Roman Cazal

Biography

He began his musical studies at the Conservatory of Chantilly “Le Ménestrel” and gets his diploma at the age of 13 graduated with honors unanimously and Jury's Congratulations , which allows him to play as a soloist with The Oise Orchestra, Kabalevsky cello's Concerto.

In May 2014, in Paris, he plays with YoYo Ma for the World Premiere of a work for eight cellos by Philippe Hersant.

In 2015, he gets in the Paris Cnsm in Raphaël Pidoux’s Class.

He is choosen for playing in the prestigious Verbier Festival Orchestra for Season 2016 and also at the Academie of Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.

At Spring 2016 , he plays at Cello Beauvais Festival with Cazal Trio. The same year, in December, he is creating Alain Louvier Concerto with CRR Paris Orchestra for «Violoncelle en Seine» Festival.

Afterwards he becomes principal cello of the Prométhée Orchestra and plays in famous concert halls like Theatre des Champs Élysées, Théâtre Antique d'Orange, Villa Médicis in Roma...

He participates in master classes with Henri Demarquette, Xavier Phillips, Gustav Rivinius, Jerome Pernoo, Torleif Thedeen, Jean Guihen Queyras, Pieter Wispelwey, Peter Bruns, Gary Hoffman, Philippe Muller, Jens Peter Maintz, Attila Pasztor and Frans Helmerson.

After winning the Paris CRR « Concerto Competition » in October of 2018 he performs the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations for few concerts with the Paris CRR Symphonic Orchestra. In 2019, he gets in the Hanns Eisler Hochschule of Berlin for a second Master degree with Prof. Claudio Bohorquez and ends his studies in Paris with honors.

He is regularly invited to perform in different festivals suchlike : Musiques d’un siècle, Beauvais Cello Festival, Aurora Music Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Thèze Festival and plays with great artists such as Svetlin Roussev, Christophe Giovannineti, David Castro Balbi, Talich Quartet, Torleif Thedeen, Roman Spitzer, Julien Hervé, Théotime Voisin, Ulf Wallin...

In December 2020 he wins the Gold Medal in the the International Competition “Music and Stars” and is asked to record a CD with the label KNS Classical.

He is a laureate of the Tokyo Foundation, Fondation de France, Société Générale, Adami, and is currently playing a cello made by Sebastien Philippe Bernardel in 1840.