Ophélie Gaillard's election as "Instrumental Soloist Revelation" at the Victoires de la Musique Classique.
Ophélie Gaillard has recorded several critically acclaimed albums, including complete works by Bach, Britten, Schumann, and other major composers.
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Ophélie Gaillard a enregistré plusieurs albums salués par la critique, dont des intégrales de Bach, Britten, Schumann, et d’autres compositeurs majeurs.
A mind of insatiable curiosity, a taste for risk, an unrestrained appetite for the entire cello concerto repertoire without borders or factional disputes, a civic commitment, and an unconditional love for nature—these are undoubtedly the qualities that have set this brilliant Franco-Swiss performer apart from the very beginning.
Voted "Instrumental Soloist Revelation" at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2003, she has since performed in recital across Asia and Europe and has been a guest of some of the most prestigious orchestras, including the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Metz, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and the New Japan Philharmonic.
Ophélie Gaillard records for Aparté several complete works praised by the international press: Bach, Britten, Schumann, Fauré, Chopin, Brahms, CPE Bach, Strauss, as well as thematic albums that have captivated a wide audience, such as *Dreams*, *Alvorada*, and *Exils*.
Passionate about collaborations, she regularly shares the stage with Lambert Wilson, hip-hop dancer Ibrahim Sissoko, choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, étoile dancers Hugo Marchand and Ludmila Pagliero, as well as the bossa nova star singer Toquinho (live album *Canto de sereia*, recorded for Aparté at the MiTo festival in 2017).
In 2005, she founded the Pulcinella Orchestra, which she conducts from the cello, exploring 17th and 18th-century repertoires on historical instruments.
After a double album dedicated to Boccherini in 2019, recorded with the collaboration of Sandrine Piau, Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella achieved widespread public success with a double album of Vivaldi, *I colori dell’ombra*, recorded at the height of the health crisis with mezzo-sopranos Lucile Richardot and Delphine Galou.
In early 2021, still with Aparté, Ophélie Gaillard offered a journey through 100 years of opera arias with her album *Cellopera*, accompanied by the *Vienna Morphing Orchestra* conducted by Frédéric Chaslin. The album features cello and orchestra transcriptions of works by Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, and Puccini. In March 2022, with *A Night in London*, she takes us on a journey to meet composers who ventured to London in the 1730s, such as Porpora, Geminiani, and Bononcini.
For 2023, the focus is on Naples with Sandrine Piau, Marina Viotti, and Luan Goes for a vibrant double album, featuring previously unpublished works by Porpora, concertos by Leo and Durante, gigues by Matteis, as well as traditional Tarantellas.
A sought-after pedagogue, she has been a professor at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva since 2014 and is regularly invited to give masterclasses and serve as a jury member for major international competitions (ARD in Munich, Geneva Competition, Cello Biennale in Amsterdam, Isang Yun in South Korea, Bach in Leipzig…).
Ophélie Gaillard plays a 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello generously loaned by the CIC, as well as an anonymous Flemish piccolo cello.
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