Frédéric
Moreau

A French violinist and conductor, Frédéric Moreau has built an international career spanning several thousand concerts. His work brings together solo performance, orchestral direction, chamber music and teaching.

Captivating audiences with his performances, charisma and remarkable virtuosity, Frédéric Moreau is invited to numerous festivals and prestigious stages around the world. He quickly became one of the most prolific French artists of his generation, with more than a hundred solo concerts each year, and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Kyiv and the Orchestre Philharmonique d’Île-de-France.

A prizewinner of international competitions, he began his solo career at eighteen, after receiving unanimous first prizes in violin and chamber music and graduating from the most selective soloist programme of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (master’s and doctorate). He studied with masters such as Jean Fournier, Michèle Auclair, Régis Pasquier, Tibor Varga and Yehudi Menuhin, and also trained in composition, conducting and musicology. His international appearances include the George Enescu International Festival (Romania), the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland) and the DMZ International Music Festival (South Korea).

From the Baroque to contemporary music, he is also a fervent advocate of the most charismatic of virtuosos, Niccolò Paganini, to whom he devoted the album Il Cannone, in homage to the Italian master’s legendary violin. As musical director and soloist of the string orchestra Les Violons de France, he has shaped a repertoire in which virtuosity holds a central place. He is equally devoted to chamber music: with the Duo Kallisté, as first violin of the Gaïa Quartet in Seoul, and alongside partners such as Nicholas Angelich, Maxim Fedotov, Ilya Rashkovskiy, Eunju Park and Patrick Zygmanowski.

A renowned teacher, he taught at Yonsei University in Seoul and gives masterclasses around the world. He plays a 1749 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.