{{Short description|French classical cellist (born 1994)}} [[image:Edgar Moreau.jpg|thumb|Edgar Moreau at the Cité de la musique.]]
'''Edgar Moreau''' (born 3 April 1994) is a French classical cellist.
== Biography == Moreau was born in Paris on 3 April 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/05/10/l-archet-prodige-d-edgar-moreau_3174373_3246.html|title=L'archet prodige d'Edgar Moreau|author=Marie-Aude Roux|year= 2013|accessdate=8 June 2017|website=Lemonde.fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-edgar-moreau|title=Biographie|website=Franceinter.fr|accessdate=8 June 2017}}</ref> He began studying the cello at age four with Carlos Beyris as well as the piano, the instrument for which he obtained his First Prize at the {{ill|Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Boulogne-Billancourt|fr}} in 2010. After following the teaching of Xavier Gagnepain, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Philippe Muller in cello and Claire Désert for chamber music.
At the age of 15, he won the Young Soloist Prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch and at 17, the second prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baroniet.no/en/artist/edgar-moreau/|title=Edgar Moreau|website=Baroniet Rosendal|accessdate=18 January 2022}}</ref> In 2013 he signed an exclusive contract with Erato, and his first recording, a recital of pieces for cello and piano with Pierre-Yves Hodique, was published in 2014. ''Révélation soliste instrumental de l'année'' at the Victoires de la musique classique 2013, he was ''Soliste instrumental de l'année'' at the 2015 edition.<ref>France Musique, [http://www.francemusique.fr/actu-musicale/palmares-2015-des-victoires-de-la-musique-classique-79931 « Palmarès 2015 des Victoires de la Musique Classique »], 8 June 2017</ref> From 2015 to 2018, Edgar Moreau was an artist of the "Junge Wilde" concerts at the {{ill|Konzerthaus Dortmund|de}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 03.11.2015 19.00 "Junge Wilde" – Edgar Moreau|url = https://www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de/de/programm/konzertkalender/221057/|website = Konzerthaus Dortmund|accessdate= 8 June 2017}}</ref>
On 27 November 2015, he played the sarabande of the 2nd suite by Johann Sebastian Bach during the ceremony held at Les Invalides in tribute to the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks.<ref>{{Cite web|language = |date = 27 November 2015|title = Hommage national : Edgar Moreau joue Bach|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJZVQiqr-Bg|publisher=YouTube | accessdate= 8 June 2017}}</ref>
Moreau plays a David Tecchler cello dated 1711.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Price |first1=Jason |title=Edgar Moreau, Tecchler 1711 |url=https://tarisio.com/digital_exhibition/edgar-moreau-tecchler-1711/ |website=Tarisio |access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref> The instrument was a gift from his late father.<ref>{{cite news |last1=May |first1=Thomas |title=Edgar Moreau’s Remarkable ‘Transmission’ Sums up the Values That Have Sustained the Young French Cellist |url=https://stringsmagazine.com/edgar-moreau-transmission-sums-up-values-that-have-sustained-the-cellist/ |access-date=13 January 2024 |work=Strings Magazine |date=7 January 2022}}</ref>
== Discography == * Pieces for cello and piano by Elgar, Paganini, Fauré, Dvorák, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Popper, Gluck... - with Pierre-Yves Hodique. Erato, 2014 * Le Roi qui n'aimait pas la musique by Karol Beffa, with Renaud Capuçon (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet) and Karol Beffa (piano), CD-book Gallimard jeunesse, 2017 * A Family Affair (music by Dvořák and Korngold) with siblings Raphäelle and David (violins), and Jérémie (piano), 2020
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== External links == * Biographie lauréat de la Fondation d’entreprise Groupe Banque Populaire [https://web.archive.org/web/20151031115128/http://www.fnbp.fr/Edgar-Moreau-violoncelliste ''Edgar Moreau, violoncelliste''] * Website of the Adami [https://web.archive.org/web/20160714222332/https://www.adami.fr/en/promoting-the-arts/anassociationtopromotethearts/revelations-classiques/les-revelations-classiques-de-ladami-2012.html ''Révélations classiques 2012''] * Article in ''Ouest-France'' [http://www.jactiv.ouest-france.fr/ils-sactivent/initiatives/edgar-moreau-petit-prince-violoncelle-17759/ ''Edgar Moreau, le "Petit Prince" du violoncelle''] * [https://www.festival-musique-menton.fr/edgar-moreau.html Biographie d'Edgar Moreau] on Festival de musique de Menton * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEbLm0k62Ng Edgar MOREAU, violoncelle - Victoires de la Musique Classique - ''Danse des Elfes''] on YouTube {{Authority control}}
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