Raphaël Sévère
Clarinetist Raphaël Sévère was a prodigy, making appearances worldwide as early as age 11 and enrolling at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris when he was 14. After winning major prizes as a teen, he went on to an impressive adult career.
Sévère was born in Rennes, France, on September 15, 1994. His entire family was musical, and as a child, he studied piano, cello, and violin. Sévère added the clarinet at eight, studying at the Nantes Conservatory. He continued his piano studies, but nevertheless, he made such rapid progress on the clarinet that at 11, he could perform in China with the Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra in a concert marking Mozart's 250th birthday. The following year, he took home prizes from five international competitions, including that of the Tokyo Clarinet Society, where he won five separate prizes, including the first prize. As early as 2008, he issued an album called Récital de Musiques Française. In 2010, Sévère received the Instrumental Solo Revelation prize at the Victoires de la Musique competition in France; he was the youngest person ever to receive the award. Sévère's career choice was set in 2013 when he entered the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, making a triumphant sweep of the top prize and eight special prizes. That year, he played the world premiere of a work by Poulenc, a set of incidental music for the Jean Anouilh play Le voyageur sans bagage.
He has performed with major orchestras both in France and elsewhere, including the London Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Sévère's chamber music partners are an impressive group, including Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, and Boris Berezovsky; he has also performed on an ongoing basis in a piano trio with pianist Adam Laloum and cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière. Sévère made his major-label debut on Mirare in 2014 with an album of Brahms clarinet works; joined by Laloum and Julien-Laferrière, Sévère won a Diapason d'Or award in 2015 for this recording. He has continued to be associated with the Mirare label. Sévère's appearances in 2019 included a chamber concert at the prestigious Salle Cortot in Paris. He remained active during the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing the album On Tour in 2020 and an album of Mozart clarinet pieces in 2022.
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Discography
8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Messiaen : Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
Quartets - Released by Mirare on 30 Nov 2018
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Johannes Brahms : Clarinet Sonatas & Trio
Raphaël Sévère, Adam Laloum and Victor Julien Laferrière
Chamber Music - Released by Mirare on 22 Sep 2014
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Mozart: Clarinet Works
Raphaël Sévère, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Lars Vogt, Quatuor Modigliani
Classical - Released by Mirare on 23 Sep 2022
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Brahms & Hindemith: Clarinet Quintets
Raphaël Sévère, Prazak Quartet
Classical - Released by Mirare on 12 Nov 2015
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Weber : Concerto No. 1, Variations, Grand duo
Raphaël Sévère, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Aziz Shokhakimov and Jean Frédéric Neuburger
Classical - Released by Mirare on 29 Sep 2017
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Carl Maria von Weber: Concerto No. 1, Variations & Grand duo
Raphaël Sévère, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Aziz Shokhakimov, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
Concertos - Released by Mirare on 29 Sep 2017
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Brahms & Hindemith : Clarinet Quintets
Raphaël Sévère and Pražák Quartet
Quintets - Released by Mirare on 12 Nov 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo