Ophélie Gaillard
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Ophélie Gaillard

Photo credit : Caroline Doutre

Territories : General management

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Photo credit : Caroline Doutre - Bernard Martinez

Upcoming concerts

12/05/2023 - Genève/Salle Trocmé – Pulcinella (scolaires)

14/05/2023 - Genève/Temple de Carouge – Napoli avec Pulcinella Orchestra

15/05/2023 - Enregistrement CD Napoli – Eglise de Cordon

01/06/2023 - Royan – De Bach à Hersant avec Elsa Grether

03/06/2023 - 19h – Domaine du Champ de Bataille – Sainte Opportune du Bosc - Les Etoiles au Château avec les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris

04/06/2023 - 17h – Domaine du Champ de Bataille – Sainte Opportune du Bosc - Les Etoiles au Château avec les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris

11/06/2023 - Suisse/Eglise de Caux – Napoli avec Pulcinella Orchestra

12/06/2023 - Genève/Festival des Bastions – Scottish songs – Avec Stephan Mac Leod et Gli Angeli

15/06/2023 - La Chaux (Suisse) – De Bach à Villa Lobos avec les Swiss Cellists

18 - 20/06/2023 - Lausanne – Jury du Concours d’Interprétation Musicale

22/06/2023 - Collonges-sous-Salève – Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella

23/06/2023 - Genève/Maison Rousseau - Fête de la musique - Concert lecture Albert Cohen/Ernest Bloch

24/06/2023 - Grange de Nane (Suisse) - Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella

25/06/2023 - Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella – TBC

08/07/2023 - Les Rendez-vous de la Chaize (Vendée) – 21h – Avec le Quatuor Voce et Lise Berthaud

09/07/2023 - Les Rendez-vous de la Chaize (Vendée) – 11h – Suites de Bach

17 - 22/07/2023 - Fontainebleau/Ecoles d'Arts Américaines

19/07/2023 - Fontainebleau/Concert Stravinsky avec Dana Ligeti, Nathan Brandwein

22/07/2023 - Fontainebleau - Concours Ravel Jury

27/07/2023 - Festival Tarentaise Baroque – Concert dégustation restaurant*** La Bouitte avec Elsa Grether

30/07/2023 - Les Musicales de Normandie – De Bach à Hersant avec Elsa Grether

31/07/2023 - Festival Tarentaise Baroque – Napoli avec Pulcinella et Christophe Dumaux

05/08/2023 - Cahors – Avec Sandrine Chatron

06/08/2023 - Aveyron – Avec Sandrine Chatron

08/08/2023 - Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella, Ardèche

11/08/2023 - Abbaye de Sylvanes – Ténèbres et Saudade avec Pulcinella, Anna Vieira Leite et Raquel Camarinha

12 - 21/08/2023 - Musicalp/Tignes – Masterclasses

22/08/2023 - Festival Côtes Châlonnaises – D’âme Nature avec Laure Baert

09/09/2023 - 19h – Château de Digoine – Palinges - Les Etoiles au Château avec les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris

10/09/2023 - 17h – Château de Digoine – Palinges - Les Etoiles au Château avec les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris

16/09/2023 - Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella et Loan Goes – Journées du patrimoine Savoie

17/09/2023 - Gramat – Green Tour Napoli avec Pulcinella et Loan Goes

06/10/2023 - Sion/Maison de Wolff - SCHUBERTIADE avec Cedric Pescia (piano) - Fauré, R. Schumann et J. Brahms.

