Concert of New Works Dedicated to Gautier Capuçon

. He also appears on the greatest stages such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Berliniker Philharmoniker, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus of Vienna, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow, the KKL of Lucerne and the Tokyo City Opera. He also works with Augustin Dumay, Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Antoine Tamestit, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Henri Demarquette, the Quatuor Ébèneor and the Dawn Upshaw singers, Diana Damrau, Angelika Kirchslager, Ian Bostridge, Mojca Erdmann, Laurent Naouri, Nora Gubisch and others.

Still little-known a few years ago, the music penned by Mr Ducros has gradually become known and recognised by a growing number of musicians, particularly since the release of his Trio for Two Cellos and Piano in 2006 (Billaudot, coll. Gautier Capuçon). Since then, his pieces have been played by numerous performers. He has also produced a number of more theoretical works about musical language and its evolution, in particular a lecture at the Collège de France, delivered in 2012 at the invitation of Karol Beffa, and which led to a great deal of debate in artistic circles.

Mr Ducros has produced a great many arrangements for piano, chamber music and orchestra, works commissioned, performed or recorded by Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Jaroussky, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, the Quatuor Ébène, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National d’Île de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Orchestre National de France. His first album of orchestral arrangements (Émotions, with Gautier Capuçon, on Erato-Warner Classics), was awarded a Disque d’Or in 2021.

Mr Ducros’s substantial discography of more than twenty albums includes a Schubert recital (Ligia Digital, 2001); Fauré’s works for piano and orchestra with the Orchestre de Bretagne, conducted by Moshe Atzmon (Timpani, 2008); Capriccio, a recital with Renaud Capuçon (Virgin Classics, 2008); Opium, French melodies, with Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Emmanuel Pahud (Virgin Classics, 2009); Beethoven’s works for piano and cello with Jérôme Pernoo (Ligia-Digital, 2009); Contes, with Renaud Capuçon and Laurence Ferrari (Virgin Classics, 2012); Guillaume Connesson’s chamber music (Collection Pierre Bergé, 2012 – Reissued by Sony, 2017); En aparté, with his own chamber music (Decca, 2013); Green, French melodies with Philippe Jaroussky and the Quatuor Ébène (Erato, 2015); Intuition, pieces for cello and piano with Gautier Capuçon (Erato, 2018); Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonates pour violoncelle et piano with Bruno Philippe (Harmonia Mundi, 2019); Émotions, avec Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Adrien Perruchon (Erato, 2020); Sensations, with Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre National de Bretagne conducted by Johanna Malangré (Erato, 2022). Released in November 2023 was Destination Paris, with Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Lionel Bringuier (Erato, 2023).

Born in 1974, Jérôme Ducros studied piano with François Thinat, Gérard Frémy and Cyril Huvé at the CNSM in Paris and took masterclasses with Léon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebök, Davitt Moroney and Christian Zacharias. He won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition organised by Maurizio Pollini at La Scala in Milan and has performed in a great many venues throughout the world and as a soloist with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with such conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski and Christopher Hogwood.

Regularly invited to perform in Japan, the U.S.A., Canada and throughout Europe, Mr Braley is a partner of the world’s greatest orchestras, such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestres of Bordeaux, Lille, Montpellier and Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Philharmonique de Liège, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Gürzenich Orchester Cologne, the London Philharmonic, the BBC Wales Orchestra, the Royal National Scottish Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre de la Suisse Italienne, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra[T1] , the Royal Copenhagen Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and more. He has performed under the direction of conductors such as J-C Casadesus, Stéphane Deneve, Charles Dutoit, Armin Jordan, Hans Graf, Gunther Herbig, Christopher Hogwood, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Kiril Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine, Louis Langrée, Kurt Masur, Ludovic Morlot, Paul Mc Creesh, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, John Nelson, Michel Plasson, Yutaka Sado, Michael Schonwandt, Antonio Pappano, Walter Weller and others.

Frank Braley has toured the world: in China with the Orchestre National de France, in Japan and China with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, in Italy with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. He played at the Tanglewood Festival (U.S.A.) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Graf and took part in the inauguration of Carnegie Hall’s new Zankel Hall in New York with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He replaced Martha Argerich at the London Proms with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Myung-Whung and performed in Amsterdam and Paris with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink. He has recently performed in Paris at the Salle Pleyel venue with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Bach) and with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France (Mozart), at La Folle Journée de Nantes and in Japan with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot (Mozart), then this season [T1] with the Orchestre National de France and the São Paulo Symphony conducted by Stéphane Denève (Poulenc), with the Hong-Kong Sinfonietta, the Seoul Philharmonic and Hans Graf, the New Japan Philharmonic, as well as with his Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie on tour.

