Patrick Cohën-Akenine (born in 1966) is a French classical violinist and

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At the age of four, he began playing the violin and received a first prize for excellence from the . He then entered the Conservatoire de Paris. He devoted himself with passion to

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s. He thus had the chance to work with the Amadeus,

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

, Cleveland,

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, Guarneri quartets. He left for Budapest in order to follow the advice of

Vilmos Tátrai Vilmos Tátrai (7 October 1912 – 2 February 1999) was a Hungarian classical violinist and the founder of the Tátrai Quartet. Life Tátrai was born in Kispest, now 19th district of Budapest. A professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he f ...

. At the end of his studies he obtained a prize from the Ministry of Culture. Passionate about early music, he learnt baroque violin with

Patrick Bismuth Patrick Bismuth (born 15 December 1954) is a French classical violinist and conductor. Biography Bismuth studied the violin with Roland Charmy at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1993 to 1998, Bismuth was teacher of baroque violin at the Conse ...

at the CNSMDP and perfected his skills with Enrico Gatti. After playing with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Les Arts Florissants, he took over the role of concertmaster in ensembles like

Il Seminario Musicale Il Seminario Musicale is a baroque music ensemble founded in 1985 by the French countertenor Gérard Lesne, who is also its artistic director. Since 1990, the group has been resident of the Fondation de l' abbaye de Royaumont, thirty kilometres ...

, La Simphonie du Marais, Capriccio Stravagante, the Ricercar Consort, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Agrémens. Since 1994, he has been solo violin of the Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet. Since then, he has recorded with several ensembles. Since 1996, he has been teaching baroque violin at the Conservatoire of the

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, and at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d'Orsay. In 2008, under the patronage of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Cohën conducted an orchestra restoration program,

Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi (in original orthography ''Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy'' and in English ''The King's 24 Violin-Family Instruments'') was a five–part string ensemble at the French royal court, existing from 1626 to 1761. The fiv ...

, with an original setting. In 2000, with Béatrice Martin, he created the ensemble "Les Folies Françoises", with which he approaches a large number of works from the

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repertoire in a

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spirit. In December 2006, he was made a

Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and letters, Arts and Letters) is an Order (distinction), order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Ministry of Culture (France), Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the w ...

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