Acclaimed cellist Gautier Capuçon will share a stage with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra at the opening concert of the 6th Armenia International Music Festival in Yerevan.
The concert, scheduled for 3 September, also marks the start of the orchestra’s concert season, organizers said on Tuesday.
Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
In the 2021/22 season Capuçon appears with, amongst others, the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna/Alain Altinoglu, Munich/Giedrė Šlekytė and New York/Yu Long; the Concertgebouworkest/Myung-whun Chung, Cleveland Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas and Mariinsky/Valerie Gergiev.
He is Artist-in-Residence at the Paris Philharmonie as well as the Wiener Konzerthaus.
