Inter Stella Musica | Festival & Academy

Our Vision

A Complete Artistic Journey

Inter Stella Musica offers a complete artistic journey from masterclasses and solo recitals to full orchestral performances at Paris's historic venues, combining cultural discovery with mentorship from world-class faculty.

Rooted in the belief that artistry flourishes through both discipline and inspiration, the Festival unites education, performance, and culture in one immersive experience.

Our mission is to help young musicians find their artistic voice, build confidence through orchestral collaboration. Beyond musical excellence, Inter Stella Musica also nurtures a vibrant artistic community where talented young musicians inspire and support one another, developing into future collaborators, colleagues, or lifelong friends who will shape the artistic world of tomorrow.

Our Artistic Partner

In realizing this vision, the Festival is proud to collaborate with its artistic partner - the Ensemble Philharmonique de Paris.

Comprising professional musicians from France's foremost orchestras, including the Orchestre National de France, the Ensemble upholds the highest artistic standards and offers young soloists the rare opportunity to collaborate closely with a professional orchestra in a meaningful and inspiring setting.

Foreword

Artistic Director

Nguyen Huu Nguyen

It is my honor to welcome you to Inter Stella Musica Festival & Academy. Conceived as more than a festival, it is both a platform of artistic cultivation and a space of growth — where learning unfolds into performance, and each appearance on stage is deepened by the spirit of study and dedication.
To perform with a professional orchestra under the baton of an experienced conductor, or to step into the spotlight of the Recital Series as a soloist, is a defining moment in every young musician's journey — when preparation blossoms into confidence, and music reveals its true light.
For young artists, Inter Stella Musica is bothgg a path of discovery and an affirmation of expression. For audiences, it is the privilege of witnessing music as it comes alive in its most vivid and authentic form.

Nguyen Huu Nguyen began playing the violin in Nha Trang, where he was born in 1972. At the age of 14, he entered the Saigon Conservatory. At 17, he won first prize at the Vietnam National Competition—the first classical music competition held after the war. In 1991, during a tour in Vietnam, Maurice Bourgue, a renowned oboist with the Berlin Philharmonic, auditioned Nguyen and arranged, through the French Consulate, for him to continue his studies in France.

After winning the gold medal at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory in the class of Maryvonne Le Dizès, Nguyen entered the Paris Conservatory in the class of Sylvie Gazeau. He won first prize in chamber music in 1996, and the following year, first prize “premier nommé” in violin.

A laureate of the Société Générale Music Patronage Foundation, the Maurice Ravel International Academy, and the Paris Chamber Music Competition, Nguyen has given numerous concerts in France and Vietnam. His performances have been broadcast on Vietnam Television, Radio France, and the BBC.

After completing a postgraduate degree in chamber music at the Paris Conservatory, Nguyen passed the recruitment exam and became third soloist of the Orchestre National de France in 2000.

Conductor

Carlos Dourthé

As a Conductor of the Ensemble Philharmonique de Paris

I am delighted to join the inaugural edition of Inter Stella Musica Festival & Academy. This project offers something truly rare: the chance for young musicians to step directly into the dynamic world of orchestral performance.
Making music with an orchestra is never only about playing notes. It is about listening, about trust, and about discovering the strength that comes when individual voices blend into a collective sound. Each rehearsal and each concert demand discipline, patience, and openness. These qualities shape not only musicianship but also character. For young performers, standing in front of an orchestra is both a challenge and a revelation. It requires courage, but it also offers a unique joy: the moment when personal expression is carried forward by the energy of the orchestra playing together.
I look forward to working with these talented young artists, guiding them through this journey, and sharing with audiences the passion and vitality that such encounters always bring.

Carlos Dourthé was born into a musical family in Santiago, Chile. He was a super soloist cellist with the Orchestre National de France for fifteen years and was a founding member of the Ysaÿe String Quartet and assistant to Kurt Masur.

After his studies in Chile, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he worked with artists such as the Amadeus, Lassalle, Berg quartets, the Beaux-arts Trio, Gÿorgy Sebök, Alexander Schneider, Bernard Greenhouse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Daniel Shafran.

The years he spent with the Orchestre National de France allowed him to benefit from encounters with the greatest conductors and soloists, such as Maazel, Ozawa, Masur, Haitink, Boulez, Muti, Chung, Dutoit, Järvi, Prêtre, Sanderling.

He is regularly invited to conduct the Soloists of Radio France, the Philharmonie de Chambre, the Virtuoses de Paris, the Da Capo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, as well as a large number of orchestras in South America. He recently conducted the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Paris at Radio France with David Guerrier as soloist, as well as the Orchestre Lamoureux and the Orchestre Pasdeloup. In August 2009, he conducted the orchestra of the Berlioz Festival (Côte Saint-André), the Orchestre d'Auvergne, the Santiago Symphony Orchestra in Chile, and the Havana Orchestra in Cuba.

Outside of his work with professional orchestras, he is passionate about young musicians. Since 2008, he has been at the heart of the Les Apprentis du National program, a project that allows high-level middle and high school students to work and perform in concerts and on tours abroad with the musicians of the Orchestre National de France under his direction.

Since 2008, he has been the musical director of the Orchestra and Choir of the Universities of Paris.