Arthur Hinnewinkel, Sinfonia Varsovia & Marc Coppey
Biographie Arthur Hinnewinkel, Sinfonia Varsovia & Marc Coppey
Arthur Hinnewinkel
Born in the United States in 2000, Arthur Hinnewinkel began playing the piano at the age of 7 in Singapore. In France, he entered the Conservatoire Régional de Rueil with Chantal Riou and then the Conservatoire Régional de Paris with Anne-Lise Gastaldi, during which time he won his first competition prizes (Concours Flame, Claude Kahn, Île-de-France) before being admitted at the age of 15 to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris to refine his skills in the class of Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Fernando Rossano, as well as in chamber music with Claire Désert, François Salque, Maria Belooussova, and Itamar Golan.
He performs as a soloist or chamber musician at major French festivals (Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Easter and August Festivals in Deauville, Wissembourg Festival, Chopin Festival in Paris, Musique à La Prée Festival, Classicaval Festival in Val d’Isère, Pont-Croix Festival…), as well as at the Guimet Museum, the Museum of Romantic Life, Teatro di Marcello in Rome, and the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris, and on the radio for Génération France Musique and the 8 PM Concerts.
In 2023, he was a finalist in the Clara Haskil Competition and received the Special Modern Times Prize, and in February 2024, he was awarded the Thierry Scherz and André Hoffman Prizes at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, through which he will record a disc dedicated to the piano and orchestra works of Robert Schumann with the Claves label.
Arthur is an Artist in Residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
Marc Coppey
attracted the attention of the musical world when, at the age of 18, he won the two highest prizes in the Leipzig Bach Competition - the First Prize and the Special Prize for the best Bach interpretation.
He made his debut in Moscow and then in Paris in the Tchaikovsky Trio with Yehudi Menuhin and Victoria Postnikova, in a concert filmed by Bruno Monsaingeon. Rostropovich invited him to the Evian Festival, and from then on his international solo career unfolded with the greatest orchestras, conducted by Eliahu Inbal, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Emmanuel Krivine and Alan Gilbert, Christian Arming, Lionel Bringuier, Alain Altinoglu, Michel Plasson, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Theodor Guschlbauer, John Nelson, Raymond Leppard, Erich Bergel, Philippe Entremont, Pascal Rophé, Philippe Bender, Paul McCreesh, Yutaka Sado, Kirill Karabits and Asher Fisch.
A keen chamber musician, he explores the repertoire with Maria-João Pires, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicholas Angelich, François-Frédéric Guy, Nelson Goerner, Victoria Mullova, Liana Gourdjia, Valeriy Sokolov, Ilya Gringolts, Lawrence Power, Janos Starker, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Michel Portal, Emmanuel Pahud and the Tokyo, Takacs, Prazak, Ebène and Talich Quartets. He was also cellist with the Ysaÿe Quartet for five years.
Marc Coppey‘s repertoire illustrates his great curiosity: while he frequently performs the complete Bach Suites and the great concerto repertoire, he also introduces a number of rarer works. He gives first performances of works by Auerbach, Bertrand, Christian, Durieux, Fedele, Fénelon, Hurel, Jarrell, Krawczyk, Lenot (concerto), Leroux, Mantovani, Monnet (concerto), Pauset, Pécou, Reverdy, Tanguy (1st concerto) and Verrières, and gives the French premiere of concertos by Carter, Mantovani and Tüür.
As a conductor, Marc Coppey works regularly with the Deutsche Kammerakademie and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, as well as with the Zagreb Soloists, of which he was Musical Director.
Marc Coppey has recorded works by Beethoven, Debussy, Emmanuel, Fauré, Grieg and Strauss for the Auvidis, Decca, Harmonia Mundi and K617 labels. Marc Coppey reconciles his career as a soloist with a concern for teaching: he is a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and gives masterclasses all over the world. He is artistic director of the ‘Musicales’ festival in Colmar, and since 2011 has been musical director of the Solistes de Zagreb orchestra.
Born in Strasbourg, Marc Coppey studied at the Conservatoire of his home town, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and Indiana University, Bloomington (USA).
He plays a cello by Matteo Goffriller (Venice 1711).
Sinfonia Varsovia
has been an ambassador of Polish musical culture since its inception. For over 40 years, the Orchestra has been a regular guest on foreign and domestic stages. Its foreign travels include thousands of meetings with conductors, composers, soloists, and finally – audiences.
The ensemble continues the tradition of Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Polish Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1972, from which it emerged as a result of its enlargement. The impulse to expand the ensemble was provided in 1984 by the arrival of the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who soon took over as the first guest conductor at the invitation of directors Franciszek Wybrańczyk and Waldemar Dąbrowski. “Working with no other orchestra gave me as much satisfaction as my work, as soloist and conductor, with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra” – he said in interviews.
Over the years, Sinfonia Varsovia has played more than 4,000 concerts, performing in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Emmanuel Krivine, Witold Lutosławski, Lorin Maazel, Jerzy Maksymiuk and Krzysztof Penderecki (who in 1997 became the music director, and in June 2003 the artistic director of the ensemble), and alongside such soloists as Piotr Anderszewski, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Gidon Kremer, Nikolai Lugansky, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maria João Pires and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Sinfonia Varsovia has made more than 300 records, including for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, Sony, and Warner. The recorded repertoire includes works from the 18th century to the present day. A special place in the Orchestra’s concert program is occupied by the works of Polish composers; it has premiered numerous works by composers such as Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Paweł Mykietyn and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Sinfonia Varsovia has initiated a competition for the architectural design of a music center with the largest concert hall in Poland. The investment is being made with financial support of the Capital City of Warsaw.
Since 2004, the director’s duties have been performed by Janusz Marynowski.
