Pascal Moraguès

The French clarinettist Pascal Moraguès is internationally in demand both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Along with his position as principal clarinet of the Orchestre de Paris, to which he was appointed in 1981, he maintains a busy concert activity which regularly takes him to the major international concert halls of Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. He has appeared at the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and also performs at renowned festivals in Salzburg, Lucerne, Montreux, Jerusalem and La Roque d’Anthéron.

As a soloist he has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Frans Brüggen, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Carlo Maria Giulini, Paavo Järvi, Zubin Mehta and Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Pascal Moraguès is a member of the Quintette Moraguès, the Mullova Ensemble and the chamber music ensemble of Katia and Marielle Labèque, and is regularly invited to perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. As a chamber musician he performs with fellow artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Christoph Eschenbach, Itamar Golan, Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Stephen Kovacevich, Felicity Lott, Oleg Maisenberg, Shlomo Mintz, Pascal Rogé, Sviatoslav Richter and Christian Zacharias. He has also given concerts with the Trio Wanderer, the Guarneri Trio Prague, the Borodin Quartet, the Leipzig String Quartet, the Jerusalem Quartet, the Pražák Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Quatuor Sine Nomine.

He has made numerous recordings, including with Sviatoslav Richter, Viktoria Mullova and the Pražák Quartet, some of which have won international awards.

Since 1995 Pascal Moraguès has been a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, and since 2002 he has been a visiting professor at the Superior College of Music in Osaka and at the Royal College of Music in London.