L'INFORMAZIONE DI SAN MARINO “ ...last Thursday at the Maskfest concert featuring Duo SoliPse, where the San Marino audience experienced a top-tier musical performance. Technical perfection and precise expressiveness came together to bring music to life in a clear and vivid manner.”
SAN MARINO TV “A suggestive setting in the small Church of the Knights of Malta, perfectly suited for the virtuosity of the Duo SoliPse from Paris...”
OPUS MUSICUM MAGAZINE "International Duo SoliPse shined inlush compositions of the decade."
OHRID SUMMER PRESS “ Impressive connection of sounds of flute and guitar...The Macedonian-French duo SoliPse provided a true delight last night with their flute and guitar concert held in the church of Saint Sophia."
PODUCKUN.NET - LOVRAN CLASSIC "Duo SoliPse impressed with their performance at St. John's Square in the old town center...where the musicians demonstrated their technical agility and flexible musicality from the very first note.”
HUDOBNY ZIVOT “With artistic emotionality in his performance, French guitarist Romain Petiot captivated the audience...together with the confident flutist Elena Stojceska, they delivered a clear and delicate interpretation.”
Elena Stojceska (flutes) and Romain Petiot (guitar) formed the Duo SoliPse in 2011.
The duo is invited and performs at the Ohrid Summer and Days of Macedonian Music festivals in Macedonia, Lovran Classic in Croatia, Flute Sounds Festival in Kosovo, Sarajevo Winter in Bosnia, Maskfest in San Marino, Forfest in Kroměříž in the Czech Republic, Sagonne Festival, Arromanches Festival, La Semaine classique au Lavoir in France, Scriabin Museum in Moscow, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, Vienna House Concert, etc.
The flute/guitar chamber music formation acquired its letters of nobility thanks to Astor Piazzolla and his History of Tango, hence it is quite natural that the Duo SoliPse focuses with predilection on the repertoires of the 20th and 21st centuries. Always keen to promote today's composers, they play in particular the music of Doïna Rotaru, Massimiliano Messieri, Toru Takemitsu, Vincent Airault, Laurence Sherr and Edison Denisov.
The other face of Duo SoliPse is revealed in popular music from the Balkans to South America, including India, with composers such as Béla Bartók, Dusan Bogdanovic, Miroslav Tadic, Ravi Shankar, and more.
In close collaboration with composers, they are notably the dedicatees of Liebes-Lied and A dream within a dream by the Italian composer Massimiliano Messieri, Capriccioso by the American composer Laurence Sherr, but also Opus voyage by the French composer Raphaëlle Zaneboni, Fantasia da Chiesa by Czech composer Jan Vrkoč and more recently Ocean in a drop by the Macedonian composer Darija Andovska.
Elena Stojceska has been featured at numerous music festivals, including W.A.Mozart Festival in Rovereto, Italy, the Skopje, Ohrid and Bitola Summer Festivals as well as Days of Macedonian music in Skopje, Macedonia, Maskfest Festival for new music in Bologna and San Marino, Escapades Musicales, Festival Itinéraires, Les musicales de Quiberon, Saoû chante Mozart, Festival d'Arromanches and Musiques pour Faire Plaisir in France, Forfest festival for contemporary music in Kromeriz, Czech Republic, Flute Sounds Festival in Pristina, Kosovo, etc.
She has appeared as soloist with the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento in Italy, Generation Mozart, Paul Kuentz Orchestra, Orchestra of Auvergne, Bacau Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her work as a soloist and orchestra musician, she is a founding member of Duo SoliPse and Altus New Breath ensemble and of the Musiques pour Faire Plaisir! collectif.
In addition to her performing activities, Ms. Stojceska is a passionate and dedicated pedagogue. She is a tenured professor at the Livry-Gargan conservatory and teaches at the Paris W.A.Mozart Conservatory, giving masterclasses, lectures and workshops in France, Macedonia, Czech Republic and Kosovo.
Ms. Stojceska studied in France and Italy with Peter Lukas Graf, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Vincent Lucas, Pierre Dumail, and perfectionned herself following classes by Aurèle Nicolet, Irena Grafenauer, Patrick Gallois, Philippe Boucly, Felix Rengly, among others and won First Prize at the 2004 AudiMozart! Competition in Rovereto, Italy. Other successes in international competitions include top prizes at National Flute and Chamber Music Competitions in Macedonia and former Yugoslavia, as well as in France, European competition, Buffet Crampon and Gaston Crunelle-Lucien Wurmser competitions.
Ms. Stojceska was Director of the Conservatory for music and dance of Livry-Gargan from 2020 to 2022 and is the recipient of the MKarta, distinction awarded by the Ministry of foreign affairs of North Macedonia.
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French guitarist Romain Petiot won Third Prize at the 2011 Guitarmania competition in Almada, Portugal. Other success in international competitions includes Fourth prize at the 2011 Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as the finals of the 3rd Robert J. Vidal competition in France.
He has performed recitals and chamber music concerts in France, Italy, Czech Republic, Belgium, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Russia, and Spain and was invited at numerous music festivals such as "Automne Musical" of Châtellerault, "Ohrid summer" and Days of Macedonian Music in Macedonia, the festival of Arromanches in Normandy, "Maskfest" in San Marino, at the Scriabin museum in Moscow, the "Sarajevo winter" festival, the festival of Sagonne, and by the French cultural institute of Valencia, Spain, Pristina "Flute Sounds Festival" in Kosovo, Les Musicales de Quiberon season, etc.
Dedicatee of several pieces for solo guitar and for flute and guitar duo by composers Massimiliano Messieri, Laurence Sherr, Raphaëlle Zaneboni and Jan Vrkoc, he recorded in 2019 Laurence Sherr's solo guitar piece "Blue ridge frescos". The recording will soon be released as part of the anthology of the American composer's works.
He studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” where he received the Superior Diploma for Execution with the honors from the jury, in 2009. He also completed his pedagogy master's degree, from Paris conservatory CNSMDP in 2015.
His teachers includes Sebastien Cabrier, Alberto Ponce and Judicaël Perroy, and he completed his guitar studies attending master-classes with David Russell, Zoran Dukic, Marcin Dylla, Irina Kulikova, Carlo Marchione, Marco Smaili, Lorenzo Micheli, Alvaro Pierri and Jeremy Jouve among others.
Romain currently resides in Paris and teaches in the Conservatory of l'Haÿ-les-Roses. He is invited as jury by numerous conservatories in France such as CNSMD Paris, HEAR Strasbourg, ESMD Lille, as well as at the FPT competitions for tenure.