Edgar Moreau

cello

Edgar Moreau was born in 1994 in Paris and began lessons on the cello when he was four years old. In 2008 he graduated from the Paris Conservatory. Along with his studies under Phillipe Muller, he took master classes from Mario Brunello, Anner Bylsma, Miklós Perényi, Gary Hoffman, Lynn Harrell, Frans Helmerson, and David Geringas.

He is a prize winner at the Mstislav Rostropovich International Competition in Paris (2009, special prize for Most Promising Contestant), and the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2011, Second Prize and a special prize for best performance of a work—Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Violoncello Totale”—composed specially for the Competition). In 2011 he was awarded the Académie Maurice Ravel Prize.

As soloist Moreau has appeared with the Turin Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Massy (France), the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra (Moscow), the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, and the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. He participates in the Verbier Festival and many others, such as the Acanthes Festival, the Colmar Festival, and the Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron.

His instrument is a cello made by David Tecchler in 1711.