soloists

Christophe Coin

A soloist, chamber musician, conductor, teacher, and researcher, the cellist Christophe Coin has also associated his name with several ensembles with which he has recorded around fifty albums: the Baroque Ensemble of Limoges, which he directed for twenty-two years until 2012 (Victoires de la Musique award for Bach’s cantatas with piccolo cello), and the Quatuor Mosaïques, founded over thirty years ago, which is a benchmark in the Viennese classical repertoire (2 Gramophone Awards for Haydn).

He has also recorded as a soloist with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Il Giardino Armonico, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Concentus Musicus, and the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, among others.

His most recent recordings include Volume 3 of Vivaldi’s Concertos for the Vivaldi Edition (Naïve Classique), a tribute to the cellist Auguste Tolbecque (Passacaille), and the Symphonie Concertante for two cellos and orchestra by Anton Reicha (Claves), to be released this autumn.

His curiosity and interest in all the arts have led him to collaborate in cinema (La Note bleue by Andrzej Żuławski, Tous les matins du monde by Alain Corneau), ballet (the creation of Bach Suite in duet with Rudolf Nureyev in 1984), and theatre: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière (2014), works by Maeterlinck (2015), and Marivaux (2018–19), staged by Denis Podalydès.

Passionate about instrument making and the questions it raises for today’s performers, Christophe Coin has initiated conferences and meetings on organology.

Awarded first prize in cello at the age of sixteen at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) in André Navarra’s class, Christophe Coin later studied the viola da gamba with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and currently teaches these instruments at both institutions.