With Jean-Claude Casadesus Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist.

Biography

Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry, Savoie, the youngest of three siblings. His brother is the violinist

Renaud Capuçon Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. Biography Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He entered the conservatory in ...

. He started learning the cello when he was four years old.Gautier Capuçon interview, Borletti-Buitoni Trust, London, 2004''La Croix'', 1 December 200
"Renaud et Gautier Capuçon frères d'archet"
/ref> He began his formal musical education in his hometown at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Chambéry, where he graduated with first prizes in cello and in piano. In Paris, he studied the cello initially with

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, who had heard him in Chambéry and brought him with her to the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR), where he graduated in 1997 with the first prize in cello. He then became a pupil of cello pedagogue Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), where he graduated in 2000 with first prizes in cello and chamber music. After that, he finished his studies with Heinrich Schiff at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Between 1997 and 1998, as a student, he was a cellist in the European Community Youth Orchestra (now the European Union Youth Orchestra) and also in the

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, playing under conductors including Bernard Haitink,

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and

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. He is also an accomplished pianist. He started learning the piano at the age of sevenAgence Artistique Jacques Thelen, Paris
and studied it as his second instrument at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris under Christophe Egiziano.French Music Export Offices
/ref> He enjoys playing jazz piano recreationally. Now he teaches at Classe d'Excellence de Fondation Louis Vuitton with young students.

Cello

Capuçon's principal instrument is a 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello which he has on loan.Gautier Capuçon interview, EMI Classics promotion film "Gautier Capuçon – Dvorak and Herbert cello concertos", Dec 2008 He also has a 1746 Joseph Contreras cello on loan from BSI (Banca della Svizzera Italiana). Speaking about his Goffriller cello in April 2008, he said:Gautier Capuçon speaking on BBC radio, recorded April 2008, broadcast 2 May 2008

"I am very lucky to be playing this cello for ten, nearly eleven, years now. It is a Matteo Goffriller, of the Venetian school, from 1701. All the Goffriller cellos that I have tried are not easy to play. For each note you need to know how much bow pressure, how much vibrato and how much bow speed you can put on it. It is an instrument that you really need to know to be able to play; it is not like a
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or a
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. Montagnana, for example – most of them are really easy to play. So in a way, on the Goffriller, I probably search more and look more for different things."

Describing a

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cello as his "dream" instrument of choice, he said: "I hope one day to be able to play on a Montagnana."

Awards

*First prize, Maurice Ravel International Academy of Music competition, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, 1998 *Second prize, 3rd

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, New Zealand, 1999 *First prize, 1er

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International Cello Competition,

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Classique, "New Talent of the Year", 2001 *Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, 2004 *Echo Classics Award (category: Young Artist of the Year) Germany, 2004 *Echo Classics Award (category: Chamber Music Recording of the Year (20th/21st Century)), Germany 2007 *Echo Classics Award (category: Concerto Recording of the Year) Germany 2010/2011 *Echo Classics Award (category: Chamber Music Recording of the Year (19th Century)/Mixed Ensemble)) Germany, 2012

Discography

Gautier Capuçon was an exclusive recording artist for Virgin Classics (a division of EMI). In 2015 he recorded for

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, a division of

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Orchestral

*Dvorak – Cello Concerto, 2009 *Herbert – Cello Concerto no.2, 2009 *Haydn – Cello Concertos, 2003 *Brahms – Double Concerto, 2007 *Tchaikovsky – Variations on a Rococo Theme, 2010 *Prokofiev – Sinfonia Concertante, 2010 *Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto n°1, 2013 *Shostakovich – Cello Concertos, 2015 *Schumann - Cello Concerto, 2019

Chamber

*Ravel – Chamber Music, 2002 *Face à Face: Violin & Cello Duets, 2003 *Saint Saëns – Carnival of the Animals, 2003 *Brahms Piano Trios, 2004 *Schubert – Trout Quintet, 2004 *Inventions: Violin & Cello Duets (Bach, Eisler,

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, Bartok, Martinu), 2006 *Schubert Piano Trios, 2007 *Rachmaninov & Prokofiev: Cello Sonatas, 2008 *Fauré: Complete chamber music for strings, 2011

Other albums

In addition, Gautier Capuçon has featured in EMI's annual CD releases of live recordings from the Lugano Festival each year, "Martha Argerich & Friends", at which he is a frequent returning guest performer. He also released these albums:

Collaborations

DVDs

Management

Gautier Capuçon is represented by: *France: Agence Artistique Jacques Thelen, Paris *UK: Harrison Parrott *Germany: Weigold & Böhm *North America: Columbia Artists Management Inc., New York *Japan: Kajimoto Concert Management, Tokyo

References

External links

Official websiteGautier Capuçon's discography on EMI Classics
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