Gautier Capuçon
First prize at the Académie Internationale de Musique Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, second prize at the International Cello Competition in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Grand Prize at the André Navarra International Competition in Toulouse.
In 2001 he was ‘New Talent of the Year’ at the Victoires de la Musique and in 2004 he received the Echo Preis from German television and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
He performs with the most prestigious orchestras and the most renowned conductors for the most important seasons and festivals worldwide.
True ambassador of the cello in the 21st century, he is a constant presence in the most prestigious international seasons and festivals alongside many of the world’s leading conductors and instrumentalists, including Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jörg Widmann, Yuja Wang, Andreas Ottensamer, Renaud Capuçon, Frank Braley, Jérôme Ducros, Daniil Trifonov, Nikolai Lugansky and the Hagen Quartet. Other regular recital partners include Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Lisa Batiashvili, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Artemis and Ébène Quartets.
Committed to expanding the cellist repertoire, he collaborates with composers including Lera Auerbach, Nicola Campogrande, Jérôme Ducros, Henry Dutilleux, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Manoury, Bruno Mantovani, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm. His extensive record production for Erato (Warner Classics) has received numerous awards and sees him working with artists such as Jérôme Ducros, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Adrien Perruchon, Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Lionel Bringuier, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink, Quartet Ébène, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Renaud Capuçon and Martha Argerich.
Born in Chambéry, Capuçon started playing the cello at the age of five. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris with Philippe Muller and Annie Cochet-Zakine, and then with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.