Fanny Clamagirand

Fanny Clamagirand (born 1984) is a French classical violinist.

Biography and career

Fanny Clamagirand was born in 1984, and began playing the violin at age seven. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, beginning at age 16, and later studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London, where she earned an Artist's Diploma, in 2004. She then studied with Pavel Vernikov at the Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria, and O. Semchuk at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, in Italy. She also attended a number of master classes, notably with Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Michèle Auclair, Boris Kushnir, Donald Weilerstein, Shlomo Mintz and Jean-Claude Pennetier. She has won a number of prizes, including the Special Jury Prize Y. Menuhin in 2000, the First Prize F. Kreisler in 2005 in Vienna, and the first prize of the 2007 Monte Carlo Violin Masters.

Clamagirand began performing as a soloist at age nine, and has since played in prestigious venues around the world, including Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Zankel Hall in New York and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, as well as many festivals around the world.

As a soloist, Clamagirand has performed with many orchestras, including the Symphony Orchestra of Minsk, the Weimar Symphoniker, the Jerusalem Symphony, Radio France Philharmonic, and more. She has worked with a number of well-known musicians including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Khatia Buniatishvili, Igor Tchetuev, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wiespelwey, and the Ysaÿe String Quartet. In 2011, she toured with Anne-Sophie Mutter performing chamber music as "Mutter's Virtuosi."

Clamagirand has recorded several CDS, including violin concertos by Saint-Saëns, on the Naxos label, and violin sonatas by Ysaye, on the Ysaye label.

External links

• Clamagirand's web site
• Clamagirand's biography on the Naxos web site