ACCOMPANISTS | enacaprovins

Accompanists are present during classes, according to the wishes of the professors.

They are also available outside of classes for rehearsals of assigned repertoire, as recommended by your professor.

If you would like additional time with them, you may reserve it on your application.

Haruka OGAWA

With a rich sonic palette and a gushing creativity, Ogawa Haruka lives her passion fully, and loves to communicate that to as many people as possible. In order to devote her life to music, she went at the age of 15 to Europe, and settled in Paris.

Following an unerring path, she won brilliantly the First Prize of the City of Marseille, followed soon afterwards by the First Prize in both piano and chamber music (under Michel Béroff and Eric Le Sage) at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris (Paris Conservatory) in 2008 . She has also won prizes in prestigious international competitions, including Ettlingen and Namur.

With her lively and imaginative phrasing, this artist draws the listener into a completely new dimension.

Haruka Ogawa is in charge of the piano classes at l’Ecole de Musique du Provinois - Conservatoire de la Communauté de Communes, since January of 2012.

Etsuko SHOJI

Born in Tokyo (Japan), Etsuko began playing the piano at the age of 7 . Early on she discovered the harp , and from then on hers is a story of undying passion for that instrument.

In 1991, she graduated from the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo (Geidai ) in Ayako SINOZAKI's class.

During these studies, she won the 3rd prize at the International Competition of Japan - Professional section - and the first prize in the for Harp Sonata Competition at the Aspen Music School (USA). She gave many concerts and recitals in Japan , including a performance of the Handel Concerto at Suntory Hall. She can also be heard in the Concerto for Flute and Harp by Mozart, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo. She often travels with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Europe and Asia.

In 2001, Etsuko moved to France to perfect her craft and perfect her knowledge of Western music, by joining the class of Isabelle Perrin at the Ecole Normale .

In 2002 she won the 1st Prize at the European Music Competition , and the first Honor Award in the international competition of UFAM in France .

Among her distinctions: the fourth prize at the International Harp Competition "Arpista Ludovico" in Spain in 2003 and the Special Prize for the contemporary work at the International Harp Competition in Israel. To crown her achievements in music, in 2004 she graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris with a unanimously awarded "Diplôme de Concertiste".

She gives concerts and solo recitals regularly in France and Japan, notably during the festival "Un été à Bourges" in 2004 and 2005. Passionate about chamber music, she has collaborated with the musical saw in duet with Jacques Rézard. She also plays with several singers, in order to present rare or unknown repertoire. As an orchestral musician, she has worked in the Orchestre National de France , Orchestre National des Pays de Loire and the Orchestre National de Lorraine .

Education and the transmission of knowledge about the harp is a priority for her. In 2009 , she joined the Ecole de Musique du Provinois - Conservatoire de la Communauté de Communes, thereby creating and opening a class in harp . Etsuko Shoji has also taught since 2012 at the Conservatory of the 14th Arrondissement of Paris.

Nicolas HEIM

Nicolas Heim began piano lessons at the age of 13 at the Ecole Municipale de Champs-sur-Marne. Named Distingué in a regional competition, he then began to study seriously and within a few years he entered the Conservatoire du Val Maubuée in the class Brigitte Guillard, where he obtained a Diploma of Musical Studies in piano and a First Prize in chamber music.

He was then admitted to the Conservatoire Régional d' Aubervilliers - La Courneuve in Hubert Guillard's class. He had the chance to meet great artists in master classes, such as Frederick Aguessy, Hortense Cartier- Bresson, Flavio Zaccharia, Teresa Trevisan, and Georges Pludermacher, as well as Olga Roumchevitch-Moguilevsky and Yevgeny Moguilevsky.

Passionate about éducation, hé was admitted to the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Musique et de Danse de Toulouse where hé got a Diplôme d'Etat in June of 2010, while playing in numerous chamber music concerts.

In May 2011, the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, Nicolas Heim was invited by Jean- Michel Henry and the Orchestre Symphonique du Val Maubuée to play Liszt's Concerto No. 2. In April 2012, Nicolas played the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint -Saëns many times, with students at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons, in the "Bourgeon de Culture" Festival in the city of Estinnes (Belgium). In July of 2012 , he was invited to play the same work in the Festival "Côté cour, côté jar din" of the city of Mons (Belgium) .

With a passion for contemporary music, Nicolas Heim participates regularly in the "Contemporary Keyboard" weekends organized by the City of Paris and under the auspices of Hubert Guillard . There he has been able to meet such composers Stéphane Blet , Jacques Castérède or Frédéric Van Rossum .In April 2013 , Nicolas Heim was invited to play the Concerto No. 24 by Mozart with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Seine-Saint-Denis , under the direction of Claude Henri Fantapié .

He also played Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in Paris in May of 2013 the under the direction of David Molard and the Orchestre " Music Seine " .He finished his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he obtained a Master with "Distinction" in the class of Clini Rosella and Alexander Moguilevsky .

Since September of 2013 he has been professor of piano at the Ecole de Musique du Provinois - Conservatoire de la Communauté de Communes.