Marc Coppey
French cellist Marc Coppey has made good on the promise of his prestigious teen triumphs, developing an impressive solo career that has seen him perform music from the Bach solo cello suites to newly composed cello music. Coppey was born in Strasbourg in eastern France in 1969 and attended a conservatory there before moving on to the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris and the University of Indiana in the U.S. His first exposure came via a double prize (first prize, and a special prize for best Bach performance) at the Leipzig Bach Competition in 1988, which got him noticed by Yehudi Menuhin. The 18-year-old Coppey was soon on-stage in Paris and Moscow, playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, with Menuhin and pianist Victoria Postnikova. The following year, Coppey performed at the Evian Festival in France at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich.
With high-powered backing like that, it wasn't long before Coppey was a regular on the international concert circuit. He has appeared in concertos under a long list of A-list conductors, including Raymond Leppard, Emmanuel Krivine, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Rafael Frühbeck de Burtos, Eliahu Inbal, and Paul McCreesh, performing at such venues as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Prague's Rudolfinium, the Great Hall of the Moscow Cosnervatory, Casals Hall in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Philharmonie in Paris. From the beginning, Coppey has devoted energy to chamber music: he has performed solo, teamed with pianists on the level of Maria João Pires, Stephen Kovacevich, Ilya Gringolts, and Nelson Goerner, and played in piano trios. He was a member of the Ysaÿe Quartet from 1995 to 2000. Coppey has given a large number of premieres of new music, and in 2015 he premiered ten works for solo cello by prominent composers as a tribute to Pierre Boulez at the Paris Philharmonie.
Coppey made his debut in 1995 on Harmonia Mundi with an album featuring cello sonatas by Grieg and Strauss, and since then he has recorded mostly for Aeon and Audite. In 2003 he recorded the Bach cello suites for the former label. The year 2017 saw the release of Coppey's recording of Bloch's Schelomo and Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, on Audite. He was named an Officier des Arts et des Lettres by France's ministry of culture in 2014.
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Franz Schubert: String Quintet, D. 956 & String Quartet No. 7
Chamber Music - Released by Praga Digitals on 1 Jan 2002
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Zoltán Kodály: Chamber Music for Cello
Marc Coppey, Matan Porat, Barnabás Kelemen
Chamber Music - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 4 Mar 2022
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French Cello
Marc Coppey, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg, John Nelson
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 8 Apr 2022
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Marc Coppey, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), Lawrence Foster
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 1 Jan 2021
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Dvořák: Cello Concerto & Klid - Bloch: Schelomo
Marc Coppey, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 7 Jul 2017
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Les Six suites pour violoncelle
Classical - Released by AEON on 9 Jan 2003
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Sérénade - Sonates
David Grimal, Marc Coppey, Michel Béroff, Gérard Caussé
Classical - Released by AEON on 12 Mar 2004
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Live)
Chamber Music - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 1 Apr 2018
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Haydn & C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
Marc Coppey, Zagrebački Solisti
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 15 Jan 2016
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Debussy, Chausson & Emmanuel: Chamber Works
Marc Coppey, Trio Wanderer, Eric Le Sage
Chamber Music - Released by Phaia Music on 26 Aug 2016
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Dutilleux: Tout Un Monde Lointain, Trois Strophes - Caplet: Epiphanie
Marc Coppey, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Pascal Rophé
Classical - Released by Aeon on 7 Apr 2008
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Schubert: Arpeggione, Sonatina & Trio Op. 99
Marc Coppey, Peter Laul, Ilya Gringolts
Classical - Released by AEON on 15 Nov 2010
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Fauré Authentique
Classical - To be released on 17 May 2024 by audite Musikproduktion
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Indy, V. D': Symphony No. 1 / Concert
Bretagne Orchestra, Magali Mosnier, Lionel Bringuier, Marc Coppey, Brigitte Engerer
Classical - Released by Timpani on 1 Jan 2007
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Concertos
Tedi Papavrami, Marc Coppey, SWR Sinfonierorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Classical - Released by Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo on 17 Mar 2017
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Strauss & Grieg: Cello Sonatas
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Jan 1995
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Fauré: Berceuse, Op. 16
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 9 Feb 2024
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Les sonates pour violoncelle
Classical - Released by AEON on 11 Sep 2008
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Mantovani - Symphonie No. 1, Abstract
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monté-Carlo, Pascal Rophé, Marc Coppey
Symphonic Music - Released by Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo on 4 Sep 2020
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Matalon: El Torito Catalan ; Trames III & V
Jacques Mercier, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Marc Coppey, Eric Aubier
Classical - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 Jan 2006
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