Raphaëlle Moreau is building a career following her intuition, interest and heart.
She has been awarded the first Grand Prize of the Andrea Postacchini Competition, was nominated in the « Rising Star » category at the French Victoires de la musique in 2020 and is a laureate of the Nicati-de-Luze Foundation, the Banque Populaire Foundation and the Fondation Marcel Bleuestein-Blanchet pour la Vocation.
Appointed concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester at the age of twenty-one, Raphaëlle Moreau has collaborated with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Jonathan Nott and Lorenzo Viotti and has performed at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. She is regularly invited as guest concertmaster in various orchestras such as Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Munich Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Noord Nederlands Orkest and the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.
In the previous seasons she has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Pasdeloup, the Orchestre de l’Opera de Massy, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Ostinato Orchestra among others.
Chamber music being a major part of her life, Raphaëlle regularly collaborates with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, David Kadouch, Celia Oneto-Bensaid, Alexandra Conunova and her three brothers Edgar, David and Jérémie.
She has given guest performances at the Cologne Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Festival de Saint-Denis, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Grange au Lac in Evian, the Grand Théâtre de Provence, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Moments Musicaux de Gstaad, the Roque d’Anthéron Festival and at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
Raphaëlle’s interest in defending contemporary repertoire leads her to collaborating with the most celebrated composers of our time. Camille Pepin has written for her « Indra » for violin and piano, she has premiered in Paris Howard Shore’s violin concerto in 2023 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France and premiered pieces by Thierry Hersant, Grégoire Rolland and Clara Olivares.
Aiming to expand the violin repertoire beyond just new works, Raphaëlles debut album « Duelles » (with pianist Celia Oneto Bensaid) is a collection of unknown sonatas by female composers from the early 20th century.
Born in Paris, Raphaëlle Moreau began playing the violin at the age of four in the Suzuki system. After studying with Rodica Bogdanas and Suzanne Gessner, she was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at fourteen and later continued her studies with Pavel Vernikov and then Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne.
She plays a Carlo Tononi generously lent by Michael Guttman.
Outside of music, Raphaëlle enjoys yoga and Pilates, cooking and baking for her loved ones and walking wherever she finds herself, listening to podcasts and Schubert on repeat.
