Yan Levionnois
Biography Yan Levionnois
Yan Levionnois
began studying the cello with his father before continuing with Marc Coppey, Philippe Muller and Truls Mørk, and attended master-classes with Gary Hoffman, Heinrich Schiff, Natalia Gutman, Steven Isserlis and Natalia Shakhovskaïa.
Levionnois obtained the first prize at the André Navarra and In Memoriam Rostropovitch international competitions, and was awarded two special prizes at the last Rostropovitch Competition, including that for the most remarkable personality. He was nominated at the Victoires de la Musique 2011 as Solo Instrumental Revelation. He is the prize winner of the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations. He has given solo performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under conducters such as Daniele Gatti, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Jacek Kaspszyk, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Heinrich Schiff and Arie Van Beek.
Yan Levionnois played at La Folle Journée in Nantes and in Tokyo, the Pablo Casals, the Roque d’Anthéron, the Bel-Air, the Cordes-sur-Ciel and the Deauville festivals, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, and the Moments musicaux in La Baule. He has many chamber music partners, notably Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Svetlin Roussev, David Grimal, Gérard Caussé, Jérôme Pernoo, Aloïs Posch, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Michel Dalberto, Claire Désert, Nelson Goerner, Brigitte Engerer, David Guerrier, Emmanuel Pahud, Richard Galliano and the Ebène quartet. With Mélanie Clapiès, violonist, he plays in "Les Pierrots Lunaires". An ardent defender of the music of his time, he has worked with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Eric Tanguy and Krystof Maratka.
His first solo cd, Cello Solo, was released in February 2013 for Fondamenta, and obtained the prestigious ffff of Télérama magazine. His discography also includes a recording of Rachmaninov's second Elegiac Trio with Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin, live in Lugano, for EMI classics.
He plays a cello made for him by Patrick Robin in 2005.
