Edgar Moreau

Edgar Moreau, born in 1994, won second prize at the age of just 17 at the
International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2011) and previously won the Young Soloist Prize at the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris (2009). In 2016, he received the "ECHO Klassik" as Young Artist of the Year.
Critics praise not only the young Frenchman's stupendous technical skills, but also
his creative maturity and the naturalness of his playing. All the great cello concertos are already part of his repertoire. 

Edgar Moreau gave his first concert with orchestra at the age of nine at the Teatro Regio in Turin. In the 2016/17 season, he was a "Rising Star" of the European Concert Hall Organization in the leading European concert halls.
Renowned orchestras have since invited him to perform as a soloist, including the Munich Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of the HR, MDR and WDR, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, London Symphony, London Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Israel Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra.

He works with famous conductors - such as Marin Alsop, Alain Altinoglu, Pablo Heras-Casado, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Mikko Franck, Manfred Honeck, Jakub Hrůša, Joanna Mallwitz, Andris Poga, Vasily Petrenko, Francois- Xavier Roth, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Lahav Shani and Tugan Sokhiev. 

In the 2023/24 season, Edgar Moreau will be performing in German-speaking countries with the MDR Sinfonieorchester under Markus Stenz with the cello concerto by Antonín Dvořák, with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under
Charles Dutoit with Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto and with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Michael Sanderling with Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. Further highlights of the season are recitals with Martha Argerich in Paris and Bordeaux (October 2023) as well as concerts with the Swedish
Radio Symphony Orchestra under Nathalie Stutzmann (Schumann, November 2023) and with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Andres Orozco-Estrada (Haydn, December 2023). 

Edgar Moreau is also a dedicated chamber musician and regularly performs with Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon and David Kadouch. Together with his younger siblings Raphaëlle, David and Jéremie Moreau he forms a quartet, “A Family Affair”. 

He has performed at major festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Musikfest Bremen, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Gstaad Festival, the Edinburgh Festival and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and has performed at the Vienna Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-
Élysées and at Suntory Hall and Carnegie Hall. 

Eight recordings have been released on his exclusive label ERATO. His latest album
with cello concertos by Dutilleux and Weinberg with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga was released in September 2023.

Edgar Moreau studied with Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris. 

He plays on a cello by David Tecchler (1711) and a bow by Dominique Peccatte. 

2013-2015, Edgar Moreau studied with Frans Helmerson at Kronberg Academy - funded by the Annika und Wolfgang Fink Scholarship.