Gypsy Moods
Bayan and Violin Duo
Marko Petričić, Bayan and Mathieu Névéol, Violin
Listen to Marko and Mathieu
Mathieu Névéol is originally from Bordeaux, France, where he began taking violin lessons at the age of seven. He attended the Bordeaux Conservatoire, studying with the internationally acknowledged French violonist Roland Daugareil and also with Vladimir Nemtanu. He graduated with the Gold Medal for violin playing at fifteen. Then he resumed his studies with Daugareil at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon for four years, being awarded the first prize the last year. As a student at the Conservatoire, he was concertmaster of the Rhônes-Alpins Operetta Orchestra for two years. After his meeting with Mauricio Fuks, he worked with the celebrated violin pedagogue at Indiana University for two years, during which he was awarded the Scholar grant from the Société Générale. He graduated with the Performer Diploma in May 2002.
He has performed extensively in France in solo recitals and chamber music, and had a prominent role in french gypsy music Trio “ NOMAD Lib’ “. The band has been giving concerts and participating to several music festivals in France for the past four years.
With the band NOMAD lib’, Mr. Névéol has won the Spedidam Prize at the European FNAPEC competition in 2003 and the First Prize at the International Italian competition “T.I.M” in 2004.Since his stay in Indiana, Mr. Névéol has also been performing regularly with the duo “Gypsy moods” with Marko Petricic on the accordion, both in America and Europe.
“Two young and extremely talented musicians with a classical education in their background performed on Saturday evening in the House of Emigrants.”
“One of them, Mathieu Névéol, played the violin, and the other, Marko Petričić, took charge of the accordion. They are virtuosos in their essence that succeeded in waking to life authentic, if somewhat stylized, dances and songs taken from the Balkan lands’ rich folklore.”
“They played, among other things, Bulgarian dances, whose ‘blended rhythms’ (2+2+3+2+2) transported one to thoughts of typical ‘ganka’ rhythms.”
“The renowned gypsy musician Grigoras Dinicus’s ‘Hora staccato’ was performed with profound feeling for the Romanian temperament.”
“There are, by the way, not many violinists able to imitate various bird songs with the same technical virtuosity for which Mathieu Névéol is known.”
“Sentimental Hungarian ballads with glissandos and vibrato effects reminded one of those small, smoky inns in the Hungarian countryside, where the aroma of apricot schnapps fills the air.”
“Among the most memorable works were Johannes Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Dance,’ a soulful ‘Russian Folksong’ with interesting balaljka imitations, Vittorio Montis’s romantic ‘Csardas,’ the Russian folksong ‘Black Eyes,’ played with the appropriate melancholy, along with other ‘tug-at-your-heartstrings’ melodies.”
“These two technically brilliant, spirited, and sensitive soloists succeeded in offering a concert far beyond the ordinary.”