Date of Birth: 21.12.1983
Instrument: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1835), borrowed from "Maggini" Foundation in Switzerland

Graduate of the Toulouse Conservatory where he studied with Professor Gilles Colliard. In 2010 he completed his education at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw where he studied the violin with Jakub and Krzysztof Jakowicz and conducting with Antoni Wit. He is currently continuing his conducting studies (Frederic Chopin University of Music under Professor Tomasz Bugaj) and violin studies (Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław under Jarosław Pietrzak). In 2010 he won the first prize in the chamber music competition at the
Duxbury Music Festival (USA). Concertmaster of the Wrocław Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum. Christian has given concerts in Europe and the USA, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland and participated in master classes given by Ruggiero Ricci, Krzysztof Węgrzyn and Igor Frolov.

[2011]

Program:

Stage 1:

J. S. Bach: Chaconne from Partita BWV 1004
N. Paganini: Capriccio No. 24 Op. 1
H. Wieniawski: Capriccio Op. 10 No. 4 (Le Staccato)
E. Ysaÿe: Sixth Sonata in E Major for violin solo Op. 27

Stage 2:

G. Fauré: Sonata in A Major, Op. 13
H. Wieniawski: Fantasy on Themes from Ch. Gounod’s Opera Faust Op. 20
K. Szymanowski: La fontaine d'Arethuse of Mythes cycle Op. 30

Stage 3:

W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto in A Major KV 219 (first movement) ; Cadence author: J. Joachim
W. A. Mozart: first movement of Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major KV 364/320d

Stage 4:

H. Wieniawski: Second Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 22
J. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 47