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The holder of the Prix Georges Enesco of the SACEM, voted ‘ADAMI Classical
Discovery of the Year’ at the Midem in Cannes, Nicolas Dautricourt is
unquestionably ‘one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his
generation’.
Havingbeen invited tobecome amember of theprestigious ChamberMusic Society
Two at Lincoln Center in New York, he now appears in the leading international
venues (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore
Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Teatro Nacional de Belém, Copenhagen Concert
Hall, Boston Gardner Museum, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Sendai City Hall) and in
France(SallePleyel,ThéâtredesChamps-Élysées,CitédelaMusique,Muséed’Orsay,
Arsenal de Metz, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence) and is a guest with
numerous orchestras (Orchestre National de France, Detroit Symphony, Sinfonia
Varsovia, Orchestre Symphonique du Québec, Mexico Philharmonic, Belgrade
Philharmonic, Kiev Philharmonic, NHK Chamber Orchestra, Kanazawa Ensemble,
Scala di Milano Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonie de Lorraine, Orchestre des
Pays de la Loire, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes,
Orchestre d’Auvergne) under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, François-
Xavier Roth, Fabien Gabel, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Francis, Kazuki
Yamada, Yuri Bashmet, Dennis Russell Davies, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jacques
Mercier and Mark Foster, among others. He has also played at such leading
festivals as the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest,
Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Pärnu,
Davos, Sintra, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian,
and La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo.
Aprizewinner of several international competitions (Wieniawski, Lipizer, Belgrade),
Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius dated
1713, the ‘Château Fombrauge’, generously loaned to him by Bernard Magrez.