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Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas was born on May 29, 1988, in Paris, France. She began learning to play the cello at the age of four and by the time she was 10, she was studying at the Conservatoire national de region de Paris under Marcel Bardon. When she was 16, she won her first competition prize for cello performance at the conservatory. She then attended Aulnay-sous-Bois, where she studied under Philippe Muller. Further studies led her to the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (in Berlin, Germany) and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt (in Weimar, Germany). She also attended masterclasses with world-famous cellists including Wolfgang Boetticher, David Geringas, Tabea Zimmermann, and Steven Isserlis. Camille Thomas was invited to perform at several festivals in 2012 and began to gain attention when she became performing regularly at international festivals and competitions. Camille Thomas has worked with many acclaimed conductors including Paavo Järvi, Marc Soustrot, Darrell Ang, Mikko Franck, and many others. She has performed with international orchestras including the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, the Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatsorchester Hamburg in the Elbphilharmonie, and the Brussels Philharmonic, among others. Her debut album, A Century of Russian Colours (2013), was a collaboration with Swiss pianist Béatrice Berrut. Her second album, Réminischences (2016), received critical prize and earned her a CHOC prize from Classica and was also awarded the Echo Klassic prize, which is one of Germany’s major classical music awards. In 2017, she became the first female cellist to sign with the Deutsche Grammophon label and released her self-titled album that same year. She followed that with the album Voice of Hope in 2020. In June 2023, Camille Thomas released The Chopin Project, which was released as a triple CD set (The Chopin Project: Trilogy) and as a single disc compilation (The Chopin Project: Essential).
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