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Since 2003, Adeline and Francois Lordet have organised a Benefit Concert in memory of their baby daughter Noémie, who died at seven months of age from Krabbe's Disease. Krabbe's Disease is a very rare form of Leukodystrophy. Leukodystrophies affect the brain, spinal chord and peripheral nerves, and for many types of the disorder, there is no cure. The Lordets have established this Benefit Concert to raise money to support the European Leukodystrophy Association, as well as La Fondation Theodora.

The European Leukodystrophy Association (ELA) uses donations for ongoing research into these most painful and debilitating disorders, and also supports families afflicted with this disease. The cost of treatment is very high and the suffering born by families is incalculable. The ELA helps these families by defraying a part of the treatment cost and by providing counseling and emotional support. www.ela-asso.com.

In November 2009, the ELA association and Zinedine Zidane, its emblematic ambassador, are proud to announce a world premiere: the disease progression has been stopped in two children treated by a gene therapy; the trial has been conducted by Dr. Nathalie Cartier and Pr. Patrick Aubourg from the Saint-Vincent de-Paul hospital in Paris. The children are doing well, which is unexpected for a disease destroying in a few months the brain of a child previously healthy. For more information: http://www.ela-asso.com/?q=node/6373.

La Fondation Théodora is a group of trained professional artists who perform as "clown doctors" within children's wards of participating hospitals. The "clowns" do their work in nine countries, and appear in over eighty-nine hospitals, visiting sick children and bringing them entertainment and joy, each week. www.theodora.org

We are looking forward welcoming you for an afternoon filled with music and entertainment.

Thank you for supporting Noémie's Hope,  
 
Adeline, François, Elodie and Louis Lordet
For more information: adeline.lordet@iszl.ch
 

The Riverside Singers
Maria Le Guen has been teaching math and music at Riverside since 2006 and directs the Riverside Choir.  The choir rehearses once a week and has learnt a variety of songs from different styles in one, two and three parts.  As well as performing at school concerts and shows, the choir has also sung at outside events. The choir members are: Charlotte Coates, Ekaterina Belskaya, Cheryll, Beumer, Sina Hesse, Laura Smith, Matt Pastuch, Sean Coates, Georgina Rees-Evans, Luke Gaillet and Chris O’Brien.

Dr. Camille Haslin has a PhD in Biology and has worked in a scientific laboratory in Marseilles for 10 years. She is the Director of Research and is currently developing an antibody cocktail against HIV. One of her passions is the piano. She started when she was 8 years old and has never stopped, despite her studies and very demanding work. She was awarded first prize of the Superior Class for piano at the Musical High-School of Marseilles in 1997. Camille regularly performs at “La Fête de la Musique” and offers a diverse repertoire composed by Beethoven, Gershwin, Debussy, Prokofiev or Chopin (www.urrmaj2c.com).


Edgar Donati, 14 years old, began to play the violin at the age of 6 with Prof. Viollça Agolli who detected the little boy's artistic gift. At 10, he joined the class of Prof. Yuri Voguin at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid. Since September 2008, he has been a pupil at the Dr Vuckovic School of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Biljana Jaksic. His first public performance took place in 2006 when he won the first prize at Vatelot-Rampal competition in Paris. The next year, he won the first prize at Flame international competition, also in Paris. In 2008, he received the fifth prize at Petar Toskov international competition, and a few months later, he was awarded the first prize at Petar Konjovic international competition, both in Belgrade. By May 2009, he was granted the third prize at the Podium of Young Talents competition opened to different instruments. Edgar Donati is regularly invited to master classes and summer academies, where he joins the classes of renowned violinists and pedagogues, such as Alexandre Brussilovsky or Dejan Bogdanovic. Last February, he gave a concert in Belgrade at the invitation of the Serbian Academy for Music and Sciences. A DVD has been recorded on that occasion.


Anna Boucher was born in Shrewsbury and educated in Warwickshire. She studied music at Durham University as a singer, cellist and pianist and then continued her vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Northern College of Music. She moved to Switzerland in the summer of 2008 with her husband and three young girls. Before leaving the UK, Anna’s more recent roles have been The Landlady in Clockwork; Madame Padtodchina in Shostakovich’s opera The Nose, and in Ion by Parum Vir for Almeida Opera.  She has also played Marcellina and Berta for English Pocket Opera. She has performed in Turandot, La Rondine and Romeo and Juliet for The Royal Opera House chorus and in Dallapicollo’s opera The Prisoner for English National Opera. Anna has performed works such as Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, the Durufle Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in D, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Bruckner’s Mass in F minor with many choral societies in the UK. She taught singing at St. Paul’s Girls School in London.

The Choir of the International School of Zug was founded by David Smith in 1991 when it contained just 20 students. Today, there are just over 70 members between the ages of 9 and 14. The students have sung in exciting venues including the Stravinsky Theatre, Montreux and the Reformierte Kirche, Thalwil under Howard Griffiths, former conductor of Zürich’s Tonhalle Orchestra. In 2004 the choir had the honour of performing at the opening ceremony of the Annual Conference of the Swiss Group of International Schools. In December 2007 the choir performed John Rutter’s ‘Mass of the Children’ with the Zürich Symphony Orchestra and the Contrapunto Choir in churches in Cham and Zürich. For the last 2 years, the Choir has been invited by the director of the Zürich Symphony Orchestra to perform with them again in the Tonhalle, Zürich, for their December Adventskonzert.