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Nicolas Dautricourt

Biography

"Georges Enesco Prize from SACEM",  and "Classical Revelation from ADAMI" at the Midem in Cannes, Nicolas Dautricourt is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and endearing French violinists. of his generation.

 

Invited to perform as a soloist in the framework of the 23rd Victoires de la Musique Classique, member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, he performs on the biggest international stages (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Téatro National de Bélèm, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Boston Gardner Museum, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Nagoya Shirakawa Hall, Sendai city Hall...), French (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs- Elysées, Cité de la Musique, Musée d'Orsay, Arsenal de Metz, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence...), and is the guest of many artistic events (Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Printemps des Arts de Monaco, Festival Chopin à Bagatelle, Festival de l'Orangerie de Sceaux, Parc Floral de Vincennes, Folle Journée de Nantes, Folle Journée de Tokyo, Musical Encounters at La Baule, Vézère Festival, Saoû sings Mozart, Lisztomanias, Nohant musical festivals, Reims musical strolls, Deauville Easter Festival, Les Arcs Festival, La Roque d'Antheron, Périgord Noir Festival, Auvers Sur Oise Festival, Music at L'Empéri...).

 

Also the guest of prestigious festivals abroad such as the Bucharest Festival (Romania), Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest (Austria), Ravinia (Usa), Music@Menlo (Usa), Himeji/Le Pont Festival (Japan), Sintra ( Portugal), Davos (Switzerland), he performs as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, the Orchester National de France, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Aachen Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchester Symphonique du Québec, l 'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Oulu Sinfonia, International Players Busan, Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, Orchester Philharmonique de Mexico, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Yokohama Sinfonietta Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Orchester National de Lorraine, Orchester National des Pays de la Loire, Orchester Philharmonique de Nice, Orchester d'Avignon, Orchester de Picardie, Orchester de l'Opéra de Rouen, Orchester de l 'Opera of St-Etienne, the Gold Orchestra of the Toulon Opera, the Sendai Strings Ensemble, the Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra, the kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltic Chamber Orchestra, the European Camerata, the Chamber Orchestra of the Scala de Milan, the Orchester des Pays de Savoie, the Orchester d'Auvergne, the Orchester Symphonique de Caen, the Orchester Pasdeloup, the Orchester Français des Jeunes, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, Tugan Sokhiev , Fabien Gabel, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Philippe Auguin, Carlos Miguel Prieto, François-Xavier Roth, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jamie Philipps, Wolfgang Doerner, David Niemann, Michael Francis, Kazuki Yamada, Dennis Russell Davis, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Arie Van Beek, Mishiyoshi Inoue, Jacques Mercier, Vahan Mardirossian, Stanislas Lefort, Mark Foster...

 

Particularly appreciated for his "sensitive and passionate commitment", he is particularly fond of chamber music, which he practices alongside many artists, and his marked interest in jazz also gives him the privilege of collaborating regularly with very great musicians such as as Jean-Marie Ecay, Nelson Veras, Jean-Philippe Viret, Jean-Marc Jafet, Antoine Hervé, Dominique Fillon, Pascal Schumacher, and in particular the accordionist Richard Galliano within the "Tangaria quartet" and the "Piazzolla Forever project", in prestigious festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Marciac, Sud-Tyroler Jazz Festival, San Javier, Copenhagen, Athens...

 

Winner of the Henryk Wieniawski international competition, the Jeunesses Musicales de Belgrade international competition and the Rodolfo Lipizer and Gian-Battista Viotti international competitions, he counts among his masters Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gérard Poulet and Jean Mouillère, and has been a violin teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Versailles since 2021.

 

Artistic director of the "Musical Festivals of Corbigny", Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius, the "Château Pape-Clément" (Crémona 1713), generously made available to him by Bernard Magrez, and in January 2021, was named Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture.

Testimony

Nicolas Dautricourt – Stradivari 1713

 

Retracing the course of the Stradivarius “Château Fombrauge”  which I have the privilege of using, is unfortunately impossible.

Manufactured in 1713 in the workshop of its Master in Cremona, in Northern Italy, having then in all likelihood crisscrossed Europe according to what its various owners had been able to impose on it and finally, put to rest for a rather long period in a London lutherie workshop before becoming the property of Mr. Magrez in 2010, it would certainly not be illegitimate to interpret this last stage as the starting point of a second life, a rebirth, in a way.

A physical rebirth, and a second artistic wind as well, because what could be more tragic for a musical instrument than to find itself orphaned, as it was the case for so many years?

 

If I stick strictly to my personal experience with this instrument, our meeting took place in December 2013, thanks to the initiative of Mr. Magrez, who was at that time looking for a violinist who " would accept” to continue his career on his Stradivarius!

I insist on the formula, because it made me jump!

Would you have to be crazy enough to decline such an invitation, I thought to myself at the time, as if the answer was not obvious!

 

I of course answered that I was transported to the idea of such a prospect, we then met, Mr Magrez, Mrs Daquin and myself, in the presence of the person concerned with the four strings, and at the At the end of this interview, I was told that I was the lucky one.

 

As time passed, I often thought about this turn of phrase, which had amused me when reading the letter, the idea that we are looking for a violinist who would "accept" to play a Stradivarius... almost the height of self, when you think about it!

In reality, much more than a rhetorical turn, it was a turn of mind that had to be seen there.

Because what makes possible this wonderful adventure that I have been living since that moment alongside Mr. Magrez and his team, an adventure that I would describe as almost human before being artistic, which makes it not only possible but at the same time full of joy and promise, it is the exceptional altruism of which the artistic patronage of Mr. Magrez bears the seal, a rare altruism, coupled with extreme humility.

And it is precisely this nuance with which this first approach was subtly tinted; it had at the time attracted my curiosity, since then it has taken on its full meaning.

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Next performances

July 2022

From July 1 to 7
Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival

 


July 9
Cap-Ferret (33)
Cap Ferret Music Festival


From July 11 to 16
Parnu (Estonia)
Parnu Music Festival

 


July 19
Royan (17)

Musical Academy of Royan
Edouard Lalo: Spanish Symphony op. 21 - Symphony Orchestra of the Musical Academy of Royan (dir. Takenori Nemoto)


July 21
Royan (17)

Musical Thursdays
PI Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto op. 35 / works by Mozart, Mendelssohn - Capriccio Quartet 


July 22
Royan (17)

Musical Academy of Royan
Edouard Lalo: Spanish Symphony op. 21 - Symphony Orchestra of the Musical Academy of Royan (dir. Takenori Nemoto)


From July 25 to 31
SoNoRo MusikLand Festival (Romania)

 

August 2022


August 10 & 11
Corbigny (58)

Musical Festivals of Corbigny
PI Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto op. 35 / works by Mozart, Mendelssohn - Capriccio Quartet 


August 13
Nerac (47)

Albret Music Festival
PI Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto op. 35 / works by Mozart, Mendelssohn - Capriccio Quartet 


August 14
Fleuriel (03)

Fleuriel Music Festival
Bach, Leclair, Ysaÿe, Paganini, Wieniawski - Ryoko Yano (violin)


August 15th
Plouhinec (56)

Ria Festival
Schubert


August 19
Le Pradet (83)

Music at Court
Mozart, St Saëns, Gershwin, Bartok - Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano)


August 22
Bordeaux (33)

Classical Bridge Festival
Schumann, Brahms, Bartok


From August 25 to 28
Saint-Victor-sur-Loire (42)

BWD12 Festival

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