Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2024

Edgar Moreau. Photo Julien Mignot Erato

Edgar Moreau

Biography

The cellist Edgar Moreau won First Prize in the 2014 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was awarded six Special Prizes after capturing, at the age of 17, Second Prize and the Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work at the International Tchaikovsky Competition held in Moscow in July 2011 under the chairmanship of Valery Gergiev. At the Rostropovitch Cello Competition in Paris in 2009, he received the Prize for the Most Promising Contestant. Moreau is a recipient of many musical awards, the Academie Maurice Ravel Prize 2011, the Banque Populaire Foundation, “Classic Revelation” by France’s Adami, French-Speaking Public Radios Young musician Prize 2013, and named “New Talent of the Year 2013” and “Instrumental Soloist of the Year 2015” by the French Victoires de la Musique.

He made his orchestral debut at the age of eleven with the Teatro Regio Orchestra in Turin. He has soloed with the Musica Viva Orchestra in Russia and in Japan (Alexander Rudin, conductor), the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Poland ( Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor), the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, the Mariinsky Orchestra in Toulouse (under the baton of Valery Gergiev), the Orchestre National de France at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev), the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Jean-Claude Casadesus, Conductor), the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Switzerland, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, The Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Hong Kong, his Amsterdam Debut at the Cello Biennale … Moreau is a committed chamber musician and has worked with Talich, Prazak, Modigliani and Ebene Quartet, Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Jean-Frederic Neuburger, Khatia Buniatishvili… Festival appearances has included performances at the Poland’s Easter Festival in Warsaw, Saint-Denis Festival, Radio France Montpellier Festival, Colmar Festival, La Folle Journée in Nantes and in Japan, Verbier Festival, Annecy Classic Festival, Lugano Festival (Progetto Martha Argerich), Edinburgh International Festival, Evian Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Mozartfest in Würzburg, Luzern Festival, the Musikverein in Vienna.

He has also given recitals with his pianist – the French Pierre-Yves Hodique – who captured the Prize of the Best Accompanist at the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition- at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the Berliner Philharmonie (Kammermusiksaal) in Berlin, in Brussels, Antwerp, Ferrara, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris…

Recently he pays with the Orchestre de Paris and Lahav Shani, Gürzenich Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven Triple Concerto with Renaud Capuçon and Khatia Buniatishvili), the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France (N. Znaider director), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France (Mikko Franck, director), in Taipei, Venezia, Wiesbaden, Aachen, Stuttgart, as well as appearances in chamber music at the Kölner Philharmonie, Schubertiades in Schwarzenberg, Ludwigshafen, Verbier Festival, Saint-Denis Festival, the Fazioli Concert Hall Series in Sacile, in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Genève…

Born in 1994 in Paris, Edgar Moreau began playing the cello at the age of four and the piano at six. From 2008 to 2013 he studied with Professor Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and he currently studies with Professor Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. He has taken part in master classes with such eminent cellists as Gary Hoffman, Lynn Harrel and David Geringas and has participated in many academies, including the Verbier Festival Academy and Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World Project with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Andras Schiff.

His first album, “Play”- works for cello and piano, collection of short pieces both virtuosic and lyrical – was released in 2014 on Warner Classics label.

His follow-up album, Giovincello, (ECHO Classik 2016) presents 18th-century cello concertos recorded with the Italian Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro.

To be release, a duo recital with David Kadouch around Franck, Poulenc and Strohl.

Edgar Moreau plays a David Tecchler cello, dated 1711.

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Festival Performances Year 2024

Nielsen: Chaconne Op. 32 (1916)
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Bartok: Romanian Dances (1915)
Akiko Suwanai, violin & Ingrid Andsnes, piano

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Interval

Berg: Hier ist friede, Op.4 No. 5, (1917) arranged for four instruments
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano, Ingrid Andsnes, harmonium, Akiko Suwanai, violin & Edgar Moreau, cello.

Ernst von Dohnanyi : Piano Quintet No. 2 Op.26 (1914)
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano & Dover String Quartet

(included in large festival packages only due to limited number of seats. Waiting list: please send us an email.)

Signe Lund: Peace Bells (1918)
Ingrid Andsnes, piano

Busoni: Albumblatt (1916)
Guy Eshed, flute and Ingrid Andsnes, piano.

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Dover String Quartet

Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 109 (1917)
Edgar Moreau, cello and Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (1914)
Akiko Suwanai, violin and Ingrid Andsnes, piano

Lili Boulanger: Cortege (1914); D’un matin de printemps (1917)
Guy Eshed, flute and Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Fauré: Une chateleaine en sa tour Op. 110 (1918)
Sivan Magen, harp

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (1907)
Akiko Suwanai, violin, Johan Dalene, violin, Lars Anders Tomter, viola, Edgar Moreau, cello, Guy Eshed, flute, Fabio Di Càsola, clarinet and Sivan Magen, harp.

Interval

Elgar: Piano Quintet Op. 84 (1918-1919)
Henning Kraggerud, violin, Akiko Suwanai, violin, Lars Anders Tomter, viola, Edgar Moreau, cello and Kirill Gerstein, piano

Sinding: Abendstimmung Op. 120 (1915)
Henning Kraggerud, violin and Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Webern: Cello Pieces, Op. 11 (1914)
Edgar Moreau, cello and Kirill Gerstein, piano

Kreisler: Berceuse Romantique Op. 9 (1916) & La Gitana (1917)
Johan Dalene, violin and Ingrid Andsnes, piano

Reger: Clarinet Quintet (1915-16)
Fabio Di Càsola, clarinet and Dover String Quartet

Danse sacrée et danse profane (1904)
Sivan Magen, harp, Dover String Quartet and Tim Gibbs, double bass

En blanc et noir (1915)
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano and Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Interval

Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915)
Edgar Moreau, cello and Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1915)
Guy Eshed, flute, Lars Anders Tomter, viola and Sivan Magen, harp

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1916 - 1917)
Akiko Suwanai, violin and Leif Ove Andsnes, piano