Aurélien Pascal

A pupil of Philippe Müller at the Paris Conservatoire, Aurélien Pascal continued at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman, having taken master classes with János Starker along the way. Born in Paris in 1994, he won second prize at the Paulo Cello Competition, distinctions at the Emanuel Feuermann Competition and fourth prize at the Queen Elisabeth in 2017; in 2023 the Victoires de la musique classique named him instrumental soloist revelation of the year. Chamber music is part of his work, and he has played with András Schiff, Christoph Poppen and Vladimir Fedoseyev. He has played a Charles-Adolphe Gand cello of 1850. The Paulo prize came in Helsinki in 2013, the year he was also named an Adami Révélation Classique, and at the Queen Elisabeth in 2017 he was the youngest finalist of that edition. He recorded Danzi's Cello Concerto with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths for Sony Classical in 2016, and his Kodály sonata for La Musica took a Choc Classica and a Diapason Découverte in 2019.