For 50 years, the Nuits du Château de la Moutte have been bringing Saint-Tropez to life in the moonlight, between the courtyard, the palm grove and the Canebiers beach, with concerts of classical, baroque, jazz and world music. A magical rendezvous under the stars.
The Romantic spirit, around Émile Ollivier
At the heart of our story: romantic passion. Astrig Siranossian and Nathanaël Gouin combine elegance and passion in a program specially conceived for the festival. They will bring to life the music loved by Émile Ollivier, around his father-in-law Liszt, his brother-in-law Wagner, and the passionate, lyrical Russian soul of Rachmaninov.
Introduction by Stéphane Bern: Tribute to Emile Ollivier
To mark the festival's 50th anniversary and Emile Ollivier's bicentenary,
come and discover some of the secrets of his life and castle.
Astrig Siranossian (Cello)
First Prize and several times Special Prize winner at the K. Penderecki International Competition, Astrig Siranossian performs as a soloist with major orchestras. A regular guest of Daniel Barenboim, her stage partners include no less than Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Kirill Gernstein, Elena Bashkirova and Emmanuel Pahud. She performs regularly on the greatest stages: Philharmonie de Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, KKL Luzerne, Casino de Bâle, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Philharmonie de Berlin, Flagey Brussels, Théâtre Colon Buenos Aires , Kennedy Center Washington... A regular guest on TV channels (TF1, France 2, France 5, CultureBox TV, BR Kultur...), her recordings are unanimously acclaimed by the press.
October 2022 saw the release of her album Duo-Solo, an encounter between popular melodies and dances, and a scholarly repertoire featuring a dialogue between cello and voice.
2021, with her stage partner Nabil Shehata, she records the first concerto by C. Saint-Saëns for the Alpha Classics label. In 2020, the same label released "Dear Mademoiselle", a tribute to Nadia Boulanger with pianists Nathanaël Gouin and Daniel Barenboim, which received international acclaim.
Since 2015, she has been artistic director of "Musicades", a festival in her hometown of Romans sur Isère that mirrors music with the arts.
In 2019, she created the "Spidak Sevane" mission, which uses music to help children in Lebanon and Armenia.
In 2023, she will become artistic director of the Adèle Clément cello festival in the Drôme region of France.
In 2024, Astrig will direct the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Festival in Trouville.
Astrig Siranossian was born into a family of musicians. Admitted to the C.N.R. de Lyon, she continued her studies at the C.N.S.M. de Lyon, graduating at the age of eighteen with a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures, with congratulations from the jury. In Switzerland, at the Basel Conservatory, she completed her training in Ivan Monighetti's class, passing her master concert and master soloist with the highest honors.
She plays a 1676 cello by Francesco Ruggieri, generously loaned by the Boubo Music Foundation, and a 1756 cello by Geinaro Gagliano, once owned by Sir John Barbirolli.
Nathanaël Gouin (Piano)
Nathanaël Gouin has established himself as "one of the greatest talents on the French piano" (L'humanité), praised for "the marvellous invention of his sonorities" (Classica) and his "interpretations of great nobility" (Diapason).
Released in September 2020, his second recital disc, "Bizet sans Paroles" (Mirare), won critical acclaim and a Diapason d'or, while Le Monde saw it as "the confirmation of a magnificent musician" and "an undeniable success". Nathanaël Gouin's first album, Liszt Macabre, released in 2017, had already elicited enthusiastic responses from critics. For Diapason, "Liszt Macabre stands out as much for the relevance of the program as for the perfection of the production", while, according to Classica (which awarded him a Choc), "this funereal register allows him to express his full, luminous talent!".
His new album, Caprices (Mirare), was also very well received in 2023.
Nathanaël Gouin is a sought-after soloist, regularly performing in concerto with orchestras such as the Philharmonique de Liège, Les Siècles, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, the Brussels Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia, under conductors including Karina Canellakis, Christopher Warren-Green, Augustin Dumay and Mathieu Herzog. He performs on every continent, and is invited to prestigious venues such as the Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, the Salle Rameau in Lyon, Bozar and the Salle Flagey in Brussels, not to mention festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Radio France Montpellier, Les Flâneries musicales de Reims, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Les Folles Journées de Nantes Tokyo Warsaw or Ekaterinbourg, as well as Montreal's Salle Bourgie.
In 2016, he released his recording of Edouard Lalo's Concerto for piano and orchestra with the Philharmonique de Liège, conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Label Outhere), to rave reviews.
Chamber music is of course an important part of his artistic life, and he is a regular partner of such great performers as Renaud Capucon, Augustin Dumay, Astrig Siranossian and Raphael Sévère. Nathanaël Gouin's CD "Dear Mademoiselle" (Alpha), featuring transcriptions of Nadia Boulanger's works by cellist Astrig Siranossian and Daniel Barenboim, has also been highly praised. He also performs in duo with violinist Guillaume Chilemme (Ravel/Canal and Schubert recording) and in trio with cellist Yan Levionnois and G.Chilemme (Beethoven Korngold album - Mirare).
He is a frequent guest on television programs such as the Victoires de la Musique Classique (France 3) and on Radio Classique and France Musique.
Nathanaël Gouin began studying piano and violin at the age of 3. Trained at the Toulouse and Paris Conservatoires, the Juilliard School in New York, the Hochschulen für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich, the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, and four years in residence at the Chapelle Reine Elisabeth.
The great Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires discovered him in 2014 and offered him an international perspective as part of the Partitura project, a concept bringing together different generations of musicians to share the stage, leading to major tours of Europe and Japan. He has also received advice from such great musicians as Jean-Claude Pennetier, Avedis Kouyoumdian, Denis Pascal, Rena Shereshevskaya, Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie and Dimitri Bashkirov.
Winner of numerous international competitions, including the Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria (First Prize), the Swedish Duo Competition (First Prize), and the Lyon Chamber Music Competition, he is also a laureate of the Fondation d'entreprise Banque Populaire, the Meyer Foundation, and is artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
Giving numerous masterclasses, he was appointed professor of piano at the Ecole Normale de Paris in 2024.
He is also a composer, creating numerous works for piano, voice and orchestra.
At the heart of our story: romantic passion. Astrig Siranossian and Nathanaël Gouin combine elegance and passion in a program specially conceived for the festival. They will bring to life the music loved by Émile Ollivier, around his father-in-law Liszt, his brother-in-law Wagner, and the passionate, lyrical Russian soul of Rachmaninov.
Introduction by Stéphane Bern: Tribute to Emile Ollivier
To mark the festival's 50th anniversary and Emile Ollivier's bicentenary,
come and discover some of the secrets of his life and castle.
Astrig Siranossian (Cello)
First Prize and several times Special Prize winner at the K. Penderecki International Competition, Astrig Siranossian performs as a soloist with major orchestras. A regular guest of Daniel Barenboim, her stage partners include no less than Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Kirill Gernstein, Elena Bashkirova and Emmanuel Pahud. She performs regularly on the greatest stages: Philharmonie de Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, KKL Luzerne, Casino de Bâle, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Philharmonie de Berlin, Flagey Brussels, Théâtre Colon Buenos Aires , Kennedy Center Washington... A regular guest on TV channels (TF1, France 2, France 5, CultureBox TV, BR Kultur...), her recordings are unanimously acclaimed by the press.
October 2022 saw the release of her album Duo-Solo, an encounter between popular melodies and dances, and a scholarly repertoire featuring a dialogue between cello and voice.
2021, with her stage partner Nabil Shehata, she records the first concerto by C. Saint-Saëns for the Alpha Classics label. In 2020, the same label released "Dear Mademoiselle", a tribute to Nadia Boulanger with pianists Nathanaël Gouin and Daniel Barenboim, which received international acclaim.
Since 2015, she has been artistic director of "Musicades", a festival in her hometown of Romans sur Isère that mirrors music with the arts.
In 2019, she created the "Spidak Sevane" mission, which uses music to help children in Lebanon and Armenia.
