ROMANIAN DAYS: DUO PAGIN

Sarah Pagin, soprano, performs at concerts and in operas, at festivals such as the Ruhrtriennale Festival in Germany and the Festival de Radio France, and in prestigious European venues such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra de Lausanne, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Queen’s Hall in Copenhagen, and Teatro Verdi in Florence. She has also been invited to perform at the United Nations in Geneva. Her repertoire is very wide and diverse – focusing primarily on twentieth century music, it ranges from operetta to musical, cabaret to contemporary classical music, and from French songs to electropop. Sarah Pagin has performed leading roles in several prestigious contemporary projects such as the world premiere of La cantatrice chauve by Gérard Calvi at the Opéra National de Montpellier and the world premiere of the D. I. E. musical theater by Michael Wertmüller at the Ruhrtriennale. Sarah Pagin is also an accomplished recording artist. For the Cleaves Label, she sang and recorded the opera La moisson de feu by Samuel Ducommun. Sarah Pagin enjoys organizing recitals mixing different styles of music and then realizing them with a modern and crossover approach.

Aimo Pagin, one of the most important French pianists of his generation, began studying piano at the age of seven at the Strasbourg Conservatory, and continued his education at the Conservatory of Colmar. In 2001, he enrolled the Conservatoire Superieur de musique de Genève, to later continue his studies in the USA under the legendary pianist and pedagogue Leon Fleischer. Aimo Pagin has won several awards and recognitions at international piano competitions, including the Enescu Competition in Bucharest (2005), Pemio Pianistico Pausilypon in Naples (2006), Sulmona (2007), Concorso pianistico di Tolmezzo, and many others. He has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdamer Concertgebouw, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, and at the Tonhale Zurich, as well as at numerous festivals, such as the Festival de Radio-France Montpellier, the Chopin Paris Festival, and the Mendelssohn Music Week Wengen. Aimo Pagin performs with internationally renowned orchestras such as the Bucharest Philharmonic, the Orchester National de Montpellier, the New Symphony Orchestra (NSO), and the Berliner Symphoniker, among others. He has made radio recordings for Südwestrundfunk and BBC London. As an official Bösendorfer artist, he recorded, in collaboration with this piano house, his second solo album, featuring Chopin’s waltzes, for the French label Paraty.