In recital, he has performed in Paris, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hanover and Ferrara, and in duo with Renaud Capuçon in Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Bonn, Brussels, Rome, Florence, Trieste, New York, Washington, Paris and Vienna. In chamber music, his partners include Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Maria João Pires, Gérard Caussé, Eric Le Sage, Paul Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud.

In addition to his regular work as a soloist, he is passionate about original projects: In 2023, he performed Maurice Ravel’s Concerto in G Major for piano and orchestra alongside the Opéra de Paris Ballet and Orchestra for Jérome Robbins’ ballet En Sol. He took part in a complete performance of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at the La Roque d’Anthéron festival, as well as in Rome, Bilbao, Lisbon, Tokyo and Brazil. He has performed the complete sonatas for violin and piano [T1] with Renaud Capuçon in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Bordeaux, Grenoble, Chambéry, Lyon, as well as in London (Wigmore Hall), Luxembourg, Singapore and Hong Kong.

His discography includes: for Harmonia Mundi, the Sonata D.959 and the Klavierstücke D.946 (Diapason d’Or) – which earned him flattering comparisons to Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel, Radu Lupu and Andras Schiff –, the piano works of Richard Strauss, Beethoven’s sonatas, a Gershwin recital and Poulenc’s Double Concerto (BMG – Prix Caecilia in Belgium, Diapason d’Or). He took part in Eric Le Sage’s recording of the complete Schumann works. With Naïve: the DVD Liszt- Debussy-Gershwin (“Choc” by Monde de la Musique). For Virgin Classics/Erato, he has recorded chamber music by Ravel, Le Carnaval des Animaux by Saint-Saëns (“Choc” by Monde de la Musique, “Recording of the Month” by Gramophone), Schubert’s Trout, the Schubert trios with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, the Hungarian Dances with Nicholas Angelich and the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with Renaud Capuçon, unanimously acclaimed by the critics.

After a first Schubert/Debussy/Britten/Carter recording, Frank Braley and Gautier Capuçon recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano for Erato.

The latest Erato release is Beethoven’s Ghost and Archduke trios, with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon (February 2020).

Frank Braley was Musical Director of the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie from 2014 to 2021. He has been Professor at the Conservatoire de Paris since September 2011.

Il a également pu travailler avec de grands professeurs tels que Frans Helmerson, Julian Steckel, François Salque, Pierre Fouchenneret, Stephan Forck, Le Quatuor Ébène au sein de diverses académies et masterclasses en Europe. Il participe aux « Cello Masterclass » à la Kronberg Academy.

Léo Ispir a l’occasion de partager la scène en France, Turquie, USA, Ukraine, Géorgie… en musique de chambre avec des artistes tels que : Le Quatuor Modigliani, Jean François Heisser, François Salque, Svetlin Roussev, Raphaël Pidoux, ainsi qu’en soliste sous la baguette de Pierre Bleuse, Julien Guénebaut… Il a la chance de jouer dans des salles de concerts renommées telles que la philharmonie de Kiev, la salle Gaveau, la Philarmonie de Paris, le Théâtre des champs Élysées… On a pu l’entendre dans des festivals tels que : Les Folles journées de Nantes, Les Flâneries musicales de Reims, Festival 1001 notes, les musicales de Blanchardeau etc…Il est membre l’octuor Cello8 avec lequel il a enregistré un album « ode à la nuit » sous le label Mirare. Il a joué sous la baguette de Lahav Shani, Gianandrea Noseda, Jukka Pekka Saraste au sein du Tsinandali Festival en Géorgie. De plus, il remporte plusieurs prix dans différents concours, comme le 1er prix au Concours International de Violoncelle « Tremplin », le 1er prix ainsi que le « Grand Prize » au Gustav Mahler International Cello Competition,le 1er prix au concours International des jeunes talents en Normandie en musique de chambre…

En février 2023, il est admis à La Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel dans la classe de Gary Hoffman. Actuellement, Léo Ispir joue sur un violoncelle de Francis Kuttner prêté par Mme Karapetyan avec la précieuse aide de l’association « Talents et Violon’celles. »

Francesco was selected as a 2024 Laureate of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon and is the recipient of the 2024 Stauffer Academy/Rotary Club Biannual Scholarship. Francesco is the beneficiary of the "Irene und Walter Kley-Award" 2025. He is selected as 2025 IMS Prussia Cove's Gordon Clark scholar, supported by the Gordon Clark Trust (UK).

He is the co-founder and co-director of the VIVACISSIMO Festival, an Artistic Residency for chamber music established in 2023 in southern Italy, organized in collaboration with his dear friend, pianist Paolo Tirro. In August 2025, the VIVACISSIMO Festival will hold its third edition.
Francesco has been invited to international festivals such as IMS and OCM Prussia Cove, Écoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau, NUME Academy & Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland, Ravinia's Steans Institute, Schiermonnikoog Festival, Toronto Summer Music, Villars Music Academy, Apeldoorn Masterclasses, Cello Biennale Amsterdam, and Oropa Festival. His most recent artistic endeavours include a recital for the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg and a CD recording for Warner Classics/Erato as part of the Capucelli led by cellist Gautier Capuçon.

