Camille Thomas and Julien Libeer
Biography Camille Thomas and Julien Libeer
Camille Thomas
"A new star of the cello is discovered" Jens Rasmussen, DR Radio Denmark 2014
Nominated as Newcomer of the year 2014 by the French-Grammys ‘ Les Victoires de la Musique’, the Franco- Belgian cellist Camille Thomas was chosen by Musiq'3 - RTBF to represent Belgium at the European Broadcasting Union Competition, where she was awarded the 1st price and named “New Talent of the Year 2014”.
She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, including the Seventh Antonio Janigro International Competition in Croatia, the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Strings Competition, the Edmont Baert Competition and the Léopold Bellan Competition. She is a regular guest at leading venues such as the Salle Gaveau, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Jerusalem Music Center and the Berlin Konzerthaus.
She regularly appears as a soloist with orchestras such as Sinfonia Varsovia, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, La Baule Symphonic, the United Nations Orchestra, the Junge Symphonie Berlin of Berlin under the baton of conductors such as Theodor Guschlbauer, Darrell Ang, Pavel Baleff, Faycal Karoui, Debora Waldman, Kriistina Poska or Aziz Shokhakimov...
Her debut album « A Century of Russian Colors » for the label Fuga Libera (Outhere) released in May 2013 has been very well received by the international press (Choix de France Musique, 5* Volkskrant and 4* La Libre Belgique, Klara 10 Beste). Her next recording « Réminiscences » dedicated to French music with pianist Julien Libeer, will be released in the Fall 2016 on the label La Dolce Volta.
Her concerts are regularly broadcasted on international radios and TV such as Radio France, Espace 2, DR Danemark, Musiq ‘3-RTBF, Deutscher Rundfunk or Arte, TF1, France Télévision, Canal9. She has been chosen to be one of the « Stars of Tomorrow » by Rolando Villazon for his TV show presented on Arte in March 2016.
Camille studied in Frans Helmerson’s and Wolfgang-Emmanuel Schmidt's class at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, after working with Marcel Bardon and Philippe Muller in Paris and Stephan Forck in Berlin.
Camille Thomas plays a magnificent instrument by Ferdinand Gagliano (Napoli, 1788), the "Château Pape-Clément", on a generous loan from Bernard Magrez.
