Raphaël Sévère

Winner of the Tokyo Competition at the age of 12, he was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Instrumental Soloist Revelation award at the age of 15. In November 2013, he won first prize and eight special prizes at the prestigious Young Concert Artists competition in New York. He has appeared as a soloist with the Deutsche Sinfonieorchester at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall in New York, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, and the national orchestras of the Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille, and Strasbourg, among others. He has given recitals at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Gardner Museum in Boston and Vancouver, the Auditorium du Louvre, the KKL Luzern, and the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, as well as at festivals such as La Grange de Meslay, Radio France Occitanie, La Folle Journée (Nantes, Warsaw, Tokyo), Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, French May in Hong Kong, Salle Molière in Lyon, and the Grand Théâtre in Aix-en-Provence. His chamber music partners include the Ébène, Modigliani, Prazák, and Van Kuijk quartets, the Wanderer, Les Esprits, and Messiaen trios, as well as Martha Argerich, Boris Berezovsky, Adam Laloum, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Gidon Kremer, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Gary Hoffman, Xavier Phillips, Victor Julien-Laferrière, and François Salque. A composer himself, he has always been attracted to the creative process, and his works are published by Empreinte Mélodique. His recordings have been awarded by the music magazines Diapason (Diapason d’Or de l’année), Classica-Répertoire (Choc de Classica), Classique Info Disque (Révélation), and Télérama (ffff).