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Reine Flachot (born October 10, 1922 in Santa Fe , Argentina , † October 29, 1998 ) was a French cellist.

Flachot came to France at the age of twelve, where she was a student of Jean Dumont and Paul Bazelaire and from 1935 attended the class of Gérard Hekking at the Conservatoire de Paris . As early as 1938 she performed the Concerts Colonne Lalos on the cello concerto. An intensive international concert career followed, which earned her the reputation of "ambassador of the French violoncello school". She performed numerous works by contemporary composers, including a. the Suite Cisalpine by Darius Milhaud (1954), the Cello Concerto by Charles Brown (1956), the Cello Concerto by Pierre-Max Dubois (1958), the Sonata for Cello and Piano by Francis Miroglio (1961), the Cello Concerto by Emile Mawet (1965) ), the Concerto-Rhapsody by Aram Chatschaturjan (1967), the Cello Concerto by André Jolivet (1971) and the Cello Sonata by Henri Sauguet (1972). She was awarded the Piatigorsky Prize in 1954 and the Orense International Prize in 1954.

In addition, she turned increasingly to teaching since the late 1960s. Since 1966 she has taught at the École Normale de Musique de Paris (ENM). In 1970 she moved to the Center musical international in Annecy and then taught at the Tōhō-Gakuen Music Academy in Tokyo until 1974 . She then returned to Europe, where she taught at the Basel Music Academy , resumed teaching at the ENM and was the first woman to receive a professorship at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique in Lyon . Her students included Jean-Guihen Queyras , Tobias Moster , Sébastien Singer and Maryse Castello . 1995 Flachot retired from teaching and performing.