THE CAPUÇON-ANGELICH TRIO
Next North American Tour 2012-2013
Brought together personally by Martha Argerich, the Capuçon-Angelich Trio, one of the most promising ensembles in the world of chamber music today, features the native
French duo of violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Gautier Capuçon, considered internationally to be two of the world's most gifted young string players, along with the
American born, award winning pianist Nicholas Angelich.
In February 2008, the Capuçon-Angelich Trio received rave reviews for their first tour of
North America, including debuts in San Francisco, New York, Quebec and Montreal.
Their second tour of the US in November of 2008 included performances of Haydn,
Shostakovich and Mendelssohn piano trios in Vancouver, Charlottesville, Washington
DC and New York. Their 2004 EMI Classics release of Brahms Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 and
3 received rave reviews from both Gramophone and BBC Music. The Capuçon-Angelich
Trio most recently toured the US with programs that featured the works of Beethoven,
Shostakovich, and Brahms.
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Named “Instrumentalist of the Year” in 2005 by the French Victoires de la Musique,
Renaud Capuçon
has taken his place among the top echelon of young violinists. He has performed with world-renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony at
Tanglewood, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bayerische Rundfunk, Orchestre National de
France, Orchestre de Paris, NHK Symphony and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, with conductors Bychkov, Chung, Dudamel, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Fischer and Robertson. His chamber music partners include Yuri Bashmet, Yefim Bronfman, Mikhail Pletnev and
Jean Yves Thibaudet.
An exclusive Virgin Classics artist, Mr. Capuçon's release in March 2009 featured
Mozart’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 and Sinfonia Concertante with violist Antoine
Tamistat and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Louis Langrée; it was followed in October of 2009 with Violin Concertos of Beethoven and Korngold -The
Rotterdam Philharmonic and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting.
Highlights of Mr. Capuçon’s 2010-2011 season include performances with the
Philadelphia Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
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Since winning the Victoires de la Musique as "New Talent of the Year" in 2001, award winning cellist
Gautier Capuçon
has taken the international music world by storm with his recital, orchestral and chamber music performances around the globe. His collaborations include performances with Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre

Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Leonid Kavakos, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yannick
Nezet-Seguin, Leonard Slatkin, and recently his first appearance with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra for the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations and Prokofiev's Sinfonia
Concertante. This performance was released in January 2010 on the Virgin Classics label, for which Mr. Capuçon records exclusively.
Mr. Capuçon’s 2009 release of Dvorak and Herbert received Editor's Choice from
Gramophone Magazine. In 2008, he released "Rhapsody," works of Rachmaninoff and
Prokofiev with pianist Gabriella Montero. Additional releases on the Virgin Classics label include Haydn concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding, chamber music of Ravel with Renaud Capuçon and pianist Frank Braley, and a recording of contemporary violin and cello duos entitled "Face à Face."
Mr. Capuçon’s 2010-2011 season includes a US and Canada tour with Gabriella Montero in Montreal, New York City, Baltimore, and Calgary, as well as his debut performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Lionel Bringuier and a re-engagement with the
San Francisco Symphony under Charles Dutoit.
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Award winning pianist Nicholas Angelich has performed with the Orchestre National de
France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de Liège, Saint-Petersburg Symphony and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. In May 2003, Mr. Angelich made his debut with the New
York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur at Lincoln Center. His chamber collaborations include critically acclaimed performances with Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Joshua Bell, Gérard
Caussé, Alexander Kniazev, Jian Wang, Paul Meyer, the Ysaye and Prazak Quartets.
In 2008, Mr. Angelich recorded Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 and Hungarian Dances with Frank Braley and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi on
Virgin Classics. Other recordings by the pianist include a 2007 EMI Classics release of
Brahms Klavierstücke Op.116-119, and Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux for piano Op.
33 & 39 on Harmonia Mundi.
During his 2010-11 season Mr. Angelich will make his recital debut with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Concert and Lecture series, and his Los Angeles
Philharmonic debut under Stephane Deneve.
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“ If well-played chamber music is like an engaging conversation, the capacity audience at
La Maison Française on Tuesday night was witness to an intense tête-à-tête-à-tête…a devastating rendition of Shostakovich's second piano trio was the program's emotional high point.”
-Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post , February 2010
“The control over the nuances, the continuous tension, the breathing, the beauty of the attacks, the musical flow, the absence of “tonal stress”, the cohesion and the very welljudged balances, even in the control of musical climaxes, all made for a subtle and precious evening of chamber music…(by the Capuçon-Angelich Trio)… ”
- Christophe Huss, Le Devior , February 2008
“…A satisfying evening of great music well played…(by the Capuçon-Angelich Trio)…”
- Dan Davis, Classics Today , February 2008
“Nicholas Angelich and the two Capuçons play (Brahms Trios) in a way that's sure to kindle anyone's enthusiasm…warm, beautifully balanced tone stresses the composer's romantic side, as does the expansive phrasing. There's a feeling of spontaneity, too, as though each player is discovering new aspects to the music while recording it... the way they are able to strike a balance between Brahms's energetic flow of ideas, his strongly delineated structures and his lyric intensity is most satisfying.”
- Gramophone , August 2004
“…The Capuçons and Angelich seem to think and breathe together so naturally that the performance feels instinctively truthful.”
- BBC Music , July 2004

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