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Gautier Capuçon - Cello

Wigmore Hall, 27-Nov-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 10-Dec-2022 / 13:00

Favourite pieces

Britten's Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 performed in 2017 (March) and 2014 (October, 26).

Debussy's Cello Sonata performed in 2018 (March) and 2017 (March).

Dutilleux's 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher performed in 2021 (September) and 2016 (January).

Wigmore Hall, 14-Sep-2021 / 19:30

  • Traditionsl Catalan: The Song of the Birds (arranged by Casals)
  • Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007
  • Kodály: Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

Mr. Capuçon performed on the 13th of January 2020. See Yuja Wang for more details.

He performed Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 8 by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No 2 in C minor Op 66 and Ravel's Piano Trio with Lisa Batiashvili and Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Brabican Hall on the 12th of November 2018.

Gautier Capuçon's concerts, unfortunately, cancelled due to the pandemic

On the 21st of May 2021 with Yuja Wang at the Barbican Hall

On the 31st of January 2021 with the Hagen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 27st of September 2020 with Renaud Capuçon at the Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 18-Mar-2018 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Jérôme Ducros

  • Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
  • Faure: Elégie Op. 24
  • Saint-Saëns: XIII. Le Cygne from Le carnaval des animaux
  • Piazzolla: Le grand tango
  • Jérôme Ducros: Encore
  • Dvořák: No. 5 Klid (Silent Woods) From the Bohemian Forest Op. 68
  • Tchaikovsky: II. Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11
  • Grieg: Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

Mr. Capuçon performed Beethoven's Concerto for violin, cello and piano, Triple Concerto with violinist Leonidas Kavakos, pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt on the 22nd of October 2017 at the Barbican Hall.

Gautier Capuçon, born in Chambéry in 1981, founded and is leader of the Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He uses a 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello and was a pupil of Heinrich Schiff at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Kings Place, 15-Mar-2017 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Frank Braley

  • Fauré:
    • Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 (arr. Casals)
    • Élégie, Op.24
  • Martinů: Variations on a Slovak Theme (1959)
  • Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F

Wigmore Hall, 24-Jan-2016 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 26-Oct-2014 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 2-Oct-2014 / 19:30

Mr Capuçon made his BBC Prom debut on the 18th of July 2011 playing Beethoven's Triple Concerto together with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Frank Braley on the piano and his brother Renaud on the violin.