Jean-Guihen Queyras

He has been a professor at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (where he commenced studies in 1984) since 2011 and artistic co-director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence.

He is noted for his exceptionally wide range of repertoire: he has recorded cello concertos by Haydn, Monn, and Vivaldi on a period instrument with the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, but also champions the music of Dallapiccola, Kurtag, Ligeti, Webern, and others.

He gave the world premieres of Ivan Fedele's cello concerto (Orchestre National de France, Leonard Slatkin) and Gilbert Amy's concerto (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall in Tokyo); in September 2005, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg.

His recordings have won distinctions such as Top CD – BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d'Or (for the complete Bach cello suites),[1] CHOC du Monde de la Musique, 10 de Classica/Répertoire, and Editor's Choice from Gramophone.

Queyras is part of the Arcanto Quartet with Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec [nl] and Tabea Zimmermann.