Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of six or 1.2 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.

Gautier Capuçon
Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also a passionate ambassador for the Orchestre à l'École Association which brings classical music to more than 40,000 school children across France. In January 2022 Gautier Capuçon launched his own Foundation to support young and talented musicians at the beginning of their careers and increase his commitment to young artists: fondationgautiercapucon.com. A multiple award winner, he is acclaimed for his expressive musicianship, exuberant virtuosity, and for the deep sonority of his 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello “L’Ambassadeur”.
 
In summer 2020, Capuçon brought music directly into the lives of families across the length and breadth of France, free of charge, during his musical odyssey ‘Un été en France’. During July 2022, for the third edition of this project, he performed 15 concerts across the nation including Autun, Clairveaux, Eauz, and his hometown of Chambéry. He also showcased 14 young musicians and 8 young dancers within his concert presentations.
 
Committed to exploring and expanding the cello repertoire, Capuçon performs an extensive array of works each season and regularly premieres new commissions. Current projects include collaborations with Lera Auerbach, Danny Elfman and Thierry Escaich.
 
In the 2022/23 season Capuçon appeared with, amongst others, the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons, Chicago Symphony/Manfred Honeck, San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas, Bayerische Rundfunk/Marie Jacquot, Leipzig Gewandhaus/Andris Nelsons, NDR Hamburg/Pablo Heras-Casado, Munich Philharmonic/Lorenzo Viotti, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä, and the Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov. He is the Curating Artist at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, and in addition, Capuçon plays at festivals worldwide, including the Salzburg, Grafenegg, and Verbier festivals.
 
In recital Capucon pairs regularly with Frank Braley and Jérôme Ducros – while other chamber music partners include Nikolai Lugansky and Gabriela Montero as well as Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Andreas Ottensamer, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, the Labèque sisters and the Artemis, Ébène and Hagen quartets.
 
Recording exclusively for Erato (Warner Classics), Capuçon has won multiple awards and holds an extensive discography. His latest album Sensations released in Autumn 2022, explores short pieces from a range of different genres. His album of romantic works by Brahms and Rachmaninoff in collaboration with Andreas Ottensammer and Yuja Wang is also released in Autumn 2022 by Deutsche Grammophon. 2020’s Warner Classics album Emotions features music from composers such as Debussy, Schubert and Elgar and has achieved gold status in France, remaining at Number 1 in the charts for over 30 weeks and selling more than 110,000 copies. Earlier recordings include concertos by Shostakovich (The Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev) and Saint-Saëns (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Lionel Bringuier); the complete Beethoven Sonatas with Frank Braley; Schubert’s String Quintet with the Ébène Quartet; Intuition with Orchestre de Chambre de Paris/Douglas Boyd and Jérôme Ducros; an album of Schumann works, recorded live with Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Bernard Haitink; Beethoven Piano Trios with Renaud Capuçon and Frank Braley; Chopin and Franck sonatas with Yuja Wang; and a solo album featuring Bach, Dutilleux and Kodaly as well as a “Best of” recording on occasion of his 40th birthday.
 
Capuçon has been featured on DVD in live performances with the Wiener Philharmoniker/Andris Nelsons (Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No.1) Berliner Philharmoniker/Gustavo Dudamel (Haydn Cello Concerto No.1) and with Lisa Batiashvili, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann (Brahms’s Concerto for Violin and Cello). A household name in his native France, he also appears on screen and online in shows such as Prodiges, Now Hear This, and The Artist Academy, and is a guest presenter on Radio Classique in the show Les Carnets de Gautier Capuçon.
 
Born in Chambéry, Capuçon began playing the cello at the age of five. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Philippe Muller and Annie Cochet-Zakine, and later with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. Now, he performs with world-leading orchestras, and works with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Andrès Orozco-Estrada, Pablo Heras-Casado, Klaus Mäkelä, Andris Nelsons, and Christian Thielemann, and collaborates with contemporary composers including Lera Auerbach, Karol Beffa, Esteban Benzecry, Nicola Campogrande, Qigang Chen, Bryce Dessner, Jérôme Ducros, Henry Dutilleux, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Manoury, Bruno Mantovani, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, and Jörg Widmann.
 

Piano: Jérôme Ducros
The pianist and composer Jérôme Ducros is a multi-faceted artist, performing just as much as a soloist as in chamber music, with a very broad repertoire ranging up to today’s music, in particular through his own compositions.
 
A much sought-after chamber musician, he is the regular partner in both concerts and on records of Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Jaroussky, Jérôme Pernoo, or Bruno Philippe. He also appears on the greatest stages such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus of Vienna, the 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, Antoine Tamestit, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Henri Demarquette, the Quatuor Ébèneor the singers Dawn Upshaw, Diana Damrau, Angelika Kirchslager, Ian Bostridge, Mojca Erdmann, Laurent Naouri or Nora Gubisch.
 
Still little-known a few years ago, the music Jérôme Ducros writes has little by little become known and recognized by a growing number of musicians, above all since the publication of his Trio for Two Cellos and Piano in 2006 (Billaudot, coll. Gautier Capuçon). Since then, his pieces have been played by numerous performers such as Sergey Malov, Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu, Alina Ibragimova, Gérard Caussé, Adrien Boisseau, Jérôme Pernoo, Henri Demarquette, Gautier Capuçon, Bruno Philippe, Georgi Anichenko, Raphaël Sévère, Nora Gubisch, Laurent Naouri and Antoine Tamestit. Thanks to a series of commissions, he has had the opportunity to write virtuosic works (Encore for cello and piano), chamber music (trios, a quintet), vocal pieces (La mort du poète, two poems by Verhaeren…), and symphonic compositions. In 2013, DECCA bought out the first CD devoted entirely to his chamber music. In 2016, a double concerto for cello, piano and orchestra premiered with the Orchestre de Pau, Fayçal Karoui and Jérôme Pernoo. 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.
 
Jérôme Ducros’s discography includes in particular 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, in company 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); 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” and “Emotions”, pieces for cello, piano and orchestra with Gautier Capuçon (Erato, 2018 and 2020); or Rachmaninov and Miaskovsky, works for cello and piano with Bruno Philippe (Harmonia Mundi, 2019）.
 
Born in 1974, Jérôme Ducros studied piano with François Thinat, Gérard Frémy and Cyril Huvé and took masterclasses with Léon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebök, Davitt Moroney and Christian Zacharias. The winner of the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition organised by Maurizio Pollini at la Scala in Milan, he has performed in a large number of halls throughout the world and as a soloist with such orchestras as the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, 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 or else the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with such conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski, and Christopher Hogwood.
 
Program
Fauré: Élégie
Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano in g minor, Op. 19
Lehar: L’Heure exquise                                          
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte              
Debussy: Beau soir                                                 
Bizet: Habanera                                                      
Fauré: Sicilienne                                                   
Offenbach: Barcarolle                                           
Rameau: Danse des Sauvages                                
Legrand: Un été 42                                               
Lai: Un Homme et une Femme                            
Aznavour: La Bohème                                         
Delerue: Thème de Camille                                  
Prokofiev: Danse des Chevaliers                    
 
(Please check program updates at the concert.)

 

 

Program
Fauré: Élégie
Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano in g minor, Op. 19
Lehar: L’Heure exquise                                          
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte              
Debussy: Beau soir                                                 
Bizet: Habanera                                                      
Fauré: Sicilienne                                                   
Offenbach: Barcarolle                                           
Rameau: Danse des Sauvages                                
Legrand: Un été 42                                               
Lai: Un Homme et une Femme                            
Aznavour: La Bohème                                         
Delerue: Thème de Camille                                  
Prokofiev: Danse des Chevaliers                    
 
(Please check program updates at the concert.)