A prizewinner of the Tokyo Competition at the age of 12 and named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique at 15, Raphaël Sévère won the prestigious Young Concert Artists Competition in New York in 2013. He has appeared as a soloist with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, and the national orchestras of the Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille, and Strasbourg.

As a recitalist, he has performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the KKL Lucerne, the International Festival of Colmar, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, French May in Hong Kong, the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival, as well as the Folles Journées festivals in Nantes, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

In chamber music, his partners include the Ébène, Zaïde, Modigliani, and Pražák Quartets; the Wanderer and Karénine Trios; pianists Martha Argerich, Boris Berezovsky, and Adam Laloum; as well as Gidon Kremer, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, and Xavier Phillips.

Long drawn to contemporary creation and himself a composer, he publishes his works with L’Empreinte Mélodique.

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