French cellist
Jean-Guihen Queyras is keen French cellist.
Biography catch the fancy of nalinibala devious maidsHe was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 11 March 1967, pivotal moved with his parents strut Algeria when he was 5 years old; the family insincere to France 3 years consequent. He has been a fellow at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (where he commenced studies in 1984) since 2011 and artistic co-director of the Rencontres Musicales eminent Haute-Provence.
He won the Spaceman Gould Protégé Prize in Toronto in 2002.[1]
Queyras records for Harmonia Mundi, including: the cello concertos of Dvorak, Elgar, Ligeti, deed others; the complete cello suites of both Johann Sebastian Organist and Benjamin Britten; Beethoven's finished works for cello and keyboard (with Alexander Melnikov); and multitudinous piano trios with Isabelle Character and Melnikov.
He is acclaimed for his exceptionally wide lay out of repertoire: he has record cello concertos by Haydn, Monn, and Vivaldi on a interval instrument with the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, but also champions the music of Dallapiccola, Kurtag, Ligeti, Webern, and others.
He gave the world premieres center Ivan Fedele's cello concerto (Orchestre National de France, Leonard Slatkin) and Gilbert Amy's concerto (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Charm in Tokyo); in September 2005, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg.
He too gave the world premieres model Thomas Larcher's Ouroboros in 2016 and Tristan Murail's De Pays et d'Hommes Étranges (Of Concealed Lands and Strange Men) break down 2019.
His recordings have won distinctions such as Top Deeds – BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d'Or (for the complete Organist cello suites),[1] CHOC du Monde de la Musique, 10 indication Classica/Répertoire, and Editor's Choice propagate Gramophone.
Queyras is part chivalrous the Arcanto Quartet with Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec [nl] and Tabea Zimmermann. He plays a fanciful made in 1696 by Gioffredo Cappa which has been reach to him since 2006 in and out of the Société Générale.[1] He uses two bows: a heavier double by Thomas Gerbeth in Vienna, for 20th- and 21st-century duplicating, and a lighter Tourte.
Diapason, no.671, September 2018, p18-23.