Jean-Guihen Queyras
Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras has an unusually broad repertory that stretches from the Baroque to the contemporary era, from concertos to chamber music to works for solo cello. A member for a time of the Ensemble InterContemporain directed by avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Queyras has performed several major world premieres.
Queyras was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on March 11, 1967. Part of his childhood was spent in Algeria, which was unusual since this period postdated Algeria's independence from France after a bloody independence war. Queyras' family ultimately moved to France, where Queyras took cello lessons. He studied at various institutions, including the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany and the Mannes College of Music in New York before coming under the influence of Boulez and joining his famous contemporary music ensemble. Queyras' recording career began in 1994, thanks to his presence in the Boulez orbit, when he was heard on a Deutsche Grammophon recording featuring various concertos by György Ligeti, conducted by Boulez. His next recording came in 1998 on the Harmonia Mundi label; it featured the Three Suites for Solo Violoncello of Benjamin Britten. Queyras has often performed music for solo cello, including the unaccompanied cello suites of J.S. Bach. Queyras' discography is large and includes releases on the BIS and Erato labels as well as Harmonia Mundi (which is home to the majority). He has recorded mainstream works by Brahms, Elgar, and Dvořák as well as contemporary and Baroque works.
Honored with the 2002 City of Toronto Glenn Gould International Protégé Prize in music, Queyras began to land major concerto bookings with orchestras internationally. He is one of the few cellists to excel on both modern and period instruments, and he often performs and records with the historically oriented Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He may be best known for his advocacy of contemporary music, which has included world premieres of works by Ivan Fedele, Gilbert Amy (in Tokyo's Suntory Hall), and Bruno Mantovani, among others. He has also championed the music of Anton Webern, Luigi Dallapiccola, and György Kurtág, as well as Ligeti. Queyras is an enthusiastic chamber music player whose collaborators include the Arcanto String Quartet, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, and pianist Alexander Melnikov.
In 2020, Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud released Complices, a program of brief transcriptions conceptualized as short stories, and that year, he joined violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov for a recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin or cello and piano. He remained busy in the recording studio during the COVID-19 pandemic, appearing on recordings of Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op. 56, and a soloists' version of Strauss' Don Quixote. In 2022, he and Melnikov released an album of cello sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninov, and he was also heard on recordings of Brahms' String Sextet and on the contemporary chamber recital Invisible Stream. Queyras teaches at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and is an artistic director at the Rencontres Musicales de Haute Provence music festival.
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Schumann: Piano Quartet - Piano Quintet
Isabelle Faust, Anne-Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 24.11.2023
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Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Monn: Cello Concerto (Remastered)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans, Jean-Guihen Queyras
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 27.03.2003
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Brahms: String Sextets
Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 11.03.2022
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Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain - Symphony No. 1 - Métaboles
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Gustavo Gimeno, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Symphonien - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 19.04.2024
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C.P.E. Bach : Cello Concertos
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Riccardo Minasi, Ensemble Resonanz
Cellokonzerte - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 13.04.2018
5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Johann Sebastian Bach : Suites pour violoncelle seul (Intégrale) (Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncelle)
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 11.03.2011
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Vivaldi: Cello Concertos
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 25.10.2011
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Vivaldi : Sonatas for Cello & Basso Continuo
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Lee Santana, Christoph Dangel, Michael Behringer
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 07.09.2018
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Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 10.06.2022
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Beethoven : Piano Trios, Op.70 No.2, Op.97 "Archduke"
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras
Trios - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 24.02.2014
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Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56 & Trio, Op. 36
Freiburger Barockorchester, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov, Pablo Heras-Casado, Isabelle Faust
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 19.02.2021
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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud
Duette - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 27.01.2023
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Schumann : Cello Concerto - Piano Trio No 1
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.04.2016
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Ligeti: Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Saschko Gawriloff, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1985
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Joseph Haydn : Cello Concertos
Freiburger Barockorchester, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Petra Müllejans
Cellokonzerte - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 27.03.2003
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel
François-Xavier Roth, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tabea Zimmermann
Symphonien - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 03.09.2021
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Eötvös: DoReMi, Speaking Drums, Cello concerto grosso
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Midori, Martin Grubinger, Jean-Guihen Queyras
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 27.05.2016
5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms : Cello Sonatas - 6 Hungarian Dances
Duette - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 19.01.2018
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Edward Elgar : Cello Concerto, Op. 85 - Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 18.10.2013
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Ludwig van Beethoven : Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov
Duette - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 22.09.2014
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J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 09.10.2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo