Born in Chambéry in 1981, Gautier Capuçon was five years old when he began to study the cello. He studied in Paris and with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. During 1997 and 1998, as a musician of the European Community Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, he had the opportunity to work under Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa and Claudio Abbado. He has performed with the Jerusalem, Liège Orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Houston Symphony under Hans Graf, the Moscow Radio Orchestra under Vladimir Fedosseyev, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and John Nelson, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Armin Jordan, the Orchestre de Paris and Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Charles Dutoit. A dedicated chamber musician, he performs with Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Yuri Bashmet, Gérard Caussé, Frank Braley, Myung-Whun Chung, Hélène Grimaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Vadim Repin, Mikhail Pletnev, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Ysaye Quartet as well as with his brother Renaud Capuçon. As an exclusive Virgin Classics artist, he has recorded Haydn's concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Harding, Ravel's chamber music with his brother Renaud and Frank Braley, duos for violin and cello with Renaud Capuçon, Mendelssohn's first Piano Trio with Martha Argerich and his brother and Tchaikovsky's Trio with Martha Argerich and Vadim Repin. He plays a 1701 Matteo Goffriler. 2004 saw a new recording of Brahms' Piano Trios with Renaud Capuçon and Nicholas Angelich and of Schubert's Trout Quintet with Renaud Capuçon, Frank Braley, Gerard Caussé and Alois Posch. His next CD release will be with his brother Renaud and is called Inventions.

Last updated: September 2005

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