CELLO 2017 : Fourth Prize
Aurélien Pascal graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, where he was taught by Philippe Muller, and went on to further studies under Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman at the Kronberg Academy and Gautier Capuçon at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. He won Second Prize at the Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki in 2013 and both the First Prize and the audience prize at the Emanuel Feuermann Competition in Berlin the following year. Aurélien Pascal has appeared at a number of prestigious festivals, including the Verbier Festival, the Flâneries de Reims, the Roque d’Anthéron, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, and the Beethovenfest in Bonn. His chamber music partners have included Christian Tetzlaff, Augustin Dumay, András Schiff, Eric Lesage, and Emmanuel Pahud. He is a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Colas Foundation.
Instrument : Charles-Adolphe Gand (1850)
Teachers
2015-2017 Frans Helmerson
2010-2015 Philippe Muller
Degrees
2015-2017 Further master studies - Kronberg Academy
2011-2015 Master - Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de danse de Paris;
Concerts
2017 L'auditori (Barcelona) - Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona, Lawrence Foster (dir.)
2016 Auditorium Rainier 3 (Monte-Carlo) - Monte Carlo Philarmonic Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni (dir.)
2016 Konzerthaus (Berlin) - Nikolai Gerassimez (piano)
2015 Orpheum fondation, Tonhalle Zurich -Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev (dir.)
Competitions
2014 Feuermann Competition - 1er prix, Prix du Public, Prix Ernst Toch
2013 Paulo Competition - 2e prix