Hervé Blandinières
viola
- What is your professional background?
- When I was little, I used to fall asleep lulled by recordings of Brahms’ 2nd symphony and his Variations on a theme by Haydn. It probably impacted my life more than I could have imagined at the time. For many years however, music remained a simple hobby like other manual activities, which made me hesitate for a long time when I had to choose a career. I finally decided to follow the musical path that I had been tracing since I was seven years old, and I entered the music schools of Gennevilliers, Boulogne-Billancourt, then the CNSMDP in Jean Sulem’s class. After a quick stint at the Academy of the Opéra de Paris, I am now the happy violist of the Bellefeuille quartet, and a member of the Orchestre de Paris.
- Your favorite leaf?
- The fig tree’s.
- A period of history that you would like to have experienced?
- The Neolithic.
- Your preferred composer?
- Brahms, always!
- A video game you like?
- Mario Kart.
- Your house at Hogwarts?
- Ravenclaw, 91% according to the official test.
- A beautiful memory?
- A mountain lake at the end of a hike in the Ariège.
- Your favorite monument?
- Amiens’ Cathedral, its immense volume and its facade teeming with details.
- A work that moves you?
- Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night.
- Your hobbies?
- Cooking! As well as sport (in moderation).
- What do you bring to the quartet?
- My bad moods and a little honey between bass and treble.
- A dream?
- I fall off my bike and suddenly I wake up… But maybe I didn’t quite understand the question.
- The dish you like to cook?
- Pasta alla Norma.
- Your favorite comic?
- Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield.