Fanny CLAMAGIRAND - violinist                                                           

Born in Paris on April 12, 1984, Fanny started playing the violin at the age of seven. Two years later, already, she showed on stage a musical expression stamped with an unusual maturity.

Fanny has this rare ability to " shape the melodic lines in an infinite limpidity of sound and clarity of the execution into all details", Die Rheinlandpfalz .

Her elegance, the brightness of her playing, her interpretations involving sensitivity and authority received many times the critics' praise.

She studied with Larissa Kolos for eight years, before joining in 2000, when she was sixteen, the Postgraduate course at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) in the class of Jean-Jacques Kantorow . In 2003, she went on to study with Itzhak Rashkovsky at London's Royal College of Music, where she was awarded her "Artist's Diploma" (2004). At the same time, Fanny has attended many master-classes, given by Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Natalia Gutman, Michèle Auclair, Donald Weilerstein, Shlomo Mintz, Boris Kushnir among others. She is currently being coached by P.Vernikov and Oleksander Semchuk.

Winner of the prestigious and only First Prize "Prince Rainier III de Monaco" at the Monte Carlo Violin Masters Competition in June 2007, Fanny Clamagirand has also been highly distinguished in many other occasions. She is acclaimed as the "Adami Classical Revelation 2006". In 2005, she won the First Prize at the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna. She became a semi-finalist at the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and got the Second Prize at the International Yfrah Neaman Competition in Mainz (Germany). In 2004, she received the Second Prize, as well as a Special Prize at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition and the prestigious Emily Anderson Prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society (London). In 2000, she won the Special Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (England). Previously, she became a prize winner at the 7th International Wieniawski Competition (Poland 1997), a finalist at the Eighth Eurovision Competition for young musicians (Portugal 1996), won the first prize at the Louis Spohr International Competition (Weimar 1995) where she received a special prize from Radio Frankfurt and was invited to give a recital in Frankfurt, and she got first prize at the Lutèce International Competition (Paris 1994).

Fanny has been performing as a soloist in concerts in Paris throughout France and abroad from the age of nine. She has been invited in numerous festivals : Montpellier Radio France Festival, International Colmar Festival, Cziffra Festivals, "Antibes Génération Virtuoses" Festival, Flâneries de Reims, "Toulouse d'Eté", "C'est pas Classique!" in Nice, "Musical Nights" of the Suquet, Auvers-sur-Oise Festival, Serres d'Auteuil Festival, Epau Festival, Laon Festival, Périgord Noir Festival, Royan Festival, Vigan Festival, Menton Festival, Haydn Festspiele and "Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus" in Austria, Marschner Festival in Germany, "Spring of Minsk" in Belarussia, "Palaces of Saint Petersbourg" in Russia, "Virtuosos of the Planet" in Ukraine, Bowdoin International Music Festival (USA), Israel Festival, Verbier Academy (Switzerland), Cheltenham Music Festival and Bromsgrove Festival in England, "Young Virtuosi" in Tunisia. and has performed in prestigious international venues such as Academia Santa Cecilia in Roma, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Opera House, Museum of Arts and Blumenthal Center in Tel-Aviv, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Opera House in Cairo, Circulo Bellas Artes in Madrid, Claudion Santoro Opera in Brasilia, Cultural Center in Chicago, Zankel Hall of the Carnegie in New York, Palais Garnier in Monaco and, in Paris, Théâtre Mogador, Hôtel des Invalides, UNESCO, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Cour d'Honneur du Sénat, Auditorium du Louvre.

Fanny has also played as a soloist with many orchestras incuding both Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras of Minsk, Weimar Symphony Orchestra, Portuguese Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonietta of the London RCM, Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Teatro La Fenice Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Mainz, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Wiener KammerOrchester, Israel Chamber Orchestra. and quite recently with the Ensemble Orchestral of Paris in the double concerto for violin and piano by Mendelssohn with pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuberger and conductor Juraj Valcuha, and with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in the Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64 by Mendelssohn, under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev.

Fanny is a regular guest on French radio and TV broadcasts, as well as on European radios. Moreover, she just made her debut on both radio and a local TV channel in Chicago, USA.

In September 2007, her first CD recording, dedicated to the complete Ysaye's violin Solo Sonatas, was released under the Nascor label (Harmonia Mundi distribution); a "France Musique choice" and "Talents Fnac" album highly acclaimed by the press.

Her talent and commitment are besides actively supported by foundations and organizations such as the Cziffra Foundation, the Natixis Banque Populaire Foundation, "Cultures France" regarding the "Déclic" promotional CD series (2005-2006), in cooperation with Radio France and Mécénat Musical Société Générale, and since last July by the Foundation SAFRAN pour la Musique. Fanny is also award winner of several English Foundations.

Future engagements are scheduled at the Moments Musicaux de La Baule, in Finland, Belgium, Brazil, at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus in Austria (artistic direction Gidon Kremer)., with the Orchestre Colonne, Orchestre Région-Centre, at the Salle Gaveau with Ysaÿe Quartet and pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuberger, the Salle Cortot , Petit Palais in Paris. without not mentioning the recording of Saint-Saëns complete Violin Concertos with Sinfonia Finlandia Orchestra and conductor Patrick Gallois under Naxos label in 2009, to be released in 2010.

Fanny plays a 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin.