Gautier Capuçon

Instrumentalists — Cello

Manager: R. Douglas Sheldon
Additional Management: Denise A. Pineau
Management Territory: North America

"... Gautier Capuçon gives distinctive, characterful and intense performances of both works (Herbert No. 2 and Dvorak Concerti)....It is Capuçon's gift to play with warm intensity....and the result is magical...." —Gramophone - April, 2009

"Capuçon... projected a big, throaty sound in the vibrant folk themes of Dvorak's Cello Concerto. It was a magical peformance. (he)....is an expressive, involved performer... his playing was poignant but never overly sentimental... he had something imaginative to say in every note of the dance-like finale..." —Cincinnati Enquirer - September, 2008

"Capuçon played with extraordinary technical grace, prismatic color and quick reflexes..." —Detroit Free Press - October, 2006

About

Award-winning cellist Gautier Capuçon has taken the international music world by storm with his recital, orchestral and chamber music performances around the globe since winning the Victoires de la Musique as "New Talent of the Year" in 2001. Mr. Capuçon’s 2010-2011 season will include a special tour with pianist Gabriella. Montero featuring works from their recording, Rhapsody, in Montreal, New York City, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Seattle, Kansas City and Calgary, AB. Mr. Capuçon will make his debut with the Los Angeles . . . Philharmonic under Lionel Bringuier, and will return to the San Francisco Symphony under Charles Dutoit. His collaborations include performances with Martha Argerich, his brother Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Leonid Kavakos, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Leonard Slatkin and recently his first with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra for the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations and Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante, to be released in January 2010 on the Virgin Classics label, for which Mr. Capuçon records exclusively. His 2009 release of Dvorak and Herbert received Editor's Choice from Gramophone Magazine. In 2008 he released "Rhapsody," works of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev with pianist Gabriella Montero. Additional releases on the Virgin Classics label include Haydn concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding, chamber music of Ravel with Renaud Capuçon and pianist Frank Braley, and a recording of contemporary violin and cello duos entitled "Face à Face." Gautier Capuçon plays a 1701 Matteo Goffriler and a cello of Joseph Contreras (1746) lent by BSI.

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