Nicolas Dautricourt

Biography

"Georges Enesco Prize from SACEM",  and "Classical Revelation from ADAMI" at the Midem in Cannes, Nicolas Dautricourt is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and endearing French violinists. of his generation.

Invited to perform as a soloist in the framework of the 23rd Victoires de la Musique Classique, member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, he performs on the biggest international stages (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Téatro National de Bélèm, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Boston Gardner Museum, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Nagoya Shirakawa Hall, Sendai city Hall...), French (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs- Elysées, Cité de la Musique, Musée d'Orsay, Arsenal de Metz, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence...), and is the guest of many artistic events (Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Printemps des Arts de Monaco, Festival Chopin à Bagatelle, Festival de l'Orangerie de Sceaux, Parc Floral de Vincennes, Folle Journée de Nantes, Folle Journée de Tokyo, Musical Encounters at La Baule, Vézère Festival, Saoû sings Mozart, Lisztomanias, Nohant musical festivals, Reims musical strolls, Deauville Easter Festival, Les Arcs Festival, La Roque d'Antheron, Périgord Noir Festival, Auvers Sur Oise Festival, Music at L'Empéri...).

Also the guest of prestigious festivals abroad such as the Bucharest Festival (Romania), Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest (Austria), Ravinia (Usa), Music@Menlo (Usa), Himeji/Le Pont Festival (Japan), Sintra ( Portugal), Davos (Switzerland), he performs as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, the Orchester National de France, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Aachen Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchester Symphonique du Québec, l 'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Oulu Sinfonia, International Players Busan, Orchester Philharmonique de Liège, Orchester Philharmonique de Mexico, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Yokohama Sinfonietta Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Orchester National de Lorraine, Orchester National des Pays de la Loire, Orchester Philharmonique de Nice, Orchester d'Avignon, Orchester de Picardie, Orchester de l'Opéra de Rouen, Orchester de l 'Opera of St-Etienne, the Gold Orchestra of the Toulon Opera, the Sendai Strings Ensemble, the Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra, the kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltic Chamber Orchestra, the European Camerata, the Chamber Orchestra of the Scala de Milan, the Orchester des Pays de Savoie, the Orchester d'Auvergne, the Orchester Symphonique de Caen, the Orchester Pasdeloup, the Orchester Français des Jeunes, under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, Tugan Sokhiev , Fabien Gabel, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Philippe Auguin, Carlos Miguel Prieto, François-Xavier Roth, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jamie Philipps, Wolfgang Doerner, David Niemann, Michael Francis, Kazuki Yamada, Dennis Russell Davis, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Arie Van Beek, Mishiyoshi Inoue, Jacques Mercier, Vahan Mardirossian, Stanislas Lefort, Mark Foster...

Particularly appreciated for his "sensitive and passionate commitment", he is particularly fond of chamber music, which he practices alongside many artists, and his marked interest in jazz also gives him the privilege of collaborating regularly with very great musicians such as as Jean-Marie Ecay, Nelson Veras, Jean-Philippe Viret, Jean-Marc Jafet, Antoine Hervé, Dominique Fillon, Pascal Schumacher, and in particular the accordionist Richard Galliano within the "Tangaria quartet" and the "Piazzolla Forever project", in prestigious festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Marciac, Sud-Tyroler Jazz Festival, San Javier, Copenhagen, Athens...

Winner of the Henryk Wieniawski international competition, the Jeunesses Musicales de Belgrade international competition and the Rodolfo Lipizer and Gian-Battista Viotti international competitions, he counts among his masters Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gérard Poulet and Jean Mouillère, and has been a violin teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Versailles since 2021.

Artistic director of the "Musical Festivals of Corbigny", Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius, the "Château Pape-Clément" (Crémona 1713), generously made available to him by Bernard Magrez, and in January 2021, was named Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture.