Camille Thomas

At four Camille Thomas began the cello in Paris, where she was born in 1988; she later studied with Marcel Bardon and Philippe Muller, then Stephan Forck and Frans Helmerson at the Hanns Eisler school in Berlin and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in Weimar. Nominated for instrumental revelation at the Victoires de la musique classique in 2014, she records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon and her discs include Voice of Hope and The Chopin Project. Her work includes chamber music and concerto engagements across Europe and Asia. She plays the 1730 Stradivari known as the De Munck–Feuermann, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. She moved to Berlin for her studies in 2006, and the exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon dates from 2017; The Chopin Project, released in 2023, is a trilogy gathering the chamber works with cello and the arrangements of Chopin made for the instrument. Among the conductors she has worked with are Paavo Järvi, Mikko Franck, Kent Nagano and Marc Soustrot, and she has played with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Brussels Philharmonic and the Staatsorchester Hamburg, as well as in the Herkulessaal in Munich and at the Schleswig-Holstein and Kronberg festivals. She won the European Broadcasting Union New Talent competition in 2014.