The French cellist Bruno Philippe is the winner of several competitions and has performed at internationally renowned music venues and at French festivals, including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Wigmore Hall, the Teatro Colón in Bogotá, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence and the Festival de Radio France Montpellier-Occitanie. He has performed with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Hallé Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. His repertory includes the cello concertos of Dvořák, Haydn and Saint-Saëns along with works by Bach, Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky.
As an accomplished Baroque cellist, he has performed alongside Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford and Lea Desandre. He is a member of Ensemble Jupiter, with which he made major US tours in 2022 and 2023, including his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York.
As a chamber musician he has performed with artists such as Tabea Zimmermann at Schloss Elmau, Antoine Tamestit in Cologne and Cédric Tiberghien at the Hindsgavl Festival, as well as with Lise Berthaud, Renaud Capuçon, Christophe Coin, Gidon Kremer, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Pidoux, Timothy Ridout, Kian Soltani and Christian Tetzlaff.
His debut album with Tanguy de Williencourt featured works by Brahms and was released on the label Evidence. In 2017 he moved to harmonia mundi, with which label he has recorded works by Beethoven and Schubert, Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach (2019) and the complete Cello Suites of Bach (2022).
His prizes include the Victoire de la Musique, the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich at the Verbier Festival, third prize at the ARD International Music Competition, the Prix de la Fondation Safran pour la Musique, special prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition and, in 2022, the Prix de Concours de Reine Elisabeth.
Bruno Philippe studied cello at the Paris Conservatoire and the Kronberg Academy, and participated in masterclasses with David Geringas, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen.
He plays a cello by Gennaro Gagliano from 1760, which has been kindly loaned to him by Beare’s International Violin Society.
