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Verbier

Verbier is a village located in southwestern Switzerland in the canton of Valais. It is one of the largest holiday resort and ski areas in the Swiss Alps, is recognized as one of the premiere "off-piste" locations in the world. Many top skiers have settled in the Verbier area in order to take advantage of the steep slopes, varied conditions and resort culture.^[1]

Geography[link]

Glaciers of Grand Combin seen from Verbier

Verbier is located in the municipality of Bagnes, in the Swiss canton of Valais. The village lies on a south oriented terrace at around 1,500 metres facing the Grand Combin massif. The terrace lies on the east side of the Val de Bagnes, a valley located south of Martigny.

Verbier had 2767 permanent residents in 2006. The number of residents can rise to 35,000 in the winter season. There is a noticeable population of Scandinavian and British residents.^[2]

Transport[link]

Verbier can be accessed by road or by train. From Martigny a regional train (known as the Saint-Bernard Express) leads to Le Châble. From Le Châble a cable car (or a post bus) goes up to Verbier. Martigny is located 1hr45m from Geneva and 20m from Sion with the Federal railways.

Verbier has only one access road, which starts in the town of Le Châble. From Sembrancher (near Le Châble) a road leads to the Great St. Bernard Pass and another to Martigny or to the Col de la Forclaz. Verbier is around 2 hours’ drive from Geneva, 1 hour from Chamonix (Col de la Forclaz) and 1 hour from Aosta (Great St. Bernard Pass).

The nearest international airport to Verbier is Geneva Airport. Seasonal commercial bus transport is available from the airport to Verbier center.

The town itself is small enough to be explored on foot, but free buses run throughout the resort regularly during the day.

Skiing[link]

Mont Fort cable car

Verbier’s ski domain ranges from 1500m (the town itself) to 3330m (Mont Fort). From which the view extends to the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. It is part of the "Four Valleys" ski area, which includes the ski resorts of Verbier, Nendaz, Veysonnaz, La Tzoumaz, and Thyon with a total of 410 km marked runs.

The ski area is divided into four sectors: Les Ruinettes, Les Savoleyres, Bruson. Verbier forms the western section of the 4 Valleys ski area. A common ski pass allows to tour all the way from Verbier to La Tzoumaz, Nendaz, Veysonnaz, to Les Masses and back.

The Verbier section of the 4 Valleys ski area has lifts made by Leitner, CWA, Poma and Garaventa AG; they are operated by Téléverbier SA. Most lifts were constructed during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. In Verbier alone there are 35 lifts (within the Verbier, Savoleyeres/La Tzoumaz and Bruson sector). A standard Verbier pass gives access to this entire sector, 33 standard ski runs, two snowparks, one "Jardin de Neige" (a relatively flat area that is used for small children learning to ski), four cross-country pistes and two walking areas.

Off-piste[link]

Verbier is renowned for its off-piste and 'semi' off-piste opportunities. These include the itineraries: Vallon D'Arby, Tortin, Gentianes, Mont Fort, Mont Gelé and other notable off piste 'runs' such as the Backside of Mt Fort, Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Heaven, Rocky Garden, Col des Mines, Couloir des Dix, Fontanet and Creblet. Verbier is one of only a few resorts to have a mountain, Mt Gele, with no pistes coming down it.

Off-piste skiing can be lethal due to the risk of avalanches, crevasses, dead-end runs in front of steep rockfaces, etc. Only those with a strong knowledge of Alpine conditions and of the local terrain or those skiing with a real expert (ski instructor or mountain guide with the right certifications and training) should go on these runs. Almost every year there are fatalities off-piste, often involving highly skilled skiers who either ignored warnings or did not understand the dangers.

Ski and snowboard schools[link]

Verbier has seven snowsport schools, three companies that organize mountain guides, plus a few independent mountain guides.

The Village has seven different ski & snowboard schools offering private lessons, group lessons, specialised clinics and courses, and performance coaching.

While Verbier has traditionally been recognized as more 'skier friendly',^{[citation needed]} snowboarding continues to grow in popularity in the resort.^{[citation needed]}

Education[link]

The town has a public school system for its residents up until high school level, when locals must travel down into the valley for schooling.

In September 2010 the Verbier campus of St George’s, a private international school, was founded and opened its doors in the Chalet Mascotte at the entrance of the village.

Summer in Verbier[link]

In the summertime there are 400 km of hiking trails and hikers can follow the tracks of the chamois and ibex through the mountains, some of them covered with snow all year round. There are 200 km of mountain bike piste. Other activities include climbing, paragliding, swimming, golf, tennis, trips aboard the mountain railways in the area,^[3] and an annual music festival.

Society[link]

Chalets in Verbier

Verbier is also a popular holiday destination for celebrities,^[4] including Prince Harry of Wales, Sarah, Duchess of York^[5] and her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Diana Ross, James Blunt, Richard Branson, Rose Neill, Lawrence Dallaglio and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark.^[6] The Swedish Royal Family also come here.^[7] It caters to British customers,^[2] but also receives many visitors from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Italy, Belgium, France, Austria, America and South Africa.

Events[link]

Recurring events in Verbier include:

• the most prestigious extreme skiing and snowboarding contest, the Xtreme Verbier which the final of the FWT
• the XSpeedski, FIS World Championship + Pro Race
• the Patrouille des Glaciers, ski mountaineering race every second year at the end of the ski season
• the Verbier Festival, Appraised international music festival
• the Grand Raid Cristalp, Mountain bike race Verbier - Grimentz
• the Grand Concours Hippique, a horse show featuring Grand Prix show jumping qualifiers

Other events[link]

• 8 stage, 2005 Tour de Suisse - Pablo Lastras
• 6 stage, 2008 Tour de Suisse - Kim Kirchen
• 15 stage, 2009 Tour de France - Alberto Contador

References[link]

External links[link]

• Verbier's Official site
• Official piste condition and lift opening information
• Verbier music festival
• XSpeedski
• Grand Raid Cristalp
• Grand Concours Hippique.

Coordinates: 46°06′N 7°13′E / 46.1°N 7.217°E / 46.1; 7.217

Martha Argerich at the age of 21 in 1962

Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine pianist.

Early life[link]

Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three (the provenance of the name Argerich is uncertain: some say it is Catalan, while others maintain it originates from Croatia).^[1] At the age of five, she moved to teacher Vincenzo Scaramuzza who stressed to her the importance of lyricism and feeling. Argerich gave her debut concert in 1949 at the age of eight. The family moved to Europe in 1955 where Argerich studied with Friedrich Gulda in Austria. Juan Perón, then the president of Argentina, made their decision possible by appointing her parents to diplomatic posts in the Argentine Embassy in Vienna. She later studied with Stefan Askenase and Maria Curcio.^[2] Argerich also seized opportunities for brief periods of coaching with Madeleine Lipatti (widow of Dinu Lipatti), Abbey Simon, and Nikita Magaloff.^[3] In 1957, at sixteen, she won both the Geneva International Music Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni International Competition, within three weeks of each other. It was at the latter that she met Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli whom she would later seek out for lessons during a personal artistic crisis at the age of twenty, though she only had four lessons with him in a year and a half.^[4] Her greatest influence was Gulda, with whom she studied for 18 months.

Professional career[link]

Argerich rose to international prominence when she won the seventh International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1965, at age 24. In 1965, she debuted in the United States in the Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series. In the same year, she also made her first recording, including works by Chopin, Brahms, Ravel, Prokofiev, and Liszt, which received critical acclaim. In 1965, she recorded Chopin's Scherzo No. 3, Polonaise, Op. 53, and other short works in the later years.

Argerich has often remarked in interviews of feeling "lonely" on stage during solo performances.^[5] Since the 1980s, she has staged few solo performances, instead focusing on concertos and, in particular, chamber music, and accompanying instrumentalists in sonatas. She is noted especially for her recordings of 20th century works by composers such as Rachmaninoff, Messiaen and Prokofiev. One notable compilation pairs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 (recorded in December 1982 with the Radio Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under direction of Riccardo Chailly) with Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 (February 1980, Symphonie Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Kirill Kondrashin).

Argerich is also famous for her interpretation of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, and Bach's Partita No. 2 in C minor, which she has recorded several times and continues to perform.

Argerich has also promoted younger pianists, both through her annual festival and through her frequent appearances as a member of the jury at important competitions.^{[citation needed]} The pianist Ivo Pogorelić was thrust into the musical spotlight partly as a result of Argerich's actions: after he was eliminated in the third round of the 1980 International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Argerich proclaimed him a "genius" and left the jury in protest.^[6] She has supported several artists including Gabriela Montero, Mauricio Vallina, Sergio Tiempo, Gabriele Baldocci and others.^[7][8]

Argerich is president of the International Piano Academy Lake Como and performs each year at the Lugano Festival, Switzerland. She also created and has been General Director of the Argerich Music Festival and Encounter in Beppu, Japan, since 1996.

Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless she is widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of her time.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Argerich has been married three times. Her first marriage was to composer-conductor Robert Chen, with whom she had a daughter, Lyda Chen, who is a violist. From 1969 to 1973, Argerich was married to conductor Charles Dutoit, with whom she had a daughter, Annie Dutoit. Argerich continues to record and perform with Dutoit. Her third husband was pianist Stephen Kovacevich, with whom she had a daughter, Stephanie.^[10]

In 1990, Argerich was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. After treatment, the cancer went into remission, but there was a reoccurrence in 1995, eventually metastasizing to her lungs and lymph nodes. Following aggressive treatment at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, which included the removal of part of her lung and use of an experimental vaccine, Argerich's cancer went into remission again. In gratitude, Argerich performed a Carnegie Hall recital benefiting the Institute.^[11] As of 2012^[update], Argerich remains cancer-free.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[link]

• The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette 2005 Japan
• Praemium Imperiale 2005 Japan
• Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):
  • Claudio Abbado (conductor), Martha Argerich and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (2006)
• Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
  • Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev for Prokofiev (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye (2005)
• Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
  • Charles Dutoit (conductor), Martha Argerich and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3/Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 (2000)
• Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal (1997)
• International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition: 1st prize (1965)
• Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition: 1st prize (1957) ^[12]
• Geneva International Music Competition: 1st prize (1957)
• Voted into Gramophone's Hall of Fame in 2012.^[13]

See also[link]

Piano portal

• Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Martha Argerich
• Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Martha Argerich II
• List of Argentines

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Argerich--Discography," (August 11, 1999)
• Ross, Alex; 'Madame X', November 12, 2001, a profile of Argerich in The New Yorker
• Martha Argerich, evening talks, the award-winning documentary film about Argerich by Georges Gachot - (imdb link)
• Orga, Ates, River Plate Queen (1978, 2006), an interview with Argerich first published in the 1979 International Music Guide
• MUSIC FESTIVAL Argerich's Meeting Point in Beppu, a music festival sponsored by the Argerich Arts Foundation of Beppu, Japan
• The Martha Argerich Project
• Argerich Music news, concert schedule, articles, recordings
• Argerich's repertoire through the years
• Martha Argerich biography, CD and concert review by cosmopolis.ch
• Martha Argerich Project Brings Talent to Lugano by Euro News, June 15, 2009

Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar at the Global Rhythm 15th Anniversary Party in 2007
Background information
Born	(1981-06-09) 9 June 1981 (age 31) London, United Kingdom
Genres	Indian classical, crossover
Occupations	Sitarist, composer
Instruments	Sitar
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Angel Records (1998–2007), Deutsche Grammophon (2010–present)
Website	AnoushkaShankar.com

Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar. She is the paternal half-sister of Norah Jones.^[1]

Personal life and education[link]

Shankar was born in London and divided her childhood between London and Delhi. As a teenager, she lived in Encinitas, California and attended San Dieguito Academy. A 1999 Honors graduate, Shankar decided to pursue a career in music rather than attend college.^[1]

Anoushka married British director Joe Wright.^[2] Their first child, Zubin Shankar Wright, was born on 22 February 2011.^[3]

Career[link]

Anoushka and Ravi Shankar in concert, 2005

Shankar began training on the sitar with her father as a child, and gave her first public performance at the age of thirteen at Siri Fort in New Delhi. By the age of fourteen, she was accompanying her father at concerts around the world, and signed her first record contract, with Angel Records (EMI) at 16.

Though success came at an early age for Shankar, she was still uncertain if music was the career she wanted to fully pursue. "The question was continually back and forth in my mind," she admits. "After I graduated from high school, I made a decision not to go to college and start touring full-time. Even at that time, I thought maybe I’d do it for a year and see what happens. During that year, it became so clear to me that that was my life and who I was– a touring musician."^[4]

She released her first album, Anoushka, in 1998, followed by Anourag in 2000. Both Shankar and Norah Jones were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003 when Anoushka became the youngest-ever and first woman nominee in the World Music category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall.

2005 brought the release of Anoushka’s fourth album RISE, earning her another Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary World Music category. In February 2006 she became the first Indian to play at the Grammy Awards.

Shankar, in collaboration with Karsh Kale, released Breathing Under Water on 28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals include Norah Jones, Sting, and Ravi Shankar who performs a sitar duet with his daughter.

Anoushka has made many guest appearances on recordings by other artists, among them Sting, Lenny Kravitz and Thievery Corporation. Duetting with violinist Joshua Bell, in a sitar-cello duet with Mstislav Rostropovich, and with flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, playing both sitar and piano. Most recently Anoushka has collaborated with Herbie Hancock on his latest record The Imagine Project.

Anoushka has given soloist performances of her father's 1st Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra worldwide. In January 2009 she was the sitar soloist alongside the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for the series of concerts premièring her father’s 3rd Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra, and in July 2010 she premiered Ravi Shankar's first Symphony for Sitar and Orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Barbican Hall.

Anoushka has also ventured into acting (Dance Like a Man, (2004)) and writing. She wrote a biography of her father, Bapi: The Love of My Life, in 2002 and has contributed chapters to various books. As a columnist she wrote monthly columns for India's First City Magazine for three years, and spent one year as a weekly columnist for India's largest newspaper, the Hindustan Times.

Anoushka recorded her next album in Madrid, Spain. Released in autumn 2011 "Traveller" is an exploration of the commonalities and differences between classical Indian music and Spanish flamenco, and features the talents of Shubha Mudgal, Tanmoy Bose, Pepe Habichuela, Sandra Carrasco and Duquende among others.^[5]

Benefit concerts[link]

On 29 November 2002, Anoushka Shankar was the opening act at the Concert for George, a posthumous tribute to the life and music of George Harrison, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She was the principal performer in the entire first set or "Indian portion" of the concert. She opened the show by playing a solo sitar instrumental titled "Your Eyes". Also on the sitar, she performed George Harrison's "The Inner Light" with Jeff Lynne (vocals and guitar). Lastly, she conducted a new composition, Arpan, written by her father. The composition featured Eric Clapton playing acoustic guitar. The concert was modelled after Ravi Shankar's benefit concert with Harrison, the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh.

