Portrait session on a hot July afternoon. Adrienne is spending a few days at home and every morning we enjoy her cello practice. We even had the good fortune to hear a wonderful duet with my son Biel on the violin.
Adrienne Auclair began playing the cello at the age of 7 and singing at the Maîtrise de l'Opéra de Tours. In 2011, she joins Raphaël Pidoux's class at the CRR of Paris. At the same time, she received instruction from Hélène Dautry, Sébastien Hurtaud, Yovan Markovitch, Marc Coppey, François Salque... She obtains her DEM at the CRR of Paris in 2014. In December 2014, she won the first prize in the Violoncellenseine competition. In the same time, she is admitted to the CNSMD of Lyon in the class of Anne Gastinel and Edouard Sapey Triomphe. It was there that she met the violinist Houcheng Kian, with whom she founded the Orphée duo. Together, they won first prize at the Leopold Bellan International Competition in April 2016. In July 2016, she took part in the Music in D festival academy where she performed as a soloist in Brahms' double concerto. In May 2017, she won the "best talent" prize at the Auvergne/Rhône-Alpes classical talent competition, which enabled her to perform as a soloist in the Saint-Saëns concerto with the orchestra of "la fabrique opéra". She also studied the sonata repertoire with pianists Vincent Forestier and Adrien Irankhah. In June 2020 she obtained her master's degree at the Lyon CNSMD with honours.