Classical and Contemporary Music
Bruno Philippe Masterclass
Active participants: student cellists/ As a listener: open to all students
March 26 2024 13:00
1pm > 7pm
Born in 1993, Bruno Philippe studied cello at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. From 2014 to 2018, he studied as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and took part in masterclasses with David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Salzburg Mozarteum.
Winner of numerous competitions in recent years, Bruno has performed in prestigious venues and festivals in France (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, La Grange au Lac, Festival de Radio France Montpellier-Occitanie, etc.) as well as internationally, notably at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Teatro Colón in Bogotá and Bavarian Radio in Munich. Bruno has performed with many of Europe's leading orchestras, including the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt under Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestre de Dijon-Bourgogne under Gabor Takács-Nagy, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.
He has recently appeared with the Orchestre de Picardie, the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra in Košice and collaborated with Tabea Zimmerman at Schloss Elmau.Bruno has performed at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Insel Festival Hombroich, the Max Festival in Belgium with Irina Lankova and Alina Pogostkina, the Auvers sur Oise Festival and the Colmar International Festival with Cédric Tiberghien. With the Ensemble Jupiter, Bruno took part in his second major tour of the United States in two years, performing cello concertos by Vivaldi.
During the 2023-2024 season, he makes his debut with the Orchestre national de France, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Sinfónica de Tenerife and the Hallé Orchestra in a repertoire including Dvořák's Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 and Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1. Bruno also performed the complete Bach suites at the Flanders Festival in Ghent.
Bruno Philippe plays on a 1760 cello by Gennaro Gagliano, kindly loaned to him by Beare's International Violin Society.
Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
Régence Site I Petite salle
Rue de la Régence 30, 1000 Bruxelles
Coordination artistique : Didier Poskin et Marie Hallynck