The French-Belgian cellist CAMILLE THOMÀS makes another tour to Bulgaria in a season that has been noteworthy in her concert career. Alongside the concert in Bulgaria Hall, she performed a series of shows at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, followed by recitals in Duschniki, Biarritz and the Kronberg Festival. She will also perform with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno. As a guest artist of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, she will join Sergey Smbatyan for four concerts. She will appear as soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.
An important factor in the career of Camille is the exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2017, thanks to which in March 2023 she recorded The Chopin Project and received a wide audience and recognition. I strongly believe that music has the power to expand the heart, to strengthen our feelings and to give hope for the beauty and greatness of the human soul, she says. The Chopin Project is a trilogy of albums featuring the chamber works featuring cello and all known arrangements of Chopin’s works for cello.
Camille Thomas was born in 1988 in Paris. She began playing cello at the age of four and made such rapid progress that she was soon taking lessons with Marcel Bardon. She moved to Berlin in 2006 to study with Stephan Forck and Frans Helmerson at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, and continued her training in the form of postgraduate lessons with Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar.
She has already worked with such conductors as Paavo Järvi, Mikko Franck, Marc Soustrot, Darrell Ang, Kent Nagano and with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, the Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatsorchester Hamburg in the Elbphilharmonie, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, and Brussels Philharmonic.
She played at the Lucerne Hall and the Hercules Hall in Munich.
Camille Thomas plays the famous Feuermann Stradivarius 1730 as a loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, which in turn acquired the instrument from Emanuel Feuermann.