French trumpeter LUCIENNE RENAUDIN VARY has been named a “trumpet sensation” by classical radio station KDFC. She stands out for her extraordinary virtuosity and incredible maturity (Victoires de la Musique Classique 2016), her buttery tone is wonderful (Gramophone magazine).
Born in 1999, she started playing the trumpet at the age of 8 with Philippe Lafitte at the Conservatoire du Mans in 2007. She also attended the jazz classes of Santiago Quintance. Since 2012, she plays in the Big Band of the University of Mans. In January 2010, she won first prize at the Selmer-Le Parnasse competition and in November, although only 11 years old, she was awarded third prize in the 14-17 category at the Concours Européen des Jeunes Trompettistes in Alençon, northern France. Her dazzling virtuosity and maturity have been rewarded with first prizes at every competition she has entered in 2012: “Concours des Rencontres Internationales des Cuivres” in Belgium and Concours des Jeunes Artistes “Maurice André” in Ales (18-25 years category). She is the only musician to have won the Concours de Petites Mains Symphoniques in both the classical and jazz categories. She is the winner of the Révélation category of the French Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2016. She was selected as one of the thirty winners of Classic FM’s 30 Under 30 by the renowned British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Her exceptional mastery of both classical and jazz repertoire makes her a unique presence on the contemporary concert stage. She has released four highly successful albums for Warner Classics. Her third album, Piazzolla Stories, with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Sascha Goetzel, won the ‘Opus Klassik’ award in the category ‘Young Artist’. Her first album The Voice of the Trumpet (2017) was made in collaboration with the Orchestre National de Lille and Rolando Villazon, the second Mademoiselle in New York (2019) was recorded with Bill Elliott and the BBC Concert Orchestra and was awarded 4 stars by BBC Music Magazine. The fourth, dedicated to trumpet concertos, was recorded with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Michael Sanderling.
Lucienne Renaudin Vary has been a guest of major orchestras such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de la Capitole de Toulouse, the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and the French Symphony Orchestra Les Siècles, Les Violons du Roy Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, Japan’s Kanzawa Ensemble Chamber Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco New Century Chamber Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic, etc. She has performed with conductors including Paavo Järvi, Barbara Hannigan, Cristian Macelaru, François-Xavier Roth, Eun Sun Kim, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Tugan Sokhiev, Sascha Goetzel, Kazuchi Ono, Simon Gaudenz, Emmanuel Villaume, Jan-Willem de Vriend, Christopher Warren-Green, Lawrence Foster, Michael Sanderling, Ruth Reinhardt, amongst others. She has also participated in festivals including the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Stresa Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Snape Proms, Festival de Lanaudière, Istanbul Music Festival, Flâneries de Reims, Folle Journée de Nantes, Cartagena Festival de Música, and Gstaad Menuhin Festival.She is equally in demand as a jazz performer and has her own quartet.
During the 2024/25 season Lucienne Renaudin Vary will tour with the Paris Chamber Orchestra with concerts at the Paris Philharmonic, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concerthaus Berlin, Tonhalle Dusseldorf following the release of her fifth Warner Classics album recorded with the Orchester de Chambre de Paris and Sascha Goetzel. She began a 3-season cycle as Junge Wilde at the Concerthaus in Dortmund.