Gérard Caussé

Gérard Caussé (born 26 June 1948, Toulouse, France) is a French violist.

He gave the first performance of the celebrated Ainsi la nuit quartet by Henri Dutilleux. The first movement of Gérard Grisey's celebrated work, Les Espaces Acoustiques ("Prologue"), is inscribed "à Gérard Caussé." His discography amounts to thirty recordings. Gerard Caussé plays a viola made by Gasparo da Salo in 1560.

Career

Caussé has shared the stage in both orchestral and chamber music with musicians such as Augustin Dumay, Emmanuel Krivine, Charles Dutoit, and Kent Nagano.[1][2][3]

His recordings include more than thirty-five issued under labels such as EMI, Erato and Philips.[4][5] Caussé is holder of the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Chair of Viola at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Directores y Solistas - Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias". Ospa.es. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  2. ^ "Fundación Orquesta de Extremadura". Archived from the original on August 7, 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2010.
  3. ^ "Madalina Nicolescu Violist - VIOLISTS OF THE XXI CENTURY ( Great soloists and interesting musicians : Rafael Altino, Pinchas Zuckerman, Henrik Frendin, Lars Anders Tomter, Gerard Causse, Roger Chase, Joel Hunter, Alexander Zemtsov, Tabea Zimmermann, Ori Kam, Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Maxim Rysanov, Miriam Hartman, Dimitri Golovanov, Bjorn Arnoldt - Olsson, Dinu Serfezi, Stanislav Popov, Bruno Giuranna, Hartmut Lindemann, Simonide Bracconi, Barbara Westphal, Julian Rachlin, Nobuko Imai ... )". Archived from the original on December 30, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2010.
  4. ^ "Gérard Caussé". ArkivMusic. 2008-10-28. Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  5. ^ "Gerard Causse: Download Classical Music Online by Gerard Causse from". ClassicsOnline.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  6. ^ "Claustro Académico. Área de interpretación. Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía". Archived from the original on January 7, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2010.


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