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Philippe Graffin,
The French violinst Philippe Graffin was a student of the late Joseph Gingold and Philipp Hirschhorn and has established a particular reputation for his interpretations of his native repertoire as well as for his interest in rare and contemporary works.
He rediscovered original settings of classics such as Chausson's Poème and Ravel's Tzigane and has also championed the forgotten violin concertos of G. Fauré and the concerto by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Philippe has shared the stage with some of the greatest musicians of our time: Lord Menuhin, M.Rostropovich, Martha Argerich, and S.Commisiona . He regularly partners the cellists Gary Hoffman and Truls Mork; pianists Pascal Devoyon, Stephen Kovacevich, Claire Desert and the Chilingirian Quartet and is founder and artistic director of the "Consonances" chamber music festival of St Nazaire, France. He has appeared in the BBC Proms Chamber Music series and been Artistic Director of several chamber music projects at London's Wigmore Hall. As concerto soloist, he has performed with many of the UK’s major orchestras and throughout Europe.
A number of composers have written works for him including David Matthews, Yves Prin, Vassili Lobanov and Philippe Hersant. TheLithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas dedicated his award-winning violin concerto "Jeux" to Philippe and wrote a double concerto Duo Concertante for him and violist Nobuko Imai. Most recently Russian composer, Rodion Shchedrin has written a concerto for violin, trumpet and string orchestra, dedicated to Philippe.
Philippe has recorded the Ysaÿe sonatas, the complete Chausson chamber music, the three Saint-Saëns violin concertos, a collection of rare French works for violin and orchestra and rare sonatas of Pierre de Breville and Joseph Canteloube for Hyperion. For Avie Records he made the world premiere recording of the Violin Concerto of Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and a recital disc of Debussy, Enesco & Ravel. In addition to his releases last year on Avie Records of Elgar’s Violin Concerto and Chausson’s Poème in original manuscript versions and on ASV Gold of the Miklos Rosza Sinfonia Concertante with Raphael Wallfisch, Graffin has recently released a double CD of Mozart duos and the Sinfonia Concertante with Nobuko Imai.
Last season’s highlights included tours to Korea and Japan , a performance of Miklos Rosza's Sinfonia Concertante with Raphael Wallfisch at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and the Elgar Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in a special 150th anniversary weekend. He continues to champion the Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto with a concert with The Philharmonia Orchestra in London to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK and with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France. 2007/8 also includes the UK premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Concerto Parlando with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a concert in the Wigmore Hall's Grieg centenary celebrations and tours to Germany, Holland, Finland and France.
Philippe Graffin plays a Domenico Busano violin, made in Venice, 1730. He is currently Artist in Residence at the University of New York at Stony Brook.