Romain Leleu & Thomas Leleu
Biography Romain Leleu & Thomas Leleu
Romain Leleu
studied classical trumpet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, winning Premiers Prix for trumpet and chamber music before going on to postgraduate training with Reinhold Friedrich at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe.
Switching easily between the Baroque repertoire and new music, he has inspired many of today’s composers to write for him. He has also enriched the trumpet repertoire with transcriptions that defy the barriers of style or period.
His radiant, virtuoso playing and impregnable technique have earned him many awards, including a ‘Révélation Classique de l’Adami’, scholarships from the Fondation d’Entreprise Banque Populaire and the Fondation SAFRAN pour la Musique, and the Prize of the Fondation Del Duca from the Académie des Beaux Arts. He has also been voted ‘Instrumental Newcomer of the Year’ (Révélation) at the Victoires de la Musique Classique and appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
He performs as a soloist on all five continents, both in recital and with the world’s leading orchestras. In chamber music, his generous sense of dialogue is displayed in partnership with Thierry Escaich, his brother Thomas Leleu, Adam Laloum, Ibrahim Maalouf and Frank Braley.
Romain Leleu holds the titles Artiste Générations Spedidam and Yamaha Performing Artist, and is editor of a series for the Paris music publisher Gérard Billaudot.
Thomas Leleu
Voted ‘Instrumental Newcomer of the Year’ (Révélation) at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2012, when he was twenty-four years old, Thomas Leleu was the first tuba player in history to win this distinction.
He obtained a Premier Prix for tuba at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and won prizes at international competitions in Germany, South Korea and Luxembourg. At the age of nineteen, he was appointed principal tuba of the Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Opéra de Marseille. In 2018 he was named one of the ZDF/Arte ‘Stars von Morgen’, followed in 2019 by nominations in three categories at the Opus Klassik awards in Germany.
He has performed as a soloist and with orchestras in the leading concert halls of more than forty countries.
Since the start of his career, Thomas Leleu has appeared with such artists as Richard Galliano, Vladimir Cosma, Claude Bolling, Jean-François Zygel, the Quatuor Arod, Airelle Besson, Guillaume Vincent, Christoph Poppen, Adélaïde Ferrière and Aurélien Pascal.
He is a ‘Melton Meinl Weston Artist – Endorser Buffet Crampon’, and developed with this firm the 2250 TL ‘French Touch’ tuba, which he currently plays.
