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18 REMINISCENCES,
AWORLD IN ITSELF
How did your musical collaboration begin?
Camille THOMAS:
It was in 2012. Julien and I were both scheduled to play at the
International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove (England), but in different concerts.
At that time we only knew each other by name. As luck would have it, when I got
onto the train that was to takeme fromLondon to deepest Cornwall, I sat down . . .
right next to Julien! I’d been afraid of such a long train journey, but it went by in
a flash, because we immediately hit it off. We carried on talking a lot during the
festival.
Julien LIBEER:
. . . especially as weweremore or less the only two French speakers
on the programme. We didn’t play together then, but the intuition that we would
be on the same musical wavelength was born at that moment. It became a reality
a little later, in Belgium, with a series of ten concerts: everything went wonderfully
well, and since then we’ve often appeared together on the concert platform, and
always with the same pleasure.