Renaud Capuçon

Born in Chambéry in 1976, Renaud Capuçon trained at his hometown conservatory and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris in Gérard Poulet’s class, before playing with the European Community Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado. A classical violinist, he has developed a career split between major concerto repertoire, chamber music and conducting, with a repertoire ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Mendelssohn to Bartók, Dutilleux, Rihm, Dusapin and Mantovani. Highly present on European stages, Renaud Capuçon regularly performs chamber music with Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley and Jérôme Ducros, while continuing his solo work with orchestras. His discography includes, notably, a Schubert recording with Jérôme Ducros (1999), the Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos with Daniel Harding (2004), Beethoven’s sonatas with Frank Braley (2011), the Bartók concertos (2018) and Un violon à Paris (2021). He also founded the Rencontres artistiques de Bel-Air, created the Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence in 2013, has directed the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad since 2016, taught at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne since 2014 and has held the artistic directorship of the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne since 2021.