Artist's album
Ingrid Schoenlaub
Cello
Trained by Philippe Muller at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and Frans Helmerson at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Ingrid Schoenlaub was nominated for Best Ensemble of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique in 2005 with the Psophos Quartet, which was also chosen as one of the BBC's New Generation Artists.
She has been invited to play on the most important international stages: Toronto, Montreal, Boston, London (Wigmore Hall; BBC St Luke's), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Detroit (Great Lakes Music Festival), La Folle Journée de Nantes, Musée d'Orsay, Auditorium du Louvre, Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Printemps des Arts de Monaco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Tehran, Tel Aviv...
Her concert activity also leads her to play as a soloist, accompanied by the orchestra of the Garde Républicaine, the Pasdeloup orchestra and the Ensemble Philharmonique de Paris. She has been invited as co-cellist by the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
She likes to experiment with new musical forms and is involved in contemporary creation with the ensembles Cairn, Sillages and Lucilin (Luxembourg). The expression of her artistic sensitivity also blossoms in the work of composers of our time: Berio, Kagel, Aperghis, Grisey, Dusapin, Leroux, López López, Saariaho, Romitelli, Matalon, Gervasoni, Combier, Rebotier, Cendo, Bedrossian, Dufourt, Greitzer, Pontier...
The quality of exchange that chamber music playing offers is particularly revealing. She forms a duo with the pianist Sodi Braide, whose concerts in France and abroad are part of this quest for complicity between performers and, beyond that, with an audience, a place and a work.
Ingrid Schoenlaub also plays in the Paris Mozart Orchestra, created and directed by Claire Gibault, whose social commitment, especially in prisons and colleges, is very important to her.
His recordings with the Psophos Quartet have been unanimously acclaimed by the music press: Felix Mendelssohn's Quartets Op. 44 No. 1 and Op. 80 (5/5 by Classica Répertoire); Schoenberg, Berg, Webern (4 stars by Le Monde de la Musique); Maurice Ohana's complete quartets (Choc du Monde de la Musique, 10/10 by Classica Répertoire, 5/5 by Diapason).
Her curiosity naturally leads her to the crossroads of different art forms. In 2008, alongside Laure Daugé, her dancer-choreographer accomplice, she was artist in residence in Montreal, invited by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec. With Marie Tikova, director (Cie Feux de la Rampe), she created "Fables Amoureuses" by Jean de La Fontaine, a show for two actors and a cello. She is currently participating in "Divertimento for Rope & Strings" with the English acrobat Gisele Edwards, a show created in London in 2016.
Ingrid Schoenlaub takes part in the "Fous de Musique" action, initiated by the pianist Itamar Golan with ATD-Quart Monde, which offers concerts to the most underprivileged, so that music opens more doors.
She followed the teaching of Wilfride Piollet, star dancer of the Paris Opera, whose method known as "Barres Flexibles" nourishes her musical and instrumental practice.
The exceptional companion of this journey is an 18th century Venetian cello, known as "Rembrandt"...