Sylvie Gazeau

Sylvie Gazeau (born 30 January 1950) is a French classical violinist

Biography

Born in Orléans, Gazeau began her musical studies at the Conservatory of Nice, then, on the advice of Henryk Szeryng, entered the Conservatoire de Paris. A pupil of Gabriel Bouillon and Joseph Calvet, she won there First prizes for violin (1965) and chamber music (1967).

Second prize at the Maria Canals International Music Competition (Barcelona, 1967), at the Carl-Flesch competition[1] (London, 1968), she won first prize at the Enlow competition of Evansville (1969). She then improved her skills with Josef Gingold (Performer's Certificate, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1970), whose assistant she was in his violin class.

In 1973, she won a third prize at the Montreal International Competition, before obtaining in 1979, the Georges Enesco prize of Paris, in the "Meilleure violoniste de l'année" category.

Concertmaster of the Melos Ensemble of London, she was, from 1976 to 1982, violin solo at the Ensemble intercontemporain then joined the Ivaldi Quartet. She is the regular guest of the Asolo, Naples, Festival international de musique Tibor Varga and Marlboro ("senior" since 1983) festivals and participates in various summer academies (Flaine, Les Arcs, Rambouillet, Périgueux, Portogruaro).

Since 1985, Gazeau has been a teacher of violin and chamber music at the CNSMDP. In 1998, she was appointed professor of violin didactics in the pedagogy department. She is artistic director of the Violin Vatelot-Rampal competition.

She's playing on a Stradivarius that once belonged to Christian Ferras.

gollark: "Oh yes, I will just go OUTSIDE the universe" - statements made by GTech™ exploration probe #15996-υ/4.
gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

References
  1. Carl-Flesch competition
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