About
French cellist Aurelien Pinchon is currently based in London where he enjoys a varied career as a modern and baroque cellist and as a teacher. Praised for his fine and sensitive playing, he is a most curious and versatile musician. He regularly performs solo and chamber music recitals as well as as being an active orchestral musician.
Aurelien was born in Paris, and began the cello at the age of five. His first teacher, Soizic Chevrant-Breton, gave him an everlasting love for music and teaching. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire (CRR), he set out to London to study modern cello with Alexander Chaushian and Gemma Rosefield and baroque cello with Richard Tunnicliffe and Sarah McMahon at the Royal College of Music, where he received various awards and scholarships.
He recently performed at the Wolfson College Auditorium in Oxford, the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park and the Handel & Hendrix House in London. Passionate about chamber music, he collaborates with many musicians and formations. He was a member of the ENO Evolve Scheme and frequently sat principal in the Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra at the RCM.
Aurelien is a most active teacher. With more than ten years of experience, he has built a busy private practice in London and is in continuous demand from prospective students. He believes in transmission as one of the most important values and activities of a musician and is constantly striving to find new ways to communicate his passion for music making.
