Camille Kravitzch

Born in Paris in 1993, Camille began studying the harpsichord at the age of 13 along with her piano training. After a rich academic curriculum in Paris with Noëlle Spieth and Frédéric Michel (as teachers), she has been able to study both in Paris National Supérieur Conservatoire (CNSM) with Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou and in the Royal Academy of Music London with Carole Cerasi and Terrence Charlston.

Camille is currently completing a Master Degree and an Education Degree in Paris.

She is a keen chamber music player and has perfomed in a wide range of ensembles on the harpsichord, piano or organ. She has played the continuo on the harpsichord for Rachel Podger at the Wigmore Hall with RAM Baroque Soloists, with Laurence Cummings in a performance of Telemann’s Water music and on organ continuo for the Kohn Foundation Bach series. She also regulary works with young Ensembles such as the Goldfinch Ensemble or Nexus Ensemble for concerts either in France, Netherland, Belgium or Germany.

As a soloist, Camille has won the second prize at the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize organized by the Musica britannica éditions. Her récitals has included appearances in Paris Jeune talents festival, The Handel House, Salle Gaveau and over the UK in Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol… Camille has performed Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto as a soloist, in Draper’s hall London, in Girton College Cambridge and in Paris with the violonist Jérôme Akoka.

Her interest for Contemporary music led her to collaborate with several composers as Benjamin Attahir for his recreation of the first french Opera « La Pastorale », with Christophe Belletente and « La Compagnie des lunes errantes » for a « Tristan et Iseult » played in La cartoucherie de Vincennes, with Betsy Jolas for a concert in « La cité de la musique » and with the Maja Ensemble for Ligeti's « Aventures et Nouvelles Aventures » in the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris. Camille is the dedicatee of several pièces including « L’Acte et la matière » by Raphael Sévère, a piece for Harpsichord and Piano written especially for a project that she co founded, mixing the two instruments.

Passionate by the music of the age of Bach’s sons, she begins the Forte Piano which express perfectly the esthetic of this period. First of all with Carole Cerasi then with Patrick Cohen and for Masterclasses with the Oberlin Piano trio and David Breitman, Bob Levine, Bart von Oot… She carried out a memoire with the Paris Conservatoire comparing the two