Godefroy Vujicic


Godefroy Vujicic is a French contemporary classical cellist.

Biography

Born into a family of musicians in Versailles in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of the composer, followed by a tour of radio and television concerts on national channels in the former Yugoslavia in Belgrade and Novi Sad. Vujicic took part to festivals, such as "Musica", in Strasbourg in 1999, broadcast on France Musique, "La fête à Voltaire" in Ferney-Voltaire in 2008, for the 230th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, and "Lille 3000", in 2009. Founder, conductor and cellist of the String Quartet of the French Army from 2001 to 2006, he was attached to the Chief of the Land Staff. Cello solo at the premiere of the Clair ruisseau by Dmitri Shostakovich for the Bolchoi at the Paris Opera in 2004, Godefroy Vujicic was congratulated by Mstislav Rostropovich. He is a member of L'Ensemble Diagonal, dedicated to Contemporary classical music and conducted by Rut Schereiner and Luis Naón. Godefroy Vujicic played in cinema with the Concerts Colonne in Fauteuils d'orchestre, participated to the recording of the film score for Mangeurs d'étoiles and performed in .
Godefroy Vujicic is the founder of "Les concerts de l'abbaye royale Saint-Vincent" festival, which takes place annually at Senlis, in the Oise department.
He participated to the 11th edition of the Pierre Cardin festival, in Lacoste, in 2011, in the show "Voltaire, de la tolérance à la raison".
He has been accompanying the Victoires de la Musique ceremony every year since 2011.
He recorded the six Suites for cello solo by Jean-Sébastien Bach, an album of Musiques russes at a concert in the Salle Cortot and the two Cello concertos by Joseph Haydn on the occasion of the bicentennial of the composer's death.
Godefroy Vujicic teaches at the Conservatory of Châtenay-Malabry and the Claude Debussy one in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.