - Collection Pierre Bergé
  • Works by the great romantics with Daishin Kashimoto, Éric Le Sage, Paul Meyer, François Salque and Jing Zhao - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
  • Frescobaldi Dialogues performed by Francesco Schlime - Abeille musique
  • Joseph Kosma, chansons - Zig-Zag Territoires
  • Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen performed by Roger Muraro - Accor / Universal Music Classic
  • Techno Parade Chamber music of Guillaume Connesson - RCA Red Seal / Sony Music
  • Iannis Xenakis, Autour de la percussion with Pedro Carneiro - Zig-Zag Territoires
  • Intégrale des sonates pour piano of Scriabine - Mécénat Musical Société Générale
  • La musique, une passion, un partage - Mécénat Musical Société Générale

Documentaries

  • Lorin Maazel meets Alice Sara Ott (arte / ZDF)
  • Roger Muraro : Un regard sur Olivier Messiaen (Mezzo)
  • Autour de la percussion de Iannis Xenakis (Mezzo)
  • Joseph Kosma, autour de l'enregistrement (Mezzo)
  • Musique à l'Empéri, un vent de liberté (Mezzo)
  • Entretien avec Guillaume Connesson
  • La musique, une passion, un partage

Webdocumentaries

Films produced by Mécénat Musical Société Générale :

  • Capt'Actions of Ivan Fedele in Théâtre Mogador, Paris
  • Enregistrement du Clavier bien tempéré de Johann Sebastian Bach interpreted by Andreï Vieru
  • Enregistrement des Sept dernières paroles du Christ en croix de Joseph Haydn - Ensemble Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
  • Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
  • Concours Avant-scènes à Radio France
  • Quatuor Ardeo en concert Déclic à Radio France
  • Enregistrement des Sonates de Johannes Brahms interpreted by Lise Berthaud
  • 25 ans du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon
  • La Chambre Philharmonique et Emmanuel Krivine en concert in Cité de la Musique, Paris
  • Musiques des cours ottomane et européennes by Chimène Seymen in Institut du Monde Arabe
  • Festival & Rencontres de musique de chambre du Larzac
  • Musique entre deux temps, les Percussions de Strasbourg
  • Théâtre des Bouffes du nord, un autre visage
  • Festival Aspect des musiques d'aujourd'hui / Caen, "Made in Hungaria"
  • Les Enfants en scène, l'opéra s'invite à l'école
  • Concours International de piano d'Orléans / Concert de prestige 2009
  • Enregistrement du Quintette à deux violoncelles de Schubert with Alain Meunier and the quatuor Psophos

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Boris Giltburg Five Minute Music Library Series

  • Beethoven - The Contra E
  • Beethoven - Boogie-Woogie
  • Grieg - Nature and Emotion
  • Liszt - The Motifs
  • Mussorgsky - The Promenades
  • Piano Technique in 4 minutes
  • Rachmaninov - The Return
  • Rachmaninov - The Riding Hood
  • Rachmaninov - Variation 18
  • Schumann - Arabesque
  • Schumann - Eusebius and Florestan
  • Schumann - The Sphinxes
  • Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky - Double Octaves
  • The Chromatic Scale
  • The Thirds (in two parts)

Série Boris Giltburg Explained

  • Are Études necessary?
  • What is a Sonata?
  • How many keys are there on a piano?
  • Who was Elise (en deux parties)
  • Why do you wear a tailcoat?
  • Playing by heart
  • What is a prelude?
  • Pedals (en deux parties)
  • Clapping
  • Black & white keys

