Guillaume Chilemme

Guillaume Chilemme is one of the most promising violinists of his generation. He won first prize at the 2010 Swedish International Duo Competition with pianist Nathanaël Gouin and third prize and the special prize of the students of the Paris Conservatoire at the 2010 Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition.

Born in 1987, he began playing the violin at the age of three. In 2010, having studied the violin and chamber music with Boris Garlitsky and Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Paris Conservatoire, he went on to study with Stephan Picard and Eckart Runge of the Artemis Quartet in Berlin and with David Grimal in Saarbrücken.

He is passionate about the string quartet repertoire and founded the Cavatine Quartet with Marie Chilemme, Matthieu Handtschoewercker and Bruno Delepelaire, winning two prizes at the International Chamber Music Competition in Hamburg. In August 2013 the Quartet won second prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. He also plays regularly with pianist Nathanaël Gouin and their first recording features sonatas by Maurice Ravel and Marguerite Canal.

Guillaume Chilemme appears regularly at festivals such as La Folle Journée in Nantes and in Tokyo, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Julita Festival in Sweden, La Roque d’Anthéron, the Festival des Arcs and the Easter Festival in Deauville. He performs alongside musicians such as Frank Braley, Edgar Moreau, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Paul Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud.

Other recent performances include Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under Tugan Sokhiev. He performs with David Grimal’s musical collective Les Dissonances and from 2015 to 2018 participated in the Adolf Busch Project, a quartet created by Renaud Capuçon with Edgar Moreau and Adrien La Marca, performing at leading venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna and Wigmore Hall. Since 2016 he has been solo violinistof the Orchestre d’Auvergne.

Guillaume Chilemme is a laureate of the Safran Foundation and plays the 1795 ‘Château Pape Clément quartet’ violin by Nicolas Lupot, generously loaned by Bernard Magrez.