Estelle Revaz

Estelle Revaz performs in numerous countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. She has been invited to festivals such as the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Sion Festival, the Colmar International Festival, and the Pablo Casals Festival, collaborating with musical partners including Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova, Raphaëlle Moreau, Tai Murray, Lena Neudauer, Sergey Ostrovsky, Tedi Papavrami, Pierre Génisson, Ralph Manno, Dana Ciocarlie, Finghin Collins, Anais Crestin, Christian Chamorel, Gaspard Dehaene, Shani Diluka, François Dumont, François-Frédéric Guy, François Killian, Cédric Pescia, and the Quatuor Sine Nomine, to name but a few. She also regularly performs in prestigious venues such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the NCPA in Beijing, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, the CCK in Buenos Aires, and the Auditorio del Sodre in Montevideo.

Her orchestral repertoire ranges from concertos by C.P.E. Bach to those by Gulda or Ligeti. Starting from the 2017-2018 season and for a period of 3 years, Estelle Revaz was the Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève under the direction of Arie van Beek. Among other projects, she recorded the album JOURNEY TO GENEVA, dedicated to Frank Martin’s concertos and a new work by Xavier Dayer. Released in 2021, this album received high praise from the press and was notably awarded 5 Diapasons and 5 Etoiles Classica.

Critics enthusiastically welcomed her first CD, titled CANTIQUE (NEOS 2015), on which she performs as the soloist for concertos by Ernest Bloch (Schelomo) and Andreas Pflüger (Pitture-Création). Le Temps highlighted it as “a profound, incisive, and demanding album where the orchestra and soloist perform with finesse and intelligence.” Her solo cello album BACH&FRIENDS (Solo Musica/Sony 2017) was also fervently received by the specialized press. Pizzicato wrote: “the sound is of perfect purity, the phrasing is extremely clear, and the dynamics are exceptionally refined,” while Musik und Theater spoke of “one of the best cello concepts of the moment.” Her duo album with pianist François Killian, titled FUGATO (Solo Musica/Sony 2019), featuring sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, and Strauss, was also very warmly acclaimed by journalists. More recently, her fifth opus, INSPIRATION POPULAIRE (Solo Musica/Sony 2022), a duo with pianist Anaïs Crestin, was described by the media as radiant, sensitive, moving, inventive, and contrasted.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Estelle Revaz tirelessly mobilized to demonstrate the essential role of culture and to relay the concerns of cultural stakeholders to the political sphere. Her advocacy continues, as she was elected to the Swiss National Council in 2023. She has already successfully brought two projects to fruition, one concerning social protection for cultural professionals and the other addressing the fight against poverty.

Estelle Revaz has been featured on Radio France, RTBF, Deutschlandfunk, WDR3, SWR, and Swiss Radio and Television. She has also been a guest multiple times on RTS’s evening news program and was featured in a report alongside Gautier Capuçon. More recently, she co-produced a 5-episode radio series titled ‘Estelle and the Cello,’ broadcast on Espace 2/RTS.

After her debut in Switzerland, she trained in France at the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt (Xavier Gagnepain) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris (Jérôme Pernoo), as well as in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Maria Kliegel). She thus obtained, with the highest honors, a Soloist Master’s degree, a Master’s degree in Contemporary Music Performance, and a Master’s degree in Instrumental Pedagogy.

Estelle Revaz is a laureate of several foundations and institutions that support her career through both scholarships and concert organization. These include the City of Geneva, the Canton of Valais, the Fonds Français Instrumental, and the Leenaards, Little Dreams, Dénéréaz, Kremer, Thiébaud-Frey, and Patiño foundations. In 2014, she was selected for the Verbier Festival Academy and received the ‘Rotary Prize’ in that context.

Since 2015, Estelle Revaz has been a member of the ‘Forum des 100,’ which brings together personalities shaping Switzerland’s future.

Since 2017, Estelle Revaz has been accredited as a professor of cello and chamber music at the Kalaidos University of Music in Zurich (CH). She also regularly and enthusiastically gives masterclasses/workshops in Europe, Asia, and South America. She recently conducted research on “the development of artistic identity in higher instrumental education,” which was published in March 2019 by l’Harmattan (musical education sciences collection).

Estelle Revaz currently plays a G. Grancino cello (1679) and a J. Eury bow (1825), provided to her by generous Swiss patrons.