Sylvie Gazeau (born 30 January 1950) is a French classical violinist

Biography

Born in

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Conservatory of Nice The Conservatoire Pierre Cochereau à rayonnement régional de Nice (C.R.R. de Nice) is a state-run regional music and dance conservatoire which serves the French city of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). It was founded by Adeline Ballet, a pianist, in 1916. ...

, then, on the advice of Henryk Szeryng, entered 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 ...

. A pupil of

Gabriel Bouillon Gabriel Charles Bouillon (5 March 1898 – 1984) was a French classical violinist and music pedagogue. Biography Gabriel Charles Bouillon was born March 5, 1898, in Montpellier, France. Bouillon comes from a family of musicians. His brother Jo ...

and Joseph Calvet, she won there First prizes for

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(1965) and

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 ...

(1967). Second prize at the

Maria Canals International Music Competition The Maria Canals International Music Competition ( ca, Concurs Internacional de Música Maria Canals Barcelona, ) is a music competition held yearly in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona. It was founded as a piano competition in 1954, but ...

(Barcelona, 1967), at the

Carl Flesch competition The Carl Flesch International Violin Competition (also known as the International Competition for Violinists "Carl Flesch" and the City of London International Competition for Violin and Viola (Carl Flesch Medal)) was an international music competi ...

Carl-Flesch competition
/ref> (London, 1968), she won first prize at the Enlow competition of Evansville (1969). She then improved her skills with

Josef Gingold Josef Gingold (; January 11, 1995) was a Russian-born American classical violinist and teacher who lived most of his life in the United States. At the time of his death he was considered one of the most influential violin masters in the United St ...

(''Performer's Certificate'', Indiana University, Bloomington, 1970), whose assistant she was in his violin class. In 1973, she won a third prize at the Montreal International Competition, before obtaining in 1979, the Georges Enesco prize of Paris, in the "Meilleure violoniste de l'année" category. Concertmaster of the

Melos Ensemble The Melos Ensemble is a group of musicians who started in 1950 in London to play chamber music in mixed instrumentation of string instruments, wind instruments and others. Benjamin Britten composed the chamber music for his ''War Requiem'' for the ...

of London, she was, from 1976 to 1982, violin solo at the Ensemble intercontemporain then joined the Ivaldi Quartet. She is the regular guest of the Asolo, Naples, and Marlboro ("senior" since 1983) festivals and participates in various summer academies ( Flaine,

Les Arcs Les Arcs () is a ski resort located in Savoie, France, in the Tarentaise Valley town of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Initially created by Robert Blanc and Roger Godino, it is a part of the huge Paradiski system which is under ownership by Compagnie des A ...

, Rambouillet, Périgueux, Portogruaro). Since 1985, Gazeau has been a teacher of violin and

at the CNSMDP. In 1998, she was appointed professor of violin didactics in the pedagogy department. She is

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the ...

of the Violin Vatelot-Rampal competition. She's playing on a Stradivarius that once belonged to

Christian Ferras Christian Ferras (17 June 1933 – 14 September 1982) was a French violinist. Early years Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi i ...

References

External links

Sylvie Gazeau's discography
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)
Sonata for 2 violins RV 76 - I. largo - Accardo & Sylvie Gazeau ( Vivaldi)
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gazeau, Sylvie 1950 births Living people Musicians from Orléans 20th-century French women classical violinists 21st-century French women classical violinists Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris