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Renaud Capuçon - Violin

Wigmore Hall, 4-May-2024 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 26-Oct-2023 / 19:30

Unfortunately, Renaud's concert scheduled for the 30th of April 2021 at the Barbican Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic.

His concert with Gautier Capuçon scheduled for the 27st of September 2020 at the Wigmore Hall was also cancelled.

Wigmore Hall, 11-Jan-2020 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Stephen Hough

  • Brahms, violin sonatas:
    • No. 1 in G
    • No. 2 and No. 3 in D minor
    • Kreisler: Liebesleid

Wigmore Hall, 22-Dec-2017 / 19:30

Recital with pianist David Fray

  • Bach, violin sonatas:
    • No. 5 in F minor
    • in C minor BWV1024

Favourite pieces

Beethoven's Violin sonatas No. 5 in F major Op. 24 'Spring' and No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 performed in 2017 (December) and 2014 (November, 7).

Brahms' Violin sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 100 performed in 2020 (January) and 2014 (January).

Royal Albert Hall, 16-Aug-2018 / 19:30

  • Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz)
  • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott - Conductor

Mr. Capuçon played Bartók's Violin Concerto No 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of François-Xavier Roth at the Barbican Hall on Sunday the 25th of March 2018.

Royal Festival Hall, 27-Feb-2017 / 19:30

  • Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 in C (Leningrad)

He plays a Guarneri “del Gesu” violin, built in 1737.

Wigmore Hall, 30-Sep-2016 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
  • Mozart: String Quintet in C major K515
  • Renaud Capuçon and friends
  • Adrien La Marca - Viola, Gérard Caussé - Viola

Mr. Capuçon performed Busoni's Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 36a, Mozart's Violin Sonata in G major K379 and Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 with Nicholas Angelich at the Wigmore Hall on the 17th of January 2016.

In 2016 Renaud took up a teaching post at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Wigmore Hall, 14-Jan-2016 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131
  • Schubert: String Quartet in G major D887
  • Renaud Capuçon, Guillaume Chilemme - Violin
  • Adrien La Marca - Viola, Edgar Moreau - Cello

Renaud Capuçon played all 10 Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Frank Braley at the Queen Elizabeth Hall between the 6 th and 9th of November 2014.

Capuçon founded the Lausanne Soloists, current and former students of the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, in 2017.

In 1996, he founded the Rencontres artistiques de Bel-Air.

He was awarded the Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1996 and moved from the European Union Youth Orchestra to take up Claudio Abbado's offer to become concert master the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1997. He worked with Boulez, Welser-Möst and others until leaving in 1999.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 9-Nov-2014

  • Beethoven, violin sonatas:
    • Op.30 No.3
    • Kreutzer
    • Op.96

7-Nov-2014 and 6-Nov-2014

  • Violin sonatas: Spring, Op.30 Nos.1 and 2, Op.12 Nos. 1-3 and Op.23

Mr. Capuçon performed Bartók's Violin Sonata No. 2 in C major BB85 and Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major Op. 24 (Spring) with pianist Khatia Buniatishvili on the 14th of January 2014 at the Wigmore Hall.

Mr. Capuçon was born in Chambéry, France, in January 1976, and started studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Musique de Paris in 1990.

Mr. Capuçon performed Fauré's Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor with violaist Gérard Caussé and Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 with Gérard Caussé and others on the 2nd of May 2013.

Royal Albert Hall, 19-Jul-2011 / 19:00

  • Brahms: Double Concerto
  • Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia in G minor on a Theme by Handel
  • Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Gautier Capuçon, Myung-Whun Chung - Conductor

Mr. Capuçon made his BBC Proms debut on the 18th of July 2011 in a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.