Patrick Cohën-Akenine

Patrick Cohën-Akenine (* 1966 ) is a French violinist and conductor who mainly performs early music .

Life

Cohën-Akenine began playing the violin at the age of four and graduated early from the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory , where he studied with teachers such as Pierre Amoyal , Michèle Auclair and Gérard Jarry. Then he attended the Conservatoire de Paris , where he could pursue his passion, the string quartet. During his studies there followed masterclasses with the Amadeus Quartet , the Alban Berg Quartet and other world-famous quartets. In the meantime he took lessons from Vilmos Tatrai in Budapest . At the end of his studies he was awarded the French Minister of Culture.

Fascinated by the sound of the original instruments, he studied baroque violin and historical performance practice with Patrick Bismuth at the Paris Conservatory . He also completed courses with Enrico Gatti .

Experience in this area, which he was able to gain with well-known ensembles of the "scene", such as the "Les Musiciens du Louvre", Les Arts Florissants , "Il Seminario Musicale", "La Simphonie du Marais", "Capriccio Stravagante", "Ricercar" Consort ”,“ Les Talens Lyriques ”,“ Les Agrémens ”and the“ Concert Spirituel ”under Hervé Niquet made him the sought-after concertmaster of many baroque orchestras. In 2000 he founded the ensemble Les Folies Françoises himself .

Patrick Cohën-Akenine founded a class for baroque violin at the Charles Munch Conservatory in 1996, he taught at the “École Nationale de Musique d'Orsay” in Paris until 2008 and then at the “Ecole Nationale de Musique de la Vallée de la Chevreuse”

On behalf of the Center musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV) he works with an ensemble to recreate the original sound of the string orchestra of the French kings, the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy .

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in scenic performances, for example in 2008 he conducted Didon and Aeneas by Purcell at the Opéra Bastille , in 2009 Acis et Galatée by JB Lully and in 2010 a performance of the opera “Tancrède” by André Campra is planned.

Several times he was asked by "modern orchestras" such as the "Orchester des Pays de Savoie" or the Orchestra of the Rouen Opera to familiarize the musicians with essential elements of historical performance practice on modern instruments.

In December 2006 he was appointed Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Web links

• Works by and about Patrick Cohën-Akenine in the catalog of the German National Library
• Folies Françoises website
• CMBV website on the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy (PDF file; 1.28 MB)

Individual evidence

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