Cellist
Born in 1993, Bruno Philippe studied the cello at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. From 2014-2018, he studied as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and participated in masterclasses given by David Geringas, Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at Salzburg Mozarteum.
Prize-winner at multiple competitions in recent years, Bruno has appeared in prestigious venues and festivals in France (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Philharmonie de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, La Grange au Lac, Festival de Radio France Montpellier-Occitanie etc.) as well as on the international scene including the Berlin Konzerthaus, Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Teatro Colón, Bogotá and Bavarian Radio, Munich. Bruno has performed with many of Europe’s leading orchestras including Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra under Gabor Takács-Nagy, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchener Kammerorchester, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.
Recent highlights include performances with l’Orchestre de Picardie, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and collaboration with Tabea Zimmerman at Schloss Elmau. Bruno has given festival appearances at Festival de Pâques, Aix-en-Provence, Insel Festival Hombroich, Max Festival, Belgium with Irina Lankova and Alina Pogostkina, Festival d’Auvers sur Oise and Festival International de Colmar with Cédric Tiberghien. With Ensemble Jupiter, Bruno participated in his second major tour in two years of the United States, where he performed concertos for cello by Vivaldi.
The 2023-2024 season sees debuts with Orchestre National de France, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sinfónica de Tenerife and the Hallé Orchestra performing repertoire that includes Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1. In addition Bruno will make his solo Wigmore Hall debut with pianist Tanguy de Williencourt and will perform solo Bach at the Flanders Festival, Gent.
Bruno Philippe plays a 1760 cello by Gennaro Gagliano kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
