Lucienne Renaudin Vary (c) Simon Fowler (2)

Lucienne Renaudin Vary (c) Simon Fowler (3)

Lucienne Renaudin Vary

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“Lucienne Renaudin Vary stands out because of her exceptional virtuosity and her amazing maturity”
(Victoires de la Musique Classique 2013)

Winner in the ‘Révélation’ category of the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2016, French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary was described as a “trumpet sensation” by the Classical KDFC radio.

As a Warner artist, Lucienne released her first album in autumn 2017, The Voice of the Trumpet, in collaboration with Orchestre National de Lille and Rolando Villazón. Her second album, Demoiselle in New York, recorded with BBC Concert Orchestra under Bill Elliott, will be released in Autumn 2019.

In the 2019/20 season Lucienne makes her US debut performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 at the season opening gala-concert of National Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang under Gianandrea Noseda. She will also make her Hong Kong debut with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong as part of the French May Festival. In Europe, Lucienne returns to Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and London Chamber Orchestra, who she will have two projects with this season — a South East Asian tour in Autumn 2019 and a London concert in Spring 2020.

Last season, Lucienne made her debut in Japan in a concert with Ensemble Kanazawa and toured around the country. She also debuted at the Concertgebouw with Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Taiwan with Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra. Lucienne returned to China to perform with Suzhou and Xi’an Symphony Orchestras. Besides solo engagements, Lucienne is an active chamber musician her ‘Dances’ project with an accordionist and a dancer at the Festival METIS near Paris was wildly acclaimed.

Further afield Lucienne has performed with Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Symphoniker and at Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and she played Sørensen’s Trumpet Concerto under Moshe Atzmon in Finland. She appeared on the Stars von Morgen show (ARTE/ZDF) presented by Rolando Villazon, in Berlin. In her native France, Lucienne has appeared at the Seine Musicale, Annecy Classic Festival, and La Folle Journée in Nantes with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, broadcasted live on ARTE.

As well as the classical repertoire, Lucienne is an avid jazz performer. In 2018, she made her Jazz Festival debut at Jazz in Marciac, opened the Festival by performing as the first act of Wynton Marsalis and regularly offers late-night jazz concerts with local musicians.

Lucienne Renaudin Vary & Caspar Vos - Bohme's Russian Dances © Podium Witteman

Lucienne Renaudin Vary records Rossini's La Danza for Trumpet & Orchestra © WarnerClassics

Lucienne Renaudin Vary: Shostakovich – Adios Granada with Bertrand Chamayou © Les Films Jack Fébus - Mezzo

Lucienne Renaudin Vary records Hammerstein My Favourite Things for trumpet © WarnerClassics

Lucienne Renaudin-Vary on La Folle Journée in Nantes with Dmitri Liss & Ural Orchestra © ARTE TV

Lucienne Renaudin-Vary - Stars of tomorrow © Arte TV

“[Lucienne] exhibited her masterful technique in the smoothly delivered trills and arpeggios – barely a hint of flutter, each note confidently placed. With the Hummel concerto, Renaudin Vary hit her stride – confident entries, velvety intonation and smooth transitions at all points of the dynamic range.”

(Concerto Net, Earl Arthur Love, May 2018)

“At the age of just 19, she plays with remarkable assurance and a beautiful depth of tone.”

(Rohan Shotton, Bachtrack, February 2018)

“Lucienne’s animation – often seeming to almost dance along with the liveliest parts of the concerto – was perhaps a product of her youth, while her confidence and expressive interpretation certainly belied it.”

(Cambridgenews, June 2017)

“She has an incredible talent, she is small, but when she comes on stage, the stage is completely filled. Classical and Jazz – she can have the cake and eat it too.”

(Weingarten Musiktage, September 2016)

“Wunderkid, Lucienne Renaudin Vary stands out because of her exceptional virtuosity and her amazing maturity. Playing together with the most famous French trumpet players in many festivals, this trumpet player makes a huge impression with her easy-going way of playing and the natural projection of her sonority.”

(Booklet of Victoires de la Musique Classique 2013)