… After a very few notes it became clear what makes Denis Severin such a successful cellist: it is a rare joy to listen to such a deep, soft and sensuous sound. His performance can truly be called a “bel canto cello.”

/Michael Gottshtayn, Badische Zeitung, Germany/

Denis Severin is a professor of cello at the Geneva University of Music and the Bern University of Arts(Switzerland), where he teaches cello as a major, baroque cello as a minor and chamber music.

A coveted guest professor, he also teaches master classes and leads orchestra projects at the Centro superior de musical Katarina Gurska (Madrid, Spain), the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music (Riga, Latvia), the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China), Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary) and the National University of Arts (Kharkov, Ukraine).

Regularly gives summer master-classes in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Georgia and Brazil.

Denis Severin is Prize Winner of ECHO KLASSIK (2015) and GRAMMY AWARDS (2007), laureate of several international competitions in Greece, Italy and Spain.

Denis Severin serves as a jury member for a number of music competitions: International Chamber Music Competition (Illzach, France, March 2013), 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians (Monteux, Switzerland, March 2012) and Young Swiss Musicians Competition.

He also became president of an international charitable organization Art Without Borders and an organizing committee member of the European String Teachers Association.

Performs as a soloist with: European Youth Symphony Orchestra (EU), Basel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland), “Feel Harmony” Chamber Orchestra Poznan (Poland), State Symphony Orchestra, Kiew Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine), St. Petersburg State Capella Orchestra, Archangel State Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Armenian State Chamber Orchestra.

D. Severin is member of diverses chamber music and baroque ensembles: Spyros Piano Trio, Swiss Baroque Soloists, Les Solostes de Geneve (Switzerland), Ars Antiqua Austria, Wiener-Akademie (Austria), Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (France), Capella Gabetta, Harmonie Universelle (Germany), The Russian Virtuosi of Europe (London, England).

Collaborates with many of the greatest names in contemporary classical music. Those are artists and ensembles like Quatuor Mosaïques, Natalia Gutman, Christophe Coin, Sergio Azzolini, Jordi Savall, Christopher Hogwood, Cecila Bartoli, Antonio Meneses, Martin Haselböck, Heinz Holliger, Bartek Niziol, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta.

Denis Severin performs at festivals and concerts held in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe, among which are Queen Elizabeth Hall (London, England), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Musikverein Wien (Austria), Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), Philharmonic Society Concert Hall (Prague, Czech Republic), Cité de la Misique, Radio France Concert Hall (Paris, France), Victoria Hall, Tonhalle Zurich (Switzerland), Lutoslawski Concert Hall (Warsaw, Poland), National Philarmonic Kiew (Ukraine) and many others.

In 1996 Denis Severin graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied under professor Dmitry Miller.

1997-2003 continued his education under professor Daniel Grossgurin at the Geneva University of Music, professor Thomas Demenga at the Music Academy of Basel and professor Christophe Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland).

He also attended master classes of such professors as Janos Starker, Natalia Gutman, Antonio Meneses, Anner Bylsma, Truls Monk and Garry Hoffman.

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ArtCello Festival 2019

ArtCello Festival 2019

September 22-29

Anne Gastinel / France

Justus Grimm / Germany

Petru Luga / Romania

Denis Severin / Switzerland

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Salzburg Festival is at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg

Salzburg Festival is at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg

Salzburger Festspiele

Big honor to play together with Cecilia Bartoli, Franco Fagioli, and Capella Gabetta.

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Barock Project

Barock Project

St. Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov

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II Majesty Cello International Music Festival

II "Majesty Cello" International Music Festival

April 14, 2019

at 15.00 in the Museum-estate of S. V. Rakhmaninov "Ivanovka"

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Cellissimo Set of cellos of the HEM

"Cellissimo" Set of cellos of the HEM

Museum of Art and History

Saturday 23.03.2019

The city of Neuchâtel at 20.00pm

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Kazakhstan 2019

Kazakhstan 2019

The project of Geneva-Neuchâtel University of music and National Music Conservatory Almaty

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Naxos Records: J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos.

(2007 Grammy Nomination, Swiss Baroque Soloists)

Sony Music Entertainment: S. Rachmaninov,

Romances for Cello and Piano

Denis Severin, Tatiana Korsunskaya 2009)

Eloquentia: A. Vivaldi, Violin Concertos

(2008 Choc du Monde de la Musique Awards, Harmonie Universelle)

Panclassics: G.M. Cambini, String Quintets (Ensemble Entr’acte, 2010)

Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm: Luise Adolpha Le Beau, Chamber Music (Bartek Niziol, Denis Severin, Tatiana Korsunskaya, 2014)

ECHO KLASSIK (2015)

Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm: Eduard Napravnik Klaviertrios op. 24 & 62 (Spyros Piano Trio: Bartek Niziol, Denis Severin, Tatiana Korsunskaya) 2017

Radio broadcasts: Schweizer Radio DRS 2 (Switzerland), Radio de la Suisse Romande (Espace-2, Switzerland), Deutschlandfunk (Germany), Radio Belgrade (Serbia) Radio France, and Polskie Radio (Poland).

E-mail: severindenis@bluewin.ch