#OxOnSong Collaborators
Catriona Seth
Project lead
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature. Her research interests include the history of ideas, French literature of the long 18th-century (particularly 1760-1820), contemporary fiction in French, autobiographical writing, and Medical humanities.
Fred Thibault-Starzyk is Directeur de Recherche in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is a chemist, working in spectroscopy in catalysis. Catalysts, and especially zeolites, are amongst the main tools for the chemical industry. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy allows observing molecules during their reaction on the surface of the catalysts. Very fast spectroscopy shows the creation of chemical bonds and the unique intermediate species appearing during the reaction. Fred Thibault-Starzyk designed experimental methods for understanding the surface chemistry induced by light, microwave or plasma for a new energy efficient and sustainable chemistry.
Laura Tunbridge
I teach 19th- and 20th-century music history and analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Recent undergraduate lecture courses include Richard Strauss and the Representation of Women, The String Quartet after Beethoven, The Art of Song, and Musical Thought and Scholarship. Masters’ seminars have included Aesthetics, Music and Travel, and Love Songs: The Past 900 Years.
Musician
Anna Sideris is a lyric coloratura soprano working throughout Europe on the opera stage and recital platform, recognized for her dramatically engaging performances and richness of tone. Anna read music at Oxford University; where she participated in masterclasses with Renée Fleming and Toby Spence. She obtained her Masters from Royal Academy of Music and graduated from the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2017.
Musician
Eloïse Bella Kohn is a regular guest at France’s most prominent concert venues, such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cité de la Musique, Auditorium de Radio France, La Roque d’Anthéron, and the Festival International d’Art lyrique in Aix-en-Provence.
Recipient of a Young Talent award from Diapason magazine in 2016 and a Yamaha Artist since 2018, she makes regular appearances as a studio guest on France Musique, France 2, France 3, IDAGIO Global Concert Hall, and other radio channels such as BBC Radio 3, RTS Suisse, Ö1, RBB Kultur, SWR2, NDR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
She is invited to perform at major European concert houses, such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the Stavanger Konserthus in Norway, and the Liszt Academy in Budapest. She has shared successful collaborations with the Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, the Accentus Choir, under Jean-Claude Casadesus, Laurent Campellone, Thomas Koncz, Florian Csizmadia, and Gábor Hontvári. During the 2017/18 season, Eloïse Bella Kohn was part of the renowned ECHO Rising Stars series, performing at Konserthuset Stockholm, Sage Gateshead, UK, and the Müpa in Budapest.
She collaborates with chamber music partners such as Noah Bendix-Balgley, Bruno Delepelaire, Daniel Ottensamer, Félix Dervaux – soloists of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam – as well as Nobuko Imai, Arabella Steinbacher, Christiane Karg, Renaud Capuçon, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Michel Portal and Eric Le Sage.
Born in Paris in 1991, she studied at the Paris CNSM with Michel Béroff, Eric Le Sage, David Fray and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She also studied music theory with Thierry Escaich. She continued her studies at the University of Music in Freiburg, Germany and at the University of Music Vienna with Lilya Zilberstein. She received important musical impulses during masterclasses with Aldo Ciccolini, Dmitri Bashkirov, Thomas Adès, Robert Levin, Christian Zacharias, and Sir András Schiff.
With Christoph Koncz she co-founded the Europäische Musiktage Heidelberg chamber music festival.
In 2018 her first album featuring Debussy’s 24 Préludes was released by Hänssler Classic ; it was awarded a prestigious “CHOC de Classica” and was nominated in three categories for the German OPUS KLASSIK 2019 music award. Her second album was released in 2021 by Hänssler Classic and features Bach’s Art of the Fugue with a new completion by Thierry Escaich. Her album alongside the Accentus Choir featuring works by Saint-Saëns and Hahn will be released in 2022 by Alpha Classics.
Daniel Propper
Musician
Daniel Propper is a Swedish pianist of Austrian origins born in Stockholm. He studied at an early age with Gunnar Hallhagen and was later encouraged by Tatiana Nikolaieva. As a prize-winner of many competitions and grants he completed his musicals studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm, at Juilliard School in New York and at the Paris Conservatory.
He performs internationally with artists such as Alexander Brussilovsky, Julian Milkis, Anton Martynov, Mark Drobinsky, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Noël Lee, Emmanuel Krivine, Yutoka Sado and many others.
His many recordings include the Goldberg Variations by Bach, the Lyric Pieces by Grieg, ‘Echoes from the Battlefield’, featuring music linked to Napoleon, as well as contemporary music and chamber music.
Philippe Cantor
Musician
Philippe Cantor started his career in ancient music in “La Grande Ecurie & la Chambre du Roy » with Jean-Claude Malgoire and in various ensembles such as “Clément Janequin” and “Les Arts florissants”. He won the Rennes 1992 Prize for the part of Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and worked on music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and created contemporary music with Antoine Duhamel, Pierre Jansen and Jean-Claude Wolf. Philippe now sings opera (Compagnie Fêtes Galantes - Béatrice Massin / Teatro Malandro - Omar Porras), baroque music (Ensemble baroque de Nice - Gilbert Bezzina / Ensemble Fuoco E Cenere - Jay Bernfeld / Ensemble Stradivaria – Daniel Cuiller) and chamber music (Quatuor Debussy / Ens. Orpheon – Philippe Forget), and solo recitals with pianists Sophie Rives (3 albums on Debussy, Poulenc et Ravel with Anima Records label), Mara Dobresco, Didier Puntos, Jean-François Ballèvre, Daniel Propper (album on Lamartine set to music by his contemporaries).
