Fanny Clamagirand - Biography
Fanny CLAMAGIRAND - violinist
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, Fifth Prize H. Wieniawski in 1997, 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 violinist 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. Two years later, already, she showed on stage a musical expression stamped with an unusual maturity.
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.
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 (Italy). At the same time, Fanny attended many master-classes, particularly with Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Michèle Auclair, Boris Kushnir, Donald Weilerstein, Shlomo Mintz and Jean-Claude Pennetier.
Fanny has been performing as a soloist in concert from the age of nine. She has made her mark on the most prestigious international venues and festivals such as Wigmore and Royal Festival Halls in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, OperaHouse in Tel-Aviv, Cultural Center in Chicago, Zankel Hall in New York, Academia Santa Cecilia in Roma, Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Opera of Montecarlo, Théâtre Mogador, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, UNESCO, Salle Gaveau and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris…, Montpellier Radio France Festival, Colmar Festival, Flâneries de Reims, Les Serres d’Auteuil, Festival de Saintes,“Folles Journées” in Nantes, Bilbao, Tokyo, Génération Virtuoses d’Antibes, Festival de Menton, Haydn Festspiele, Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Israel Festival, “Spring of Minsk”, “Palaces of Saint Petersburg”,Verbier Academy and Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival, Eilat Chamber Music Festival...
Fanny has also played as a soloist with renown orchestras including both Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras of Minsk, Weimar Symphoniker, , Wiener Symphoniker, Jerusalem Symphony, Radio France Philharmonic, Montecarlo Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, La Fenice Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Wiener Kammerorchester, Israel Chamber Orchestra...
She collaborates with artists like Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Juraj Valcuha, Tugan Sokhiev, Pietari Inkinen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Khatia Buniatishvili, Igor Tchetuev, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wiespelwey, Ysaÿe String Quartet...
Her elegance, the brightness of her playing, her interpretations involving sensitivity and authority received many times the critics’ praise. Her first CD, dedicated to the complete Violin Solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe and released in 2007 for Nascor, has been highly acclaimed by the press. The complete Saint- Saëns Violin Concertos (SinfoniaFinlandia/P. Gallois) recorded under Naxos and released in November 2010 has been awarded a « Choc » from the French musical magazine Classica (February 2011).
Fanny is a regular guest on French and foreign radio and TV shows.
In 2010, Fanny collaborated with famous Japanese danceer and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara in « Obsession », performing live Ysaÿe solo sonatas.
After her debut at the Toppan Hall in Tokyo for the « New Year Gala Concert 2011 » and the chamber music tour as « Mutter’s Virtuosi » with Anne- Sophie Mutter last month, future engagements are scheduled in France, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Colmar Festival, Verbier Festival (Mutter’s Virtuosi), Orpheum Stiftung, with Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Lise de La Salle… without not mentionning the recording of Saint-Saëns complete violin and piano works with Vanya Cohen under Naxos.
Moreover, 2011-2012 will feature Fanny’s debuts with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lucerne and Enescu Festivals, performing Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with Antoine Tamestit under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Eastbourne and Brighton with conductor Fabien Gabel.
Fanny plays a 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin.