Maya Le Roux: Bio
MAYA LE ROUX OBRADOVIC -COMPOSER
Maya Le Roux composes for : movies, symphonic pieces, solo guitar, stage music as well as a Musical. Her two guitar concertos have been published in Canada by Production d'OZ.
Her concerto "Ballade de la Vallee Magique"("Ballad of the Magic Valley" ) has been aired for over ten years in some twenty different countries and has had the privilege of being included in the music of George Lautner's film "Le Front
de l'absurde".
The "Concerto Latino" for guitar, string orchestra and percussions was chosen as a main piece for the Chamonix music competition and interpreted by the three prize winners in March 2006. In December 2007, Radio Beograd produced the recording and proposed a radio portrait of Maya Le Roux Obradovic to the UER, including her two concertos and a lyric piece, Ghostly Eyes.
"Ghostly Eyes "for soprano, symphonic orchestra and guitar. This aria, originally composed for a musical, Cocoa, has a double life: in the classical world and in the jazz universe.
A" suite for two guitars": Matin de Fete, Vision, Tarentelle burlesque.
"Cocoa", a musical comedy recorded by the Radio Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, the jazz big band, the mix choir and the children choir represented Serbia at the Bologna Festival.
"Short Suite for a Prince"for solo guitar on the book Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The book with CD "Nick et l'Empereur de Chine", of which Maya Le Roux is the composer of the 9 songs and coauthor of the text with Therese Lauriol, was published by "Albin Michel Jeunesse "and read by Jean Rochefort. In December 2006, the theatre adaptation was played 20 times
in Geneva.
In 2006, she wrote the music for a documentary "Un ete en Antarctique" which opened the Paris Science Festival in September 2006,and diffused by numerous European channels. Maya Le Roux Obradovic has also composed music for guitar and poetry recitals on Paul Eluard's poems with Philippe Luscher as narrator on Jacques Prevert's poems, ordered by the New York's Alliance Francaise for a recital with Robert Party and Annie Monnier for the remittance of the Arts Awards to
Jerome Robins.
MAYA LE ROUX OBRADOVIC guitarist
After a graduate of the "Conservatoire Superieur de Geneve", she continued her studies at the "Ecole Normale de Musique" in Paris under Albert Ponce, and obtained a higher diploma in performance. Her studies in musical interpretation were perfected under the famous Brazilian guitarist Dagoberto Linhares, Professor at the "Conservatoire de Lausanne." Her education was completed off by courses in Philosophy and Musicology at the University of Geneva. She worked at Radio Suisse Romande classical music program which provided her with the ideal base from which to explore the contemporary
music scene.
She has had the pleasure of performing as a soloist with orchestras such as:
- The London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Vivaldi's concerto for mandolin)
- The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Marc Piollet (Concierto Andaluz) for 4 guitars and orchestra by Joaquin Rodrigo with Dagoberto Linhares Raymond Migy and Christophe Leu)
- The Belgrade Symphonietta Orchestra
(3 Vivaldi's concertos,
2 Maya Le Roux' concertos and
1 Aleksandar Vujic's concerto).
- The Youth Orchestra of Galicia (Concierto Andaluz by Joaquin Rodrigo)
- The Euro Mediterranee Orchestra at Paris' Opera Comique (Maya Le Roux' Ballade de la Vallee Magique).
Maya Le Roux has performed as a guitarist for several operas at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and at the Bastille Opera in Paris . She was the soloist for the Los Angeles I Max produced film "Ocean Oasis" with music by Alan Reeves.
Maya Le Roux Obradovic has a guitar trio with Dagoberto Linhares and Raymond Migy. They were invited in 2008 in Egypt, Portugal, Morocco, France. A CD entitled Fandangos Zarzuelas for guitar trio and percussions published in 2007 was very well received. She played for years in a guitar duo with Chistophe Leu, with whom she has recorded 4 CDs.
Track Listing
| 1 | Ghostly Eyes | |
| 2 | Concerto Latino: Allegro | |
| 3 | Concerto Latino: Adagio | |
| 4 | Concerto Latino: Allegro | |
| 5 | Ballade de la Vallee Magique: Andante rubato | |
| 6 | Ballade de la Vallee Magique: Adagio | |
| 7 | Ballade de la Vallee Magique:Allegro | |
| 8 | Petite suite pour un Prince: Prelude | |
| 9 | Petite suite pour un Prince: Le Roi | |
| 10 | Petite suite pour un Prince: d etoiles | |
| 11 | Petite suite pour un Prince: - La Valse de l Ivrog | |
| 12 | Petite suite pour un Prince: Tendre Renard | |
| 13 | Petite suite pour un Prince: La Fleure Imperieuse | |
| 14 | Adieu Petit Prince |