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Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon began his studies
at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the
age of fourteen, winning numerous awards during his five years there. Following
this, Capuçon moved to Berlin to study with Thomas Brandis and Isaac
Stern, and was awarded the Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1997,
Capuçon was invited by Claudio Abbado to become concertmaster of
the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which he led for three summers, working
with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim, Franz
Welser-Moest and Abbado himself.
Since this time, Capuçon has established himself as a soloist at
the very highest level. He has played concerti with orchestras such as
the Berlin Philharmonic under Haitink, the Boston Symphony under Dohnanyi
and the Orchestre de Paris under Eschenbach. Other orchestras he has performed
with include the Bayerischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, NDR Hamburg, Orchestre
National de France, La Scala Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, City
of Birmingham Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Some of the other conductors he has collaborated with include Dutoit, Masur,
Brüggen, Bychkov, Philippe Jordan, Krivine, Sawallisch, Ivan Fischer
and Robertson.
Capuçon also has a great commitment to performing chamber music
and has worked with Argerich, Barenboim, Bronfman, Grimaud, Kovacevich,
Pires, Pletnev, Repin, Bashmet and Mørk, as well as with his brother
and regular collaborator cellist Gautier Capuçon. These collaborations
have taken him to the festivals of Edinburgh, London (Mostly Mozart), Berlin, Lucerne,
Verbier, Aix-en- Provence, Roque d'Anthéron, San Sebastian, Stresa,
Tanglewood and many others. His recent performance with Gautier Capuçon
and Angela Hewitt at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London received unanimous
critical acclaim.
Capuçon records exclusively for Virgin Classics and his most recent
releases include the Dutilleux Violin Concerto with Myung-Whun Chung and
the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Brahms Violin Sonatas
with Nicholas Angelich, Ravel chamber music with Gautier Capuçon
and Frank Braley and the Mendelssohn and Schumann Violin Concertos with
Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Of his 2002 recording
‘Le Bœuf sur le toit' with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, again with
Daniel Harding, International Record Review's critic declared “Not since
the emergence of Vengerov and Repin has such an exciting young violinist
come my way”. Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri del Gesù
“Panette” (1737) that belonged to Isaac Stern, bought for him by the Banca Svizzera Italiana (BSI).
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