Xavier Gagnepain (born 1960) is a French contemporary classical

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Biography

Gagnepain studied at the

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and

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in the U.S.A. He gained some fame in international competitions such as those of Munich and São Paulo. He began a double career as a soloist and chamber musician. He is invited by renowned orchestras of the European scene (the

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, the Sofia Radio Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists), plays regularly with the pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson, and is the cellist of the

Rosamonde Quartet The Rosamonde Quartet is a French string quartet ensemble established in 1981. It takes its name from ''Rosamunde'', a 1823 composition of incidental music by Franz Schubert, from which he reused a theme in his 13th quartet, nicknamed ''Rosamunde ...

(laureate of the Concours International of Évian in 1983 with the ''Prix d'interprétation de compositeurs modernes'' and the ''Prix spécial du Jury international des critiques'' and First Prize of the international competition of string quartets of the Union des Radios Européennes in Salzbourg in 1986). In 1996, Gagnepain was the first to perform in concert the 12 pieces on the name of

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, contemporary repertoire for cello solo, famous for its difficulty. His discography includes both concertos and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

ranging from duets to sextets. The

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commissioned him a pedagogical work published in 2001 under the title ''Du musicien en général au violoncelliste en particulier''. Xavier Gagnepain teaches at the Académie internationale d'été de Nice and at the .

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