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Violinist
Fanny Clamagirand has performed and recorded music of her native France, but also major classical concertos from other countries. She champions contemporary music and has played a range of chamber music and collaborated in a cross-genre dance project.
Clamagirand was born in Paris in 1984. She took up the violin at seven and studied with Larissa Kolos before enrolling in classes with
Jean-Jacques Kantorow at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in 2000. In 2003,
Clamagirand went on to the Royal College of Music in London, earning an Artist's Diploma the following year and winning the Emily Anderson Prize. She had further classes at the Vienna Conservatory with
Pavel Vernikov and at the Fiesole School of Music in Italy with Oleksandr Semchuk, as well as a variety of master classes with
Vadim Repin,
Shlomo Mintz, Donald Weilerstein, and others. By this period,
Clamagirand was already a seasoned performer, having given her first recital at age nine.
In 2005,
Clamagirand made her recording debut on the Marco Polo label, appearing on an album of
works by Georges Taconet. As much of Marco Polo's catalog was absorbed by Naxos,
Clamagirand moved to that label, releasing a recording of
Saint-Saëns' violin concertos with the
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä in 2010. That year, she collaborated with choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara on his work Obsession. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with major European groups, including the
Vienna Philharmonic,
London Philharmonic, and
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä. Her recitals have taken her to top-level venues such as Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, and she is a frequent festival guest around France and beyond.
Clamagirand has a long list of prestigious chamber music collaborators that includes violinists
Anne-Sophie Mutter and
Gidon Kremer, as well as pianist
Adam Laloum. She has continued to record for Naxos, issuing several albums of music by
Saint-Saëns, including a
collection of transcriptions with pianist
Vanya Cohen in 2021. ~ James Manheim