Marie Cantagrill

She notably studied in Philippe Koch’s class at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Liege in Belgium where she obtained the Advanced Diploma for Violin with High Distinction.

In Bach - even if she perfectly masters, and respects ..."note to note" his scores, with such a precise left hand making you think of the work of a grand clockmaker, - however, never leaving out some very moderate and justified rubatos, - she adorns those pieces - thanks to her subtle bowing, from time to time voluptuous, and caressing, or also rather sharply precise and twirling - with poetic and expressive accents that can only cause emotion and arouse deep resonance in any music lover's soul.

Skillfully emphasizing the dialogue between the voices with a singing phrasing, she perfectly managed to express a heroic transport as well as a dreamy poetry...One could fully feel a strong emotion...whilst in the incisive Prelude and final Giga all the dazzling virtuosity of the artist finally broke [L’Alsace] "The "Angériens", listening religiously, breathed and merged with the virtuoso and her instrument.This Recital was a moment a magic of a rare beauty.[...]

The audience offered her an ovation that was fully deserved"[...]" [Sud-Ouest] “…Apart from having had an exceptional musical course, sensitivity and dexterity, it’s her radiant soul that shines through each one of her interpretations [...] This great artist offers us now moments of exception in the Tchaikovsky“Violin Concerto“ and in the Rimsky-Korsakov“Fantasy on Russian themes“[...] A matchless and tremendous talent, and generosity...“ [Paris Match] “[...]To confront oneself to a Masterpiece of the Repertoire, like the Tchaikovsky Concerto, that has been recorded by all the greatest violinists of the last 50 years, requires a lot of courage.

Well, divine surprise : Marie Cantagrill proves that she has not only a warm and luminous sound „à la Perlman“, but she shows also an original interpretation that is, in no ways, inferior to Vengerov’s for example; in such a ways that she doesn’t seem to come from the“French School“ but rather from the“Russian“ one[..]" [Polytechnique Magazine] "Marie Cantagrill is an inspirational violinist who plays with no-holds-barred intensity that galvanises the listener's attention.When the notes start flying as in Wieniawski's whistle-stop Scherzo Tarantella or Rimsky's Flight of the Bumblebee, she provides a real "heads-down-and-see-you-at-the-end" experience that captures the music's uncontainable exuberance to perfection.

And whenever she has the chance to dig deep and produce a voluptuous tone, as in Tchaïkowski's heart-rending op.42 Meditation, the effect is all-engulfing as with Itzkhak Perlman (EMI) and Isaac Stern (CBS, now Sony).