Fanny Clamagirand, Violin
Biography
Fanny has this rare ability to " shape the melodic lines in an infinite limpidity of sound and clarity of the execution into all details", Die Rheinlandpfalz. Her elegance, the brightness of her playing, her interpretations involving sensitivity and authority often receives the critics´praise.
First Prize winner of the 2007 Monte Carlo 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, Special Jury Prize Y. Menuhin in 2000, First Prize L. Spohr in 1995, Fanny has already established herself as an artist of great distinction on the international stage and is considered to be one of the best violinists of her generation. Her talent and commitment are supported by many foundations and organizations in the world, of which, lately, the Fondation Safran pour la Musique (Paris). She is also supported by Vladimir Spivakov and Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Born in 1984, Fanny started playing the violin at the age of seven. She was taught by L. Kolos, before joining J.J. Kantorow’s postgraduate course at the CNSMPD (Paris Conservatory) in 2000, when she was sixteen. In 2003, she went on to study with I. Rashkovsky at London’s Royal College of Music, where she was awarded her “Artist’s Diploma” (2004). Then, she was coached by P.Vernikov at the Konservatorium in Vienna and O. Semchuk at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. Fanny has participated in master-classes, with Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Michèle Auclair, Boris Kushnir, Donald Weilerstein, Shlomo Mintz and Jean-Claude Pennetier.
Fannyhas been performing as soloist in concert from the age of nine. She has made her mark on the most prestigious international venues and festivals such as Wigmore, Royal Festival Halls in London, Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Opera House in Tel-Aviv, Circulode Bellas Artes in Madrid, Opera in Cairo, Cultural Center in Chicago, Zankel Hall in New York, Teatro Santoro in Brasilia, Théâtre Mogador, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Hôtel des Invalides, UNESCO, Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Opera of Montecarlo, Montpellier Radio France Festival, International Colmar Festival, Flâneries de Reims, Les Serres d’Auteuil, Festival de Saintes, Folle Journée de Nantes, “Folle Journée” in Japan, Génération Virtuoses d’Antibes, Festival de Menton, Haydn Festspiele, Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Marschner Festival (Germany), Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest (Austria), Israel Festival, “Spring of Minsk”, “Palaces of Saint Petersburg”, Bowdoin International Music Festival (USA), Verbier Academy (Switzerland), Cheltenham Music Festival (England), “Young Virtuosi” (Tunisia), Eilat Chamber Music Festival (Israel).
Fanny has also played as a soloist with renown orchestras including both Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras of Minsk, Weimar Symphoniker, Mainzer Kammerorchester, Sinfonia Varsovia, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Wiener Kammerorchester, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Jerusalem Symphony, Radio France Philharmonic, Montecarlo Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestra de la Fenice and Brasilia State Orchestra.
She collaborates with artists like Tugan Sokhiew , Pietari Inkinen, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gidon Kremer, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Khatia Buniatishvili, Igor Tchetuev, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wiespelwey, Ysaÿe String Quartet.
Fanny is a regular guest on French and foreign radio and TV shows. Her first CD, dedicated to the complete Violin Solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe and released in 2007, has been highly acclaimed by the press. She has just recorded the complete Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos with the Sinfonia Finlandia and conductor P. Gallois for Naxos, to be released in November 2010.
Forthcoming concerts are scheduled in Tokyo, Vienna, Hamburg, Moscow, Paris, Festival de Menton, Festival du Périgord Noir in France, Keshet Eilon in Israel, among others.
In the season 2011-2012, Fanny will make her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival and the Enescu Festival. She will perform the Mozart Sifonia Concertante with violist Antoine Tamestit under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst.
Fanny plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin
made in Venice in 1700.
Nordic Artists Management represents Fanny Clamagirand in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.