François Salque is a French classical cellist and academic teacher. He has recorded especially chamber music.
Life and career A graduate from Yale University, Salque teaches at the Haute École de musique de Lausanne and at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Salque has played and recorded chamber music with Éric Le Sage, Alexandre Tharaud, Emmanuel Pahud and Vincent Peirani. Salque also played in the Ysaÿe Quartet from 2000 to 2004, recording Fauré, Magnard, Haydn, Schumann, Boucourechliev, but also little known works or fragments by Beethoven, the piano quintet by César Franck (with Pascal Rogé) and the Clarinet Quintet by Mozart (with Michel Portal).
Nicolas Bacri, Karol Beffa, Thierry Escaich, Bruno Mantovani and Krystof Maratka have dedicated works to Salque.
Discography Salque has recorded for the Æon, Alpha, Arion, , Naïve, RCA, Sony and Zig-Zag Territoires labels.
Salque's numerous recordings have received awards from the Diapason d'or de l'année, "Chocs" of the Le Monde de la musique, "10" of , Grand Prix du disque de l'Académie Charles-Cros, Victoires de la Musique.
Beethoven, Cello Sonatas - François Salque, cello; Éric Le Sage, piano (March 2014, Sony) Brahms, Cello Sonatas - François Salque, cello; Éric Le Sage, piano Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande; Élégie; Mélodies; Wagner, Siegfried Idyll - Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, , cond.; François Salque, cello (18-22 July 2011, Zig-Zag Territoires) Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals; Ladmirault, Les mémoires d'un âne - Claude Piéplu, narrator; Laurent Cabasso and Alexandre Tharaud pianos; Philippe Bernold, flute; Ronald Van Spaendonck, clarinet; François Salque cello; Pierre Lénert, alto (1999, Arion) Est (Bartók, Popper...) - François Salque, cello; Vincent Peirani, accordion (1-3 July 2010, Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT 110101) Tanguillo (Astor Piazzolla, traditional) - François Salque, cello; Vincent Peirani, accordion; Tomás Gubitsch, guitar (Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT322)
Videos Chopin et la mélodie, music lesson by Jean-François Zygel - direction Marie-Christine Gambart (2004, DVD Télescope audiovisuel/Naïve)
References
External links Official website François Salque on Solea François Salque on France Musique