French classical violinist Fanny Clamagirand was born in 1984. She began studying the violin at the age of seven and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where her teacher was Jean-Jacques Kantorow, before continuing her training in 2003 with Ithzak Rashkovsky at London's Royall College of Music. Graduating in 2004, she continued her studies with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatory and Oleksandr Semchuk in Fiesole, Italy. Distinguished in several competitions from 1995 to 2007, the violinist won the Prix Spécial Yehudi Menuhin (2000), the Emily Anderson Prize in London (2004) and first prize at the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna (2005), followed by the Prix Rainier III at the Monaco Violin Masters (2007). She performs in major international halls and festivals, including Lucerne, Verbier and La Folle Journée de Nantes. In 2007, she recorded two volumes of Eugène Ysaÿe's Sonatas for solo violin for the Nascor label, before embarking on a three-volume project with pianist Vanya Cohen to record Saint-Saëns's complete music for violin and piano for the Naxos label. In 2020, he will perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Peteris Vasks' Tala Gaisma Concerto, conducted by Ken-David Masur, followed in 2025 by Florence Price's Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 and other orchestral works, conducted by John Jeter.
