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Renaud Capuçon

Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon studied at the CNSMDP with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds. In 1998, Claudio Abbado chose him as concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which allowed him to perfect his musical education with Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim and Franz Welser-Möst.

Renaud Capuçon plays with the greatest conductors and the most prestigious orchestras, in the most famous festivals : Aix en Provence, La Roque d'Anthéron, Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Gstaad, Lucerne, Verbier, Salzburg, Rheingau or the Bucharest Enescu Festival.

He also practices chamber music with passionate partners : Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, Kit Armstrong, Khatia Buniatishvili, Frank Braley, Yefim Bronfman, Hélene Grimaud, Khatia and Marielle Labèque, Maria Joao Pires, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yuri Bashmet, Myung-Whun Chung, Yo Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Michael Pletnev, and his brother Gautier.

Renaud Capuçon is the founder and artistic director of the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence and the Festival Les Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad. In 2017, he created the Lausanne Soloists, an ensemble made up of students from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, where he has been teaching violin since 2014.

About discography, Renaud Capuçon has already recorded nearly thirty CDs in particular Bartok's Violin Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth and an album entitled « Au cinema », devoted to film music, released in October 2018.

His violin is the Guarneri del Gesù “Panette” (1737) which belonged to Isaac Stern.
He was promoted to « Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite" in June 2011 and « Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur" in March 2016.
Renaud Capuçon has been appointed conductor and artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra for the 2020/2021 season.
UNESCO named him « Artist for Peace » in September 2020.
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, presented him with the « Médaille d’Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres » on December 22, 2021.

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