Romain Garioud

Cello

Romain Garioud

Romain Garioud is prize winner at such prestigious international competitions as Moscow’ s T chaikovsky (2001) and Paris’ Rostropovitch (2002), he is also a second prize winner at Chile’s Vina del Mar competition in 2002. In 2005, Romain Garioud wins the 1st Prize of Bucchi’s International cello Competition.

He graduated from Paris’s Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with a First Prize in both cello (1997) and chamber music (1998) and Konzertexam. Known for his outstanding sound and sense of phrasing, Romain Garioud has had the privilege of working with such widely renowned cellists as Philippe Muller, Anner Bylsma, Natalia Chakovskaia, David Geringas, Steven Isserlis…

Nowadays, his career alternates between solists engagements on every continents, Masterclasses and his positions of Professor in the « Akademie für Tonkunst » of Darmstadt and in the « Akademie für Musik » of Berlin.

Romain Garioud played Lutoslawsly’s cello concerto for the Yuri Bashmet’s festival of Minsk with the television orchestra, was also invited to play for the “Marta Argerich Project” in Lugano, substituted Natalia Gutman in the 1st Shostakovitch’s Cello concerto with the orchestra «Casa da Musica» of Porto (Portugal), recently played the Dvorjak Cello Concerto with the conductor Michael Sanderling and the Aalborg Philarmonic (DK) and with such orchestras as the Philarmonic and the Radio Orchestra of Sofia-Bulgary.

He played with such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach (Orchestre de Paris), Jean-Marc Burfin (Lisbon’s Metropolitan Orchestra), Stéphane Cardon or Volodymir Sirenko (Nat. of Ukraine) and with prestigious chamber music partners like Mstislav Rostropovitch, Menahem Presler, Gilles Apap, Philippe Entremont, Régis et Bruno Pasquier, Ulf Wallin…in the most famous concert halls, Musikverein and Konzerthaus Wien, Berlin Philharmonie. Several of his concerts were recorded by Radio France or Music Cable TV channel Mezzo.

From 2021, he’s fouding member of the «TriOdyssey» with the violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger and the pianist Rinko Hama.

He’s playing an exceptional Nicolai Gagliano’s cello from 1760, generously lent by Gabriele & Michael Andreae-Jäckering.