Having just founded the musical organization Sourire Music, the excellent soprano Chen Reiss received a few privileged guests in Paris, on twenty-sixth March two thousand twenty-three, in the Parisian mansion Le Sourire de Passy for a private concert in the spirit of the salons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On this occasion, she presented this new associative action whose mission is maintain and promote classical musicians at the beginning of their career by offering them training, advice and a performance platform. Accompanied with sensitivity and professionalism by pianist Nico de Villiers, two youthful artists the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester performed for forty guests in the intimate setting of the villa close the Maison de la Radio, which offers consolation and very excellent acoustics.

Violinist Kate Bordoni performed the first movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. five, while clarinettist Joshua Pyman chose Schumann and his Fantasiestücke. Even greater appla greeted the parts with the soprano who performed five Mahler songs ( the Knaben Wunderhorn and the Rückert-Lieder) and particularly the four latest songs by Richard Strauss. The pretty wealth of Chen Reiss’ Mozart voice in this repertoire is enchanting… Miss Reiss announced the following appointment in April with the violinist Hilary Hahn who'll give masterclasses to a few lucky students.