CAMILLE THOMAS

cello

LIU KOTOW

international management & promotion

  © Dan Carabas / Deutsche Grammophon
© Dan Carabas / Deutsche Grammophon

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Biography

Nominated as Newcomer of the year 2014 by the French-Grammys ‘ Les Victoires de la Musique’, the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas was chosen by Musiq'3 - RTBF to represent Belgium at the European Broadcasting Union Competition, where she was awarded the 1st price and named “New Talent of the Year 2014”. In 2017 she was awarded an ECHO Klassik Preis and she signed as an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon international, becoming the first cellist signed in 40 Years by the prestigious yellow label. 

Camille is conquering the world stage at a staggering pace. Camille already worked with conductors like Paavo Järvi, Mikko Franck, Marc Soustrot, Darrell Ang, Kent Nagano, Stéphane Denève and with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatsorchester Hamburg in the Elbphilharmonie, the Lucerne Festival Strings in the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Brussels Philharmonic, and so on.

Mikko Franck recently invited her to step in for Sol Gabetta with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a very successful concert praised by all the critics in Hannover. 

The Turkish composer and pianist Fazil Say wrote his cello concerto Never Give Up for Camille. The world premiere was on 3 April 2018 in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Douglas Boyd. 

Camille studied in Frans Helmerson’s and Wolfgang-Emmanuel Schmidt's class at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and Weimar, after working with Marcel Bardon and Philippe Muller in Paris and Stephan Forck in Berlin. 

Camille plays the Stradivarius “Feuermann” (1730) generously loaned from the Nippon Music Foundation and a bow by Eugène Sartory kindly on extended loan from the Fondation Roi Baudoin - Fonds Bollandsee.


NEWS

NEW ALBUM  

CHOPIN PROJECT Trilogy 

 

 


CONTACT

Gregor Kotow

gregor@liukotow.com

+49 511 47416545

 

Shannen Liu

shannen@liukotow.com

+49 511 47416546

 

www.liukotow.com

 

Photo@Sonia Sieff
Photo@Sonia Sieff

 

"A new star of the cello is discovered" 

Jens Rasmussen, DR Radio Denmark 

 

In January 2018 Thomas was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, the “annual encyclopaedia of creative disruption and youthful visionaries featuring young stars across 20 different industries.” 

MEDIA

Camille Thomas, Jane Brirkin, Julien Brocal 2023

Voice of Hope- Album trailer, 2020

Ravel- Kaddisch, music video by Sonia Sieff

Camille Saint-Saëns- Cello Concerto no 1

Orchestre National Bordeaux ,

Diego Matheuz

Pablo Casals El Cants Dells Occels (Song of the Birds - Chant des Oiseaux) for Cello Solo

Stars von Morgen ARTE/ZDF Broadcast

Camille Thomas "Jeunes Solistes Grands Destins" Un film de Thierry Loreau

Capriccio I Camille Thomas I 09.02.2017 | Bayerischer Rundfunk

Discography

 Chopin Project -Trilogy 

Voice of Hope
Voice of Hope

"Reminiscences"  2016
"Reminiscences" 2016

"A Century of Russian Colours" 2013
"A Century of Russian Colours" 2013