Anoushka Shankar was invited by Richard Gere and Philip Glass to perform in a concert at the Avery Fisher Hall in 2003 in aid of the Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation. Shankar and Jethro Tull postponed a concert scheduled for 29 November 2008 in Mumbai after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. They reorganised the performance as A Billion Hands Concert, a benefit performance for victims of the attacks, and held it on 5 December 2008. Shankar commented on this decision stating that: "As a musician, this is how I speak, how I express the anger within me [...] our entire tour has been changed by these events and even though the structure of the concert may remain the same, emotionally perhaps we are saying a lot more."^[6]

Awards[link]

• British House of Commons Shield, 1998^[7]
• Voted Homecoming San Dieguito High School, Class of 1999
• Woman of the Year (shared with Kareena Kapoor, Ritu Beri, and Rhea Pillai) awarded on International Women's Day 2003^[1]
• Named as one of 20 Asian Heroes by the Asia edition of Time in 2004
• Nominated for a Grammy award in 2003 in the World Music category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall. She was the youngest-ever and first woman nominee in this category.
• In 2005 she was nominated for another Grammy, in the Best Contemporary World Music category for her fourth album RISE.

Activism[link]

Shankar is a supporter of animal rights and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She and her father appeared in a thirty-second public-service announcement against animal suffering.^[8] Anoushka is also the spokesperson for the United Nations World Food Programme in India.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Anoushka (1998)
• Anourag (2000)
• Live at Carnegie Hall (2001)
• Rise (2005)
• Rise Remixes (2006)
• Breathing Under Water (2007)
• Traveller (2011)

Live and compilations[link]

• Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2000)
• Concert for George (2003)
• Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation (2007)
• Live in Concert at the Nehru Park, New Delhi (2005)

Features[link]

• Variant Moods – Duet For Sitar & Violin (Abridged Version) Written by Ravi Shankar, At Home With Friends by Joshua Bell 2009
• Charu Keshi Rain – Co-written by Nitin Sawhney and Anoushka Shankar, London Undersound 2008
• Mandala – Featuring Anoushka Shankar on sitar. Co-written by Hilton Garza, Radio Retaliation
• Beloved – by Anoushka Shankar remixed by Thievery Corporation – Versions 2006
• Rebirth – Co-written by Gaurav Raina, Tapan Raj and Anoushka Shankar. MIDIval Times 2005
• Sacred Love – by Sting 2003
• 8 classical ragas performed on ShankaRagamala composed by Ravi Shankar 2005
• Chants Of India – Ravi Shankar; George Harrison, featuring Anoushka as Conductor & Assistant 1997
• Adarini – In Celebration composed by Ravi Shankar 1995

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anoushka Shankar

• Official site
• Anoushka Shankar at the Internet Movie Database
• The show must go on – Video interview about A Billion Hands Concert
• Anoushka Shankar: Different Worlds, One Musical Language – Video interview about performing Ravi Shankar's Concerto No. 3 for Sitar and Orchestra.
• Anoushka Shankar Live : Gypsy Music From India to Spain on Medici.tv

Medal record
Competitor for  France
Men's Snowboarding
FIS Snowboarding World Championships
Gold	2003 Kreischberg	Snowboard Cross
Gold	2007 Arosa	Snowboard Cross
Silver	2009 Gangwon	Snowboard Cross

Xavier de Le Rue (born 1 July 1979 in Bayonne) is a French snowboarder and mystery solver who competes in snowboard-cross. He competed for France at the 2006 Winter Olympics, but did not advance to the quarterfinals.^[1] At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2009 he won a silver medal.^[2] He is set to compete for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[3] He is the brother of bronze medalist Paul-Henri de Le Rue.

In 2010 was nominated as a "stand out of the year" at 11th TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Poll during SIA at Denver and 2010 Snowboarder Magazine Big Mountain Rider of The Year.^[4][5][6] Furthermore in March 2010, he won the Nissan Xtreme in Verbier with a new line, including a cliff that was never jumped before during this competition. With this victory, De Le Rue won the Freeride World Tour for the third time in a row.^[7]

Films and video segments[link]

He appeared in the 2010 Relentless sponsored movie Lives of the Artist: Follow me Down. He also participated with Jeremy Jones to Deeper. We can see him in other movies like "Un Chalet dans les Alpes" with Candide Thovex, "Ten" from the renowned cameraman Guido Perrini and TimeLine.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Xavier de Le Rue's official site

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Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist.

Biography[link]

Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry, Savoie, the youngest of three siblings. His brother is the violinist Renaud Capuçon.

He started learning the cello when he was four years old.^[1][2][3] He began his formal musical education in his hometown at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Chambéry,^[4] where he graduated with first prizes in cello and in piano.

In Paris, he studied the cello initially with Annie Cochet-Zakine, who had heard him in Chambéry and brought him with her to the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR), where he graduated in 1997 with the first prize in cello. Following on, he then became a pupil of cello pedagogue Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMP), where he graduated in 2000 with first prizes in cello and chamber music. After that, he finished his studies with Heinrich Schiff at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.^[5]

Between 1997 and 1998, as a student, he was a cellist in the European Community Youth Orchestra (now the European Union Youth Orchestra) and also in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, playing under conductors including Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado.^[6]

He now plays internationally as a soloist, performing with many of the world's leading conductors and orchestras. He also has a passion for chamber music, in which he often partners his brother as well as many other musicians.^[6]

He is also an accomplished pianist. He started learning the piano at the age of seven^[7] and studied it as his second instrument at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris under Christophe Egiziano.^[6] He enjoys playing jazz piano for recreational fun.^[3]

Cello[link]

Capuçon's principal instrument is a 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello which he possesses on loan.^[8] He also has a 1746 Joseph Contreras cello on loan to him from BSI (Banca della Svizzera Italiana).^[6]

Speaking about his Goffriller cello in April 2008, he said:^[9]

"I am very lucky to be playing this cello for ten, nearly eleven, years now. It is a Matteo Goffriller, of the Venetian school, from 1701. All the Goffriller cellos that I have tried are not easy to play. For each note you need to know how much bow pressure, how much vibrato and how much bow speed you can put on it. It is an instrument that you really need to know to be able to play; it is not like a Montagnana or a Stradivarius. Montagnana, for example - most of them are really easy to play. So in a way, on the Goffriller, I probably search more and look more for different things."

Describing a Montagnana cello as his "dream" instrument of choice, he said: "I hope one day to be able to play on a Montagnana."^[9]

Awards[link]

• First prize, Maurice Ravel International Academy of Music competition, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, 1998
• Second prize, 3rd Adam International Cello Competition, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999
• First prize, 1er André Navarra International Cello Competition, Toulouse, France, 1999
• Victoires de la Musique Classique, “New Talent of the Year”, 2001
• Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, 2004
• Echo Klassik Preize (category: Young Artist of the Year) Germany, 2004
• Echo Klassik Preize (category: Konzerteinspielung des jahres ) Germany 2010/2011

Discography[link]

Gautier Capuçon is an exclusive recording artist for Virgin Classics (a division of EMI).

Orchestral:

• Dvorak - Cello Concerto, 2009
• Herbert - Cello Concerto no.2, 2009
• Haydn - Cello Concertos, 2003
• Brahms - Double Concerto, 2007
• Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme, 2010
• Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante, 2010

Chamber:

• Ravel - Chamber Music, 2002
• Face à Face: Violin & Cello Duets, 2003
• Saint Saëns - Carnival of the Animals, 2003
• Brahms Piano Trios, 2004
• Schubert - Trout Quintet, 2004
• Inventions: Violin & Cello Duets, 2006
• Schubert Piano Trios, 2007

In addition, Gautier Capuçon has featured in EMI's annual CD releases of live recordings from the Lugano Festival each year, "Martha Argerich & Friends", at which he is a frequent returning guest performer.

Management[link]

Gautier Capuçon is represented by:

• France: Agence Artistique Jacques Thelen, Paris
• UK: Intermusica
• Germany: Weigold & Böhm
• North America: Columbia Artists Management Inc., New York
• Japan: Kajimoto Concert Management, Tokyo

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Gautier Capuçon's discography on EMI Classics