07/10/2023 - Festival d’Ambronay – Napoli avec Pulcinella et Christophe Dumaux

18/10/2023 - Genève/Auditorium Florimont – Ryth’mn cello avec Daniel Leveillé et Maria Busquets (tap dance) et Bruno Fontaine (piano)

20/10/2023 - Genève/Théâtre les Salons, Ponticello Saison Ouvertures – Gala B’rock avec Marie-Claude Chapuis et Marina Viotti, jeunes talents et le Pulcinella Orchestra Junior

22/10/2023 - Genève/Théâtre les Salons, Ponticello Saison Ouvertures – Ryth’mn cello avec Daniel Leveillé et Maria Busquets (tap dance) et Bruno Fontaine (piano)

27/10/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

29/10/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

31/10/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

01/11/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

03/11/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

04/11/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

05/11/2023 - Genève/Grand Théâtre – Maria de Buenos Aires – Avec l’Ensemble HEMIsphère et Sergey Ostrovsky

21 - 25/11/2023 - Napoli/Tournée Londres avec le Pulcinella Orchestra – Masterclass et concert

26/11/2023 - Waterford Ireland – Samson de Haendel - Christ Church Cathedral Waterford avec l’Irish Doctor Choir et le Pulcinella Orchestra

28/11 - 07/12/2023 - Croisière Ponant

08/12/2023 - Genève/Théâtre les Salons – Saison Ouvertures, Ponticello

10/12/2023 - Genève/Théâtre les Salons – Saison Ouvertures, Ponticello

News

New album on October 6th 28/08/2023

New album on October 6th

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Released on March 4, 202223/02/2022

Released on March 4, 2022

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Cellopera with the Vienna Morphing Orchestra 26/02/2021

Cellopera with the Vienna Morphing Orchestra

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VIVALDI, I COLORI DELL’OMBRA recording for APARTE09/03/2020

VIVALDI, I COLORI DELL’OMBRA recording for APARTE

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Release on APARTE MUSIC February 22nd, 201914/01/2019

Release on APARTE MUSIC February 22nd, 2019

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Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works – APARTE MUSIC - New release on March 16th 201814/03/2018

Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Works – APARTE MUSIC - New release on March 16th 2018

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New release : Exiles09/03/2017

New release : Exiles

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1st of April 2016 - Release of Ophélie Gaillard's new album30/03/2016

1st of April 2016 - Release of Ophélie Gaillard's new album

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Carl-Philipp-Emanuel Bach28/11/2014

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel Bach

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Rich actuality for cellist Ophélie Gaillard in March 201420/03/2014

Rich actuality for cellist Ophélie Gaillard in March 2014

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Biography of cellist Ophélie Gaillard

Her “technical fluency is unimpeachable. Her intonation … is impeccable. She plays with a ripe, absolutely luscious tone. Her use of vibrato is circumspect and period- appropriate. She is scrupulous about observing repeats and her use of ornamentation is elegant and understated. The fluidity and unself-conscious physicality of Gaillard’s playing keeps the listener aware that, except for the preludes, this is sunny, dance-based music.” So wrote the critic Stephen Eddins (Allmusic) of her recent Bach recording (2011), while back in 2007 The Times hailed her “wizard fingering, big lyrical heart and kaleidoscope of colours”.

An insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk, an immoderate appetite for the whole of the concerted cello repertoire, complete disregard of limits and petty quarrels: those are no doubt the features that have always set this brilliant Franco-Swiss musician apart. Her passion? Working from the sources, inquiring into the text, using her virtuosity to bring out the musical discourse and make the music loved by all.

 Named  “Revelation: Solo Instrumentalist of the Year” at the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires) in 2003, she has since appeared in recital at many prestigious venues: Concertgebouw Bruges and Amsterdam; Bozar and Flagey, Brussels; the theatres of Bordeaux, Avignon, Poissy, Aix-en-Provence; the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; Oji Hall, Tokyo; London’s Wigmore Hall; and so on.

She also performs works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has recorded, for instance, Britten’s complete Cello Suites and Piano Sonatas with Vanessa Wagner (Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique) and Pierre Bartholomée’s Oraison for solo cello.

Her solo album Dreams (Aparté) recorded in 2009  at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, proved to be a great public success.

Versatile artist, Ophelie Gaillard also regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras such as the Japan Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the Polish Radio Orchestra and the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, etc….

Ophélie Gaillard has won several prizes in major international competitions, including, most notably, The third prize of the J. S. Bach International Cello Competition in Leipzig in 1998. In 2010 she was invited to sit on the jury for the ARD International Cello Competition in Munich.

She appears regularly on radio (France Musique, France Culture, France Inter, Radio Classique, BBC Radio 3, Espace 2) and television (France 2, Mezzo, Arte).

2015 her double ALVORADA CD was awarded Star Recording by the Strad Magazine. This programme, a journey into popular Spanish and Latin American musics was on tour in France, Italy (MiTo Festival), Mexico (Cervantino Festival), with Brazilian singer Toquinho among others and 2016 her second CPEBACH recording was hailed by the critic and received a DIAPASON D’OR, CHOC DE LA MUSIQUE CLASSICA, FFFF TELERAMA.

Among other recordings highly acclaimed as well, Exils with Bloch’s Schelomo coupled with the Korngold’s cello concerto with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under British conductor James Judd, Strauss’ Don Quixote with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Boccherini with Pulcinella Orchestra.

Fond of encounters, she regularly shares the stage with Lambert Wilson, hip-hop dancer Ibrahim Sissoko, choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, dancers Hugo Marchand and Ludmila Pagliero (Etoiles of the Opéra National de Paris), or Brazilian star singer of bossa nova Toquinho (live album Canto de sereia recorded for Aparté at the MiTo festival in 2017).

After a double album dedicated to Boccherini in 2019 recorded with the complicity of Sandrine Piau, Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella won in 2020 a wide audience success thanks to a double album Vivaldi, I colori dell'ombra recorded during the health crisis with mezzo-sopranos Lucile Richardot and Delphine Galou.

Beginning of 2021, Ophélie Gaillard offers us a journey through 100 years of opera arias with her new recording « Cellopera» accompanied by the "Vienna Morphing Orchestra", under the baton of Frédéric Chaslin, thanks to transcriptions for cello and orchestra of works by Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovski, Offenbach and Puccini.

March 2022, back to the 1730s, Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella together with guest artists Sandrine Piau and Lucile Richardot, meet Italian composers who tried their luck in London, such as Geminiani, Porpora, Bononcini and spend a poetic « Night in London ».

2014 she was appointed Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva and her recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s cello concerti with Pulcinella  was awarded DIAPASON D’OR of the year.

Ophélie Gaillard plays a cello by Francesco Goffriller (1737), generously on loan from the CIC, and also an anonymous Flemish violoncello piccolo.

Orchestra Repertoire

BACH Carl Philipp Emmanuel Intégrale
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto en ut M op 56
BLOCH Schelomo
La Voix dans le désert
BOCCHERINI Intégrale
BRAHMS Double Concerto en la m op 102
CHOSTAKOVITCH Concerto pour Violoncelle n°1
Concerto pour Violoncelle n°2
DUTILLEUX Concerto pour violoncelle « Tout un monde lointain »
DVORAK Concerto pour Violoncelle en si mineur Op 104
Waldesruhe
ELGAR Concerto pour Violoncelle
HAYDN Concerto pour Violoncelle en do majeur
Concerto pour Violoncelle en ré majeur
Symphonie Concertante
KORNGOLD Concerto pour Violoncelle en do majeur opus 37
LALO Concerto pour Violoncelle
LEO Concertos napolitains
LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto pour violoncelle
MILHAUD Concerto No1
PORPORA Concertos napolitains
SAINT-SAENS Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre en la mineur op. 33
SCHUMANN Concerto pour Violoncelle op 129
STRAUSS Don Quichotte op 35
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations sur un thème rococo
Andante Cantabile
Pezzo Capriccioso
Nocturne op 19 n° 4
Chanson Triste op 40 n°2
VIVALDI Intégrale