In response to the Présences Festival’s commission, Jean Frédéric Neuburger composed a large-scale piano concerto in 2017: four successive movements, almost thirty minutes of music, a range of ninety musicians in the orchestra.

These three short pieces were written for the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen. Through the pieces Benoît Mernier explores the cello’s expressiveness in its lowest and highest registers.

Faithful to his first love for the violin and strings in general, Edith Canat de Chizy composed her String Quartet No. 4 at the request of the "Echo" theaters, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Philharmonie de Paris “En noir et or”. A new opus directly inspired by James Whistler's eponymous canvas, between nocturnal shades and bursts of fireworks that were also commented by Debussy ... It is the Van Kuijk Quartet who will give the world premiere of this score on October 23 in Birmingham.