Musical Clips

  • 4 videoclips with Emmanuel Pahud : Bach, Allegro from Sonata in A minor - Debussy, Syrinx - Ferroud, Jade from Trois pieces for solo flute - Tchaikovsky, Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin
  • Core and Tide with the Danish cellist Josefine Opsahl
  • Mirages and Winter Sun with Palle Mikkelborg, Michael Riessler and Wayne Siegel
  • Presto from Quartet No. 7 in D major by Franz Schubert with the Modigliani Quartet
  • Mussorgsky - Baba Yaga performed by Andreas Haefliger, extract from Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mussorgsky - Chicks performed by Andreas Haefliger, extract from Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Hindemith - Sonata for viola with Lise Berthaud
  • Paganini - Caprice 5 and 24 with Sergey Malov
  • Chamber Music of Guillaume Connesson (Chants de l'Agartha, Chants de l'Atlantide, Constellations) with Jérôme Pernoo, Jérôme Ducros [fr]...
  • Christian Poltéra - Bach, Suite n°1, Sarabande
  • Karen Gomyo and Christian Poltéra - Honegger, Sonatine for violin and cello
  • Karen Gomyo - Piazzola, Tango-Étude for violin
  • Sergey Malov - Bach, Invention 1 - Sinfonia 6
  • Denis Kozhukhin - Prokofiev, Precipitato (3rd movement from 7th Sonata for piano) - First Prize at the 3rd Festival Pasqua de Cervera (Spain)
  • Boris Giltburg - Rachmaninov, Prelude op. 23 N°7 - 4014 awarded as Best Music Video of American festival Directors Circle Festival of Shorts
  • Palle Mikkelborg - Capricorne
  • Pyramid with Palle Mikkelborg, Michael Riessler and Wayne Siegel
  • Octet by Felix Mendelssohn with Sergey Malov

Concerts

  • Brahms - Trio with clarinet, cello and piano with Paul Meyer, Jing Zhao and Eric Le Sage
  • Brahms - Trio with horn, violin and piano with Bruno Schneider, Daishin Kashimoto and Eric Le Sage
  • Fauré - Quartet with piano with Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque and Eric Le Sage
  • Franck - Quintet with piano with Guy Braunstein, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque and Eric Le Sage
  • Haendel - Passacaille with Daishin Kashimoto and Jing Zhao
  • Schumann - Quartet with piano with Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque and Eric Le Sage
  • Schumann - Quintet with piano with Guy Braunstein, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, François Salque and Eric Le Sage
  • Weber - Grand Duo Concertant with Paul Meyer and Eric Le Sage

Musical clips for several labels

Achievements

  • 2023: Opus Klassik Innovation Prize for Sustainability for Suites for a suffering world
  • 2023: the film Suites for a suffering world is nominated for the Golden Prague, the 33rd Vienna Film Festival and the 12th Deauville Green Awards in official competition
  • 2016: Echo Award for the best DVD of the year 2016 Bach - Goldberg Variations with Alexandre Tharaud (2016)[18]
  • 2016: Diapason d'Or and Choc de Classica for the DVD Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdy under conducting of John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2015: Best Music Video in American festival Directors Circle Festival of Shorts for the film 4014
  • 2013: First Prize for the music clip Precipitato starring the pianist Denis Kozhukhin at the 3rd 3rd Festival Pasqua de Cervera, Spain
  • 2011: Choc Classica for the DVD Musique de chambre by Guillaume Connesson
  • 2006: Choc de Classica for Jean-François Zygel's DVD (Haydn, Boléro and Schubert)
  • 2005: Choc du Monde de la Musique and Choc de Classica for the DVD Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen with Roger Muraro
  • 2005: Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique and 10 de répertoire Classica for the DVD Techno Parade by Guillaume Connesson
  • 2004: Top Com d'Or of Paris
  • 2003: Prix Frères Lumière in Festival international des médias audiovisuels corporate du Creusot for the DVD of the 15 years anniversary of Mécénat Musical Société Générale
  • 2000: Dauphin de Bronze in Festival Comunica de Deauville for 2 films of internal communication of Mécénat Musical Société Générale (2000)

References

  1. ^ arte official Website[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Classique news website Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Website of the French channel France 5
  4. ^ Website of the French company Point du Jour Archived 2012-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Website of the French channel Mezzo
  6. ^ classique news website Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Website of Europe Images[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Website of télévision.org
  9. ^ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Website
  10. ^ Stéphan Aubé official Website
  11. ^ Website of the French company Euteka Archived 2008-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Medici.tv Website
  13. ^ Medici.tv Website
  14. ^ "Ramifications' Website". Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
  15. ^ Website of Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
  16. ^ Stéphan Aubé official Website
  17. ^ Culture Box Website
  18. ^ Echo Klassik Official Website