Gérard Caussé

Gérard Caussé is one of the few classical violists who maintains a global single profession, and, with Nobuko Imai, is among the two most crucial stars from the device since William Primrose. He has a very previous (1560) viola by Gasparo da Salo. Caussé is normally closely from the chamber music of Mozart, who, he says, was the initial composer to understand the viola’s potential as the “mediator” between your higher and lower voices from the orchestra as well as the string quartet. He also has the music of both Romantic-era composers who most prominently preferred the viola, Hector Berlioz and Potential Bruch. However, he’s also a specific champ of twentieth-century music, because of this is an period when the viola most highly emerged being a single device. He has functions of Bartók, Britten, Martinu, and Stravinsky, and has already established single works created for him by Grisey, Hersant, Jolas, Lenot, Masson, Nunes, and Reverdy. He was a participant in the globe premiere from the string quartet Ainsi la nuit by Henri Dutilleux, generally ranked using the quartets of Debussy and Ravel as the best French functions in the proper execution. Caussé has produced over 25 cds on the main brands EMI, Philips, Erato, and Deutsche Grammophon, and offers received the Charles Gros Academy Reward, the Gabriel Fauré Reward, the SACEM Reward, as well as the French Grand Prix du Disque.