He has studied with distinguished musicians including P. Muller, N. Imai, D. Geringas, D. Waterman, S. Harada, J. Steckel, J. Pernoo, Quatuor Ébène, R. Latzko, L. Hopkins.
For the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons, Francesco will join Musethica International.
In 2023, he was awarded the Special Prize of the Jury at the Prix Ravel International Competition (Paris), alongside Canadian violinist Yan Li.

As a chamber musician, Francesco collaborates with internationally acclaimed artists such as V. Mullova, S. Accardo, A. Grosz, J.-G. Queyras, V. Stanculeasa, G. Capuçon, T. Riebl, N. Imai, O. Meir-Wellber, M. Costea, H. Winkelman, M. Piketty, and B. Giuranna. In November 2023, Francesco stepped in for star cellist Sol Gabetta to perform a solo recital at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy, playing the rare Antonio Stradivari 'Stauffer - Ex Christiani' Cello.
His performances have been broadcast by prominent European radio and television channels, including RAI Radio3, Rai 5, RTS, NDR, and BR.

Since 2022, Francesco has been a Guest Player (Internship/Praktikum) with the Camerata Salzburg.
In his orchestral experience, he has worked with esteemed conductors such as C. Eschenbach, M. Honeck, T. Koopman, K. Urbansky, D. Gatti, and K. Yamada, performing in prestigious concert halls including the Elbphilharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, KKL Luzern, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Athenaeum Bucharest, and Wiener Konzerthaus.
Francesco’s contributions to contemporary music have led to collaborations with H. Lachenmann, A. Solbiati, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and Ensemble Dallapiccola. 
Brazilian composer Ernst Mahle has dedicated his new composition, Ponteio for piano and cello, to Francesco.
A passionate improviser, Francesco has performed live improvisations across Europe in venues such as the Beethoven-Haus Bonn and Bulgarian National Radio, collaborating with G. Vracheva and M. Barley.
Francesco is grateful to Thomastik-Infeld Vienna for their generous sponsorship and continuous support. He plays a Giovanni Battista Grancino cello (1700), kindly loaned to him by the Landessammlung Streichinstrumente Baden-Württemberg Foundation, following a successful audition in February 2024.
His upcoming engagements include recitals and chamber music concerts around Europe, a Taiwan Tour as part of Gautier Capuçon's Capucelli and a debut CD release with the VIVACISSIMO Enseble with Naxos of America, produced by OnClassical Records.

Cette saison, Jeein You se produira en récital au Centre artistique de Séoul dans le IBK Chamber Hall, ainsi qu'en tournée à travers l'Europe (Vienne, Dortmund, Paris, Lausanne, Genève) avec Gautier Capuçon et l'ensemble Capucelli, ensemble qui apparaitra d’ailleurs sur le prochain album de Gautier Capuçon intitulé Sensations. Jeein You se produira également chez Classeek en Suisse, dans le cadre de la saison de concerts du programme « Ambassadeur » pour les jeunes artistes émergents. En plus d'être reconnue sur la scène musicale européenne, Jeein You est également présente en Corée. Après son récital au festival de musique de PyeongChang en décembre 2021, elle participe au concert de clôture du festival en juillet 2022, cette fois avec un septuor de chambre aux côtés de Svetlin Roussev, Arah Shin, Alexandre Baty et Ralph Szigeti.

Jeein You a remporté plusieurs premiers prix et prix spéciaux, notamment le premier prix et prix spécial au 5e Concours international Dotzauer à Dresde, le premier prix et grand prix  au 23e Concours international de violoncelle à Heran, le premier prix au 11e Concours international de musique d'OSAKA, et le deuxième prix au 7e Concours international de musique pour jeunes à Oldenburg. Elle remporte aussi le premier prix et le prix spécial de la meilleure interprétation du Concerto pour violoncelle en do majeur de Haydn avec l'Orchestre philharmonique de Tallinn au 10e Concours international pour jeunes musiciens, à Tallinn.

En soliste, Jeein You collabore avec l’Orchestre Philharmonia, l'Orchestre de Guro Arts Valley, l'Orchestre philharmonique de Gunpo, l'Orchestre philharmonique de Wonju, les orchestres philharmoniques de Tallinn (Estonie) et de Kaunas (Lituanie). En récital, elle se produit dans de nombreuses séries de concerts notamment au 28e Kumho Prodigy Recital, à la Blue House (résidence officielle du président de la République de Corée) pour le roi et la reine de Malaisie, au concert d'invitation du concours Isangyun, à l'International Art Festival Chamber Music à l'Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie), au Great Mountains Music Festival, au festival de printemps de Séoul, à la Mozarthall Open Piano Forum Season, et à la Maison Heinrich Heine (Paris).

