Raphaël Chrétien


Raphaël Chrétien is a French classical cellist and music educator.

Biography

Raphaël Chrétien was born into a family of musicians and learned the piano and the cello at a very young age with his father and Alain Meunier.
He then entered the Conservatoire de Paris in Philippe Muller's class. After a First Prize of cello and chamber music, he followed a cycle of training during which he met Mstislav Rostropovitch, Janos Starker and Paul Tortelier.
Raphaël Chrétien is the winner of several international competitions, including the Martinů Special Prize at the Prague International Competition and the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the Belgrade International Competition.
He has been the guest of major international orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Les Siècles, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Basel and the Camerata Salzburg. He is also dedicatee and creator of several contemporary works by Nicolas Bacri,, Paul Méfano, Piotr Moss,, Alessandro Solbiati, Christian Lauba, Iannis Xenakis ou Philippe Hersant.
After having been professor at the Conservatory of Bordeaux and Caen, Raphaël Chrétien teaches at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Raphaël Chrétien plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume of 1866.

Selected discography