Pierre Fouchenneret, who is an ‘artiste associé’ of the Fondation Singer Polignac, won recognition at a very early age. At 12, he won first prize at the CNR in Nice; at 16, he won the first prizes for violin and for chamber music at the CNSM in Paris; he went on to become a Natixis laureate and a laureate of the Concours International de Quatuor à Cordes de Bordeaux. Having learned so much from excellent teachers such as Alain Babouchian at the CNR in Nice, Olivier Charlier at the CNSM in Paris, and Devy Erlih, Pierre Fouchenneret is keen to pass on what he has learned and has himself become a teacher at the Pôle Supérieur in Bordeaux.

In 2013, he founded the Strada quartet with François Salque, Sarah Nemtanu, and Lise Berthaud. His virtuosity, ‘his intense, precise, and vivid playing’ (Classica), and his passion have also been recognised by French and international orchestras, including those of Bordeaux Aquitaine and Dijon, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, the Brno Philharmonic, the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. A chamber music enthusiast, he is also the violinist of the 71 string trio, in the company of Eric Picard and Nicolas Bone.

His first recording, of the Mendelssohn trios, came out in 2007. He later obtained the Choc Classica for a disc devoted to the French composer George Louis Onslow. A great lover of the music of Beethoven, he recorded the complete violin sonatas in 2015 and the composer’s last two quartets in 2016. In 2017, he began a cycle of Brahms’s complete chamber music with Eric Lesage.

Pierre Fouchenneret’s work, as one can appreciate in his various recordings, bears witness to an unceasing quest for a pure, restrained aesthetic as well as to a profound love of and respect for the score.