French violinist to perform here

JAKARTA (JP): French violinist Virginie Robilliard will perform tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Sasono Mulyo Ballroom at Hotel Meridien in South Jakarta.

Robilliard, a winner of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud contest, will be accompanied by Indonesian pianist Adelaide Simbolon.

Born in 1970, Robilliard started violin lessons at the age of four. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon and won the first award with compliments in 1987. The following year she enrolled at the Julliard School of Music in New York. She graduate from Julliard in 1993.

Among her awards is the Grand Concours International Long- Thibaud which she won at the age of 17. In 1990, she placed fourth at the Concours International Indianapolis in the U.S.

Her Jakarta concert is part of the annual promotion of winners of the Concours International Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaud contest. It is organized by the French Cultural Center in Jakarta.

Robilliard's Southeast Asian tour has been organized in cooperation with Banque Nationale de Paris.