Clarion Seven Muses - Gautier Capuçon

Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry in 1981 and began playing the cello at the age of five. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris and in 1999 was awarded first prize by the Maurice Ravel Music Academy of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and first prize again in the André Navarra Competition in Toulouse. In June 2000 he won the Cello and Chamber Music Prize at the CNSMP and has since attended master classes with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. In February 2001 Gautier was awarded a Victoires de la Musique (the French equivalent of a Grammy) as "New Talent of the Year". He received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust award in 2004 as well as the "Echo Preis" by German Television.

Performing as a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in 1997 and 1998 gave Gautier the chance to work with Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Pierre Boulez, Daniele Gatti, Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado.

He now performs regularly as a concerto soloist and has played with, amongst others, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, the Orchestre National de France with Togian Sokhiev, the Houston Symphony, the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic with Paavo Järvi, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome, both under Myung-Whun Chung, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach, The Washington National Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra..

Gautier is a dedicated chamber musician, and performs with many leading artists including Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Daniel Barenboim, Yuri Bashmet, Frank Braley, Gérard Caussé, Hélène Grimaud, Leonidas Kavakos, Stephen Kovacevich, Gabriela Montero, Mikhail Pletnev, Menahem Pressler, Vadim Repin, Pascal Rogé, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maxim Vengerov, Lilya Zilberstein, the Ysaÿe Quartet and his brother Renaud.

He has given solo recitals across Europe and appears at major European music festivals. He made his British debut by playing two recitals at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2004.

As an exclusive artist for Virgin Classics he has recorded Ravel’s chamber music with his brother Renaud and Frank Braley, two duo recordings with Renaud, the Haydn Cello Concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Harding, Schubert’s Trout Quintet, Saint-Saens’ chamber music, Brahms Trios with Renaud and Nicholas Angelich, Schubert Trios with Renaud and Frank Braley. For EMI: Trios by Haydn and Mendelssohn with Martha Argerich and his brother, Shostakovich Second Piano Trio with Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov, the Brahms Double Concerto with Renaud (Gramophone/Editor’s Choice), the Dvorak and Victor Herbert Cello Concertos with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra and Paavo Järvi and a recital with the pianist Gabriela Montero. His latest release is of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre and Valery Gergiev.

Gautier Capuçon plays a 1701 Matteo Goffriler.

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