Xavier Gagnepain (born 1960) is a French contemporary classical

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

Gagnepain studied 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 ...

and

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in the U.S.A. He gained some fame in international competitions such as those of Munich and São Paulo. He began a double career as a soloist and chamber musician. He is invited by renowned orchestras of the European scene (the

London Symphony Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's orchestras, symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's ...

, the Sofia Radio Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists), plays regularly with the pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson, and is the cellist of the

Rosamonde Quartet The Rosamonde Quartet is a French string quartet ensemble established in 1981. It takes its name from ''Rosamunde'', a 1823 composition of incidental music by Franz Schubert, from which he reused a theme in his 13th quartet, nicknamed ''Rosamun ...

(laureate of the Concours International of Évian in 1983 with the ''Prix d'interprétation de compositeurs modernes'' and the ''Prix spécial du Jury international des critiques'' and First Prize of the international competition of string quartets of the Union des Radios Européennes in Salzbourg in 1986). In 1996, Gagnepain was the first to perform in concert the 12 pieces on the name of Paul Sacher, contemporary repertoire for cello solo, famous for its difficulty. His discography includes both concertos 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 ...

ranging from duets to sextets. The Cité de la musique commissioned him a pedagogical work published in 2001 under the title ''Du musicien en général au violoncelliste en particulier''. Xavier Gagnepain teaches at the Académie internationale d'été de Nice and at the .

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