They have been playing together since 1995. Their repertoire extends from the baroque to contemporary music. They have performed in Switzerland with Concerts at Saint-Germain and at the American Church, both of them in Geneva, Amarcordes Concerts at the Dardagny Château, Villa Dutoit in Grand-Saconnex, Lancy Concerts, Musiclub of the CERN, Jussy Concerts, Le Lode Concerts, Heures Musicales at Bévilard, Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Jeunesses Musicales at Martigny and Schubertiade 2000 at Espace 2. In France: Pouilly Church, Versonnex Church and Journées de la harpe in Aries, where they gave the first world performance of Ivan Jevtic’s Sonata.

They played as soloists in Mozart’s Concerto KV 299, accompanied by the Arcus-Coeli Orchestra at the Forum Meyrin.

They have also performed in “Tribune des jeunes musiciens” broadcasted by the “Radio Suisse-Romande Espace2” and in “Musique en France” broadcasted by France-Musique.

Flutist Claude Régimbald won 3rd Prize at the 22nd International Jeunesses Musicales Competition of Belgrade in 1992.

Of both Canadian and French citizenship, he studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Montreal, where he was unanimously awarded First Prize in flute and musical analysis. He won a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and three scholarships from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres of Quebec. He continued his studies in Europe, where he won the Virtuosité First Prize at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, studying with Maxence Larrieu.

He also won Prizes at the Quebec and Canadian Music Competitions, the International Stepping-stone, the CIBC National Music Festival, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra Competition and the Journées de la Musique Française of Montreal.

Claude Régimbald has given many recitals in Canada, France Switzerland and England. He performed the Jacques Ibert Concerto with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra on Yugoslavian national television. He has also played for Radio-Canada, CBC, Radio-France and Radio Suisse-Romande.

He has recorded: “La flute virtuose” for the SNE label and “La flûte au Conservatoire de Paris” for the ATMA label.

Harpist Nathalie Chatelain entered the Lausanne Conservatoire in 1984 where she obtained a Teaching degree in 1986, the Virtuosité first Prize in 1988 and a Licence de Concert (Performing Arts degree) in 1990, in Chantal Mathieu-Balavoine’s class. She participated in master classes given by Nicanor Zabaleta, Germaine Lorenzini, Jacqueline Borot and Marielle Nordmann.

In 1989 Nathalie Chatelain was the winner of the Maurice Sandoz Prize and in 1998 she won the second Prize at the TIM (International Music Competition) in Rome.

She performed as a soloist and with chamber music groups in several festivals: the Journées de la Harpe in Arles, the European Symposium in Amsterdam, the World Harp Congress in Prague, the Harp Festival in Avesnois (France), the Festival Amadeus in Geneva, the Festival of the Château de Bourglinster in Luxemburg, International Festival of Music in New Caledoma.

In addition to her solo concertizing, Natalie Chatelain dedicates part of her time to teaching. She taught at the Bern Conservatory for 10 years (from
1991 to 2001). She organizes summer master classes with various teachers. Nathalie Chatelain also performs in duo with various instruments.

Her recordings indude several CDs with various chamber music groups and one as a soloist.