Fanny CLAMAGIRAND - violinist                                                           >> short presentation - click here <<

Fanny CLAMAGIRAND, born in Paris on April 12, 1984, 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 .

Her elegance, the brightness of her playing, her interpretations involving sensitivity and authority received many times the critics' praise.

She studied with Larissa Kolos for eight years, before joining in 2000, when she was sixteen, the Postgraduate course at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) in the class of Jean-Jacques Kantorow . 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). She is currently being coached by P.Vernikov

At the same time, Fanny has attended many master-classes, given by Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Natalia Gutman, Michèle Auclair, Donald Weilerstein, Shlomo Mintz, Boris Kushnir and others.

Acclaimed as the "Adami Classical Revelation 2006", Fanny Clamagirand has also won numerous prizes at international competitions. In 2005, she won the First Prize at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna. She became a semi-finalist at the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and got the Second Prize at the International Yfrah Neaman Competition in Mainz (Germany). In 2004, she received the Second Prize, as well as a Special Prize at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition and the prestigious Emily Anderson Prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society (London). In 2000, she won the Special Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (England). Previously, she became a prize winner at the 7th International Wieniawski Competition (Poland 1997), a finalist at the Eighth Eurovision Competition for young musicians (Portugal 1996), won the first prize at the Louis Spohr International Competition (Weimar 1995) where she received a special prize from Radio Frankfurt and was invited to give a recital in Frankfurt, and she got first prize at the Lutèce International Competition (Paris 1995).

Fanny has been performing as a soloist in concerts in Paris throughout France and abroad from the age of nine. She has taken part in numerous festivals including Montpellier Radio France Festival, International Colmar Festival, Marschner Festival (Germany), "Spring of Minsk" (Bielorussia), Bowdoin International Music Festival (USA), Verbier Academy (Switzerland), Cheltenham Music Festival (England), "Young Virtuosi" (Tunisia). and has performed in prestigious international venues such as Academia Santa Cecilia in Roma, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Théâtre Mogador, Hôtel des Invalides, UNESCO and Salle Cortot in Paris, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Opera House in Tel-Aviv, Konzerthaus in Vienna.

Fanny has also played as a soloist with many orchestras incuding both Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras of Minsk, Weimar Symphony Orchestra, Portuguese Radio Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonietta of the London RCM, Chamber Orchestra of Mainz, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Wiener KammerOrchester. She was invited by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra to play both Violin Concerto and Double Concerto by Brahms with the cellist Pieter Wiespelwey and has been touring with the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice. Future engagements are scheduled with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg's Mozarteum Orchestra.

Fanny has appeared on French Television and made various radio broadcasts throughout Europe.

She is laureate of the Cziffra Foundation, scholar of the Natexis Banque Populaire Foundation (Paris) and award winner of several English Foundations.

In 2005/2006, Fanny has been chosen by "Cultures France" for the "Déclic" promotional CD series, in cooperation with Radio France. In 2007, she will record a complete version of Ysaye's violin Solo Sonatas for Nascor-Harmonia Mundi, to be released in September.

Fanny plays a 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin.