Violin

Nathalie Descamps

After working with Micheline Lefebvre, Suzanne Gessner and Pierre Doukan, Nathalie Descamps joined the CNSMD of Paris, where she obtained her Certificate of Aptitude. Appointed violin teacher at the CRR in Bordeaux, where she is also responsible for coordinating the string department, she continues her career as an instrumentalist. A founding member of the Vivace trio (with Laurent Molines and Marlene Rivière), she is also co-soloist with the La Chambre Philharmonique orchestra, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine.

She has performed at the Chaise Dieu Festival, the Côte Saint André Festival, the Abbaye de Lessay, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, the Bordeaux Auditorium, the Carré Saint Vincent in Orléans, the MC2 in Grenoble, the Théâtre de Caen, the Coursive in La Rochelle, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Cité de la Musique and the Philharmonie, the Radio France Auditorium, the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre des Champs Elysée in Paris, the FrauenKirche in Dresden, Bonn and Wiesbaden, and the Lausanne Opera. With the Dresdner Festpielorchester, she recently performed Lucia di Lammermoor in Andorra. Since 2006, she has been teaching at the Toulouse CRR (where she also coordinated the string department for several years) and at the isdaT. She is regularly invited to sit on the juries of the CNSMD in Paris and Lyon, and gives masterclass, notably at the CRR in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Angoulême, Tarbes and Malaga in Spain.

Carole Garbarg

After brilliant studies in Paris, crowned by a first prize unanimous finish with the congratulations of the jury, the musical journey of Carole Garbarg took her beyond the borders to improve herself with Irina Botchkova at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow and Jean-Pierre Wallez at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève. She then performed as a soloist, in particular with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and major Parisian university orchestras.

Full violinist at the Orchestre National de Lorraine, she has performed the great symphonic and lyrical repertoire under the baton of internationally renowned conductors: Kent Nagano, Emmanuel Krivine, Jacques Lacombe, Jacques Mercier… Holder of a Certificate of Proficiency, her career led her to the CRR de Metz Métropole, where she became an out-of-class artistic education teacher, coordinator of the strings department and trainer at the training centre for music and dance teachers. There, Carole teaches the expressive values of the Russian school, the refined fluidity of the French school and creates numerous multidisciplinary shows combining music, dance and theatre (Prémisses artistiques d’une révolution centenaire, 2017). She continues to play an active part as a chamber musician, string quartet and piano trio. She is regularly invited to play in French, German and Luxembourg festivals: Flâneries musicales de Reims, Musicales de Bastia, L’Heure musical de Thionville, Concerts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, International Music Days in Trier. Within her trio, she joins forces with players Pascal Omhovere and Vincent Goethals for reading and music concerts given in Paris at the Collège des Bernardins, Lyon and Metz.

Permanent super-soloist of the Aube Symphony Orchestra since 2008, she performs alongside artists such as Olivier Charlier, Jérôme Pernoo, Romain Descharmes, Denis Pascal, Isabelle Moretti. She also supports contemporary composition by performing works by Guillaume Connesson, Thierry Escaich, Karol Beffa. Carole was recently recruited as a professor at the isdaT and at the CRR de Toulouse, and will soon perform in a duo with piano and string quartet in the Toulouse region.