A sepulchral resonance. Breathtaking.
New York Music Daily
Brieuc Vourch has performed worldwide in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Roma, St Martin-in-the-fields in London, the Grand Theatre in Shanghai, the Alice Tully and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Verbier Festival and the Gstaad New Year Music Festival in Switzerland, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany.
Regularly in demand by some of the finest orchestras such as the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra in Milano, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Utopia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, Brieuc Vourch appears as frequent guest concertmaster, and orchestral musician with artists and ensembles such as the Copenhaguen Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, Lahav Shani, Riccardo Chailly, Klaus Mäkelä, Roberto González-Monjas, Tarmo Peltokoski, Teodor Currentzis, Lang Lang, Matthias Goerne, as well as with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, or of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Brieuc Vourch was born in Paris in 1995. At twelve, he made his first major solo concert, attended by the State of Israel's president, Shimon Peres. A year later, he entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York in the class of Itzhak Perlman. He continued training with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and Daniel Gaede in Nuremberg. Brieuc also received the guidance of Pavel Berman, Anton Barachovsky and Kolja Blacher. He was part of the first promotion of the Concertmaster Artist diploma of the Stauffer Center for Strings, where he studied under the tutelage of Europe's leading concertmasters.
Notable highlights in his career include a solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall as the Grand Prize winner of the Manhattan International Music Competition. Brieuc is also a prize winner of the Anton Rubinstein International Violin Competition, the Ravel International Music Academy, the Adelphi Young Artists International Competition, as well as a finalist of the New York Concert Artist Audition and the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition. He has also received invitations to the Queen Elisabeth, Schoenfeld, Kreisler, Enescu, Yankelevitch, and Odesa International Competitions.
Brieuc plays on a Francesco Ruggeri violin from 1690.
He currently lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Brieuc Vourch has a tremendous gift: he possesses a unique and patrician musical language and voice which evokes a Golden Era, combined with sterling technique and a brilliant performer's mindset.
David Kim, Concertmaster, The Philadelphia Orchestra