Raphaël Sévère

Biography

Prizewinner of the Tokyo Competition at the age of 12, and named as a ‘New Star Instrumental Soloist’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique at 15, Raphaël Sévère won the Young Concert Artists New York Competition in November 2013.
Raphaël has appeared as a soloist with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the National Orchestras of the Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg, and many others.
As a recitalist he has performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Kennedy Center Washington, the Merkin Concert Hall New York, the Gardner Museum in Boston and the KKL in Lucerne, also at Colmar International Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the French May in Hong Kong, the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier, as well as the Folles Journées in Nantes, appearing also in Warsaw and Tokyo.
As a chamber musician he has partnered the Ébène, Modigliani and Hanson String Quartets, the Trio Wanderer and Trio Karénine, pianists Martha Argerich, Boris Berezovsky and Adam Laloum, as well as Gidon Kremer, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit and Xavier Phillips.
Having always been fascinated by the process of musical creation, he is himself a composer, publishing his works at L’Empreinte Mélodique.
His CDs have received distinctions such as a Diapason d’Or de l’année, Classica Choc, and a ffff from Télérama.
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