Edelmann
Duo
Rachel Stroud (violin) and Lucie de Saint Vincent (fortepiano) explore the sound world of late-18th and early-19th-century France on period instruments. They perform repertoire from the genre of keyboard sonatas with violin accompaniment – a performance practice which is now lost to us today.
They perform regularly in France, Switzerland, England and the Netherlands. Recent concert engagements in the Netherlands include performances in Den Haag, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Dordrecht as part of the Van Swieten Concert Society, the 'Musica Antica da Camera' concert series, and the Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival. They have also performed in Le Grand Salon D'Honneur, Les Invalides and the Musée de la Musique in Paris, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and in the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva.
The Duo also regularly collaborate with academics and have performed at a range of academic conferences, including a colloque dedicated to the works of Daniel Steibelt at the Bibliothèque Marmottan in Paris, and as part of an annual conference on the subject of the composers for the piano following the French Revolution at Les Invalides, Paris.
The Duo Edelmann have also made several recordings, including the first recording of Ignaz Ladurner’s Sonata No. 2, oeuvre 5 in A major using a unique facsimile of an Erard 1802 ''en forme de clavecin'' by Christopher Clarke by kind permission of the Musée de la Musique in Paris. They recently returned to Paris to record the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 30, No. 2.
Rachel Stroud
Rachel Stroud is a baroque violinist, and a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College, Cambridge University. After graduating with a first-class degree from Cambridge in 2010, Rachel toured for a year with the European Union Baroque Orchestra before studying at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. She works professionally as a freelance violinist alongside her academic studies, and has performed all over the world with orchestras such as OAE, Brecon Baroque, Ex Cathedra and Les Passions de l’Ame, amongst others. Her research interests include the roles of sociality, agency and objects in performance, and she is currently investigating the relationship between notation and performance in Beethoven’s late string quartets. She is a lead convenor of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network, and in April 2016 co-organised a two-day international conference (‘Performing Knowledge’) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Most recently, Rachel was invited to the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, to take part in a string-quartet workshop with Margaret Faultless (Cambridge, RAM), Elisabeth LeGuin (UCLA) and Tom Beghin (McGill, Orpheus Institute) to explore the idea of ‘socially-informed performance’ through Haydn’s string quartets.
Lucie de Saint Vincent
Lucie de Saint Vincent, French pianist, specialises in fortepiano performance. She began her piano studies in the conservatory of Perpignan. After graduating in 2000, she studied in the “Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris” with Francoise Thinat and then with Denis Pascal in the conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison. Looking to broaden her horizons and experience, Lucie de Saint Vincent came to the Netherlands in 2004 to study with Paolo Giacometti at the Utrecht Conservatorium where she completed her Bachelor of Piano Performance and her Performance Masters specialized in Art and Education and with Jazz as second subject. While studying in Utrecht Lucie was given the opportunity to spend one year studying at the Academie Liszt of Budapest with Prof. Lantos in Hungary as part of the Erasmus Exchange program.
Having always being attracted to the sound and aesthetic of historical performance, Lucie decided to explore deeper into this field and began studying fortepiano with Bart van Oort at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In June 2010 she received her Bachelor in Performance, and her Masters with honors of the jury in June 2012.
Since 2009, Lucie de Saint Vincent follows regularly the professionals training of the Abbey of Royaumont with Pierre Goy, Jerome Hantai, ALine Zylberajch or Menno van Delft. She discovered with great interest the repertory of the French classical period. It became the subject of her Master resesearch under the leading of Hervé Audéon. Since then, she is willing to make this forgotten repertory rediscovered.
She gives regular concerts in Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and as an accompanist on piano, fortepiano, harpsichord and clavichord. She is the recipient of the ‘’premier Prix musical 2013 de l’ambassadeur de Suisse en France’’ and will perform trios of Werbès and Onslow in the Grand Salon d’honneur of the Invalides in Paris in October 2013 .