In 2023, she will become artistic director of the Adèle Clément cello festival in the Drôme region of France.
In 2024, Astrig will direct the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Festival in Trouville.
Astrig Siranossian was born into a family of musicians. Admitted to the C.N.R. de Lyon, she continued her studies at the C.N.S.M. de Lyon, graduating at the age of eighteen with a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures, with congratulations from the jury. In Switzerland, at the Basel Conservatory, she completed her training in Ivan Monighetti's class, passing her master concert and master soloist with the highest honors.
She plays a 1676 cello by Francesco Ruggieri, generously loaned by the Boubo Music Foundation, and a 1756 cello by Geinaro Gagliano, once owned by Sir John Barbirolli.
Nathanaël Gouin (Piano)
Nathanaël Gouin has established himself as "one of the greatest talents on the French piano" (L'humanité), praised for "the marvellous invention of his sonorities" (Classica) and his "interpretations of great nobility" (Diapason).
Released in September 2020, his second recital disc, "Bizet sans Paroles" (Mirare), won critical acclaim and a Diapason d'or, while Le Monde saw it as "the confirmation of a magnificent musician" and "an undeniable success". Nathanaël Gouin's first album, Liszt Macabre, released in 2017, had already elicited enthusiastic responses from critics. For Diapason, "Liszt Macabre stands out as much for the relevance of the program as for the perfection of the production", while, according to Classica (which awarded him a Choc), "this funereal register allows him to express his full, luminous talent!".
His new album, Caprices (Mirare), was also very well received in 2023.
Nathanaël Gouin is a sought-after soloist, regularly performing in concerto with orchestras such as the Philharmonique de Liège, Les Siècles, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, the Brussels Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia, under conductors including Karina Canellakis, Christopher Warren-Green, Augustin Dumay and Mathieu Herzog. He performs on every continent, and is invited to prestigious venues such as the Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, the Salle Rameau in Lyon, Bozar and the Salle Flagey in Brussels, not to mention festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Radio France Montpellier, Les Flâneries musicales de Reims, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Les Folles Journées de Nantes Tokyo Warsaw or Ekaterinbourg, as well as Montreal's Salle Bourgie.
In 2016, he released his recording of Edouard Lalo's Concerto for piano and orchestra with the Philharmonique de Liège, conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Label Outhere), to rave reviews.
Chamber music is of course an important part of his artistic life, and he is a regular partner of such great performers as Renaud Capucon, Augustin Dumay, Astrig Siranossian and Raphael Sévère. Nathanaël Gouin's CD "Dear Mademoiselle" (Alpha), featuring transcriptions of Nadia Boulanger's works by cellist Astrig Siranossian and Daniel Barenboim, has also been highly praised. He also performs in duo with violinist Guillaume Chilemme (Ravel/Canal and Schubert recording) and in trio with cellist Yan Levionnois and G.Chilemme (Beethoven Korngold album - Mirare).
He is a frequent guest on television programs such as the Victoires de la Musique Classique (France 3) and on Radio Classique and France Musique.
Nathanaël Gouin began studying piano and violin at the age of 3. Trained at the Toulouse and Paris Conservatoires, the Juilliard School in New York, the Hochschulen für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich, the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, and four years in residence at the Chapelle Reine Elisabeth.
The great Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires discovered him in 2014 and offered him an international perspective as part of the Partitura project, a concept bringing together different generations of musicians to share the stage, leading to major tours of Europe and Japan. He has also received advice from such great musicians as Jean-Claude Pennetier, Avedis Kouyoumdian, Denis Pascal, Rena Shereshevskaya, Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie and Dimitri Bashkirov.
Winner of numerous international competitions, including the Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria (First Prize), the Swedish Duo Competition (First Prize), and the Lyon Chamber Music Competition, he is also a laureate of the Fondation d'entreprise Banque Populaire, the Meyer Foundation, and is artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
Giving numerous masterclasses, he was appointed professor of piano at the Ecole Normale de Paris in 2024.
He is also a composer, creating numerous works for piano, voice and orchestra.
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On 5 August 2025
