Raphaël Sévère & Adam Laloum
Biographie Raphaël Sévère & Adam Laloum
Raphaël Sévère
After winning the Tokyo Competition at the age of twelve and gaining a nomination as ‘Solo Instrumental Discovery’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique when aged fifteen, Raphaël Sévère went on to win the prestigious Young Concerts Artists International Auditions in New York in November 2013, where he was awarded First Prize and eight special prizes.
Raphaël has performed as a soloist with the Deutsche Sinfonieorchester at the Berlin Philharmonie, with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall in New York, with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the Saint-Denis Festival and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with the Russian National Orchestra at the Colmar Festival, with the Korean National Symphony Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center, as well as with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Sinfonia Varsovia, and the Orchestres Nationaux du Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Pays de la Loire, Lille, Strasbourg, Ile de France.
In recital, he has appeared at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Gardner Museum in Boston and Vancouver, the Auditorium du Louvre, the KKL in Lucerne, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Fondazione La Società dei Concerti di Milano, French May in Hong Kong, Seoul Arts Center, Festival de la Grange de Meslay, Salle Molière in Lyon, Grand Théâtre d’Aix en Provence, Festival de Radio France Montpellier, Folles Journées in Nantes, Warsaw and Tokyo.
His chamber music partners include the Ebène, Modigliani and Prazák Quartets and the Wanderer and Karénine Trio, as well as Martha Argerich, Adam Laloum, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Gidon Kremer, Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Gary Hoffman, Xavier Philips…
A lifelong admirer of creation and himself a composer, his works have been premiered in Paris at Salle Cortot, Salle Colonne, La Scala Paris, Rennes Opera and Radio France Montpellier Festival, as well as in Austria at Vienna Guitar Festival, and in Switzerland at Kunstraum Walcheturm and Zurich Saxfest.
In April 2022 he premiered a double concerto for clarinet and viola, alongside viola solist Adrien La Marca, commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. His works are published by l’Empreinte Mélodique.
His recordings have received awards from Diapason (Diapason d’Or, Diapason d’Or de l’année), Classica (Choc), Télérama (évènement FFFF), ResMusica (Clef), Le Monde (sélection), L’Obs (album du weekend), France Musique (choix), and Radio Classique (trophée de la semaine).
His latest recording, devoted to Mozart with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Lars Vogt, and the Modigliani Quartet, was released in September 2022 for the label Mirare.
Adam Laloum
achieved international recognition in 2009 when he won First Prize at the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition and entered the class of Evgeni Koroliov, winner of the 1977 Clara Haskil Prize, at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg.
Since then he has appeared at such festivals as Lucerne, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Bad Kissingen, Piano aux Jacobins, Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Klavier-Festival Ruhr and Rheingau Musik Festival, and venues including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Zurich Tonhalle, and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Among the orchestras with which he has performed are the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (under Valery Gergiev), the Orchestre de Paris (Cornelius Meister), the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Joshua Weilerstein), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Sir Roger Norrington), and the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester at the Berlin Philharmonie.
An enthusiastic chamber musician, he joined Mi-Sa Yang and Victor Julien-Laferrière to found the Trio Les Esprits, whose first disc, of works by Beethoven and Schumann, was released on Mirare. This recording was distinguished by The Strad magazine with ‘The Strad recommends’. A subsequent disc of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas and Trio with Raphaël Sévère and Victor Julien-Laferrière received a Diapason d’Or of the Year 2015 and ffff in Télérama. He has also recorded two solo recital programmes for Mirare, devoted to Brahms and Schumann respectively, which have been highly acclaimed by the critics, earning a Diapason d’Or of the Year 2015, ffff in Télérama, and other distinctions.
He holds prizes and scholarships from the Fondation de France and the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire. Adam Laloum is the artistic director of ‘Les Pages Musicales de Lagrasse’, a chamber music festival he founded in 2015.
