Jérôme Pernoo (born 1972) is a French contemporary

cellist The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...

Biography

Jérôme Pernoo learned to play the cello with Germaine Fleury then Xavier Gagnepain. After his studies at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

with Philippe Muller, he obtained the 3rd prize of the

Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch The Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, (Cello Competition Mstislav Rostropovich), is an international cello competition established in 1977 by the city of Paris. See also * List of classical music competitions European Classical music ...

in Paris in 1994 and won the Pretoria competition en 1996. Jérôme Pernoo has performed with most major French and foreign orchestras. He plays in recitals with pianist , on some of the most prestigious musical scenes such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the

Théâtre du Châtelet The Théâtre du Châtelet () is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. One of two theatres (the other being the Théâtre de la Ville) built on the site of a ''châtelet'', a s ...

, the

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or la Cité de la musique in Paris. In September 2008, he premiered the cello concerto that

Guillaume Connesson Guillaume Connesson (One can hear Connesson pronouncing his name in thiinterview) is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Biography Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conserva ...

dedicated to him, with the

Rouen Philharmonic Orchestra The Rouen Philharmonic Orchestra, officially the Orchestra of the Opera of Rouen Normandy (French: ''Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie''), is a symphony orchestra based in Rouen in Normandy, France. It is housed in the Rouen Opera House. ...

under the direction of

Jérémie Rhorer Jérémie Rhorer (born 15 July 1973 in Paris) is a French conductor and the founding artistic director of Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, a period instrument ensemble dedicated to the music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rhorer is also a well-respected ...

. In 2013, he was invited to the

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

of New York City and the following year to the

Berliner Philharmonie The Berliner Philharmonie () is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany, and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on ...

. After seven years teaching at

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

de London, Pernoo was appointed professor of cello at the Paris Conservatory of Music and Dance in 2005. He is also the creator and artistic director of the festival "Les Vacances de Monsieur Haydn", located at

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, of which the first edition took place in September 2005. In 2015, he created the "Centre de musique de chambre de Paris", in residence at the

Salle Cortot Salle is the French word for 'hall', 'room' or 'auditorium', as in: *Salle des Concerts Herz, a former Paris concert hall *Salle Favart, theatre of the Paris Opéra-Comique *Salle Le Peletier, former home of the Paris Opéra *Salle Pleyel, a Paris ...

in Paris. He plays Italian anonymous 18th century baroque cello and piccolo cello, school of Milan, as well as a modern cello made for him by Franck Ravatin. In September 2023, Pernoo was sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence for sexual assault on a minor (a 14-year-old former student at the time of the incident in 2005 in London). The sentence handed down by the Paris Criminal Court is accompanied by a ban on engaging in any voluntary or professional activity with minors for ten years. Pernoo and his lawyers pointed out that he has been found innocent of all but one charges and will consider an appeal.

Discography

* 1998 –

J. S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

– Six Suites a Violoncello solo senza Basso (Ligia Digital) * 2002 – / Domenico Gabrielli – 12 Ricercate Op. 1 for Cello Solo / 7 Ricercari for Cello Solo (Ogam) * 2002 –

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

/ Frank Bridge – Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 19 / Sonata for Cello and Piano, 4 Pieces for Cello and Piano – with Jérôme Ducros (Ogam) * 2006 –

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

– Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 119 – with the Orchestre de Bretagne, under the direction of

Nicolas Chalvin Nicolas Chalvin (born 1969) is a French contemporary conductor and oboist. Career After studying music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon, he was successively oboe-solo at the Orchestre national de Lyon and ...

(timpani) * 2006 – Jacques Offenbach – Grand Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra – Concerto "Militaire" – with Les Musiciens du Louvre, under the direction of

Marc Minkowski Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), i ...

(Archiv- Deutsche Grammophon) * 2008 – Jacques Offenbach – Duets for cellos – with Raphaël Chrétien (Ligia Digital) * 2009 –

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

– Kreutzer Sonata (transcription by Carl Czerny); Sonata Op. 69; Variations on ''

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that inclu ...

'' – with Jérôme Ducros (Ligia Digital) * 2011 –

–

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

– with Jérôme Ducros (piano),

Sergey Malov Sergey Efimovich Malov (russian: Серге́й Ефи́мович Ма́лов; 28 January 1880, Kazan - 6 September 1957, Leningrad) was a Russian Turkologist who made important contributions to the documentation of archaic and contemporary Tur ...

(violin), Ayako Tanaka (violin), Lise Berthaud (viola), Florent Héau (clarinet), (Collection Pierre Bergé) * 2013 – Jérôme Ducros – ''En aparté'', Trio and Quintet with piano – with Jérôme Ducros (piano), Sergey Malov and Mi-Sa Yang (violins), and

Gérard Caussé Gérard Caussé (born 26 June 1948, Toulouse, France) is a French violist. He gave the first performance of the celebrated '' Ainsi la nuit'' quartet by Henri Dutilleux. The first movement of Gérard Grisey's celebrated work, ''Les Espaces Acous ...

(viola), (Decca) * 2014 – Guillaume Connesson – Cello Concerto – under the direction of

Jean-Christophe Spinosi Jean-Christophe Spinosi (born 2 September 1964) is a French conductor and violinist, the founder of French orchestra Ensemble Matheus. Life and career In 1991 he created the Ensemble Matheus in Brest, an orchestra which accompanies him through ...

with the

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra (french: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, OPMC) is the main orchestra in the Principality of Monaco. The orchestra gives concerts primarily in the Auditorium Rainier III, but also performs at the Salle ...

(Deutsche Grammophon)

Books

*2009 – ''L'Amateur'' (publisher: Le Fond des Coulisses), out of print, *2013 – ''L'Amateur'', Lyon, Symétrie, 432 p.
read online

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pernoo, Jerome 1972 births Musicians from Nantes Living people French classical cellists Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris