Born in 1996 in Geneva, Gabriel Esteban grew up in a family of musicians. After studying with François Abeille, he benefited from the teaching of François Guye at the Haute École de Musique de Genève and is currently studying with Giovanni Gnocchi at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. At the same time, he received advice from cellists such as Christophe Coin, Marc Coppey, Enrico Dindo, David Geringas, Thomas Grossenbacher, Frans Helmerson, Clemens Hagen, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Reinhard Latzko, Philippe Muller, Raphaël Pidoux, Troels Svane, István Vardái and Wen-Sinn Yang. Gabriel Esteban won the 2nd prize at the David Popper International Competition in Hungary, numerous 1st prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition, where he also received the SUISA Foundation prize for the best interpretation of a work by a Swiss composer, and was also a laureate of the Enrico Mainardi Competition in Austria. He has been invited to perform at the Festival Lavaux Classic with Tedi Papavrami, at the Kronberg Academy with Jehye Lee and István Várdai and regularly gives recitals in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. As a soloist, he has already performed with several orchestras in Europe and will tour with the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2019 in some of the country’s largest concert halls. Gabriel Esteban is the cellist of the Aurora Piano Quartet, the first piano quartet in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium. The ensemble performs regularly in concerts in Switzerland, France, Belgium and Austria. The quartet works regularly with members of the Artemis, Danel, Ébène, Takács and Ysaÿe quartets, the Trio Wanderer, as well as with Nobuko Imai, Tedi Papavrami, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Pavel Vernikov. Winner of the Illzach International Chamber Music Competition and the Orpheus Chamber Music Competition, the ensemble toured Brazil and Argentina in 2016. The Aurora Piano Quartet has been invited to perform at the Festival de Piano de la Roque d’Anthéron, the Swiss Chamber Music Festival, the Académie Villecroze and the Festival Piano à Porrentruy. Gabriel Esteban has been principal cellist of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Iván Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Jesús López-Cobos, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas and is a regular member of various Swiss orchestras.
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