Depuis 2019, Jeein joue un violoncelle Stefano Scarampella 1905/1910 prêté par la Fondation Boubo-Music à Bâle.

Concert engagements have led her to play in halls like the Beethovenhaus Bonn, Casals Forum Kronberg, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Recipient of the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich at the Verbier Festival 2021 for the best young cellist and the 2022 Leyda Ungerer prize, Anouchka Hack is a "Debut“ artist in Nikolaisaal Potsdam, the series featuring recitals and solo appearances in three seasons.

Concert engagements for the current season comprise solo appearances with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and recitals with Katharina Hack in Laeiszhalle Hamburg and at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern amongst others, as well as chamber concerts in Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. Anouchka Hack most recently appeared as a soloist with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Erfurt Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Zagreb Soloists and the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a chamber musician in the prestigious Rheingau Musikfestival. Solo appearances lead her to play concerts in the Konzerthaus Dortmund amongst others.

In 2020, her Duo first album, featuring works by Dmitri Shostakovich and an encore together with Gautier Capuçon, was released at GENUIN classics, and was nominated for the German record critics award and the Opus Klassik award. Anouchka and Katharina Hack are the artistic directors of the meetMUSIC Open Air Festival in Mettingen, Germany, which celebrated its first two successful editions in 2021 and 2022. Next to the big works of the Duo repertoire, the sisters incorporate free Duo improvisations in their concerts as well.

Anouchka Hack is a scholarship holder of the Mozart-Gesellschaft Dortmund and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. She is currently studying with Prof. Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. As a prizewinner of the Competition of the German Music Instruments fund, Anouchka Hack plays on a Cello by Bartolomeo Tassini, Venice 1769. 

Aurélien Pascal is a laureate of several international competitions, including the 2014 Emanuel Feuermann Competition, where he won the Grand Prix and the Audience Award, as well as Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels and Paulo cello in Helsinki. Aurélien Pascal regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras such as the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Metz, the European Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Nuremberg and Barcelona Symphony Orchestras, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, Sir András Schiff, Pascal Rophé, Christoph Poppen, Clemens Schuldt, Okko Kamu and Lio Kuokman.

In recital, he has performed in numerous festivals such as the Verbier Festival, the Festival of Colmar, the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, La Folle Journée de Nantes in France and Japan, the Festival de Radio France Montpellier Occitanie, the Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, with chamber music partners such as Augustin Dumay, Pavel Kolesnikov, Alexandre Kantorow, Paloma Kouider and Sir András Schiff. He has also performed at the Auditorium du Louvre and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the BOZAR in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Musiekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Auditorium de Barcelona, and the Tonhalle in Zurich.

Aurélien Pascal's discography includes, among others, the concerto by Franz Danzi recorded with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and Howard Griffiths, released by Sony Classical in January 2018. In July 2019, his latest CD All'Ungarese with Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello op. 8a won the CHOC of Classica and the Diapason Découverte. Aurélien studied at the CNSMDP in the class of Philippe Müller, took part in masterclasses with János Starker and perfected his skills with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. 

She has performed as a soloist at numerous festivals, among them the Pablo Casals festival, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, Musique à l’Emperi, W Krainie Chopina à Varsovie, Orangerie de Sceaux, the Edinburgh Festival, the Ohrid Summer Festival, the Clos-Vougeot festival, and the Variations Musicales de Tannay. She has also appeared at most of Europe’s top concert halls such as the Victoria Hall, the Paris Philharmonie, the Champs-Elysées Theatre, the Opera Garnier, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, Baden-Baden Kurhaus, Schloss Elmau, the Salle Cortot, the Casa de Música in Porto, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. In April 2018, she was selected to represent the Van Cleef & Arpels Brand at a private event at Beijing’s Summer Palace.

She has played with several great artists such as Emmanuel Pahud, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Alexandre Kantorow, Adam Laloum, and Abdel Rahman El Bacha. She plays regularly in string trio with her two sisters Anna and Magdalena Sypniewski. As the soloist, she has played with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra, the Apassionato Ensemble, the Chamber Orchestra of Varsovia Philharmonie, the Elektra Orchestra, and the New-Europe ChamberOrchestra.

She has been awarded several prizes and distinctions including the "Révélation Classique » Adami 2017, the young Talent prize of the Clos-Vougeot Wine and Music Festival, a scholarship from the Safran Foundation, the Ginette Neveu prize at the Carl Flesh Academy 2015, and the Grand Prize of the Ravel Academy 2018.