ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
FANNY CLAMAGIRAND

First Prize winner of the 2007 MonteCarlo Violin Masters, acclaimed as the “Adami Classical Revelation 2006”, First Prize F. Kreisler in 2005 in Vienna, Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2004 in London, and recipient of the Special Jury Prize Y. Menuhin in 2000, Fanny has already established herself as an artist of great distinction on the international stage and is considered to be one of the finest violinists of her generation.

Her elegance, the brightness of her playing, her interpretations involving sensitivity and authority received many critics’ praise. Her talent and commitment are supported by many organizations worldwide and in particular by Anne-Sophie Mutter as a regular member of ”Mutter’s Virtuosi”.

Born in 1984, Fanny started playing the violin at the age of seven. Fanny joined the post-graduate course at the Paris Conservatoire in 2000 at the age of 16, in the class of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and went on to study with Itzhak Rashkovsky at London’s Royal College of Music, where she received her Artist Diploma in 2004. She was subsequently coached by Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatoire. At the same time, Fanny attended many master-classes, particularly with Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Michèle Auclair, Boris Kushnir, Donald Weilerstein.

Fanny has been performing as a soloist in concert from the age of nine. She has made her mark on numerous prestigious international venues and festivals such as Wigmore and Royal Festival Halls in London, KKL in Lucerne, Musikverein in Vienna, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, OperaHouse in Tel-Aviv, Cultural Center in Chicago, Zankel Hall in New York, Academia Santa Cecilia in Roma, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Louisiana Modern Art Museum in Copenhagen, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Montpellier Radio France Festival, Colmar Festival, Folles Journées in Nantes, Bilbao, Tokyo, Festival de Menton, Haydn Festspiele, Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Lucerne Festival, Enescu Festival, “Spring of Minsk”, “Palaces of Saint Petersburg”, Verbier Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

Fanny has played as a soloist with renowned orchestras including the Wiener Symphoniker and Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Weimar Symphoniker, Jerusalem Symphony, La Fenice Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic, Montecarlo Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Wiener Kammerorchester, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia.

She collaborates with artists like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, Franz Welser-Möst, Fabien Gabel, Pietari Inkinen, Tugan Sokhiev, Juraj Valcuha, Paul Meyer, Benoît Fromanger, Antoine Tamestit,  Khatia Buniatishvili, Lise de La Salle, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wiespelwey, Ysaÿe String Quartet.

Fanny’s first CD, featuring the complete Violin Solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe and released in 2007 for Nascor, has been highly acclaimed by the press. The complete Saint- Saëns Violin Concertos (SinfoniaFinlandia/P. Gallois) recorded under Naxos and released in November 2010 has been awarded a “Choc de Classica” (February 2011). Fanny’s next project for Naxos of Saint-Saëns complete violin and piano works, with Vanya Cohen, has just been recorded.

Fanny is a regular guest on French and foreign radio and TV shows. In 2010, Fanny collaborated with famous Japanese dancer and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara in “Obsession”, performing live Ysaÿe solo sonatas.

After her debuts in 2011 with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Lucerne and Enescu Festivals in duo with Antoine Tamestit and under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, 2012 also saw Fanny debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Fabien Gabel.

Future engagements are scheduled with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes at the Berlin Konzerthaus under the baton of Denis Russel-Davies during the “Young Euro Classic-Festival 2012”, the Orchestre National de France led by Alain Altinoglu Montpellier National Orchestra with Christoph Alstaedt, a tour with Tchaikovsky concerto bringing her to the Konzerthaus of Vienna and Berlin, as well as in Prague, Bratislava, Graz, Bern and an Asian “Mutter’s Virtuosi” tour in 2013.

Fanny plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin made in Venice in 1700.