Clarinet
Biography
Nicolas Baldeyrou took the ARD prize in Munich in 1998, Dos Hermanas in 1999 and the International Clarinet Association's Young Artist award in 2001, having left the Paris Conservatoire with its special prize for bass clarinet. Principal clarinet of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2011, he has played concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic and the Tokyo Philharmonic and appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus, moving without ceremony between the modern instrument and period clarinets in work with Marc Minkowski and Emmanuelle Haïm. He has taught at the Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse since 2006. With the Sofia Philharmonic on 2 June 2016 he played Debussy's Première rhapsodie and Weber's Second Clarinet Concerto, in a programme completed by Fauré.