Camille Thomas
Cellist Camille Thomas broke through to international recognition with major prizes in the early and middle 2010s, winning a coveted place on the roster of the Deutsche Grammophon label. She released her debut album on that label in 2017.
Thomas was born in Paris in 1988 and began cello studies at age four. She made rapid progress and was enrolled at the National Conservatory in Paris (now the CRR) by ten. At 16, she received a first-prize award from the school's jury. After that, her training was both French and German. Thomas took classes at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, and then moved to Germany to continue her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and then the Hochschüle für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar. She had master classes with Steven Isserlis, who invited her to perform at festivals with which he was connected. Thomas made an unusually large number of appearances with mid-level European orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lille National Orchestra, among many others.
In 2013, Thomas released an album devoted to Russian works with pianist Beatrice Berrut on the Fuga Libera label. The following year, she won two major prizes: Newcomer of the Year at the French ceremony Les Victoires de la Musique (roughly analogous to the U.S. Grammy Awards) and First Prize at the European Broadcasting Union Competition. She is also a frequent performer of chamber music, partnering with such players as Julien Libeer and Frank Braley. In 2019, she began playing the De Munck-Feuermann cello, a Stradivarius instrument from 1730. Her 2020 performance schedule included an August appearance in Tokyo in the Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, with the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall.
Thomas appeared with tenor Rolando Villazón on the television program The Stars of Tomorrow in 2015, and her second album, Reminiscences, snared an Echo Klassik prize in Germany. These accomplishments put the young cellist on Deutsche Grammophon's radar, and she released her debut album on the label, a collection of works by Saint-Saëns and Offenbach, in 2017. She returned in 2020 with the thematic crossover release Voice of Hope. In 2023, Thomas was heard on all four volumes of Deutsche Grammophon's The Chopin Project, which included cello transcriptions of Chopin's music.
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The Chopin Project : Trilogy
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 09.06.2023
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Saint-Saëns, Offenbach
Camille Thomas, Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 06.10.2017
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The Chopin Project : The Franchomme Legacy
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 17.03.2023
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Voice Of Hope
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève, Mathieu Herzog
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 27.03.2020
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The Chopin Project : Chopin for Cellists
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 09.06.2023
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Rachmaninoff, Kabalevsky & Auerbach: A Century of Russian Colours
Camille Thomas, Beatrice Berrut
Klassik - Erschienen bei Fuga Libera am 22.05.2013
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Voice Of Hope (Extended Edition)
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève, Mathieu Herzog
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 27.03.2020
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The Chopin Project : Complete Chamber Music
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 28.04.2023
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Réminiscences
Duette - Erschienen bei La Dolce Volta am 23.09.2016
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Chopin: Nocturne in B Minor, Op. post., Lento con gran espressione (Arr. for Cello and Piano by M. Maisky)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 12.05.2023
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Réminiscences
Camille Thomas and Julien Libeer
Klassik - Erschienen bei La Dolce Volta am 23.09.2016
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Glass: Tissue No. 7 (Musical Moments)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 16.04.2021
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Glass: Tissue No. 6 (Musical Moments)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 24.09.2021
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Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: 4. Turtles (Musical Moments)
Camille Thomas, Alexandre Bloch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 02.10.2017
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 3, Barcarolle (Arr. For Violin, Cello, Piano And String Ensemble By Aleksandar Sedlar)
Nemanja Radulović, Camille Thomas, Double Sens
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 15.09.2017
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Larghetto (Arr. for Cello and Piano by J. Brocal and C. Thomas)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 26.05.2023
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The Chopin Project : Trilogy
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 09.06.2023
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Voice Of Hope
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève, Mathieu Herzog
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 27.03.2020
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Aznavouriana
Klassik - Erscheint am 17.05.2024 bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France
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Saint-Saëns, Offenbach
Camille Thomas, Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 06.10.2017
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Voice Of Hope (Extended Edition)
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic, Stéphane Denève, Mathieu Herzog
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 27.03.2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo