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Born in 1961, Olivier Charlier won his first violin prize from the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of
fourteen. He perfected his craft with Pierre Doukan for violin and Jean
Hubeau for chamber music. His precocious talent interested Nadia
Boulanger and Yehudi Menuhin as well as Henryk Szeryng. Charlier's
success was immediate in different international competitions: Munich
1978, Montréal 1979, Sibelius in Helsinki 1980, Jacques Thibaud and
Georges Enesco de la SACEM in 1981, Indianapolis 1982, without
forgetting the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1989 in
New York. In 1991, l'Académie des Beaux Arts awarded him the Nadia and
Lili Boulanger Prize. Charlier thus gained the maturity that only
ingrained experience permits. He can justly claim his membership in the
French school of violin (that of Jacques Thibaud, Ginette Neveu,
Christian Ferras). His dazzling technique is always at the service of a
musicality without disguise, composed of elegance without affectation
and virility without ostentation.
Olivier Charlier is now launched on all the great musical stages and
appears regularly with outstanding international orchestras such as
l'Orchestre National de France, l'Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle Orchestre
Zürich, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Ulster
Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Residence of The Hague, Berlin Symphony
Orchestra, the Radio Orchestras of Munich, Hamburg and Saarbrücken,
Montréal Symphony, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon
Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), Prague Philharmonic and Sydney Philharmonic.
This season, Charlier's concerts will take him to the United States,
Canada and Mexico, as far as Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand, passing by
South Africa (a tour with l'Orchestre National de France conducted by
Charles Dutoit), St. Petersburg and of course Europe (France, England,
Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Italy).
Olivier Charlier pursues a recording career with discernment, including
the violin concerto "L'arbre des songes" by Dutilleux with the BBC
Philharmonic and Yan Pascal Tortelier, the concerto of Roberto Gerhard
with the BBC Symphony conducted by Matthias Bamert (both for Chandos and
both nominated for Victoires de la Musique in 1998 and 1999), the
concertos of Mendelssohn with l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
and Lawrence Foster (Erato, Saint Saëns with l'Ensemble Orchestral of
Paris and Jean-Jacques Kantorow (EMI France) as well as numerous French
sonatas with Jean Hubeau: Franck, Saint-Saëns, Pierné, Vierne (Erato).
Charlier is equally attached to chamber music. On the HARMONIA MUNDI
label he has recorded the two sonatas and the three romances Op. 94 of
Schumann as well as the three sonatas of Grieg with Brigitte Engerer. He
has performed in the United States with Cliburn gold medalist José
Feghali at the Kravis Center and Tchaikovsky medalist André Laplante
with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Since 1981, Charlier has been professor of violin at the Paris
Conservatory.
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