"An enthusiastic musician with a multi-faceted personality, Henri Demarquette plays the cello as if setting a deep forest ablaze; not a single stroke of his bow leaves the listener indifferent because he awakens music’s subconscious".
Familiar with the stage by the time he was fourteen, Demarquette made his concert debut at seventeen with a recital at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and a recording for France 3 Television with pianist Hélène Grimaud.
Demarquette has also appeared with his favourite chamber music partners Boris Berezovski, Michel Dalberto, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Fabrizio Chiovetta,[1] Vanessa Benelli Mosell and Jean-Frédéric Neuburgerr.
In 2006, on the occasion of composer Henri Dutilleux's 90th birthday, his interpretation of the concerto Tout un monde lointain, with the Nationaltheater Mannheim (NTM) orchestra directed by Frédéric Chaslin, gave rise to a film aired on Mezzo TV.
Michel Legrand dedicated a concert to Demarquette who performed it for the first time with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck and recorded by Sony Music.