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

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Biography

At the age of four, he began playing the

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and received a first prize for excellence from the . He then entered the

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. 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 ...

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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 ...

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

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with Patrick Bismuth at the

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and perfected his skills with

Enrico Gatti Enrico Gatti (born 1955) is an Italian violinist, known for playing baroque violin, Baroque music. Gatti was born in Perugia, Italy. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Geneva Conservatory as a student of :en:Chiara Banchi ...

. After playing with

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and Les Arts Florissants, he took over the role of

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in ensembles like Il Seminario Musicale, La Simphonie du Marais, Capriccio Stravagante, the

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, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Agrémens. Since 1994, he has been solo violin of the

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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, with an original setting. In 2000, with

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, 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

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Discography
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Charpentier Marc Antoine Les plaisirs de Versailles Patrick Cohën Akenine
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